Hawaii registration fee not needed to ship car to Texas [Honolulu Star-Advertiser (HI)]
By Watanabe, June | |
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Question: I sold my vehicle to a relative visiting from
Answer: The fee is not refundable.
The state requires all motor vehicle registrations to be renewed within 45 days prior to the expiration of the registration, said Dennis Kamimura, administrator of the city Motor Vehicle and Licensing Division. With the exception of processing duplicate certificate transactions, all motor vehicle transactions require payment for the upcoming registration period, he said.
However, he said your sister-in-law did have the option of shipping the vehicle to
The ownership transfer then could have been recorded in
Kamimura said that Section 286-57 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes requires shipping companies to have anyone shipping a vehicle out of state produce a certificate of title and current certificate of registration showing that the person is the legal owner of the vehicle.
"Showing the certificate of title with the recorded owner releasing ownership of the vehicle and (your) sister-in-law signing the certificate of title should have been acceptable for providing such proof," he said.
If the shipping company wanted further proof, you could have satisfied this requirement by writing a letter or accompanying your sister-in-law to the shipping company, he said.
Kamimura said that option should have been explained to your sister-in-law. "However, it also depends upon what the shipping company may have instructed" her, he said.
Meanwhile, depending on what the policy is in
"Some jurisdictions, like
Question: Our no-fault insurance card is laminated. When my wife took her vehicle in for a safety inspection recently, she was informed that in the future, laminated no-fault insurance cards will not be accepted. The next day I took my vehicle to the facility to be inspected, and no mention was made of the laminated card. Is there a new state policy or safety inspection station policy regarding this?
Answer: No.
There is no state law or rule prohibiting lamination of no-fault cards, according to the state Insurance Division and the city Motor Vehicle and Licensing Division.
We're told a memo to this effect was sent by the city to all safety inspection stations.
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