Hawaii Secondhand Dealers Licenses and Penalty

Hawai‘i Revised Statutes Annotated
Division 2. Business
Title 25. Professions and Occupations
Chapter 445. County Licenses
Part VII. Secondhand Dealers

§ 445-171. Fee, conditions

The treasurer may grant licenses to suitable persons to be dealers and traders in secondhand articles, and may revoke such licenses for cause satisfactory to the treasurer. The licensees shall pay to the treasurer an annual fee of $10.
Every license granted under this section shall designate the place where the business is carried on and shall continue for one year unless sooner revoked. Every dealer shall keep a book in which shall be written a description of every article received, the name, residence, and a general description of the person from whom, and the time and hour when the article was received. The book, the place where the business is carried on, and the articles of property therein, may be examined at any time by the treasurer, the chief of police, or by any person presenting to such dealer a written authorization so to do from the treasurer or chief of police.

§ 445-172. Prohibitions; penalty
Every person who engages in the business of buying or selling secondhand articles, or who deals therein, unless licensed therefor according to law, or after notice that the person's license has been revoked, or who, being licensed, neglects to keep the book and make the entries therein prescribed in section 445-171, or who refuses to allow the inspections in the section prescribed, or who purchases or receives by way of exchange any article from any minor, knowing or having reason to believe that the person is a minor, shall be fined not more than $100.

Cite as Haw. Rev. Stat. §§ 445-171-72