HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2436
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY CHECKS.

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

     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that requiring owners of motor vehicles to obtain vehicle safety inspection certificates on an annual basis is unnecessary and burdensome.  The purpose of this Act is to reduce the frequency of motor vehicle safety inspections for most passenger vehicles from once every twelve months to once every twenty-four months.

     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] twenty-four months[; 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.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2016.

INTRODUCED BY:

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Report Title:

Motor Vehicles; Certificates of Inspection.

Description:

Reduces the frequency of motor vehicle safety inspections for most passenger vehicles from once every twelve months to once every twenty-four months.

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