Report Title:

Time Share Plans; Identification Badges

 

Description:

Requires timeshare agents to wear an identification badge with the person's name and company. (SD1)

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

21

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to time sharing plans.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 514E-2.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§514E-2.6 Identification badges. (a) Each person registered under this chapter as an acquisition agent, or sales agent, or resale agent and that person's employees and independent contractors shall wear an identification badge while off-premises and engaged in acquisition agent or sales agent activity as defined in section 514E-1 or activity for which registration is required under chapter 468M[.]; provided that this section shall not apply to a person engaged in an on-site inspection of a time share unit with a purchaser or prospective purchaser. "Off-premises" shall be deemed to be a place other than in the office of a sales agent, on a project site, or within a developer's principal place of business. Badges shall be worn in plain view, at chest level, and be unobstructed by any clothing or other matter.

"(b) Identification badges shall be at least three [and one-half by two and one-fourth] by one and one-half inches and include the [words "TIME SHARE AGENT" printed in capital letters of at least twenty-four point bold type.] name of the person and the business name of the agent or developer employing the person.

(c) Identification badges shall be used only by the person whom they identify and may not under any circumstances be used by another person.

[No other words, logos, or pictures shall appear on the badges.]"

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.