Report Title:

Neighborhood Electric Vehicle

Description:

Clarifies the definition of "neighborhood electric vehicle" regarding carrying capacity, the number of vehicle wheels allowed, and the maximum gross vehicle weight rating allowed.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2504

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO DEFINITION OF NEIGHBORHOOD ELECTRIC VEHICLE.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 286-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "neighborhood electric vehicle" to read as follows:

""Neighborhood electric vehicle" means a self-propelled electrically powered motor vehicle to which all of the following apply:

(1) The vehicle is emission free;

[(2) The vehicle is designed to carry four or fewer persons;

(3)] (2) The vehicle is designed to be and is operated at speeds of twenty-five miles per hour or less;

[(4)] (3) The vehicle has [at least] four wheels in contact with the ground;

[(5)] (4) The vehicle has [an unladen weight] a gross vehicle weight rating of less than [one thousand eight hundred] two thousand five hundred pounds; and

[(6)] (5) The vehicle conforms to the minimum safety equipment requirements as adopted in the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 500, Low Speed Vehicles (49 C.F.R. 571.500)."

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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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