Bill Text: HI SB1139 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Highway; Safety; Motor Vehicle Inspections; Motor Carrier Vehicle Inspections
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-21 - Re-Referred to TRE, WAM. [SB1139 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2016-SB1139-Introduced.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTIONS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. One objective of this Act is to provide the director of transportation greater authority over the motor vehicle inspection program so that the cost to a vehicle owner for an inspection, the fees collected from inspection stations, and the administration of the program can be changed by amending administrative rules pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes. There is a need to upgrade the methods and procedures of state motor vehicle inspections, because the current system is inefficient in that legislation needs to be passed every time an inspection fee is amended.
This Act also reduces the amount of insurance information required on an inspection certificate. This will reduce data entry requirements for inspectors without degrading the function of checking insurance cards. Digital images of the insurance cards will be stored for easy retrieval should a need for additional information arise.
The Act also repeals the opportunity to replace lost, stolen, or destroyed inspection stickers without reinspection.
SECTION 2. Section 286-26, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (e) to read as follows:
"(e) Upon
application for a certificate of inspection to be issued for a vehicle, an
inspection as prescribed by the director under subsection (g) shall be
conducted on the vehicle, and if the vehicle is found to be in [a safe
operating condition,] compliance with the inspection requirements, a
certificate of inspection shall be issued upon payment of a fee to be
determined by the director. The certificate shall state the [effective
date, the termination date, the name of the issuing insurance carrier, and the
policy number of] insurance expiration date shown on the motor
vehicle insurance identification card for the inspected motor vehicle as
specified by section 431:10C-107 or determined from a certificate of
self-insurance issued by the state insurance commissioner, as specified by
Section 431:10C-606, or state the information contained in the proof of
insurance card as specified by section 431:10G-106. A validation sticker,
authorized by the director, shall be affixed to the vehicle at the time a
certificate of inspection is issued. [An inspection sticker which has been
lost, stolen, or destroyed shall be replaced without reinspection by the
inspection station that issued the original inspection sticker upon
presentation of the vehicle's current certificate of inspection; provided that
the current certificate of inspection and inspection sticker shall not have
expired at the time the replacement is requested. The director shall
adopt rules to determine the fee for replacement of lost, stolen, or destroyed
inspection stickers.]"
SECTION 3. Section 286-209, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§286-209 Safety inspection of motor carrier vehicles. (a) Motor carrier vehicles, including but not limited to trucks, truck-tractors, semitrailers, trailers, or pole trailers, having a gross vehicle weight rating of more than ten thousand pounds, motor carrier vehicles having a gross vehicle weight rating of ten thousand pounds or less which transport passengers in the furtherance of a commercial enterprise, including car rental transport vehicles, and motor carrier vehicles used in transporting material found by the United States Secretary of Transportation to be hazardous under 49 U.S.C. section 5103 and transported in a quantity requiring placarding under 49 C.F.R., subtitle B, chapter I, subchapter C, shall be inspected and certified annually.
(b) The director shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 for the administration and enforcement of motor carrier vehicle safety inspections, including the maximum inspection fee to vehicle owners, fees collected from the stations, the issuance of certificates of safety inspection, the affixing of motor carrier vehicle safety inspection decals, and the acceptance of certificates of safety inspection issued in other jurisdictions.
(c) The director shall
collect a fee of $1.50 for each motor carrier vehicle safety inspection decal
issued by motor carrier vehicle inspection stations, until the
administrative rules noted in subsection (b) are in effect at which time the
fee adopted in the administrative rules shall apply in lieu of said fee herein.
All moneys [collected] received by the department of transportation
under this section shall be [paid] deposited into the state
highway fund.
(d) A fee of no more than $12 shall be charged by a motor carrier inspection station for each safety inspection performed, until the fee is established by administrative rules in subsection (b) above at which time the fee adopted in the administrative rules shall apply in lieu of said fee herein.
(e) For the purposes of this section, "car rental transport vehicles" means motor carrier vehicles used to transport customers to or from car rental sites."
SECTION 4. This Act does not affect rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun, before its effective date.
SECTION 5. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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BY REQUEST |
Report Title:
Highway; Safety; Motor Vehicle Inspections; Motor Carrier Vehicle Inspections
Description:
Expands authority of the Director of Transportation over required motor vehicle and motor carrier vehicle inspections in the State.
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