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<br /> <br /> <br /> ~JMtY Os <br /> <br /> COUNTY OF HAWAII STATE OF HAWAII <br /> <br /> ~flpf N~~ <br /> <br /> BILL NO. 66 <br /> ORDINANCE NO. <br /> <br /> <br /> AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 24, HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005 <br /> EDITION, AS AMENDED), RELATING TO INATTENTION TO DRIVING. <br /> <br /> BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: <br /> <br /> SECTION 1. Chapter 24, article 7, division 3, Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 <br /> Edition, as amended), is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to <br /> read as follows: <br /> <br /> "SECTION 24- Use of mobile electronic devices while operating a vehicle. <br /> (a) As used in this section, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: <br /> "Emergency responders" include fire fighters, emergency medical service <br /> technicians, mobile intensive care technicians, civil defense workers, police <br /> officers, and federal and state law enforcement officers. <br /> <br /> "Mobile electronic device" means any hand-held or other portable <br /> electronic equipment capable of providing wireless and/or data communication <br /> between two or more persons or of providing amusement, including but not <br /> limited to a cellular phone, text messaging device, paging device, personal digital <br /> assistant, laptop computer, video game, or digital photographic device, but does <br /> not include any audio equipment or any equipment installed in a motor vehicle for <br /> the pumose of providing navigation, emergency assistance to the operator of the <br /> motor vehicle, or video entertainment to the passengers in the rear seats of the <br /> motor vehicle. <br /> <br /> "Operate a motor vehicle" means to drive or assume actual physical <br /> control of a vehicle upon a public way, street, road, or highway. <br /> "Use or using" means holding a mobile electronic device while operating <br /> a motor vehicle." <br /> <br /> bb It shall be a violation under this section to operate a motor vehicle while <br /> using a mobile electronic device, unless used with a hands-free device. <br /> Any person convicted of violating this subsection shall be subject to a <br /> maximum fine of $150. <br /> <br /> (c) Whoever operates any vehicle while using a mobile electronic device, <br /> unless used with a hands-free device, in a manner as to cause a collision <br /> with, or injury or damage to, as the case may be, any person, vehicle, or <br />