Report Title:

Motor Vehicles; Certificates of Inspection

 

Description:

Requires all noncommercial vehicles to undergo a vehicle safety inspection every 2 years.  Directs the department of transportation to increase inspection fees to double the current rate.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

768

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

relating to highway safety.

 

 

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

 

     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that the operators of official inspection stations are able to charge only a limited amount in fees for performing vehicle safety inspections, and, as a result, the quality of work may be suffering.

     The legislature further finds that vehicle owners may not take the importance of vehicle safety inspections as seriously as they might if those inspections entailed a higher fee and occurred less frequently.

     The purpose of this Act is to require vehicle safety inspections every two years, rather than every year, and to increase inspection fees to double the current rate.

     SECTION 2.  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;] two years; provided that any vehicle to which this subsection applies shall not require inspection within two years of the date on which the vehicle was first sold."

     SECTION 3.  The director of transportation is hereby directed to amend section 19-133.2-22, Hawaii Administrative Rules, pursuant to chapter 91, to increase inspection fees as follows:

     (1)  Automobiles and trucks - not more than $40; and

     (2)  Motorcycles and trailers - not more than $20.

     SECTION 4.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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