2023 Hawaii Revised Statutes
Title 24. Insurance
431. Insurance Code
431:10C-801 Definitions.
Note
Report to 2025 legislature on the progress in implementing this part. L 2022, c 56, §3.
§431:10C-801 Definitions. As used in this chapter:
"Car-sharing delivery period" means the period of time during which a shared car is being delivered to the location of the car-sharing start time, if applicable, as documented by the governing car-sharing program agreement.
"Car-sharing period" means the period of time that commences with the car-sharing delivery period or, if there is no delivery period, that commences with the car-sharing start time and, in either case, ends at the car-sharing termination time.
"Car-sharing program agreement" means the terms and conditions applicable to a shared car owner, a shared car driver, and a peer-to-peer car-sharing platform, if applicable, that govern the use of a shared car through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program. "Car-sharing program agreement" does not include a rental agreement as defined in section 437D-3.
"Car-sharing start time" means the time the shared car driver obtains operation, use, or control of a shared car through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program.
"Car-sharing termination time" means the latest of the following events:
(1) The expiration of the agreed upon period of time established for the use of a shared car according to the terms of the car-sharing program agreement if the shared car is delivered to the location agreed upon in the car-sharing program agreement;
(2) When the shared car is returned to a location as alternatively agreed upon by the shared car owner and shared car driver as communicated through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program;
(3) When a shared car is returned to the location agreed upon in the car-sharing program agreement or alternatively agreed upon by the shared car owner and the shared car driver, as communicated through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program, before the expiration of the period of time established for the use of a shared car according to the terms of the car-sharing program agreement, and the shared car driver notifies the peer-to-peer car-sharing program of the location of the shared car;
(4) When a shared car, during the car-sharing period, cannot safely or legally be operated and the shared car driver notifies the peer-to-peer car-sharing program that the shared car is inoperable and identifies the location of the shared car;
(5) When the shared car owner receives notice of a safety recall affecting the shared car and the shared car driver returns the shared car to the location agreed upon in the car-sharing program agreement, or alternatively agreed upon by the shared car owner and the shared car driver, and the shared car driver notifies the peer-to-peer car-sharing program of the location of the shared car; or
(6) When the shared car owner or the shared car owner's authorized designee takes possession and control of the shared car.
"Peer-to-peer car-sharing" means the operation, use, or control of a motor vehicle by an individual other than the motor vehicle's owner through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program. "Peer-to-peer car-sharing", for the purposes of assessing a vehicle surcharge tax, does not mean the business of providing rental motor vehicles to the public as that phrase is used in section 251-3.
"Peer-to-peer car-sharing platform" means any person or business that owns or operates a peer-to-peer car-sharing program.
"Peer-to-peer car-sharing program" means:
(1) Any person who enables a shared car driver to identify, reserve, or use a shared car owned by a shared car owner; or
(2) Any person who enables a shared car owner to describe, list, or make available a shared car for identification, reservation, or use by a shared car driver.
"Peer-to-peer car-sharing program" does not include:
(1) A transportation network company as defined in section 431:10C-701;
(2) A car-sharing organization as defined in section 251-1;
(3) Any person registered and acting as a travel agency pursuant to chapter 468L; or
(4) Any person registered and acting as an activity desk pursuant to chapter 468M.
"Shared car" means a motor vehicle that is registered pursuant to chapter 286 and is not owned; controlled; operated; maintained; or managed by or registered, directly or indirectly through an affiliate, to the peer-to-peer car-sharing program; and is available for sharing through a peer-to-peer car-sharing program. "Shared car" does not include a rental motor vehicle or vehicle as those terms are defined in section 437D-3.
"Shared car driver" means an individual who has been authorized to drive the shared car by the shared car owner under a car-sharing program agreement. "Shared car driver" does not include a lessee as defined in section 437D-3.
"Shared car owner" means the registered owner of a shared car. "Shared car owner" does not include a lessor as defined in section 437D-3. [L 2022, c 56, pt of §2, §5; am L 2023, c 210, §3]
