HB2031 HD1

Report Title:

Personal Transportation

Description:

Adds definition of "electric personal assistive mobility device" to the Statewide Traffic Code; allows their use on sidewalks and bicycle paths by government employees or employees of a commercial establishment over the age of sixteen performing their assigned duties; allows their use by persons with a mobility-related disability regardless of age. (HB2031 HD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2031
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to personal transportation.

 

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

SECTION 1. Chapter 291C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§291C- Electric personal assistive mobility devices; restrictions. (a) An electric personal assistive mobility device may be operated on the sidewalks and bicycle paths of the State.

(b) An electric personal assistive mobility device operator shall be sixteen-years-of-age or older, except for an operator with a mobility-related disability.

(c) An electric personal assistive mobility device shall only be used by a government employee or employee of a commercial establishment performing their assigned duties or an operator with a mobility-related disability."

SECTION 2. Section 291C-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:

""Electric personal assistive mobility device" means a self-balancing two-wheeled, non-tandem-wheeled device, designed to transport only one person, using an electric propulsion system that limits the maximum speed of the device to eight miles per hour or less."

SECTION 3. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.