Report Title:

Bicycle Registration

 

Description:

Repeals requirement that dealer require bicycle buyer to complete license application form at time of sale, and transmit copy of completed form to director of finance with required fees from buyer.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

2203

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to new bicycles.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 249-14.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§249-14.5 New [bicycles and] mopeds. All new [bicycles and] mopeds, otherwise requiring the payment of fees under section 249-14, held in stock for purposes of sale shall be exempt from the fee. At the time of first sale, the dealer selling the new [bicycle or] moped shall:

(1) Require the buyer to complete a license application form furnished by the director of finance;

(2) Issue a copy of the completed form to the buyer; and

(3) Transmit a copy of the completed form to the director of finance with the required fees which the dealer has collected from the buyer.

Upon receipt of the fee and the completed license application form, the director of finance shall mail a tag or decal and certificate of registration to the registered owner. Until the tag or decal is received, the [bicycle or] moped owner shall keep a copy of the completed application form upon the owner's person when riding the [bicycle or] moped on a public street."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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