Haw. Rev. Stat. § 329D-19

Current through the 2024 Legislative Session

Section 329D-19 - Criminal offense; alteration or falsification of medical cannabis dispensary records

(a) A person commits the offense of alteration or falsification of medical cannabis dispensary records if the person intentionally or knowingly:

(1) Makes or causes a false entry in medical cannabis dispensary records;

(2) Alters, erases, obliterates, deletes, removes, or destroys a true entry in medical cannabis dispensary records;

(3) Omits to make a true entry in medical cannabis dispensary records in violation of a duty that the person knows to be imposed upon the person by law or by the nature of the person's position; or

(4) Prevents the making of a true entry or causes the omission thereof in medical cannabis dispensary records.

(b) Alteration or falsification of medical cannabis dispensary records is a class C felony.

(c) For the purposes of this section:

"Electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or other similar capabilities.

"Information" includes data, text, images, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, or databases.

"Medical cannabis dispensary records" means any inventory tracking records and other records maintained by a licensed medical cannabis dispensary, including the records of its retail dispensing locations and production centers, that are required by law to be created and retained or provided to the department.

"Record" means information that is written or printed or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form.

HRS § 329D-19

Amended by L 2017, c 170,§ 2, eff. 7/11/2017.

Added by L 2015, c 241,§ 2, eff. 7/1/2015.