Haw. Rev. Stat. § 286-231
As used in this part unless the context otherwise requires:
"Commercial driver's license downgrade" means:
(4) Removing the commercial driver's license privilege from the driver's license.
"Commercial driver's license information system driver record" means the electronic record of an individual commercial driver license driver's status and history stored by the state of record as part of the commercial driver's license information system established under title 49 United States Code section 31309.
"Disqualification" means any of the following three actions:
(3) A determination by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that a person is not qualified to operate a commercial motor vehicle under Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations Part 391.
"Driving a commercial motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant" means committing any one or more of the following acts in a commercial motor vehicle:
(3) Refusing to undergo such testing as required by any state or jurisdiction in the enforcement of section 383.51(b) or 392.5(a)(2) of title 49 Code of Federal Regulations.
"Employer" means any person, including the United States, a state or a political subdivision of a state, who owns or leases a commercial motor vehicle or assigns a person to drive a commercial motor vehicle.
"Endorsement" means an authorization on an individual's commercial driver's license or commercial learner's permit required to permit the individual to operate certain types of commercial motor vehicles.
"Fatality" means the death of a person as a result of a motor vehicle accident.
"Imminent hazard" means the existence of a condition that presents a substantial likelihood that death, serious illness, severe personal injury, or a substantial endangerment to health, property, or the environment may occur before the reasonably foreseeable completion date of a formal proceeding begun to lessen the risk of such death, illness, injury, or endangerment.
"Noncommercial motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles not defined by the term "commercial motor vehicle (CMV)" under section 286-2.
"Non-domiciled commercial driver's license" means a commercial driver's license issued by a state under either of the following two conditions:
(2) To an individual domiciled in another state meeting the requirements of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations section 383.23(b)(2).
"Non-domiciled commercial learner's permit" means a commercial learner's permit issued by a state under either of the following two conditions:
(2) To an individual domiciled in another state meeting the requirements of title 49 Code of Federal Regulations section 383.23(b)(2).
"Out-of-service order" means a declaration by an authorized enforcement officer of a federal, state, Canadian, Mexican, or local jurisdiction that a driver, a commercial motor vehicle, or a motor carrier operation is out-of-service pursuant to Section 386.72, 392.5, 395.13, or 396.9 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, or compatible laws, or the North American Uniform Out-of-Service Criteria, which can be obtained from the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance.
"School bus" means a commercial motor vehicle used to transport pre-primary, primary, or secondary school students from home to school, from school to home, or to and from school-sponsored events, but does not include a bus, as defined under section 286-2, used as a common carrier as defined under section 271-4.
"Serious traffic violation" means conviction of any of the following offenses when operating a commercial motor vehicle, except for weight, defect, and parking violations:
(10) Using a mobile electronic device in violation of a state or a county law or ordinance.
"Tank vehicle" means any commercial vehicle that is designed to transport any liquid or gaseous materials within a tank or tanks having an individual rated capacity of more than one hundred nineteen gallons and an aggregate rated capacity of one thousand gallons or more that is either permanently or temporarily attached to the vehicle or the chassis. A commercial motor vehicle transporting an empty storage container tank, not designed for transportation with a rated capacity of one thousand gallons or more that is temporarily attached to a flatbed trailer is not considered a tank vehicle.
"Texting" means manually entering alphanumeric text into, or reading text from, an electronic device, and includes short message service; e-mailing; instant messaging; a command or request to access a world wide web page; pressing more than a single button to initiate or terminate a voice communication using a mobile telephone; and engaging in any other form of electronic text retrieval or entry, for present or future communication.
"Texting" does not include:
[L 1989, c 320, pt of §2; am L 1990, c 342, §4; am L 1993, c 268, §2; am L 1996, c 135, §§1, 2; am L 2004, c 103, §§1, 3; am L 2011, c 67, §1 and c 121, §1; am L 2012, c 311, §2; am L 2013, c 114, §3]
Commercial drivers workforce working group; report to 2025 legislature (ceases to exist on June 30, 2025). L 2024, c 177, §2.
Definition of "nonresident commercial driver's license" changed to "non-domiciled commercial driver's license". L 2013, c 114, §3(2).