{"id":399062,"date":"2023-09-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=399062"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"HANMI-opposes-CCTV-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/HANMI-opposes-CCTV-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"HANMI opposes CCTV bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands does not support a bill that requires all businesses, regardless of size, type, or location to install a closed-circuit television camera at all entrance points, exit points, and checkout counters.<\/p>\n<p>HANMI chair Ivan Quichocho has informed the House of Representatives Committee on Commerce and Tourism that House Bill 23-63 leaves numerous items unaddressed, including the fines and penalties that may be imposed, how often the Department of Public Safety certification would need to be renewed, and details regarding a cost subsidy program that is only vaguely mentioned in the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatters of this significance should be clearly set out in the bill, and not left to the administrative regulatory process,\u201d Quichocho said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the legislation will place an enormous financial burden on HANMI member-hotels, as well as other businesses in the CNMI, that are struggling to operate and financially recover after the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting downturn in tourism and the hospitality industry.<\/p>\n<p>While most HANMI member-hotels have some CCTV in their properties, the requirements of this legislation far exceed the current CCTV operations at the hotels, Quichocho said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom a practical perspective, implementation of this Act, and requiring all CNMI businesses to obtain a certificate of compliance in order to renew their business licenses is problematic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Julie Ogo (Ind-Rota) introduced the bill.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/9fdbc967e322ca6aecde9de057d0c3a1.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ivan Quichocho<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands does not support a bill that requires&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}