STAND. COM. REP. NO. 883

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 685
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No.
685 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO REGISTRATION OF MOTOR
     VEHICLES UNDER TWO OR MORE NAMES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to repeal the requirement that a
specific form be provided by the Director of Finance when
registering a vehicle under two names that is not held in joint
tenancy.

     Your Committee finds that the counties have had difficulty
in creating legally sufficient joint ownership forms for motor
vehicle registration.  Repealing the requirement that a Director
of Finance provide a specific form in this situation will allow
registrants who wish to register as joint owners in some form
other than joint tenancy to provide their own documents as
evidence of the joint ownership they claim.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Department of Customer Services of the City and County of
Honolulu.

     Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this
measure by making a technical, non-substantive change.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your

 
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Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
685, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading
in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 685, S.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary,



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                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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