Report Title:

Motor Carriers; Points of Entry

 

Description:

Makes it unlawful for common carriers by motor vehicle to give or cause any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular point of entry, or to subject any particular point of entry to any unjust discrimination or undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1270

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to motor carriers.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 271-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:

""Point of entry" means the harbor where property is brought into the State."

SECTION 2. Section 271-20, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:

"(c) All charges made for any service rendered by any common carrier by motor vehicle in the transportation of passengers or property or in connection therewith shall be just and reasonable, and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service or any part thereof[,] is prohibited and declared to be unlawful. It shall be unlawful for any common carrier by motor vehicle to make, give, or cause any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, locality, point of entry, region, district, island, or description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever; or to subject any particular person, locality, point of entry, region, district, island, or description of traffic to any unjust discrimination or undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever; provided that this subsection shall not be construed to apply to discrimination, prejudice, or disadvantage to the traffic of any other carrier of whatever description."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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