Bill Text: HI HB2293 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Special Number Plates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-02-07 - The committee(s) on CAI recommend(s) that the measure be deferred. [HB2293 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-HB2293-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2024 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to special number plates.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 249, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§249- Special number plates; university of
Hawaii cancer center; authorized. (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the
director of finance shall issue to any registered owner of a motor vehicle, who
is a resident of the State and has completed the application and paid the
required fees, special number plates for the registered owner's motor vehicle recognizing
the university of Hawaii cancer center.
(b) The director of finance of the city and
county of Honolulu, in consultation with the directors of finance of the
counties of Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii; the chiefs of police of the city and
county of Honolulu and the counties of Kauai, Maui, and Hawaii; and the director
of the university of Hawaii
cancer center shall establish a special number plate design that:
(1) Contains
words, images, or both, that indicate that the special number plate is issued
to recognize the university
of Hawaii cancer center;
(2) Is
similar in shape and size to the uniform state number plate prescribed by law;
and
(3) Does not
obstruct the visibility of the number or letters or any other information that
is required by law to be on a number plate, and is readily identifiable and
distinguishable under actual traffic conditions.
(c) The special number plate design shall not:
(1) Infringe upon
or otherwise violate any trademark, trade name, service mark, copyright, or
other proprietary or property right;
(2) Represent any
obscene or degrading image, idea, word, or phrase;
(3) Advertise or
endorse a product, brand, or service that is provided for sale;
(4) Promote any
religious belief; or
(5) Promote any
philosophy based on prejudice or that is contrary to state civil rights laws.
(d)
Each
special number plate shall be securely fastened to the motor vehicle in
lieu of the uniform state number plate.
(e) The director of finance shall charge a
special number plate fee at least equal to the county's cost of providing the
special number plate and administrative costs, if any, plus a fundraising fee
to be determined by the director of finance in consultation with the director
of the university of
Hawaii cancer center. The
fundraising fee shall be in addition to any other state or county fees
collected for a motor vehicle registration or license plate.
(f) The director of finance may charge an
additional fundraising fee, of the same or a different amount as the
fundraising fee established pursuant to subsection (e), for the renewal of a
special number plate. If an additional
fundraising fee is implemented pursuant to this subsection, the director of
finance shall not renew and instead shall revoke the special number plate of
the registered owner of a motor vehicle who fails to pay the additional
fundraising fee imposed by this subsection.
(g) The revenue generated by the fundraising
fees, or a portion of the revenue generated by the fundraising fees as
determined by the director of finance, shall be deposited in the name of the university of Hawaii cancer center in
a separate county budget account. The
director of finance shall determine the most efficient means of directing to the
university of Hawaii
cancer center the net revenue generated by the fundraising fees.
(h) The director of finance may revoke all special
number plates issued pursuant to this section if the total number of registered
owners of motor vehicles who obtain the special number plates is less than one
hundred fifty within three years of issuance of the first special number plate.
(i) Nothing in this section shall be construed to
apply to any special number plates issued pursuant to section 249-9.2.
(j) For the purposes of this section, unless a
different meaning appears from the context, "special number plate"
means a license plate that recognizes the university of Hawaii cancer center."
SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Motor Vehicles; Special Number Plates; UH Cancer Center
Description:
Authorizes the issuance of special number plates to recognize the University of Hawaii Cancer Center.
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