Report Title:

Handicapped Parking; Fines

Description:

Gives counties a specified portion of fines for handicapped parking violations.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

300

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO parking for disabled persons.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 291-57, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§291-57 Parking spaces reserved for persons with disabilities; penalties. (a) A person using a parking space reserved for persons with disabilities without properly displaying a removable windshield placard, a temporary removable windshield placard, or special license plates, in accordance with this part or any rule adopted thereunder, shall be guilty of a traffic infraction under chapter 291D and shall be fined not less than $250 nor more than $500.

(b) Any person who uses a parking space reserved for persons with disabilities and refuses or fails to present an identification card issued under this chapter or the rules adopted thereunder to an enforcement officer upon request shall be guilty of a traffic infraction under chapter 291D and shall be fined not less than $250 nor more than $500.

(c) Not later than thirty days after the conclusion of each quarter of the fiscal year, the director of finance of the State shall distribute not less than per cent of all proceeds from fines and forfeitures received during that quarter for adjudicated and unadjudicated traffic infractions under this section to the director of finance of the county in which the traffic infraction occurred."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2003.

INTRODUCED BY:

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