Report Title:

Bikeways; Parking

Description:

Prohibits parking of motor vehicles on bicycle lanes or bicycle paths.  Assesses up to $500 fine per violation.  (HB3249 CD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	3249
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII		S.D. 1
		C.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 291C-123, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§291C-123  Driving or parking upon bikeway[.]; parking penalty. (a)  No person shall drive any vehicle other than a bicycle or moped upon a bicycle lane or bicycle path, except upon a permanent or authorized temporary driveway[;], or park any vehicle upon a bicycle lane or bicycle path; provided that any vehicle may be driven or parked in a bicycle lane or bicycle path as applicable if:

     (1)  It is in the process of executing a legal turn, lane change, or parking maneuver;

     (2)  It is an authorized emergency vehicle performing the functions under section 291C-26;

     (3)  It is an official federal, state, or county vehicle in the performance of its actual duty;

     (4)  It is a stalled or broken vehicle;

     (5)  It is necessary to assist a stalled or broken vehicle;

     (6)  It is necessary to yield to an authorized emergency vehicle pursuant to section 291C-65; or

     (7)  It is otherwise provided by law.

(b)  Any person violating the parking prohibition in subsection (a) shall be fined not more than $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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.