Bill Text: HI HB587 | 2011 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Liquor Commission; Liquor Administrator; Counties
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-03-17 - (S) The committee on PGM deferred the measure. [HB587 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2011-HB587-Amended.html
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
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TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011 |
H.D. 1 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to counties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Article VIII, section 2 of the Hawaii State Constitution states, in relevant part, that:
"Each political subdivision shall have the power to frame and adopt a charter for its own self-government within such limits and under such procedures as may be provided by general law. . . .
Charter provisions with respect to a political subdivision's executive, legislative and administrative structure and organization shall be superior to statutory provisions, subject to the authority of the legislature to enact general laws allocating and reallocating powers and functions."
The purpose of this Act is to authorize the counties to appoint and remove their respective liquor administrators pursuant to their respective county charter. The legislature finds that the grant of such authority is within the purview of the counties' executive and administrative structure and organization, and is therefore supported by and consistent with the principle of county self-governance established in article VIII, section 2 of the Hawaii State Constitution.
SECTION 2. Section 281-11.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§281-11.5 Liquor [commission and]
administrator; commission and board attorney. (a)
Subject to chapter 76, a liquor administrator shall be appointed and may be removed
by the liquor commission unless otherwise prescribed by the charter of each
county. The liquor administrator may also be appointed as an investigator, and
shall be responsible for the operations and activities of the liquor commission
staff.
The liquor administrator may:
(1) Hire, remove, prescribe the duties of, and fix the compensation for hearings officers, investigators, and clerical and other assistants, as the liquor commission's business may from time to time require; and
(2) Engage the services of experts and persons engaged in the practice of a profession, if deemed expedient. Every investigator, within the scope of the investigator's duties, shall have the powers of a police officer.
(b) The liquor commission or liquor control adjudication board may hire attorneys to assist it in carrying out its administrative functions under this chapter. The assistance may include providing legal advice and prosecuting and defending legal claims under this chapter or arising in connection with this chapter."
SECTION 3. Section 281-17, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) The liquor commission, within its own county, shall have the sole jurisdiction, power, authority, and discretion, subject only to this chapter:
(1) To grant, refuse, suspend, and revoke any licenses for the manufacture, importation, and sale of liquors;
(2) To take appropriate action against a person who, directly or indirectly, manufactures, sells, or purchases any liquor without being authorized pursuant to this chapter; provided that in counties which have established by charter a liquor control adjudication board, the board shall have the jurisdiction, power, authority, and discretion to hear and determine administrative complaints of the director regarding violations of the liquor laws of the State or of the rules of the liquor commission, and impose penalties for violations thereof as may be provided by law;
(3) To control, supervise, and regulate the manufacture, importation, and sale of liquors by investigation, enforcement, and education; provided that any educational program shall be limited to the commission staff, commissioners, liquor control adjudication board members, licensees and their employees and shall be financed through the money collected from the assessment of fines against licensees; provided that fine moneys, not to exceed ten per cent a year of fines accumulated, may be used to fund public liquor related educational or enforcement programs;
(4) From time to time to make, amend, and repeal such rules, not inconsistent with this chapter, as in the judgment of the commission seem appropriate for carrying out this chapter and for the efficient administration thereof, and the proper conduct of the business of all licensees, including every matter or thing required to be done or which may be done with the approval or consent or by order or under the direction or supervision of or as prescribed by the commission; which rules, when adopted as provided in chapter 91 shall have the force and effect of law;
[(5) Subject to chapter 76, to appoint and
remove an administrator, who may also be appointed an investigator and who
shall be responsible for the operations and activities of the staff. The
administrator may hire and remove hearing officers, investigators, and clerical
or other assistants as its business may from time to time require, to prescribe
their duties, and fix their compensation; to engage the services of experts and
persons engaged in the practice of a profession, if deemed expedient. Every
investigator, within the scope of the investigator's duties, shall have the
powers of a police officer;
(6)] (5) To limit the number of
licenses of any class or kind within the county, or the number of licenses of
any class or kind to do business in any given locality, when in the judgment of
the commission such limitations are in the public interest;
[(7)] (6) To prescribe the nature of the
proof to be furnished, the notices to be given, and the conditions to be met or
observed in case of the issuance of a duplicate license in place of one alleged
to have been lost or destroyed, including a requirement of any indemnity deemed
appropriate to the case;
[(8)] (7) To fix the hours between which
licensed premises of any class or classes may regularly be open for the
transaction of business, which shall be uniform throughout the county as to
each class respectively;
[(9)] (8) To prescribe all forms to be
used for the purposes of this chapter not otherwise provided for in this
chapter, and the character and manner of keeping of books, records, and
accounts to be kept by licensees in any matter pertaining to their business;
[(10)] (9) To investigate violations of
this chapter, chapter 244D and, notwithstanding any law to the contrary,
violations of the applicable department of health's allowable noise levels,
through its investigators or otherwise, to include covert operations, and to
report violations to the prosecuting officer for prosecution and, where
appropriate, the director of taxation to hear and determine complaints against
any licensee;
[(11)] (10) To prescribe, by rule, the
terms, conditions, and circumstances under which persons or any class of
persons may be employed by holders of licenses;
[(12)] (11) To prescribe, by rule, the
term of any license or solicitor's and representative's permit authorized by
this chapter, the annual or prorated amount, the manner of payment of fees for
the licenses and permits, and the amount of filing fees; and
[(13)] (12) To prescribe, by rule, the
circumstances and penalty for the unauthorized manufacturing or selling of any
liquor."
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Liquor Commission; Liquor Administrator; Counties
Description:
Authorizes the counties to appoint and remove their respective liquor administrators unless otherwise prescribed by their respective county charter. (HB587 HD1)
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