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COUNTY OF HAWAII <br />ORDINANCE NO. <br />STATE OF HAWAII <br />BILL NO. 66 <br />(DRAFT 2) <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 24, HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005 <br />EDITION, AS AMENDED), RELATING TO INATTENTION TO DRIVING. <br />BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: <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 />"SECTION 24- Use of mobile electronic devices while operatine 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 />"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 messagin¢ 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 purpose 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 />"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 />(b) It shall be a violation under this section to operate a motor vehicle while <br />using a mobile electronic device, unless used with ahands-free device. <br />Any person convicted of violating this subsection shall be subject to a <br />maximum fine of $150. <br />(c) Whoever operates any vehicle while using a mobile electronic device. <br />unless used with ahands-free device, in a manner as to cause a collision <br />