Bill Text: HI HB1546 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Electric Vehicle; Parking Fees
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-17 - The committee(s) on TRN recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB1546 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2016-HB1546-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to electric vehicle parking.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Act 168, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, is amended by amending section 2 to read as follows:
"SECTION 2. (a) The department of transportation may adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for the registration of, and issuance of special license plates for, electric vehicles.
[(b) An electric vehicle on which an electric
vehicle license plate is affixed shall be exempt from payment of parking fees,
including those collected through parking meters, charged by any state or
county authority in this State, except that this exemption shall not apply:
(1) For
more than two and one-half hours of metered parking, or the maximum amount of
time the meter allows, whichever is longer; or
(2) To
parking fees assessed in increments longer than one twenty-four-hour day, including
weekly, monthly, or annual parking permits.
(c)] (b) An electric vehicle on
which an electric vehicle license plate is affixed shall be exempt from high
occupancy vehicle lane restrictions.
[(d)] (c) For the purposes of this
Act:
"Electric vehicle" means:
(1) A neighborhood electric vehicle; or
(2) A vehicle, with four or more wheels, that draws propulsion energy from a battery with at least four kilowatt hours of energy storage capacity that can be recharged from an external source of electricity."
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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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Report Title:
Electric Vehicle; Parking Fees
Description:
Repeals provisions exempting electric vehicles from the payment of parking fees.
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