HB735

Report Title:

Relating to highway safety.

Description:

Requires new vehicles to be inspected on or before their initial sale and annually 2 years later.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	735
TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to highway safety.

 

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

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

"(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] be inspected prior to or on the date of initial retail sale or lease from dealer to consumer, but subsequent annual inspections shall not be required until two years [of the date on which the vehicle was first sold.] after the first inspection."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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

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

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________
	BY REQUEST