HomeMy WebLinkAboutBIL 059 Draft 01 2024-2026AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 24, ARTICLE 9, OF THE HAWAI‘I COUNTY CODE 1983 (2016 EDITION, AS AMENDED), RELATING TO PEDESTRIANS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I:
SECTION 1. Chapter 24, article 9, section 24-249, of the Hawai‘i County Code 1983 (2016 Edition, as amended) is amended to read as follows:
“Section 24-249. [Pedestrians soliciting rides or business] Certain acts by pedestrians prohibited.
(a) [No person shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of] No person may enter or remain in a street for the purpose of:
(1) Receiving or soliciting a ride, employment, [or] business, or any other good or service from the occupant of any vehicle[.], unless the vehicle is legally parked; or
(2) Delivering or offering any employment, business, or other good or service to the occupant of any vehicle, unless the vehicle is legally parked.
For the purposes of this subsection:
“Good or service” does not include aid, assistance, or help provided or rendered in an emergency or traffic accident.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, a person convicted of a violation of subsection (a) is subject to:
(1) For any violation not within one year of a previous violation:
(A) A fine not less than $250 and not more than $1,000;
(B) Community service no less than fifty hours nor more than two hundred hours; or
(C) Both.
(2) For any violation within one year of a previous violation:
(A) A fine not less than $500 and not more than $1,000;
(B) Community service no less than one hundred hours nor more than two hundred hours; or
(C) Both.
[(b)] (c) No person shall stand on or in proximity to a street or highway for the purpose of soliciting the watching or guarding of any vehicle while parked or about to be parked on
a street or highway.”
SECTION 2. Material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New material is underscored. In printing this ordinance, the brackets, bracketed and stricken material, and underscoring
need not be included.
SECTION 3. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions
or applications of the ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this ordinance are severable.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect upon its approval.
INTRODUCED BY:
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COUNCIL MEMBER, COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I
_______________, Hawai‘i
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