Bill Text: HI HB1160 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Mopeds; Roads; Bike Lanes; Bike Paths; Highways
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1160 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1160-Introduced.html
Report Title:
Mopeds; Roads; Bike Lanes; Bike Paths; Highways
Description:
Prohibits three-wheeled mopeds from using bike lanes and bike paths.
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TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO MOPEDS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 291C-197, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§291C-197 Driving mopeds on bicycle lanes and paths. (a) Wherever bicycle lanes are provided on the roadway, two-wheeled moped drivers shall use such bicycle lanes. A three-wheeled moped shall not be driven in a bicycle lane.
(b) The director of transportation by rule and the counties by ordinance may with respect to bicycle paths under their respective jurisdictions restrict or prohibit the use of such bicycle paths by mopeds. Signs clearly visible to an ordinarily observant person indicating the restriction or prohibition shall be placed along bicycle paths so designated and every two-wheeled moped driver shall obey the directions thereof. Three-wheeled mopeds shall not use bicycle paths.
[(c) This section
shall not apply to a three-wheeled moped.]"
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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.
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BY REQUEST |
