Report Title:
Statewide traffic code; Electric Personal Assistive Mobility Devices; restrictions.
Description:
Prohibits the use of Electric Personal Assistive Mobility Devices on sidewalks within a business district. Provides exemptions.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
141 |
TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009 |
|
|
STATE OF HAWAII |
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to the statewide traffic code.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 291C-134.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) An electric personal assistive
mobility device may be operated on the sidewalks, at a speed no greater than
eight miles per hour, and bicycle paths of the [State.]state. An
electric personal assistive mobility device shall be prohibited on sidewalks in
business districts except when being used by a police officer or person with a
disability. The sale of consumer models of electric personal assistive
mobility devices in the [State] state shall be limited to those
models operated by a key that can set the maximum forward speed at no more than
eight miles per hour.
For the purposes of this subsection:
"Person with a disability" shall have the same meaning as found in section 291-51."
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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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: |
_____________________________ |
|
|