Report Title:

Highway Safety

 

Description:

Amends licensing requirement to include motor scooters and clarifies that motor scooters are covered by commercial driver's license. (HB830 HD1)

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

830

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to driver licensing.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 286-102, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) A person operating the following category or combination of categories of motor vehicles shall be examined as provided in section 286-108 and duly licensed by the examiner of drivers:

(1) Motor scooters;

(2) Motorcycles and motor scooters;

(3) Passenger cars of any gross vehicle weight rating, buses designed to transport fifteen or fewer occupants, and trucks and vans having a gross vehicle weight rating of fifteen thousand pounds or less; and motor scooters designed to travel with three wheels in contact with the ground that have a maximum piston speed or rotor displacement of fifty cubic centimeters; and

(4) All of the motor vehicles in category (3) and trucks having a gross vehicle weight rating of fifteen thousand one through twenty-six thousand pounds.

A school bus or van operator shall be properly licensed to operate the category of vehicles that the operator operates as a school bus or van and shall comply with the standards of the department of transportation as provided by rules adopted pursuant to section 286-181."

SECTION 2. Section 286-239, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:

"(d) The holder of a valid commercial driver's license may drive all vehicles in the category for which the license is issued, and all lesser categories of vehicles, including motor scoters designed to travel with three wheels in contact with the ground that have a maximum piston speed or rotor displacement of fifty cubic centimeters, except motorcycles and [except] vehicles [which] that require an endorsement, unless the proper endorsement appears on the license."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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, 2001.