HB1723

Report Title:

Motor vehicle safety

Description:

Exempts a person involved in an accident during the normal course of their employment from the security and suspension requirements of chapter 287, HRS.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1723
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

Relating to motor vehicle safety.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 287-8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§287-8 Further exceptions to requirement of security. The requirements as to security and suspension of sections 287-5 and 287-6 shall not apply:

(1) To the driver or the registered owner of a motor vehicle involved in an accident where no injury or damage was caused to the person or property of anyone other than the driver or registered owner;

(2) To the driver or the registered owner of the motor vehicle legally parked at the time of accident;

(3) To the driver of a motor vehicle [owned by that person's employer] involved in an accident during the normal scope of that person's employment;

(4) To the registered owner of the motor vehicle if at the time of the accident the vehicle was being operated without the registered owner's permission, express or implied, or was parked by a person who had been operating the motor vehicle without such permission; nor

(5) If prior to the date the administrator would otherwise suspend the license or permit under section 287-6, there is filed with the administrator evidence satisfactory to the administrator that the driver who would otherwise have to file security has been released from liability or been finally adjudicated not to be liable or has executed a duly acknowledged written agreement providing for the payment of an agreed amount in installments, with respect to all claims for injuries or damages resulting from the accident."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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