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Council advances tighter rules for electronic amusement devices and boosts tools to address illegal game rooms
Summary
The Honolulu City Council’s Budget Committee on Wednesday amended and reported out a pair of measures aimed at tightening regulation of electronic amusement devices and strengthening tools to address illegal game rooms.
The Budget Committee advanced local proposals this week aimed at tightening regulation of electronic amusement devices and giving police and prosecutors additional tools to address illegal game rooms.
Councilmember Tupolo presented amendments to Bill 11 to clarify the definition of devices “available to the public,” to add the term “police chief” as an alternate title where the ordinance uses “chief of police,” to remove a redundant defined term and to make technical edits. Sergeant Leland Kurishi of the Honolulu Police Department told the committee HPD supports the measure and is willing to enforce the ordinance provisions.
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