Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 19 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Subtitle 5 - MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY OFFICE › Chapter 133.5 - FINE, SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF AN OFFICIAL INSPECTION STATION OR INSPECTOR'S CERTIFICATION › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 19-133.5-3 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
The definitions in chapter
					 19-133.2, HAR apply to this chapter.
					 As used in this chapter:
"Inspection equipment" means the equipment required by
					 every inspection station to conduct official vehicle safety inspections in
					 accordance with chapter
					 19-133.2, Hawaii Administrative Rules
					 (HAR).
"Major infraction" means but is not necessarily limited to
					 the following:
(1) Allowing an uncertified person who is not officially in
					 training to assist the certified inspector with inspections. A trainee must
					 officially register at the County PMVI office before assisting an inspector
					 during inspections;
(2) Charging customers excessive inspection fees;
(3) Expired comprehensive public liability insurance
					 coverage;
(4) Failure to cooperate with a County officer or State DOT
					 PMVI representative attempting to monitor the inspection activities at the
					 station;
(5) Failure to inspect the vehicle as required by sections
					 19-133.2-21,
					 -22, -24, -27 through -38, -38.5(2), -38.6, -40, -40.5, and -40.6;
(6) Failure to monitor inspectors to ensure they are taking
					 proper photographs and inspecting in accordance with this chapter and chapter
					 19-133.2, HAR. Any inspector suspended for more than sixty days is considered a
					 failure to monitor by the station;
(7) Failure to maintain in working order required
					 inspection equipment to conduct vehicle inspections;
(8) Failure to properly mark the floor location where
					 headlamp aiming is performed;
(9) Failure to remove and properly dispose of expired
					 inspection stickers after removal unless driver requests to have new sticker
					 placed over the old one;
(10) Failure to maintain employment of a certified vehicle
					 inspector;
(11) Failure to maintain valid inspection station
					 comprehensive public liability insurance coverage;
(12) Permitting an unauthorized person to inspect, issue or
					 affix an inspection sticker to a vehicle. Only a certified inspector may affix
					 a sticker to a vehicle, provided a vehicle inspector certifies that the vehicle
					 was inspected and it passed the appropriate requirements of chapter
					 19-133.2, HAR;
(13) Unauthorized or improper use of electronic inspection
					 form equipment or software;
(14) Unauthorized certification of a vehicle that is
					 required to be inspected in the motor carrier program.
(15) Failure to notify DOT of circumstances that preclude
					 conducting an inspection in accordance with these rules.
(16) Failure to pay the electronic form contractor by the
					 deadline specified in the contract between the station and the
					 contractor.
"Minor infraction" means but is not necessarily limited to
					 the following:
(1) Failure to display inspection station permit or
					 inspector certificate in a conspicuous place at the location where the
					 inspections are conducted;
(2) Failure to maintain a safe and clean environment in the
					 inspection area;
(3) Failure to maintain the minimum required hours of
					 operation of eight hours per day, five days per week between 6:00 A.M. and 6:00
					 P.M.;
(4) Failure to notify DOT of change in inspection station
					 address within ten calendar days;
(5) Failure to notify DOT of change in ownership or
					 management of the inspection station within ten calendar days;
(6) Failure to notify DOT of inspector's change in
					 employment status within ten days;
(7) Failure to properly mark all the appropriate inspection
					 items in the electronic inspection form and take required
					 photographs.