SB2422 HD2

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 HD2)

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

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;

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

[(5)] (4) Taxicabs.

Ambulances 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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.