Bill Text: HI SB925 | 2021 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Relating To Secondhand Dealers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-03-12 - Re-referred to CPC, JHA, referral sheet 23 [SB925 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2021-SB925-Amended.html

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THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	925
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021		S.D. 2
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO SECONDHAND DEALERS.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 486M-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended as follows:

     1.  By adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read:

     ""Automated recycling kiosk" means an interactive device that purchases previously owned consumer hand-held electronic cellular phone devices that is installed within a secure retail space and performs the following technological functions:

     (1)  Verifies a seller's identity through a combination of technology within the kiosk and remote examination of a government-issued identification by a live representative during each transaction;

     (2)  Securely stores articles accepted by the kiosk;

     (3)  Can be remotely opened upon request by law enforcement during normal business hours;

     (4)  Records images of the seller and the articles accepted during the transaction;

     (5)  Possesses computerized record-keeping and transmittal capabilities; and

     (6)  Electronically transmits transaction records to law enforcement within twenty-four hours from when the article was received."

     2.  By amending the definition of "secondhand dealer" to read:

     ""Secondhand dealer" means any person who trades in secondhand or previously owned articles, including the operation of an automated recycling kiosk, and includes any person subject to part VII of chapter 445."

     SECTION 2.  Section 486M-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§486M-4  Minimum retention of items.  (a)  No dealer, the dealer's agents, employees, or representatives shall alter, melt, deface, break apart, dispose of, or change the character or integrity of the precious or semiprecious metals or precious or semiprecious gems received or purchased for a period of fifteen calendar days in counties with a population of less than [300,000,] three hundred thousand and thirty calendar days in counties with a population of [300,000] three hundred thousand or more after the purchase or possession by the dealer, whichever comes later.  Every article received by the dealer, the dealer's agents, employees, or representatives shall be retained by the dealer in the county where received or purchased for a period of fifteen calendar days in counties with a population of less than [300,000,] three hundred thousand and thirty calendar days in counties with a population of [300,000] three hundred thousand or more after the purchase or possession by the dealer, whichever comes later.

     (b)  At the discretion of the chief of police of each county, the holding period may be reduced to fifteen calendar days; provided that the dealer has computerized record-keeping and transmittal capabilities acceptable to the chief of police or the chief of police's authorized representative.

     (c)  A secondhand dealer operating an automated recycling kiosk shall retain previously owned consumer hand-held electronic cellular phone devices within the county in which the devices were received or purchased for no less than five business days, after which the dealer shall be permitted to retain the devices at an alternate business location outside the county where received or purchased for a total period of thirty calendar days after the day on which the device was received or purchased.  During this retention period, and upon request by law enforcement, a secondhand dealer operating an automated recycling kiosk shall promptly return any requested previously owned consumer hand-held electronic cellular phone devices to the requesting law enforcement agency."

     SECTION 3.  Section 486M-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§486M-5  Inspections.  The chief of police of each county or the chief of police's authorized representative may immediately inspect, during normal business hours or whenever the dealer or the dealer's agents or employees are otherwise present, any records required by this chapter and any articles described in [such] those records that the police reasonably believe are stolen goods."

     SECTION 4.  This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.

     SECTION 5.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 6.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2050.

 

 

Report Title:

Secondhand Dealers; Automated Recycling Kiosk

 

Description:

Clarifies that the secondhand dealers law applies to a secondhand dealer's operation of an automated recycling kiosk.  Effective 7/1/2050.  (SD2)

 

 

 

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