Requires transferee of motor vehicle to present endorsed certificate of title to director of finance in person with proof of identity.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. Section 286-52, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsections (b), (c), and (d) to read as follows:

"(b) Within thirty calendar days [thereafter,] of a transfer pursuant to subsection (a), the transferee shall [forward] present the certificate of ownership so endorsed in person to the director of finance who shall file the same; provided that if the recorded lien holder does not have an office in the State, the applicable period shall be sixty days. The transferee shall furnish the director of finance valid proof of identity in the form of a Hawaii driver's license or state identification card, military identification card, or a passport. Whenever a transferee fails to comply with these provisions, the director of finance shall charge a fee of $50, in addition to the fee provided in section 286-51, for a new certificate of ownership.

(c) Subsection (b), requiring a transferee to [forward] present the certificate of ownership after endorsement to the director of finance, shall not apply to the transferee of a vehicle who was not intending to and does not drive the vehicle or permit the vehicle to be driven upon the public highways, but every such transferee, upon transferring the transferee's interest or title to another, shall give notice of the transfer to the director of finance and endorse the certificate of ownership to the new legal owner and the certificate of registration to the new owner; provided that if the director of finance has ascertained as of the date of the application that the registered owner has not deposited or paid bail with respect to any summons or citation issued to the registered owner for stopping, standing, or parking in violation of traffic ordinances within the county, the director may require, as a condition precedent to the transfer, that the registered owner deposit or pay bail with respect to all such summons or citations.

(d) The director of finance, upon receipt of the certificate of ownership properly endorsed[,] and satisfactory proof of the identity of the transferee, shall register the vehicle[,] and shall issue to the owner and legal owner entitled thereto by reason of the transfer a new certificate of registration and the certificate of ownership, respectively, in the manner and form hereinabove provided for original registration."

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.