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<br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 24, ARTICLE 7, SECTION 24-167 OF THE <br />HA W AI'I COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005 EDITION, AS AMENDED), RELATING TO <br />OPERATION OF VEHICLES. <br /> <br />BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAW AI'I: <br /> <br />SECTION 1. Purpose. The purpose of this measure is to amend the requirements for <br /> <br />towing of vehicles and trailers. <br /> <br />SECTION 2. Chapter 24, article 7, section 24-167, Hawai'i County Code 1983 (2005 <br /> <br />edition, as amended) is amended to read as follows: <br /> <br />Section 24-167. Towed vehicles [.] and trailers. <br />(a) When one vehicle is towing another, the drawbar or other [emergency] connection shall <br />be [of sufficient strength to pull all weight towed.] equipped with an additional safety <br />chain or chains (stay chain or cable) adequate to hold such vehicle to the towing vehicle <br />in the event of tow bar or other connection and/or coupling failure. Each chain or cable <br />and its accompanying coupling and mounting devices shall have an ultimate strength <br />equal to at least the gross weight of the vehicle. <br />(b) No person shall operate a train of vehicles when any trailer, semi-trailer, or other vehicle <br />being towed whips or swerves from side to side dangerously or unreasonably or fails to <br />follow substantially in the path of the towing vehicle. <br />W Every trailer or towed vehicle to be operated upon a public highway shall, in addition to a <br />tow bar, be equipped with a safety chain or chains (stay chain or cable) adequate to hold <br />such vehicle to the towing vehicle in the event of tow bar and/or coupling failure. Each <br />chain or cable and its accompanying coupling and mounting devices shall have an <br />ultimate strength equal to at least the gross weight of the trailer. <br /> <br />SECTION 3. Material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New material is <br /> <br />underscored. In printing this ordinance, the brackets, bracketed and stricken material and <br /> <br />underscoring need not be included. <br /> <br />SECTION 4. If any provision of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person <br /> <br />or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of <br /> <br />the ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this <br /> <br />end, the provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable. <br /> <br />SECTION 5. This ordinance shall take effect upon its approval. <br />