STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1486

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 715
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No.
715 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF VEHICLES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to repeal the requirement that a
specific form be provided by the Director of Finance when
registering a vehicle under two names that is not held in joint
tenancy.

     Your Committee finds that the counties have had difficulty
in creating legally sufficient joint ownership forms for motor
vehicle registration.  Repealing the requirement that a Director
of Finance provide a specific form in this situation will allow
registrants who wish to register as joint owners in some form
other than joint tenancy to provide their own documents as
evidence of the joint ownership they claim.

     No testimony was submitted regarding this measure.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by allowing the county Directors of Finance to accept a
written document, rather than requiring a written form to be
provided by the counties.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.

 
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715, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading
in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 715, S.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary,



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                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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