Bill Text: HI HB312 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Electric Bicycles
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-12-17 - Carried over to 2016 Regular Session. [HB312 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2016-HB312-Introduced.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to electric bicycles.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to define and regulate electric bicycles.
SECTION 2. Chapter 291C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§291C- Electric bicycles. (a) An electric bicycle shall be treated as a bicycle and operated on bikeways and roadways as a bicycle, except as provided in section 291C-148(b).
(b) An electric bicycle shall be registered as a bicycle pursuant to section 249-14."
SECTION 3. Section 291C-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new definition to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:
""Electric bicycle" means any bicycle with an electric motor, which generates less than seven hundred fifty watts, with a top motor-powered speed not in excess of twenty miles per hour, and a total weight of less than one-hundred pounds."
SECTION 4. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Electric Bicycles
Description:
Defines and regulates electric bicycles.
The summary description of legislation appearing on this page is for informational purposes only and is not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.
