City expands its online services
By Robbie Dingeman
Mayor Mufi Hannemann yesterday rolled out some of the recently expanded services available by computer, dealing with vehicles and license plates. It follows the debut earlier this year of online scheduling of driver license road-test appointments.
Here are the services and their Web addresses: CALCULATE FEES AND TAXES
Advertiser Staff Writer
The city is expanding services available on the Internet with the theme "the more time spent online, the less time spent in line."
http://www3.honolulu.gov/mvrfeeinq
The city has added a new service to its Web site that allows people to determine the fees and taxes due for the majority of motor vehicle registration transactions processed by the city's Motor Vehicle Branch.
VANITY LICENSE PLATE ORDER
http://www4.honolulu.gov/specialplates
Vehicle owners who want personalized license plates can check online to see if their desired plate is available, and order it right away instead of having to call or stand in line.
For example, city officials checked yesterday and found that "MUFI" was still available for purchase.
During May and June, people ordered 229 special plates online of 731 new ones issued. Last year, 4,977 new vanity plates were ordered.
MOTOR-VEHICLE REGISTRATION RENEWAL
http://www4.co.honolulu.hi.us/mvrreg
This allows registered owners of motor vehicles to renew their vehicle registration online if the motor-vehicle computer records show a current safety inspection and if no special documents are required to be submitted with the renewal.
Only about 4 percent of renewals — 20,247 of the 514,425 motor-vehicle renewals — each year are processed on the Web.
MOTOR-VEHICLE TITLE
http://www4.honolulu.gov/mvrtitleinq/
People will be able to check the registration status and find lien-holder information and other motor-vehicle registration data for any motor vehicle as long as they have the last four digits of the vehicle identification number and the vehicle's license plate number.
That could be useful to people buying used cars and wanting accurate information about the previous owner. The city gets an average of 12,317 of these inquiries a month.
Correction: A previous version of this story did not include a new service that allows people to determine the fees and taxes due for the majority of motor vehicle registration transactions processed by the city's Motor Vehicle Branch. Also, it incorrectly indicated that the other online services listed were new.
