Report Title:

Motor Vehicle Inspections

 

Description:

Lengthens the time required between motor vehicle inspections.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2422

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

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) Buses;

(4)] (2) Rental or U-drive motor vehicles one year of age or older; and

[(5)] (3) Taxicabs.

Ambulances and buses 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.] two years."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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