HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 2025-078 2024-2026COUNTY OF HAWAPI STATE OF HAWAI`I
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BILL NO. 82
ORDINANCE NO. 25 7
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 24, ARTICLE 9, OF THE HAWAVI
COUNTY CODE 1983 (2016 EDITION, AS AMENDED), RELATING TO
PEDESTRIANS,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAPI:
SECTION 1. Chapter 24, article 9, section 24-249, of the Hawaii County Code 1983
(2016 Edition, as amended) is amended to read as follows:
"Section 24-249. [ ] Certain acts by
Pedestrians prohibited.
(a) [N"efse shall stand in a roadway for the ptit-pose eNo person may enter a
roadway, obstruct traffic, or approach moving vehicles for the purpose of:
(1) Receiving or soliciting [agile;] employment, [or] business, or any other good
or service from the occupant of any vehicleH, unless the vehicle is legally
stopped-, or
(2) Delivering or offering any employment, business, or other good or service to
the occupant of any vehicle, unless the vehicle is legally stopped.
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) The provisions of subsection (a) do not prohibit an individual from:
Using; sidewalks, areas adjacent to a roadway, or any other portion of the road
not ordinarily used for vehicular traffic, provided that the individual does not
obstruct traffic or approach moving vehicles:, or
(2) Holding a sign or engaging in any other protected speech activity in a location
that does not obstruct traffic.
(c) Notwithstanding an, ty hing: 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 eighteen hours nor more than seve«ty_
one hours; or
C Both.
2 For aLiy violation within one year of a revious violation:
(A) A fine not less than $500 and not more than 1,000,
(B) Community service no less than thirty-six hours nor more than seventh
one hours; or
C Both.
M-) 01 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 Material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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.
Kona , Hawai`i
Date of Introduction: October
Date of 1 st Reading: tactober
Date of 2nd Reading: October
Effective Date; November
REFERENCE- Comm. 481
INTRODUCED BY;
COUNCIL MEMBER, COUNTY OF HAWAI`I
8, 2025
8, 2025
22, 2025
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OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK
County of Hawaii
Kona, Hawaii
Introduced By:
Dr. Holeka
Goro Inaba
Date Introduced:
October 8,
2025
First Reading:
October 8,
2025
Published:
October 17,
2025
REIMPMS:
Second Reading: October 22, 2025
To Mayor: November 3 2025
Returned: November 17 2025
Effective: November 1.8, 2025
Published: November 28, 2025
REMARKS:
ROLL CALL VOTE
AYES
NOES
ABS
EX
Galimba
X
Hustace
X
Inaba
X
Kagiwada
X
Kaneali`i-Kleinfelder
X
Kierkiewicz
X
Kimball
X
Onishi
X
Villegas
X
9
0
0
0
ROLL CALL VOTE
AYES
NOES
ABS
EX
Galimba
X
Hustace
X
Inaba
X
Kagiwada
X
Kaneali`i-Kleinfelder
x
Kierkiewicz
X
Kimball
X
Onishi
X
V i Ilegas
X
9
0
0
0
I DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing BILL tvas adopted by the Count}p Council published as
indicated above.
Approved/Disapproved this
of_
20
MAYOR, COUNTY OF HA WAI `1
COUNCIL CHAIRPERSON
ctcrj!
COU CLERK
82
Reference: C-481/PCPWMT-6
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