Bill Text: HI HB972 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Gasoline; Pricing
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB972 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-HB972-Introduced.html
Report Title:
Gasoline; Pricing
Description:
Prohibits fractional-cent pricing in the retail sale of gasoline and diesel.
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TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to fuel.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 486H, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§486H- Retail prices; fractional-cent pricing. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, no retail station may sell regular unleaded, mid-grade, premium gasoline, or diesel, for a fractional-cent price. For purposes of this section, "fractional-cent price" means any price that includes a fraction of a cent."
SECTION 2. Section 486B-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) The following deceptive, false, or misleading acts or practices committed or permitted by any person offering to sell any petroleum product that is regulated by this chapter or chapters 486H and 486J are also a violation of this section:
(1) Misrepresenting the brand, grade, quality, or price of a petroleum product;
(2) Using false or deceptive representations or designations in connection with the pricing, profits, or sale of a petroleum product;
(3) Advertising petroleum products or services and not selling them as advertised;
(4) Advertising petroleum products of a designated brand, grade, trademark, or trade name not actually sold or available for sale;
(5) Making false, deceptive, or misleading statements concerning conditions of sale, price reductions, costs of operations, profits, or failing to disclose business relationships within the petroleum industry that affect the wholesale pricing of petroleum products;
(6) Representing that the consumer will receive a
rebate, discount, or other economic benefit and then failing to give that
rebate, discount, or other economic benefit; [and]
(7) Forging or falsifying any records or documents
required by this chapter or chapter 486H or 486J or knowingly keeping, using,
or displaying the false or forged records or documents[.]; and
(8) Selling gasoline at a fractional-cent price, as prohibited in section 486H- ."
SECTION 3. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun, before its effective date.
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2009.
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