Hawaii Revised Statutes 287. Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act

• 287-1 Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: "Administrator" means the chief of police of each county or the director of finance of each county and their...
• 287-2 Administrator to Administer Chapter; Appeal to Circuit Court.
  (a) The administrator shall administer and enforce this chapter and make rules and regulations consistent herewith and necessary for its administration and shall provide...
• 287-3 Furnishing of Operating Records.
  (a) The traffic violations bureaus of the district courts, upon request, shall furnish any person a certified abstract of the bureaus' record, if any, of...
• 287-4 Report Required Following Accident.
  The driver of every motor vehicle which is in any manner involved in an accident within this State in which any person is killed...
• 287-5 Security Required Unless Evidence of Insurance.
  If twenty days after the receipt of a report of a motor vehicle accident within this State which has resulted in bodily injury or...
• 287-6 Suspension of License.
  The administrator shall suspend the license or permit of each driver and the license of the registered owner of the motor vehicle in any...
• 287-7 Exceptions.
  Sections 287-5 and 287-6 shall not apply under the conditions stated in section 287-8 nor: (1) To the driver or registered owner if the...
• 287-8 Further Exceptions to Requirement of Security.
  The requirements as to security and suspension of sections 287-5 and 287-6 shall not apply: (1) To the driver or the registered owner of...
• 287-9 Duration of Suspension.
  The license and permit suspended as provided in section 287-6 shall remain so suspended and shall not be renewed nor shall any new license...
• 287-10 Application to Nonresidents and Unlicensed Drivers.
  In case the driver involved in an accident within the State has no license or permit, the driver shall not be allowed a license...
• 287-11 Form and Amount of Security.
  The security required under this chapter shall be in such form and in such amount as the administrator may require but in no case...
• 287-12 Custody, Disposition, and Return of Security.
  Security deposited in compliance with the requirements of this chapter shall be placed by the administrator in the custody of the county treasurer or...
• 287-13 Repealed.
  L 1974, c 75, §2.
• 287-14 Matters Not to Be Evidence in Civil Court.
  Neither the report required by section 287-4, the action taken by the administrator pursuant to this chapter, the findings of the administrator upon which...
• 287-15 Report of Nonpayment of Judgments.
  Whenever any person fails within sixty days to satisfy any judgment upon the written request of the judgment creditor or the judgment creditor's attorney,...
• 287-16 Suspension for Nonpayment of Judgment; Exceptions.
  The administrator, upon the receipt of a certified copy of the judgment shall forthwith suspend the license of any person against whom such judgment...
• 287-17 Suspension to Continue Until Judgments Paid and Proof Given.
  The license shall remain so suspended and shall not be renewed, nor shall any such license be thereafter issued in the name of the...
• 287-18 Payment Sufficient to Satisfy Requirements.
  Judgments herein referred to shall, for the purpose of this chapter only, be deemed satisfied: (1) When $25,000 is credited upon any judgment or...
• 287-19 Installment Payment of Judgment; Default.
  (a) A judgment debtor upon due notice to the judgment creditor may apply to the court in which the judgment was rendered for the...
• 287-20 Proof of Financial Responsibility Required Upon Conviction of Certain Offenses.
  (a) Whenever a driver's license has been suspended or revoked: (1) Pursuant to section 291E-65 or part III of chapter 291E, except as provided...
• 287-21 Alternate Methods of Giving Proof.
  Proof of financial responsibility when required under this chapter with respect to a motor vehicle or with respect to a person who is not...
• 287-22 Certificate of Insurance As Proof.
  Proof of financial responsibility may be furnished by filing with the administrator the written certificate of any insurance carrier duly authorized to do business...
• 287-22.1 Certificate of Insurance As Proof; Mandatory, When.
  Any person required to show proof of financial responsibility pursuant to section 287-20(a)(3) shall show proof by filing a certificate of insurance pursuant to...
• 287-23 Certificate Furnished by Nonresident As Proof.
  (a) The nonresident owner of a motor vehicle not permanently registered in the State may give proof of financial responsibility by filing with the...
• 287-24 Motor Vehicle Liability Policy Defined.
  A "motor vehicle liability policy" as used in this chapter means an owner's or a driver's policy of liability insurance, certified as provided in...
• 287-25 Owner's Policy Requirements.
  An owner's policy of liability insurance: (1) Shall designate by explicit description or by appropriate reference all motor vehicles with respect to which coverage...
• 287-26 Driver's Policy Requirements.
  A driver's policy of liability insurance shall insure the person named as insured therein against loss from the liability imposed upon the person by...
• 287-27 Contents of Motor Vehicle Liability Policy.
  Every motor vehicle liability policy shall state the name and address of the named insured, the coverage afforded by the policy, the premium charged...
• 287-28 Liabilities Which Need Not Be Covered.
  A motor vehicle liability policy need not insure any liability under chapter 386 relating to workers' compensation nor any liability on account of bodily...
• 287-29 General Provisions Governing Liability Policies.
  Every motor vehicle liability policy shall be subject to the following provisions which need not be contained therein: (1) The liability of the insurance...
• 287-30 Excess Coverage Permitted.
  Any policy which grants the coverage required for a motor vehicle liability policy may also grant any lawful coverage in excess of or in...
• 287-31 Reimbursement of Insurer; Proration of Insurance.
  Any motor vehicle liability policy may provide that the insured shall reimburse the insurance carrier for any payment the insurance carrier would not have...
• 287-32 Combining Policies and Issuing Binders to Meet Requirements.
  The requirements for a motor vehicle liability policy may be fulfilled by the policies of one or more insurance carriers which policies together meet...
• 287-33 Notice of Cancellation or Termination of Certified Policy.
  When an insurance carrier has certified a motor vehicle liability policy under section 287-22 or a policy under section 287-23, the insurance so certified...
• 287-34 Chapter Not to Affect Other Policies.
  (a) This chapter shall not be held to apply to or affect policies of automobile insurance against liability which may now or hereafter be...
• 287-35 Bond As Proof.
  (a) Proof of financial responsibility may be evidenced by the bond of a surety company duly authorized to transact business within the State, or...
• 287-36 Money or Bonds As Proof.
  (a) Proof of financial responsibility may be evidenced by the certificate of the administrator that the person named therein has deposited with the administrator...
• 287-37 Owner May Give Proof for Others.
  Whenever any person required to give proof of financial responsibility hereunder is or later becomes a driver in the employ of any owner, or...
• 287-38 Substitution of Proof.
  The administrator shall consent to the cancellation of any bond or certificate of insurance or the administrator shall return any money or securities to...
• 287-39 Other Proof May Be Required.
  Whenever any proof of financial responsibility filed under this chapter no longer fulfills the purposes for which required, the administrator shall, for the purpose...
• 287-40 Duration of Proof; When Proof May Be Canceled or Returned.
  The administrator shall upon request consent to the immediate cancellation of any bond or certificate of insurance, or the administrator shall return to the...
• 287-41 Surrender of License on Violation.
  Any person whose license has been suspended as herein provided, or whose policy of insurance or bond, when required under this chapter, has been...
• 287-42 Self-Insurers.
  (a) Any person in whose name more than twenty-five motor vehicles are registered may qualify as a self-insurer by obtaining a certificate of self-insurance...
• 287-43 Assigned Risk Plans.
  The insurance commissioner may approve any reasonable plan for the equitable apportionment among insurance companies authorized to issue automobile liability policies in the State...
• 287-44 Penalties.
  (a) Any person convicted of a violation of section 287-41 shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year,...
• 287-45 Exceptions.
  This chapter, except for section 287-20 shall not apply with respect to any motor vehicle owned by the United States, this State, or any...
• 287-46 Chapter Supplemental to Traffic Ordinances and Motor Vehicle Laws.
  This chapter shall in no respect be considered as a repeal of any ordinance relating to traffic or motor vehicles, except as herein provided,...
• 287-47 Other Relief Available.
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as preventing the plaintiff in any action from obtaining relief upon process provided by any provision of...
• 287-48 Application of Chapter to Suspensions and Revocations Prior to January 1, 1950.
  Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, the administrators of the several counties may accept the prescribed proof of financial responsibility from any person...

Last modified: October 27, 2016