HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1546

TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

Relating to electric vehicle parking.

 

 

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

 

     SECTION 1.  Act 168, Session Laws of Hawaii 2012, is amended by amending section 2 to read as follows:

     "SECTION 2.  (a)  The department of transportation may adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for the registration of, and issuance of special license plates for, electric vehicles.

     [(b)  An electric vehicle on which an electric vehicle license plate is affixed shall be exempt from payment of parking fees, including those collected through parking meters, charged by any state or county authority in this State, except that this exemption shall not apply:

     (1)  For more than two and one-half hours of metered parking, or the maximum amount of time the meter allows, whichever is longer; or

     (2)  To parking fees assessed in increments longer than one twenty-four-hour day, including weekly, monthly, or annual parking permits.

     (c)] (b)  An electric vehicle on which an electric vehicle license plate is affixed shall be exempt from high occupancy vehicle lane restrictions.

     [(d)] (c)  For the purposes of this Act:

     "Electric vehicle" means:

(1)  A neighborhood electric vehicle; or

(2)  A vehicle, with four or more wheels, that draws propulsion energy from a battery with at least four kilowatt hours of energy storage capacity that can be recharged from an external source of electricity."

     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  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.

 

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Electric Vehicle; Parking Fees

 

Description:

Repeals provisions exempting electric vehicles from the payment of parking fees.

 

 

 

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