STAND. COM. REP. NO. 934

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 715
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, 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 measure is to eliminate the requirement
that the counties provide the form required to record joint
ownership of a vehicle.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Customer Services of the City and County of
Honolulu.

     Your Committee finds that the current form issued by the
counties is not legally sufficient to record the different types
of joint ownership.  Your Committee finds that the applicant,
rather than the counties, should be responsible for providing the
proper documents describing the legal ownership of a jointly
owned vehicle.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of H.B. No. 715 and recommends that it pass
Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.


 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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