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COUNTY OF HAWAII <br />STATE OF HAWAII <br />BILL NO. 181 <br />ORDINANCE NO. <br />AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 24, HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005 <br />EDITION, AS AMENDED), RELATING TO VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC. <br />BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII: <br />SECTION 1. Chapter 24, article 7, division 2, section 24 -149 of the Hawai`i County <br />Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), is amended to read as follows: <br />"Section 24 -149. Maximum speed limit. <br />(a) The following maximum speed limit shall be in effect except where a special speed limit has <br />been enacted: <br />(1) Ten miles per hour below the posted speed limit within construction zones. <br />(2) Twenty miles per hour. <br />In any school zone, the beginning of which is demarcated by a school speed limit sign <br />supplemented with a flashing speed limit sign beacon, and the end of which is <br />demarcated by an end school zone or standard speed limit sign. <br />(3) Twenty -five miles per hour. <br />(A) When passing a school site or the grounds thereof, which are contiguous to or <br />located in close proximity to, the highway and posted with the standard "school" <br />warning sign while children are going to be leaving the school during opening or <br />closing hours. This speed limit shall also apply during school recesses when <br />passing any school grounds which are not separated from the highway by a fence <br />or other physical barrier capable of restraining a child, while the grounds within <br />seventy -five feet of the highway are in use by a child, and the highway is posted <br />with the standard "school" warning sign. <br />(B) During school days for a distance of up to one thousand feet on both sides of a <br />crosswalk designated by the director of public works as a school crossing and <br />posted with the standard "School Crossing." <br />(C) In a residential district, unless otherwise indicated. <br />(D) On all highways and streets unless otherwise specified by this chapter. <br />(4) Thirty miles per hour. <br />In a business district. <br />cb,) Any person who violates any provision of section 24- 149(a)(3)(A) or section 24 -149 <br />(a)(3)(B) shall upon conviction be subject to fines equal to two times the fines as provided <br />for in section 24 -16." <br />