HB 2491: DAB; Measurement Standards Branch; Taxicabs; Exemption

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to measurement standards.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 486-105, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  Unless otherwise provided by law, the department, through the measurement standards branch, shall inspect and test, to ascertain if they are correct, all measurement standards and measuring devices kept, offered, or exposed for sale, sold, or in use in the State.  The department may, as often as it deems necessary, inspect and test, to ascertain if they are correct, all measurement standards and measuring devices used in:

     (1)  Determining the measurement of commodities or things sold, or offered or exposed for sale, on the basis of measure;

     (2)  Computing the basic charge or payment, including taxes, for services rendered on the basis of measure; and

     (3)  Determining measurement when a charge is made for such determination, including the payment of any associated tax[.];

[Provided] provided that in compliance with a rule of the board, tests may be made on representative samples of the commodities, things, or devices, and the lots of which samples are representative shall be held to be correct or incorrect upon the basis of the results of the inspections and tests on the samples[.  And,]; provided further that with respect to single-service devices designed to be used only once and to be then discarded or with respect to devices uniformly mass-produced, as by means of a mold or die, and not susceptible of individual adjustment, the inspection and testing requirements of this section will be satisfied when inspections and tests are made on representative samples of the devices, and the lots of which samples are representative shall be held to be correct or incorrect upon the basis of the results of the inspections and tests of the samples[.]; provided further that this section shall not apply to commercial measuring devices utilized in taxicabs."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Report Title:

DAB; Measurement Standards Branch; Taxicabs; Exemption

Description:

Exempts commercial measuring devices utilized in taxicabs from the requirement that the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity Measurement Standards Branch inspect and test all measurement standards and measuring devices.

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