Report Title:

Driver Licensing Fee; DUI

Description:

Creates an additional fee for the issuance of a driver's license to cover costs incurred by the police department related to payment of compensation to prepare for hearing and proceedings related to a DUI offense.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2238

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVER LICENSING.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 286-111, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) Every application for an instruction permit or for a driver's license shall be made upon a form furnished by the examiner of drivers and shall be verified by the applicant before a person authorized to administer oaths. The examiner of drivers and officers serving under the examiner may administer such oaths without charge. Each application for an instruction permit for a category (1), (2), (3), or (4) license shall be accompanied by a fee to be determined by the council of each county and each application for a driver's license shall be accompanied by the fee, unless the applicant has already paid the fee upon application for an instruction permit in the same county, in which event no fee shall be chargeable. An additional fee to be determined by the council of each county shall be charged and collected upon the issuance of a driver's license[.]; provided that a driver's license issued to a person after conviction of driving under the influence of intoxicants as provided for in chapter 291E shall also be subject to a fee to cover the costs incurred by the police department related to the payment of compensation to prepare for and attend any administrative hearings or judicial proceedings related to the offense. All the foregoing fees shall become county realizations."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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