Report Title:
High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Lanes
Description:
Allows the director of transportation and highway engineers to use evaluation of traffic demand and traffic volumes to establish occupancy requirements for high occupancy vehicle lanes. (SD1)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
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TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007 |
S.D. 1 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE (HOV) LANES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 291C-53, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) The director of
transportation by rules adopted in accordance with chapter 91, and the counties
by ordinance, may regulate or prohibit the use of any controlled-access roadway
or highway within their respective jurisdictions by any class or kind of
traffic which is found to be incompatible with the normal and safe movement of
traffic. Persons operating motorcycles which are otherwise permitted on a controlled-access
roadway or highway shall be permitted to use any high occupancy vehicle lane
designated on [such] the roadway or highway.
For the purposes of this
subsection, "high occupancy vehicle lane" means a designated lane of
a laned roadway where the use of [such] the designated lane is
restricted to vehicles carrying at least [two] the minimum number of
persons designated by the director of transportation as indicated on
official signs and other official traffic-control devices, and to other
vehicles as provided by rules adopted in accordance with chapter 91, or by
county ordinance. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, no person shall
operate a neighborhood electric vehicle on any controlled-access roadway or
highway."
SECTION 2. Section 291C-221, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
amended to read as follows:
"§291C-221 Definitions. As used in this part unless the context otherwise requires:
"High occupancy
vehicle" means a vehicle carrying at least [two] the minimum
number of persons[.] designated by the director of transportation
as indicated on official signs and other official traffic-control devices, and
other vehicles as provided by rules adopted in accordance with chapter 91 or by
county ordinance.
"High occupancy vehicle lane" means a designated
lane of a laned roadway where the use of the designated lane is restricted to
school buses, vehicles carrying at least [two] the minimum number of
persons[,] designated by the director of transportation on official
signs and other official traffic-control devices, and to other vehicles as
provided by rules adopted in accordance with chapter 91, or by county
ordinance."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.