Bill Text: HI HB2691 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Vehicle Inspections.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-29 - Referred to TRN, CPC, FIN, referral sheet 9 [HB2691 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2018-HB2691-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO VEHICLE INSPECTIONS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that Hawaii is one of only eighteen states that has a mandatory vehicle inspection program; a large majority of states do not. Nationwide studies indicate that safety inspection programs do not reduce traffic accidents. Accidents, particularly those involving common passenger vehicles, are overwhelmingly caused by driver error, not by mechanical failure.
Hawaii's families are already experiencing slow wage growth and face high costs for everyday expenses. Unnecessary vehicle inspections require additional costs and time-consuming trips to a mechanic. Frequent mandatory inspections are a regressive tax on vehicle owners that results in a larger financial burden on low-income taxpayers.
The purpose of this Act is to amend the frequency of the routine motor vehicle safety inspection requirement from every twelve months to every twenty-four months for passenger cars, motorcycles, and commercial vehicles having a gross weight of 10,000 pounds or less. This Act also increases the period within which the owner or driver of a vehicle needs to provide a newly obtained certificate of inspection when ordered to do so by the police under section 286-22 from five days to thirty days.
SECTION 2. Section 286-22, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) If the vehicle or moped is found to be in an
unsafe condition or if any required part or equipment is not present or if any
required part or equipment is present but not in proper repair, the officer
shall issue a citation to the owner or driver stating the reasons that the
vehicle or moped is deemed unsafe or is not equipped as required and shall
require that a new certificate of inspection as provided in section 286-26 be
obtained within [five] thirty days or that the defect be cured."
SECTION 3. Section 286-26, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) All other vehicles, including motorcycles, mopeds,
trailers, semitrailers, and pole trailers having a gross vehicle weight rating
of 10,000 pounds or less, and antique motor vehicles as defined in section
249-1, except those in subsections (c) and (d), shall be certified as provided
in subsection (e) every [twelve] twenty-four months; provided
that any vehicle to which this subsection applies, except a moped, shall not
require inspection within two years of the date on which the vehicle was first
sold."
SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Vehicles; Certificate of Inspection; Motor Vehicle Safety Check.
Description:
Amends frequency of safety inspection requirements from twelve to twenty-four months for passenger cars, motorcycles, mopeds, taxicabs, and vehicles used primarily for commercial uses with a gross weight of less than 10,000 pounds.
The summary description
of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is
not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
