Report Title:

Neighborhood electric vehicles

 

Description:

Amends the definition of neighborhood electric vehicle to include vehicles with gross vehicle weight rating of less than 3,000 pounds.

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

3225

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

relating to neighborhood electric vehicles.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 286-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "neighborhood electric vehicle" to read as follows:

     ""Neighborhood electric vehicle" means a self-propelled electrically powered motor vehicle to which all of the following apply:

     (1)  The vehicle is emission free;

     (2)  The vehicle is designed to be and is operated at speeds of twenty-five miles per hour or less;

     (3)  The vehicle has four wheels in contact with the ground;

     (4)  The vehicle has a gross vehicle weight rating of less than [two thousand five hundred] three thousand pounds; and

     (5)  The vehicle conforms to the minimum safety equipment requirements as adopted in the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 500, Low Speed Vehicles (49 C.F.R. 571.500)."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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