Bill Text: HI HB623 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Government Motor Vehicles; Prohibited Uses

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-12-18 - Carried over to 2014 Regular Session. [HB623 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2014-HB623-Introduced.html

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	623
TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO GOVERNMENT MOTOR VEHICLES.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  Section 105-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, prohibits persons from using, operating, or driving any motor vehicle owned or controlled by the State or the counties, for personal pleasure or personal use (as distinguished from official or governmental service or use).  Among other persons and government agencies, the law excepts from this prohibition the officers and employees of the board of water supply of the city and county of Honolulu when using a motor vehicle for a personal purpose incidental to the person's service or work (but not for pleasure).  The legislature further finds that this exception should extend to the boards of water supply of the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui.

     The purpose of this Act is to extend to all other county boards of water supply, the exception the city and county of honolulu board of water supply has to use a motor vehicle for a personal purpose incidental to the person's service or work (but not for pleasure).

     SECTION 2.  Section 105-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§105-2  Exceptions.  Section 105-1 shall not apply to:

     (1)  The governor;

     (2)  The mayor of any county;

     (3)  Any member of a police department or a fire department or of the staff of a hospital, or any officer or employee of [the] a board of water supply [of the city and county of Honolulu], when using a motor vehicle for a personal purpose incidental to the person's service or work (but not for pleasure);

     (4)  Any officer or employee of the State who, upon written recommendation of the comptroller, is given written permission by the governor to use, operate, or drive for personal use (but not for pleasure) any motor vehicle owned or controlled by the State;

     (5)  Any officer or employee of any county who, upon written recommendation of the budget director, is given written permission by the mayor, to use, operate or drive for personal use (but not for pleasure) any motor vehicle owned or controlled by the county;

     (6)  Any officer or employee of the State, or of any county, who, in case of emergency, because of the person's illness, or the person's incapacity caused by accident while at work, or because of the illness of a member of the person's immediate family including a reciprocal beneficiary while the person is at work, is conveyed in a motor vehicle to the person's place of abode, or to a hospital or other place, but every such use of such a motor vehicle shall be certified to by the officer or by the head of the department, commission, board, bureau, agency, or instrumentality controlling or possessing the motor vehicle immediately thereafter, and the certificate shall be forthwith filed with the comptroller, in the case of the State, or with the budget director, in the case of a county; and

     (7)  The assigned driver of a Van Go Hawaii vehicle or any other state ridesharing program vehicle."

     SECTION 3.  This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun before its effective date.

     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.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Government Motor Vehicles; Prohibited Uses

 

Description:

Extends to all other county boards of water supply, the exception the board of water supply of the city and county of honolulu has to use a motor vehicle for a personal purpose incidental to the person's service or work (but not for pleasure).

 

 

 

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