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HI Rev Stat § 486-31 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-31 Enforcement; citation and notice to appear; penalty; right of entry and inspection; stopping vehicles.

  §486-31 Enforcement; citation and notice to appear; penalty; right of entry and inspection; stopping vehicles. Any authorized inspector or other authorized measurement standards personnel may, upon arresting any person for violation of this chapter, including rules adopted thereunder, take the name, address, and any other pertinent information of the person and issue the person a citation and notice to appear, printed in the form hereinafter described, and answer to the charge against the person at a certain place and at a time as prescribed by the district courts.  There shall be a form of citation and notice to appear for use in citing violators of this chapter and the rules adopted thereunder by the board, which does not mandate the taking into custody of such violators. The form and contents of the citation and notice to appear shall be as adopted or prescribed by the district courts.  In every case when a citation and notice to appear is issued, it shall be consistent with the provisions established by the district courts. Every citation and notice to appear shall be consecutively numbered and each carbon copy shall bear the number of its respective original.  Any person who fails to appear at the place and within the time specified in the citation and notice to appear shall be guilty of a violation as provided in the penal code.  Any authorized inspector may cite and, incident to such citation, seize, without formal warrant, incorrect or unsealed measures, measurement standards, or amounts or packages of commodity found to be used, retained, offered, or exposed for sale or sold in violation of law.  Any authorized inspector may stop any vehicle subject to this chapter where probable cause exists and require the driver to move the vehicle to a designated place for inspection.  Any authorized inspector may enter and go into or upon at any reasonable time, without formal warrant, after having made a reasonable attempt to identify the inspector in accordance with the law, any structure, premises, or any other place where commercial transactions or articles subject to this chapter are being conducted or are located, provided that, when competent authority objects to the entry, a warrant shall be obtained prior to entry.  When a complaint is made to any prosecuting officer of the violation of any of the parts of this chapter and the arrest or prosecution of the violator is sought, the arresting officer or employee who issued the citation and notice to appear shall subscribe to it under oath administered by an official, whose name has been submitted to the prosecuting officer and who has been designated by the administrator to administer oaths and, upon probable cause, the court may issue a warrant for the violator. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3; am L 1991, c 153, §17]
HI Rev Stat § 486-32 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-32 Offenses and penalties.

  §486-32 Offenses and penalties. (a) Criminal. Any person who performs any one of the acts enumerated in this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor:  (1) Use or have in possession a device or measure or measurement standard which has been altered to facilitate fraud;  (2) Counterfeit, or remove from any measure or measurement standard, any tag, seal, or mark placed thereon by the appropriate authority; or  (3) Manipulate in any manner the representation of the quantity of any commodity, thing, or service furnished, delivered, or provided to the unjust enrichment of the person.  (b) Civil. Any person who performs any one of the acts enumerated in this subsection shall be fined not more than $2,000 for each separate offense:  (1) Use, or have in possession for use in commerce an incorrect device, measure, or measurement standard;  (2) Dispose of any rejected or condemned measure or measurement standard in a manner contrary to law or rule;  (3) Sell, or offer or expose for sale, less than the quantity the person represents of any commodity, thing, or service;  (4) Keep for the purpose of sale, advertise, or offer or expose for sale, or sell any commodity, thing, or service in a condition or manner contrary to law or rule;  (5) Fail to submit a weighing or measuring device for inspection and testing at a time and place specified by the administrator; or  (6) Violate any provision of this chapter or any rules adopted under it for which a specific penalty has not been prescribed. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3; am L 1991, c 153, §18; am L 1993, c 54, §3]
HI Rev Stat § 486-33 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-33 Injunction.

  §486-33 Injunction. In addition to any other remedy by law provided, the chairperson may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for, and the court upon hearing and for cause shown may grant, a temporary or permanent injunction restraining any person from violating any provision of the respective parts of this chapter or the rules promulgated thereunder. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3; gen ch 1992] Rules of Court  Injunctions, see HRCP rule 65.
HI Rev Stat § 486-34 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-34 Presumptive evidence.

  §486-34 Presumptive evidence. For the purposes of the effective enforcement of the respective parts of this chapter, proof of the existence of a measure or measurement standard in or about any building, enclosure, stand, or vehicle in which or from which it is shown that buying or selling is commonly carried on, shall, in the absence of conclusive evidence to the contrary, be "presumptive proof of the susceptibility of commercial use" of such measure or measurement standard. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3]
HI Rev Stat § 486-35 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-35 REPEALED.

  §486-35 REPEALED. L 1991, c 153, §43.
HI Rev Stat § 486-37 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-37 Rules; severability and continuation.

  §486-37 Rules; severability and continuation. (a) If any provision of the rules adopted under this chapter is declared invalid, or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the rules and the applicability thereof to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.  (b) Except as specifically excepted, all rules currently in effect, as they relate to this chapter, shall remain in effect until they are updated, amended, or repealed. [L 1991, c 153, §3]
HI Rev Stat § 486-50 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-50 Definitions.

Note Part heading amended by L 1991, c 153, §19. Cross References Petroleum industry information reporting act, see chapter 486J.  §486-50 Definitions. As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:  "Cubic foot" means that amount of liquefied petroleum product, vapor, or natural gas vapor, or synthetic natural gas vapor, or any blend of the above, which will occupy 1728 cubic inches when its temperature is sixty degrees Fahrenheit at a pressure of 760 mm of Hg (mercury). The density of the Hg shall be 13.5951 grams per cubic centimeter per second, per second.  "Petroleum product" includes automotive gasoline, diesel fuels, fuel oils, liquefied petroleum gas both liquid and vapor, residuals, distillates and fractions, kerosene, aviation fuels, turbine fuels, solvent, hydro-carbons or synthetics, crude oil, lubricating oil, or any other oil or distillate or blends of the above or any other product or byproduct normally considered a petroleum product, and synthetic natural gas or natural gas and manufactured gas or blends thereof.   "U.S. petroleum gallon" means that amount of petroleum product which occupies 231 cubic inches exactly when its temperature is sixty degrees Fahrenheit, or the expanded or contracted equivalent thereto at any other temperature. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3]
HI Rev Stat § 486-51 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-51 Applicability.

  §486-51 Applicability. (a) Petroleum products accounting and the measurement requirements herein shall apply to the blending, charging, dealing, dispensing, distributing, exchanging, exporting, handling, importing, labeling, loading, manufacturing, marketing, measuring, packaging, piping, processing, reprocessing, producing, refining, or re-refining, retailing, selling, transporting, taxing, or wholesaling, or to any of the variant forms of the above or to the person, equipment, measurements, and calculations incident to such actions or activities involving petroleum products.  (b) Petroleum products inspection shall apply to all petroleum products kept, offered, or exposed for sales. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3; am L 1991, c 153, §20]
HI Rev Stat § 486-52 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-52 Measurement standard; exemptions.

  §486-52 Measurement standard; exemptions. (a) Any petroleum product that is in a liquid state under conditions of seven hundred sixty millimeters of Hg at sixty degrees Fahrenheit shall be measured in terms of the U.S. petroleum gallon, its multiple or decimal submultiples, or compatible units of the SI as established by rule of the board.  (b) Any petroleum product that is in a vapor state under conditions of 258.575 millimeters or less of Hg at sixty degrees Fahrenheit shall be measured in terms of cubic feet or in terms of a U.S. petroleum gallon, their multiples or decimal submultiples, or compatible units of the SI as established by rule of the board.  (c) Any device required to automatically compensate for temperature shall only apply to metered sales of liquid petroleum products that have a rated capacity of two hundred gallons per minute or more; provided that whenever a partial compartment or partial tank truck load is delivered, it shall be delivered through a meter that meets the requirements specified in rules adopted by the department.  (d) Any hydrogen fuel product shall be exempt from this section.  (e) For the purposes of this section, "hydrogen fuel" means hydrogen with a fuel index of ninety-nine per cent or higher in vapor or liquid state to be used as fuel. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3; am L 1995, c 146, §2; am L 2021, c 135, §1]
HI Rev Stat § 486-52.5 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-52.5 Price posting by gallon required.

  §486-52.5 Price posting by gallon required. The director shall adopt rules to require any retail dispenser of gasoline, whose variator price is set in liters, for every grade of gasoline sold, to post on top or on the face panel of each gasoline pump and on any other pricing advertisement in conspicuous numbers comparable in size to any other posted price, the price per United States gallon for the gasoline dispensed. If the variator price is set in gallons, no liter price posting or advertisement shall be required. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require that gasoline be sold by the gallon. [L 1988, c 388, §1]
HI Rev Stat § 486-53 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-53 Violations; penalties.

  §486-53 Violations; penalties. Any person who commits any of the prohibited acts or omits any of the prescribed acts, herein required or required in any rule adopted by the board shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 486-32. Each day that a violation exists, or is continued, or continues to exist, shall be construed as a separate punishable offense. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3]
HI Rev Stat § 486-54 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-54 Investigations.

  §486-54 Investigations. The administrator may, upon the administrator's initiative, investigate suspected violations of this part and shall investigate each complaint registered under this part. The administrator may resort to suitable warnings rather than prosecution for minor offenses or those offenses which have been discontinued should the administrator so elect. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3]
HI Rev Stat § 486-55 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-55 General duties and powers.

  §486-55 General duties and powers. The board may:  (1) Enforce and administer this part by inspections, analyses, and other appropriate actions;  (2) Have access during normal business hours to all places where petroleum products are marketed or being held for the purpose of examination, inspection, taking of samples, and investigation. If such access is refused by the owner or agent or other persons leasing the same, the board or its agent may obtain a search warrant from a court of competent jurisdiction;  (3) Collect, or cause to be collected, samples of petroleum products marketed or being held in this State, and cause such samples to be tested or analyzed for compliance with this part; and  (4) Issue a stop-sale order for any petroleum product found not to be in compliance and remand said stop-sale order if the petroleum product is brought into full compliance with this part. [L 1991, c 153, §4]
HI Rev Stat § 486-56 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-56 Adoption of standards and rules.

  §486-56 Adoption of standards and rules.  The standards as published by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) are adopted except as amended or modified by rule of the board pursuant to chapter 91. The board may also adopt rules on the advertising, labeling, standards for, handling, storing, dispensing, and selling of petroleum products. Notwithstanding the foregoing, rules adopted by the board referring to ASTM D4814, relating to standard specification for automotive spark-ignition engine fuel, shall be deemed to refer to version ASTM D4814-13b adopted in 2013, as modified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology Handbook 130, part IV, subpart G, section 2.1 adopted in 2013. [L 1991, c 153, §5; am L 2014, c 64, §1]
HI Rev Stat § 486-70 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-70 REPEALED.

Note Part heading amended by L 1991, c 153, §21.  §486-70 REPEALED. L 1991, c 153, §44.
HI Rev Stat § 486-71 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-71 Definitions.

  §486-71 Definitions. For the purposes of this part:  "Odometer" is an analog or digital measuring device that reflects distance traveled.  "Passenger car" means a vehicle with self-contained motive power and seating capacity for up to twelve passengers (excluding the driver), not exceeding 16,000 pounds gross vehicle weight. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3; am L 1991, c 153, §22]
HI Rev Stat § 486-75 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-75 Properly functioning odometer required.

  §486-75 Properly functioning odometer required. No person shall introduce in the State for any purpose whatever, nor operate within the State for any purpose whatever, a passenger car unless it has installed a properly functioning and correctly calibrated odometer. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3]
HI Rev Stat § 486-76 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-76 REPEALED.

  §486-76 REPEALED. L 1991, c 153, §48.
HI Rev Stat § 486-77 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-77 Odometers; prohibitions; exemptions.

  §486-77 Odometers; prohibitions; exemptions. (a) It shall be unlawful to:  (1) Tamper with an odometer, installed in a passenger car, for any purpose. This paragraph shall not be construed to preclude legitimate repair, replacement, or adjustment of an odometer, provided that the administrator may require documentation of such repair, replacement, or adjustment;  (2) Advertise for sale, or sell, rent, lease, or export any passenger car, the odometer of which has been tampered with in such a fashion or manner as to mislead the prospective buyer to believe that the passenger car traveled a lesser distance than it actually has traveled;  (3) Operate a passenger car on any street or highway, knowing that the odometer of the passenger car is disconnected or nonfunctional;  (4) Disconnect, turn back, advance, or reset the odometer of any passenger car with intent to alter the distance indicated on the odometer; or  (5) Misrepresent the true distance traveled by any passenger car subject to this part, so as to mislead a prospective buyer.  (b) This section shall not preclude the installation, maintenance, repair, or replacement of odometers when such action is necessary to cause compliance with this part. Any such action, however, shall expressly be noted on the certificate of ownership and called to the attention of a prospective buyer, in writing. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3; am L 2008, c 19, §53]
HI Rev Stat § 486-78 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-78 Authority to inspect.

  §486-78 Authority to inspect. The administrator may upon the administrator's own initiative or upon complaint, after properly identifying or making a legitimate effort to identify oneself, enter upon any public or private property, in accordance with law, where odometers may reasonably be stored, held, sold, repaired, altered, manipulated, or otherwise influenced so as to display any digital or analog representation, factual or otherwise, to determine if any actions relating to odometers are being conducted contrary to law. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3]
HI Rev Stat § 486-79 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-79 Citation and notice to appear.

  §486-79 Citation and notice to appear. The administrator may issue to any person violating this part, a citation and notice to appear, at a given time and place, to answer to charges against the person.   The form, contents, copy designation and disposition, and appearance dates of such citation and notice to appear shall be prescribed by the district courts. When a complaint of the violation of this part, including any rules adopted thereunder, is made to any prosecuting officer, the arresting officer or employee who issued the citation and notice to appear shall subscribe to it under oath administered by another official or officials of the department, whose name has been submitted to the prosecuting officer and who has been designated by the administrator to administer the same. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3; am L 2008, c 19, §54]
HI Rev Stat § 486-80 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-80 Impoundment of evidence.

  §486-80 Impoundment of evidence. The administrator may, for a period not to exceed ninety-six hours, impound as evidence any passenger car in which an inaccurate or incorrect or inoperable odometer system is installed or exists. Such period may be extended by order of the court. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3]
HI Rev Stat § 486-81 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-81 Confiscation of evidence.

  §486-81 Confiscation of evidence. The administrator or any authorized inspector may confiscate as evidence any tools designed to change, manipulate, or otherwise alter the display of an odometer, when the inspector has reason to believe that such tools may be used in an illicit manner or by persons other than licensed dealers, or licensed repair agencies, or by persons gainfully employed by such agencies or dealers. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3]
HI Rev Stat § 486-82 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-82 Nonscheduled inspection, permissible.

  §486-82 Nonscheduled inspection, permissible. Any authorized inspector may, where probable cause exists, require the driver or custodian of a passenger car to move the passenger car to a designated place for inspection of the car or its odometer system. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3]
HI Rev Stat § 486-83 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-83 Scheduled inspection.

  §486-83 Scheduled inspection. The administrator or any authorized inspector may schedule odometer system inspection for passenger cars at a designated time and place. Failure to move or present the passenger cars as directed or scheduled shall be a violation of this part. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3]
HI Rev Stat § 486-84 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-84 Civil action.

  §486-84 Civil action. (a) Any person who violates any requirement imposed under this part shall be liable to the buyer, in an amount equal to the sum of:  (1) Three times the amount of actual damages sustained or $1,500, whichever is greater; and  (2) In the case of any successful action to enforce the foregoing liability, the costs of the action, together with reasonable attorney fees as determined by the court.  (b) An action to enforce any liability created under subsection (a) of this section must be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction without regard to the amount in controversy, within two years from the date on which the liability occurred. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3]
HI Rev Stat § 486-85, 86 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-85, 86 REPEALED.

  § §486-85, 86 REPEALED. L 1991, c 153, § §49, 50.
HI Rev Stat § 486-87 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-87 Penalties.

  §486-87 Penalties. Any person guilty of committing any of the prohibited acts or omitting any of the required acts of this part shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. [L 1988, c 156, pt of §3; am L 1993, c 54, §4]
HI Rev Stat § 486-101 (2021)
2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes|Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice|486. Measurement Standards|486-101 Definitions.

  §486-101 Definitions. As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:  "Net weight" means:  (1) As applied to commodities, the weight of a commodity excluding any materials, substances, or items not considered to be part of the commodity. Materials, substances, or items not considered to be part of the commodity include, but are not limited to, containers, conveyances, bags, wrappers, packaging materials, labels, individual piece covering, decorative accompaniments, and coupons.  (2) As applied to services, materials considered to be part of a service may or may not include packaging materials, depending upon the type of service that is being purchased. It shall in no instance include the weight of the conveyance used to transport goods if the service is transportation of goods.  "Sale from bulk" means sale of commodities or services when the quantity is determined at the time of sale.  "Weight", as used in connection with any commodity or service, means net weight; when a commodity is sold by drained weight, the term means net drained weight. [L 1991, c 153, pt of §6; am L 1993, c 54, §5]