Requires new vehicles to be inspected on or before their initial sale and annually 2 years later.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. Section 286-26, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) All other vehicles, including motorcycles, trailers, semitrailers, and pole trailers having a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less, and antique motor vehicles as defined in section 249-1, except those in subsections (c) and (d), shall be certified as provided in subsection (e) every twelve months; provided that any vehicle to which this subsection applies shall [not require inspection within] be inspected prior to or on the date of initial retail sale or lease from dealer to consumer, but subsequent annual inspections shall not be required until two years [of the date on which the vehicle was first sold.] after the first inspection."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.