SB2422 HD1

Report Title:

Motor Vehicle Inspections

 

Description:

Lengthens the time required between certain motor vehicle inspections. Exempts vehicles less than two years old from inspection. (SB2422 HD1)

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2422
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002		S.D. 2
STATE OF HAWAII		H.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to motor vehicle inspections.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 286-26, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsections (a) and (b) to read as follows:

"(a) The following vehicles shall be certified as provided in subsection (e) once every [six months:] year:

[(1) Ambulances;

(2)] (1) Trucks, truck-tractors, semitrailers, and pole trailers having a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 10,000 pounds;

[(3)] (2) Buses[;], school buses, and trolleys operated by a person or entity that is subject to chapter 271;

[(4)] (3) Rental or U-drive motor vehicles [one year] two years of age or older; and

[(5)] (4) Taxicabs.

Ambulances and buses operated by persons or entities not subject to chapter 271 shall be certified as provided in subsection (e) once every six months.

(b) All other vehicles, including motorcycles, 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 months[.]; provided that any vehicle to which this subsection applies shall not require inspection within two years of the date on which the vehicle was first sold."

SECTION 2. Section 286-209, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(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 10,000 pounds, and motor carrier vehicles having a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less which transport passengers in the furtherance of a commercial enterprise, including car rental transport vehicles shall be inspected and certified once every [six months.] twelve months."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2003.