Bill Text: HI HB2682 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Fireworks
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-27 - (H) Referred to TCI/PBS, JUD, FIN, referral sheet 7 [HB2682 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-HB2682-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2010 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to fireworks.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 132D-14, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) Any person:
(1) Importing aerial devices, display fireworks, or articles pyrotechnic without having a valid license under section 132D-7 shall be guilty of a class C felony;
(2) Purchasing, possessing, setting off, igniting, or
discharging aerial devices, display fireworks, or articles pyrotechnic without
a valid permit under sections 132D-10 and 132D-16, or storing, selling, or
possessing aerial devices, display fireworks, or articles pyrotechnic without a
valid license under section 132D-7[:
(A) If the total weight of the aerial
devices, display fireworks, or articles pyrotechnic is twenty-five pounds or
more, shall be guilty of a class C felony; or
(B) If the total weight of the aerial
devices, display fireworks, or articles pyrotechnic is less than twenty-five
pounds,] shall be guilty of a [misdemeanor;] class C felony;
(3) Who transfers or sells aerial devices, display fireworks, or articles pyrotechnic to a person who does not have a valid permit under sections 132D-10 and 132D-16, shall be guilty of a class C felony; and
(4) Who removes or extracts the pyrotechnic contents
from any fireworks or articles pyrotechnic and uses the contents to construct
fireworks, articles pyrotechnic, or a fireworks or articles pyrotechnic related
device shall be guilty of a [misdemeanor.] class C felony."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
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. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Fireworks
Description:
Raises the penalties for certain violations of the fireworks law to a class C felony.
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