Title 17, Motor And Other Vehicles

§286-48 Certificates of ownership of salvaged motor vehicles. (a) Whenever a motor vehicle subject to registration under this part is sold as salvage or conveyed to an insurance company, in the ordinary course of business or as the result of a total loss insurance settlement wher…

§286-49 Registration of vehicles under two or more names. Unless otherwise specifically stated by a written document, any vehicle registered in the names of two or more persons shall be presumed to be owned in joint tenancy. [L 1967, c 266, §1; HRS §286-49; am L 1999, c 221, §1]

§286-5 State highway safety and modernization council. (a) There is established the Hawaii highway safety and modernization council. The council shall be chaired on an annually rotating basis by a member appointed by the president of the senate and a member appointed by the speak…

§286-50 Registration of vehicle located outside State; correction of errors; fee for correcting errors. (a) The director of finance of a county shall not accept an application for registration of any vehicle under this part unless the vehicle at the time of application is to be o…

§286-51 Registration, expense. (a) The certificate of registration for each motor vehicle in the counties of the State shall be renewed on a staggered basis as established by each county. The director of finance of each county may adopt rules to carry out the purposes stated in t…

[§286-51.5] Junking of nonrepairable vehicle. Any owner of a vehicle, whether it is currently registered or not currently registered, which is incapable of safe operation for use on the public highway and which has no resale value except as a source of parts or scrap only, or whi…

§286-52 Procedure when title or interest of vehicle transferred; delivery of certificate mandatory; complete defense. (a) Upon a transfer of the title or interest of a legal owner in or to a vehicle registered under this part, the person whose title or interest is to be transferr…

[§286-52.4 Terminal rental adjustment clause; vehicle leases.] In the case of motor vehicles or trailers, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a transaction does not create a sale or security interest merely because it provides that the rental price is permitted or require…

§286-52.5 Procedure when registration of a trailer transferred. (a) Upon transfer of registered ownership in or to a trailer, the person whose interest is to be transferred and the transferee shall write their signatures with pen and ink upon the certificate of registration issue…

§286-53 Dealers in new motor vehicles. (a) A manufacturer of or dealer in new motor vehicles having an established place of business, owning any such new vehicles and operating them upon the public highways, in lieu of registering each such new vehicle, may make application upon …

[§286-53.1] Boat dealers; trailers without plates. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a manufacturer of or a dealer in boats having an established place of business in the State may move a boat trailer without license number plates upon the public highways during the …

[§286-53.5] Permanent registration of fleet vehicles. (a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the registered owner or lessee of a fleet of twenty-five or more vehicles consisting of commercial motor vehicles, commercial trailers, or passenger automobiles may apply to t…

[§286-53.6] Fleet vehicles, fees. Renewal fees for permanent registration of fleet vehicles pursuant to section 286-53.5 shall be paid pursuant to a schedule which shall be established by the director of finance. The fees determined to be due and owing under this section and sect…

§286-54 Out-of-state vehicle permit. The owner of a motor vehicle which has been duly registered for the current year in another state or country and in accordance with the laws thereof, may, in lieu of registering the vehicle as otherwise required by this part, apply to the dire…

§286-55 Certificates lost or mutilated. If any certificate of registration or certificate of ownership is lost, mutilated, or becomes illegible, the person to whom the same has been issued shall immediately make application for and may obtain a duplicate thereof upon furnishing s…

§286-56 Official cars. All motor vehicles owned by any foreign government or by a consul or other official representative thereof, or by the United States government, or by the State or any political subdivision thereof, shall be registered as herein required by the person having…

§286-56.5 Special license plates for consul or official representative of foreign or territorial government. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any consul or official representative of a foreign government or territory of the United States of America, duly licensed an…

§286-57 Unlawful removal of motor vehicles from State. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to remove, attempt to remove, cause to be removed, or assist in so doing, any motor vehicle registered pursuant to this part from the State to any other place away from the State, unles…

§286-58 Appeal from finance director's decision. Whenever any person is aggrieved by any decision of any county director of finance under this part, the person may appeal from the decision of the director of finance to the district court of the circuit in which the county is situ…

§286-59 Appeal; procedure. Upon appeal, the district court shall hold a hearing de novo, and shall have power to enter such judgment or order as in its reasonable judgment may be warranted by all of the circumstances. In making the judgment or order, the court may waive defects o…

§286-6 County traffic or highway safety councils. There is established in each county a county traffic or highway safety council. The respective county councils may make appropriations to meet the necessary expenses of their respective traffic or highway safety councils. The foll…

§286-60 Rules of procedure; costs; appeal. The supreme court may prescribe rules of procedure relating to the appeals and hearings before the district courts. An appeal shall lie from the judgment or order of the district court to the intermediate appellate court, subject to chap…

§286-61 Penalty. Any person who violates sections 286-41, 286-42, 286-44.5 to 286-56.5, and 286-58 to 286-60 shall be fined not less than $5 nor more than $1,000; provided that any corporate owner of a motor vehicle who fails to register a motor vehicle as required by section 286…

§286-62 Special license plates authorized. Any owner of a passenger motor vehicle, who is a resident of the State, and who holds an unrevoked and unexpired amateur radio station license, other than novice, issued by the Federal Communications Commission, upon application, accompa…

§286-63 Shape, size and color of plates; how affixed. The special license plate shall be similar in shape, size and color to the regulation passenger motor vehicle number plate prescribed by law, and shall bear the official amateur radio call letters of the applicant, as assigned…

§286-64 Regulation plates to be surrendered. Upon the issuance of the special license plates, the regulation number plates originally issued in the registration of the passenger motor vehicles shall be surrendered to the administrator of the county emergency management agency who…

§286-65 Surrender, transfer, and disposal of special plates. Upon the transfer of ownership of the passenger motor vehicle, or upon the expiration or revocation of the amateur radio station license, the holder of the special license plates shall surrender them to the administrato…

§286-66 Director in charge. The director of [Hawaii] emergency management shall be responsible for processing all applications for the special license plates and shall make all necessary arrangements for the purchase and issuance thereof. The administrator of the county emergency…

§286-67 Fees. Any applicant applying for the special license plates shall pay to the administrator of the county emergency management agency an amount equal to the cost of the plates plus administrative costs of furnishing the special license plates. The fees for the special lice…

§286-68 Interpretation of part. Sections 286-62 to 286-69 are supplementary to any statute of the State regarding automobile number or license plates and nothing herein shall be construed as abridging or amending such laws except as herein provided for the use of the special lice…

§286-69 Penalty. Any person who violates any provisions of sections 286-62 to 286-68 shall be fined not more than $50. [L 1955, c 67, §8; RL 1955, §160-227; am L 1967, c 214, §14; HRS §286-69]

§286-7 County highway safety programs. Whenever it is determined by the governor to be in the public interest, the governor may delegate highway safety programs or portions thereof to the counties; provided that the program of each county is approved by the governor. Delegations …

[§286-7.5] Vision Zero. The department of transportation and the county transportation departments shall adopt a Vision Zero policy that seeks to prevent and ultimately eliminate all traffic fatalities through a combination of engineering, enforcement, education, and emergency re…

§286-71 Autocycles. (a) Every autocycle, as described in paragraph (2) of the definition of "motorcycle" in section 286-2, operated in this State shall first be registered as a motor vehicle as provided in section 286-41. (b) No person shall operate an autocycle on a public stree…

[§286-72] License plate flipping devices; prohibited. (a) No person shall operate a motor vehicle with, possess, purchase, install, sell, offer for sale, or otherwise distribute a license plate flipping device. This section shall apply to any motor vehicle operated on public road…

[§286-73] Obstruction of a license plate; prohibited. The use of any cover or shield installed over a vehicle's license plate, regardless of transparency or intent, shall be prohibited. Any person who violates this section shall be fined no less than $500 and no more than $1,000 …

§286-8 Rules and regulations. In order to decrease the deaths, injuries, damage, and losses resulting from highway traffic accidents, the state director of transportation shall, subject to the requirements of chapter 91, adopt rules and regulations dealing with: identification an…

PART IV. SAFETY EQUIPMENT §286-81 Motorcycle, motor scooter, moped, etc.; protective devices. (a) No person shall operate a motorcycle or motor scooter, on any highway in the State unless the person and any passenger the person carries on the motorcycle or motor scooter wears: Fo…

[§286-81.5] Leased or rented moped or motor scooter; flag required. No person shall lease or rent a moped or motor scooter to another person unless the moped or motor scooter is equipped with a safety flag that shall extend not less than five feet above the ground and be permanen…

§286-82 Penalty. Whoever violates this part shall be fined not more than $1,000. [L 1967, c 214, pt of §2; HRS §286-82; am L 1993, c 214, §5]

§286-83 Sales of motor vehicle equipment; approval and identification required; prohibitions on use. (a) On and after January 1, 1972, no person shall display for sale, sell, or offer for sale for use in or upon, or as part of the equipment of a motor vehicle, trailer, semitraile…

§286-84 Revocation of approval. When the director of transportation has reason to believe that a device approved under section 286-83 as being sold commercially does not comply with the requirements of section 286-83, the director may, after giving thirty days' previous notice to…

§286-85 Reconstructed vehicles, approval required. (a) No person shall operate a reconstructed vehicle upon a public highway unless it has been inspected and certified by the designated county agency as meeting the specifications and requirements established in rules and regulati…

[§286-86] Counterfeit air bags. (a) No person shall intentionally or knowingly manufacture, import, install, reinstall, distribute, sell, or offer for sale any counterfeit supplemental restraint system component, nonfunctional air bag, or air bag that does not meet federal safety…

[§286-9 Facilities for physically handicapped persons.] The state director of transportation, under the director's authority dealing with highway design, construction, and maintenance and the director's authority dealing with pedestrian safety, shall provide that appropriate faci…

[§286C-1 Enactment of compact.] The Driver License Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining herein in the form substantially as follows: DRIVER LICENSE COMPACT ARTICLE I. FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF POLICY (a) The party stat…