Report Title:

Statewide traffic code; Electric Personal Assistive Mobility Devices; restrictions.

Description:

Prohibits the use of Electric Personal Assistive Mobility Devices on sidewalks within a business district.  Provides exemptions.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	141
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to the statewide traffic code.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 291C-134.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  An electric personal assistive mobility device may be operated on the sidewalks, at a speed no greater than eight miles per hour, and bicycle paths of the [State.]state.  An electric personal assistive mobility device shall be prohibited on sidewalks in business districts except when being used by a police officer or person with a disability. The sale of consumer models of electric personal assistive mobility devices in the [State] state shall be limited to those models operated by a key that can set the maximum forward speed at no more than eight miles per hour. 

For the purposes of this subsection:

"Person with a disability" shall have the same meaning as found in section 291-51."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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:

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