HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 1954-147~~ COUNTY OF HAWAII - TERRITORY OF HAWAII
ORDINANCE N0, "!~~
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AN ORDINANCE REGULATING TRAFFIC UPON TIIE PU3LIC STREETS
AND HIG}~',/AYS OF THE COUNTY OF }iAWAII AND REPEALIfJG
ORDINANCE N0, 89 OF T1}E COUNTY OF 1-IAINAII 1949, AS
Ai~fENDED, AND ALL OTHER ORDIPJANCES IN CONFLICT THEREUJII7i.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS IN AND FOR
THE COUNTY OF HAL°dA I I :
SECTION 1. Definition of words and phrases: The
following words and phrases when used in this ordinance
shall for the purpose hereof have the meanings respectively
ascribed to them in this ordinance hereinafter set forth.
SECTION 2. Vehicle, traffic, etc., defined.
(a) Authorized emergency vehicles. Vehicles of the
fire department, vehicles driven by police officers when
responding to emergency calls, government vehicles when
performing authorized emergency operations, ambulances
and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public
service corporations as are designated or authorized by
the chief of police.
(b) Bicycle. Every device propelled by human power
upon which any person may ride, having two tandem wheels
and including any device generally recognized as a bicycle
though equipped with two front or two rear wheels.
(c) Bus. Every vehicle designed for carrying more
than ten passengers and used for the transportation of
persons; and every vehicle, other than a taxicab,
designed and used for the transportation of persons for
compensation.
(d) Emergency. Any event or unforeseen combination
of circumstances calling for immediate action or remedy.
(e) Farm tractor. Every motor vehicle designed and
used primarily as a farm implement for drawing plows, )"5,°:,;•.
moving machines and other implements of husbandry. }~
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(f) Hot rod or racer. Any vehicle whose shape, design `.
and construction has been materially altered, the purpose -
of altering being primarily for the increase in speed
of said vehicle.
(g) i:!otorcycle. Every motor vehicle having a
saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel
on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground,
but excluding a tractor.
(h) ;:~otorscooter. Any
more wheels and propelled by
more than ten horse power.
vehicle hung low on two or
a gasoline engine of not
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(i) :totor vehicle. Every vehicle which is self-
propelled.
(j) Parking. The standing of a vehicle, whether
occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the
purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or un-
loading either freight or passengers.
(k) Pole trailer. Every vehicle without motive
power designed to be drawn by another vehicle and attached
to the towing vehicle by means of a reach or pole, or by
being boomed or otherwise secured to the towing vehicle,
and ordinarily used for transporting long or irregularly
shaped loads such as poles, pipes, or structural members
capable, generally, of sustaining themselves as beams
between the supporting connection.
(1) Public holiday. All legal holidays now existing,
or such as may be subsecquently specifically proclaimed
by the Governor of the Territory.
(rn) Reconstructed vehicle. Any vehicle which shall
have been assembled or constructed largely by means of
essential parts, new or used, derived from other vehicles
or makes of vehicles of various names, models and types,
or which if originally otherwise constructed, shall have
been materially altered by the removal of essential parts,
or by the addition or substitution of essential parts,
new or used, derived from other vehicles, or makes of
vehicles.
(n) Right-of-way. The privilege of the immediate
use of the roadway.
(o) Road tractor. Every motor vehicle designed
and used for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed
as to carry any load thereon either independently or any
part of the weight of a vehicle or load so drawn.
(p) Semi-trailer. Every vehicle with or without
motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed for
carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a
motor vehicle and so constructed that some part of its
weight and that of its load rests upon or is carried by
another vehicle.
(q) Standing. Any stopping of a vehicle, whether
occupied or not.
(r) Stop. Y'Jhen renuired :Weans complete cessation
of movement.
'l s) Stop or stopping. When prohibited means any
cessation of movement of a vehicle except when necessary
to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance
with the direction of a police officer or traffic control
signal.
(t) Taxicab. A motor vehicle of seven passengers
or less, which is held for hire at designated places and
has no regular schedule or route, but operates for the
purpose of carrying passengers at any time to any point
and subject to call.
(u) Traffic. Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals,
vehicles, and other conveyances, either singly or together,
while using any street for the purpose of travel.
(v) Trailer. Every vehicle with or without motive
power, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying
persons or property and for being drawn by a motor
vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight
rests upon the towing vehicle.
(v.~) Truck. Every motor vehicle designed, used or
maintained prirarily for transportation of property.
(x) Truck tractor. Every motor vehicle designed
and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not
so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the
weight of the vehicle and load so drawn.
(y) Vehicle. Every device in, upon, or by which
any person or property is, or may be, transported or
drawn upon a highway, except devices moved by human
power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
SECTIOPd 3. Persons, pedestrians, etc., defined.
(a) Driver. Every person who is .in actual physical
control of a vehicle.
(b) Operator. Sarre as driver.
(c) Owner. A person who holds the legal title of
a vehicle or in the event a vehicle is the subject of an
agreement for the conditional sale or lease thereof with
the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions
stated in the agreement and with an immediate right
of possession vested in the conditional vendee or lessee,
or in the event a mortgagor of a vehicle is entitled to
possession, then such conditional vendee or lessee or
;nortgagor shall be deemed the owner for the purpose of
this ordinance.
(d) Pedestrian. Any person afoot, in an invalid
chair, or in a vehicle propelled by a person afoot.
(e) Person. Every natural person, firm, co partner-
ship, association, or corporation.
(f) Police officer. Every officer of the police
department of the County of I;awaii or any other officer
authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make
arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
SECTIGf1 4. Streets, districts, etc., defined.
(a) Acceleration lane. A short supplementary
traffic lane imrnediatcly adjacent to an intersection
by use of which vehicles may enter the intersecting
roadway and accelerate to the general speed of passing
traffic thereon before emerging onto the continuous lanes
of such roadv/ay.
(b) Alley. A narrow thoroughfare primarily devoted
to the use of non-passenger vehicles carrying goods or
~aerchandise to or from premises having service entrances
located on such thoroughfare.
(c) Business district. The territory contiguous to
and including a roadway when within any 300 feet along
such roadvray there are buildings in use for business
or industrial purposes which occupy 150 feet of frontage
on one side or 150 feet collectively on both sides of
the roadway.
(d) Channelized intersection. The intersection of
two or more streets whereat traffic is directed by means
of raised curbing or painted pavement markings along a
special lane or channel for right turns, left turns or
straight through movements.
'(e) Crosswalk. That portion of a roadv/ay ordinarily
included within the prolongation or connection of the
lateral lines of sidewalks at intersections; or any
portion of a roadway distinctly indicated for pedestrian
., crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.
(f) Deceleration lane. A short supplementary traffic
lane immediately adjacent to an intersection by use of
which vehicles may leave the continuous lanes of a roadway
and decelerate for a stop or a turn without retarding the
flow of traffic on the continuous lanes of the roadv/ay.
(g) Divided highway. A highv/ay divided into two
or more separate roadv/ays by medial strips.
(}~) Freight loading zone. Shall Wean that space set
aside for the use of vehicles during the loading or unload-
ing of materials.
(i) Freight, merchandise, materials and loads. Any
object or item whether transported for hire or not for
hire.
(j) Intersection. The area embraced v/ithin the
prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or,
if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadway
of two highways which join at, or approximately at, right
angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon
different highways joining at any other angle may come
in conflict.
4°Jhere a highway includes two roadways, thirty feet
or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of such
divided highway by an intersecting highway shall be regarded
as a separate intersection. In the event such intersecting
highway also includes two roadways, thirty feet or more
apart, then every crossing of two roadways of such
highways shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
(k) r=iedial strip. A strip or area lying along the
middle and between the paved portions of a highway which
is designed to divide vehicular traffic on such highway
into tv/o opposite directions. ~Phe ter:: shall not
include traffic lines painted on a highway.
(1) Official traffic control signals. Any device,
whether manually, electrically, or mechanically operated,
by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and to
proceed.
(m) Officially designated traffic control devices.
All signs, signals, marking and devices, not inconsistent
with this ordinance, placed or erected by authority of
a public body or official having jurisdiction, for the
purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
(n) Passenger loading zone or bus stop. Shall mean
that space set aside for the use of vehicles during the
loading or unloading of passengers.
(o) Private road or driveway. Every way or place
in private ownership and used for vehicular travel by the
owner and those having express or implied permission
from the owner, but not by other persons.
(p) Residence district. The territory contiguous
to and including a public highway not comprising a business
district as defined herein, when the property confronting
said highway for a distance of not less than one-quarter
of a mile is occupied by dwelling houses or business
structures which are not more than an average distance
of two hundred feet apart on one side or two hundred
feet apart collectively on both sides of the roads^/ay.
(q) Poadv/ay. That portion of a highway improved,
designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel. In
the event a highway includes two or more separate road-
ways the tern "roadway" as used herein shall refer to any
such roadway separately but not to all such roadways
collectively.
(r) Safety zone. The area or space officially set
apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians
and which is protected or so marked or indicated by adequate
signs as to be plainly visible at all times while so
set apart as a safety zone.
(s) Sidewalk. That portion of a street between
curb lines, or the lateral lines of a roadway, and the
adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians.
(t) Street or hightivay. The entire width between the
boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any
part thereof is open to the use of the public for the
purposes of vehicular travel.
(u) Through highway. Every highway or portion thereof
at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting
highways is required by law to stop before entering or cross-
ing the same, when stop signs are erected as provided in
this ordinance.
ADf AIPJ IS TEtATiON
SECTION 5. Board of supervisors to exercise certain
administrative functions by resolution. The board of
supervisors shall by resolution:
(a) Determine and designate the type of all official
traffic control devices; provided, however, that insofar as
local conditions permit, such official traffic control
devices shall be uniform, shall correlate with and, as
far as possible, conform to, the system then current,
as approved by the American Association of State Highway
Officials.
(b) Designate and authorize what vehicles of muni-
cipal departments, public service corporations or Govern-
ment vehicles shall be authorized emergency vehicles,
other than vehicles of the fire department, police vehicles
and ambulances.
(c) Create, define, redefine, eleminate or change
all safety zones, quiet zones, traffic lanes, crosswalks
and loading zones, and designate the type of markings to
be placed and maintained for the identification of such
zones or areas.
(d) Designate markers, buttons, or signs to be placed
within or adjacent to intersections indicating the course
to be traveled by vehicles turning at such intersections.
(e) Determine and designate certain curb markings to
indicate no parking or standing.
SECTION 6. Traffic Engineering. Subject to Section
5 of this ordinance, the Department of i~ublic UJorks of the
County of ilawaii is hereby authorized, and as to those
devices, signs, signals and markings required for the
purpose of traffic control, it shall be its duty to
place and maintain or cause to be placed and raintained
all official traffic control devices, signs, signals and
markings. All devices, signs, signals and markings
required for the purpose of traffic control shall so far
as practicable be uniform as to type and location through-
out the county.
SECTION 7. Chief of Police authorized to adopt
emergency regulations. The chief of police is hereby
empowered to make and enforce temporary regulations to
cover emergencies or special conditions as they arise
from time to time and to post signs pertaining thereto;
provided, however, that no temporary regulation shall
extend beyond a sixty day period.
SECTIOIJ 8. Warning signs on the highway. The county
engineer shall erect and maintain suitable vaarning signs
on public highways legible from a distance of one hundred
feet and located at a reasonable distance from hazards
with respect to bridges, dangerous curves, intersecting
highways, and other conditions of a hazardous nature,
tivhich signs shall designate the proximity of each hazard.
ENFORCE.tEf~JT
SECTION 9. Police administration.
(a) It shall be the duty of the police department of
the County of Hawaii to enforce the provisions of this
ordinance. Police officers are hereby authorized to direct
all traffic either in person or by means of visible and/or
audible signals in conf ormance with the provisions of this
ordinance, and it shall be unlawful for any person to
refuse or fail to comply with any lawful order, signal
or direction of a police officer.
(b) Officers of the fire department, when at the scene
of a fire, may direct or assist the police in directing
traffic thereat or in the immediate vicinity.
SECTIOPJ 10. Required obedience to traffic regulations.
It is a misdemeanor for any person to do any act forbidden
by, or fail to perform any act required by, this ordinance.
SECTIOPJ 11. Public employees to obey traffic regulations.
The provisions of this ordinance shall apply to the operator
of any vehicle owned by or used in the service of the United
States Government, the Territory of }lwaii, or the County
of }Iawaii, and it shall be unlawful for any driver or
operator of any government vehicle to violate any of the
provisions of this ordinance, except as otherwise permitted
by this ordinance, or by Federal or Territorial lava.
SECTIOPJ 12. Exemptions to authorized emergency vehicles.
(a) The provisions of this ordinance regulating the opera-
tion, parking and standing of vehicles shall apply to
authorized emergency vehicles, as defined herein, except as
follows
A driver when operating any such vehicle in an emergency
except when otherwise directed by a police officer, may:
1. ='ark or stand notwithstanding the provisions of
this ordinance.
2. Proceed past a red light or stop signal or stop
sign, but only after slowing dovan as may be necessary for
safe operation.
3. Exceed the speed limits so long as he does not
endanger life or property.
4. Disregard regulations governing direction of
movement or turning in specified directions so long as
he does not endanger life or property.
(b) The foregoing exemptions shall not, however,
protect the driver of any such vehicle from the conse-
quences of his reckless disregard of the safety of others.
TF'.AFF IC S IG}1S AND SIGNALS
SECTIOIJ 13. Obedience to official traffic control
devices.
(a) The driver of any vehicle and pedestrians shall
obey the instructions of any official control device
applicable thereto solaced in accordance with the provisions
of this ordinance unless othervaise directed by a police
officer, subject to the exemptions granted the driver
of an authorized emergency vehicle in this ordinance.
(b) No provision of this ordinance for which signs
are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator
if at the time and place of the alleged violation an
official sign is not in proper position and sufficiently
legible to be seen by an ordinary observant person;
provided, however, that when any particular section of
this ordinance states that signs are not required, such
section shall be effective without signs being erected
to give notice thereof.
SECTION 14. Traffic control signal legend. Whenever
traffic is controlled by traffic control signals exhibiting
the words "Go," "Caution," or "Stop," or exhibiting different
colored lights successively, one at a time, or with arrows,
the following colors only shall be used and said terms
and lights shall indicate and apply to drivers of vehicles
and pedestrians as follows:
(a) Green light or "Go".
I. Vehicular traffic facing the signal may proceed
straight through or turn right or left unless a sign at
such place prohibits either such turn. But vehicular
traffic, including vehicles turning right or left, shall
yield the right-of-way to other vehicles and to pedestrians
lawfully ~°aithin the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk at
the time such signal is exhibited.
2. Pedestrians facing the signal may proceed across
the roadway tivithin any :narked or unmarked crosswalk.
(b) Yell ova alone or "Caution" when shown following
the Green or "Go" signal.
1. Vehicular traffic facing the signal is thereby
vaarned that the Red or "Stop" signal will be exhibited
immediately thereafter and such vehicular traffic shall
stop before entering the intersection tivhen the Yellow or
"Caution" signal is exhibited; provided, however, that if
such stop cannot be made in safety, a vehicle ;nay be
driven cautiously through the intersection.
2. Pedestrians facing such signal are thereby advised
that there is insufficient time to cross the roadway, and
any pedestrian then starting to cross shall. yield the
right-of-vaay to al]. vehicles.
(c) Red alone or "Stop".
1. Vehicular traffic facing the signal shall stop
before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the
intersection, or, if none, then before entering the
intersection, and shall remain standing until Green or
"Go" is shown alone.
2. No pedestrian facing such signal shall enter the
roadway within a crosswalk or otherwise.
(d) Red with green arrow.
1. Vehicular traffic facing such signal may cautiously
enter the intersection only to make the movement in the
direction indicated by such green arrow but shall yield
the right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within a
crosswalk and to other traffic lawfully using the inter-
section.
2. No pedestrian facing such signal shall enter the
roadway whether in a crosswalk or otherwise.
(e) In the event an official traffic signal is
erected and maintained at a place other than an intersection,
the provision of this section shall be applicable except
as to those provisions which by their nature can have no
application. Any stop required shall be made at a sign
or marking on the pavement indicating where the stop shall
be made, but in the absence of any such sign or marking
the stop shall be made at the nearest crosswalk.
SECTION 15. Pedestrian-control signals. Whenever
special pedestrian-control signals exhibiting the words
"Walk" or "Wait," or exhibiting different colored lights
successively one at a time, the following colors only
shall be used and said terms and lights shall indicate
and apply to pedestrians as follows:
(a) Green or "Walk".
Pedestrians facing such signal may proceed across the
roadway~in the direction of the signal and shall be given
the right-of-way by the drivers of all vehicles.
(b) Red or "Wait"
No pedestrian shall start to cross the roadway in
the direction of ,such signal, but any pedestrian who has
partially completed his crossing on the green or "walk"
signal shall proceed to a sidewalk or safety island
while the red or "wait" signal is showing.
SECTION 16. Flashing traffic signal. ~"Jhenever
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flashing red or yellow traffic signals are used such
signals shall indicate and apply to drivers of vehicles
as follows:
(a) Flashing red (stop signal).
When a red lens is illuminated by rapid intermittent
flashes, drivers of vehicles shall stop before entering the
nearest crosswalk at an intersection or at a limit or stop
line when marked and the right to proceed shall be
subject to the provisions of this ordinance apply"cable
to vehicular movement after stopping at a stop sign.
(b) Flashing yellow (caution signal).
When a yellow lens is illuminated with rapid inter-
mittent flashes, drivers of vehicles may proceed through
the intersection or past such signal only with caution.
SECTIOTI 17. Display of unauthorized signs, signals
or markings. No person shall maintain or display upon
or in view of any highway any unauthorized sign, signal,
marking, or device which purports to be or is an imitation
of, or resembles an official traffic control device, and
no person shall place or maintain nor shall any public auth-
ority permit, upon any highway any traffic sign or signal
to have thereon any commercial advertising. This shall
not be deemed to prohibit the erection upon private
property adjacent to highways of signs giving useful
directional information of a type that cannot be mistaken
for official signs, signals or other traffic control
devices.
In addition to the penalties provided for violation
of any provision of this section, every such prohibited
sign, signal or marking is hereby declared to be a public
nuisance and the Department of Public Nlorks of the County
of Hawaii is hereby empowered to remove the same or cause it
to be removed without notice.
STOPPING, STAPJDING AND PARKING
SECTION 18. Stopping, standing, or parking prohibited
in specified places.
(a) No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle
except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic
or in compliance with the law or the directions of a police
officer or traffic control device in any of the following
places:
1. On a sidewalk.
2. In front of or within four feet of either side
of a private driveway.
3. Within an intersection.
4. Opposite any driveway on any curb roadway 20 feet
or less in width.
5. Within ten feet of a fire hydrant; provided,
however, that this provision shall not apply when the
operator of a vehicle stops, stands or parks such vehicle at
or near a fire hydrant while and as long as he remains
seated in the driver's seat.
6. On a crosswalk.
7. Within thirty feet of a crosswalk except where
designated by a parking stall.
8. Within thirty feet upon the approach to any flashing
beacon or stop sign, located at the side of a roadway.
9. Within seventy-five feet upon the approach r,o ai;y
L:C"at: rc can cr of 51g~ia1.
~(:. On the far-side of the street at any signalized
intersection within thirty feet of the curb line of the
intersecting street. .4s used herein, the term "signalized
intersection" means an intersection vrhereat traffic is
controlled by official traffic control signals.
11. Any place vfhere official signs prohibit parking.
12. In front of the entrance to any theatre during shova
hours, or, in front of the entrance to any auditorium, or
building, where a public gathering is being held, except to
discharge or pick up passengers.
13. On either side of any street with a traffic way
of twelve feet or less when official signs are erected,
giving notice thereof.
14. Between a safety zone and the ad,]acent curb or
within thirty feet of points on the curb immediately opposite
the ends of a safety zone, unless there be a different length
indicated by signs or markings.
15. YJithin twenty feet of the driveway entrance to any
fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance
to any fire station within seventy-five feet of said entrance
when properly signposted.
16. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or
obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct
traffic.
17. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or
parked at the edge or curb of a roadway.
13. Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon
a highway or within a highway tunnel.
1~). "there a clear view of such stopped vehicle is not
available from a distance of two hundred feet in each
direc-lion upon such highway and where the width of the roadway
is sufficient for only two traffic lanes or less, provided
that official signs are posted prohibiting said parking.
(b) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under
his control into any such prohibited area or away from a
curb such distance as is unlawful.
SECTION 19. Stopping, standing, or parking outside of
business or residence districts.
(a) Upon any highway outside of a business or residence
district no person shall stop, park, or leave standing any
vehicle, whether attended or unattended, upon the paved
or main traveled part of the highway when it is practicable
to stop, park, or so leave such vehicle off such part of
said highway, but in every event an unobstructed width of
the highway opposite a standing vehicle shall be left for the
free passage of other vehicles and a clear view of such
stopped vehicle shall be available from a distance of two
hundred feet in each direction upon such highway.
{b) This section shall not apply 'to the driver of any
vehicle which is disabled while on the paved or main traveled
por-lion of a highway in such manner and to such extent that
it is i;npossible to avoid stopping and temporarily leaving
such disabled vehicle in such position; provided, houvever,
that said driver shall take reasonable I>recaution to
prevent a collision with said disabled vehicle.
SECTION 20. Stopping, standing, or parking on federal-
aid highways.
(a) Where official signs are erected giving notice
thereof, no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle
upon any federal-aid highway, subject to the exemptions
granted emergency vehicles.
(b) For the provisions of subsection (a) of this section,
the territorial highway engineer for the County of Hawaii
is hereby authorized to erect "No-parking" signs upon any
portion of the said federal-aid highway where he deems it
necessary.
(c) No person shall park a vehicle upon any federal-
aid highway for a period of time longer than sixty minutes
between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.rn. of any day;
subject, however, to the exemptions granted emergency vehicles.
(d) Where parking is permitted on a federal aid
highway,~all parking shall be parallel to the pavement with
all wheels entirely off the traveled way as far as the
shoulder width will permit.
(e) There shall be no parking on or crossing over the
medials.
SECTION 21. Prohibited parking within the County of
Hawaii.
When official signs are erected giving notice thereof,
no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle any longer
than is reasonably necessary to take on or discharge passengers
or freight upon any of the following streets or portion
thereof within the County of Hawaii:
(a) On the Puna side of 'JJailukU llrive from Shipman
to K2awe Street, on the Harnakua side of VJailuku Drive frorn
Keawe Street to Kinoole Street.
(b) The Puna side of Piopio Street and on the 6Vest
side of Piopio Street within the area fifty (50) feet on
either side of the first angle of said Piopio Street makai.
of Kilauea Street.
(c) The }Iarnakua side of Furneaux Street between Kamehameha
Avenue and Kilauea Street.
(d) The Puna side of Kumu Street between Kamehameha
Avenue and Kilauea Street.
(e) On Punahoa Street between Ponahawai Street and
its end in the I~arnakua direction.
(f) On the makai side of Puueo Street from Iliahi
Street to Kauila Street.
(g) The Wainaku side of Iliahi, Kauila, Lehua and Ohai
Streets between Puueo Street and 4Vainaku Street.
(h) On the liamakua side of Kohola Street.
(i) Un all roadways within VJaiakea :Rill Camp I area,
except Kohola Street.
(j) On the makai side of Kailua Road, in Kona, from
the Kailua Wharf to a point measuring eight hundred (800)
feet in a southeasterly direction.
(k) On the rnauka side of i.1amane Street, in Honokaa,
between ;riaile Street and the Honokaa Post Office.
(1) On the makai side of Ululani Street from Haili
Street to 'uJailoa Street.
(m) On the Puna side of tlalaulani Street.
(n) On the rnakai side of Kapiolani Street between
Ponahawai Street to Waianuenue Street except on Sundays
between the hours of 5:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.
(o) On the Puna side of Kukuau Street from a point
225 feet~mauka of Kilauea Street to Kinoole Street.
(p) On the
(q) On the
(r) On the
(s) On the
(t) On the
(u) On the
Puna side of Nawahi Lane.
Puna side of Hoku Street.
makai side of idauna Kea Street
makai side of r;launa Loa Street.
makai side of i'anaewa Street.
makai side of Alenaio Drive.
(v) On the roadway on the Olaa to Kapoho Road from the
Olaa boundary of Pahoa Park to a point 400 feet on the Olaa
side of the Pahoa Garage.
(w) On the mauka side of tYie Olaa to Kapoho Road from
the old Post Office Road to the entrance to Camp 4.
(x) Lanakila Hornes area except where parking spaces
are designated or special parking areas are provided.
( ) The Hilo side of IAamalahoa Highway in Honokaa (Lehua
Street) from the 1laina Junction to the Catholic Church.
(z) Kinoole Street, from Kawailani Street to the Puna
boundary of VJaiakea-waena School except for the paved parking
area provided on the makai side.
(aa) The Puna side of Hanalei Lane (makai extension of
Yiualalai Street) from Kilauea Street to Josephine Lane.
SECTION 22. Time Limit parking within the City of Ililo.
'd~hen official signs are erected giving notice thereof, no
person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for a period of
time longer than that indicated on such signs between the
hours indicated on such signs of any day except Sundays and
public holidays upon any of the following streets or portions
thereof within the City of Hilo:
(a) One-hour parking areas:
1. Furneaux Street, from Kialuea Street to
Kamehameha Avenue.
2. }{aili Street, from Kinoole Street to Kamehameha
Avenue.
3. Kalakaua Street, from Kinoole Street to
Karehameha Avenue.
4. Kamehameha Avenue, from i~lanono Street to
Kilohana Street.
5. Kamehameha Avenue, from Shipman Street to
Kurnu Street.
6. Keawe Street, from GVailuku Drive to Kilauea
Street.
7. Kilauea Street, from llaili Street to Piopio
Street.
3. Kinoole Street, from i°Jaianuenue Street to
Kukuau Street.
7. .tamo Street, from Y.inoole Street to Kamehameha
Avenue.
10. Ponahawai Street, from Kinoole Street to
Kamehameha Avenue.
11. Punahoa Street, from „iamo Street to Ponahawai
Street.
12. Shipman Street, from lekaulike Street to
Kamehameha Avenue.
13. Nawahi Lane, from Punahoa Street to
Kamehameha Avenue.
14. Waianuenue Street, from Kekaulike Street to
Kamehameha Avenue.
15. Hualalai Street.
16. Wailuku Drive, from Ululani Street to the
Junction of Shipman Street and Kamehameha
Avenue.
(b) Thirty-six minute parking areas:
1. Kekaulike Street, from Waianuenue Street to
Wailuku Drive.
2. Kinoole Street, from 1aianuenue Street to
Wailuku Drive.
3. Waianuenue Street, from Kekaulike Street to
Kinoole Street.
SECTION 23. Time limit parking outside the city of
Itilo.
1'lhen official signs are erected giving notice thereof,
no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle for a period
of time longer than that indicated on such signs between the
hours indicated on such signs of any day except Sundays
and public holidays upon any of the following streets or
portions thereof outside the city of Hilo:
(a) One-hour parking areas:
1, fdamane Street in Honokaa, between Lehua
Street and the Hamakua District Court House.
SECTION 24. Parking prohibited during certain hours.
When official signs are erected giving notice thereof, no
person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle any longer than
is reasonably necessary to take on or discharge passengers
or freight, upon any of the streets or portions thereof within
the County of Hawaii, between the hours indicated on such
signs, of any day, except Sundays and public holidays.
SECTION 25. Parking spaces; required parking therein.
(a) The department of public works of the County of
I~awaii is hereby authorized and directed to establish, mark
and designate, where there is an apparent need therefor,
a consecutive series of parking spaces for the parallel or
angle parking of motor vehicles. Each such parking space
shall extend seven feet six inches in width and twenty-
two feet in length.
(b) Whenever parking spaces are so established, marked
off and designated, the driver of any vehicle, excepting
only single vehicles of greater length or width, shall
park such vehicle completely within a designated space.
(c) In city or street blocks where parking spaces are
so established, marked off and designated, the driver of any
vehicle, excepting only single vehicles of greater length
or width, shall park such vehicle completely within and
only in a designated space.
The provisions of this section shall not be applicable
to vehicles parked in front of fire hydrants, freight and
passenger zones and in front of the entrance to theatres and
auditoriums when such parking is permitted.
SECTION 26. Loading zones; standing for loading or
unloading only.
(a) No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle
for any purpose or period of time other than for the expe-
ditious loading or unloading of passengers in any place
marked as a passenger loading zone or b~~s stop, and then
only for a period not to exceed three minutes.
(b) No person shall stop, stand, or nark a vehicle for
any purpose or length of time other than for the expeditious
unloading and delivery or pickup and loading of freight or
passengers in any place marked as a loading zone or freight
loading zone, during the hours when the provisions applic-
able to loading zones, or to such loading zone, are in effeci.
In no case shall the stop for loading and unloading of materials
exceed thirty-six minutes unless the load is of such size
and nature as to require a longer period, in which case the
operator shall obtain a special permit from the chief of
police for this particular load.
SECTION 27. k3uses not permitted to stand or park
except in officially designated bus stop.
(a) The driver of a bus shall not stand or park such
bus upon any street at any place within any business district
other than at an officially designated bus stop.
(b) The driver of a bus shall not stop, stand, or park
such bus other than on the right-hand side of the roadway
upon a one-way street.
SECTION 28. Other vehicles not to be parked, stopped,
or permitted to stand in bus stops. No person shall stop,
stand, or park a vehicle, other than a bus, in a bus stop
when such bus stop has been officially designated and
appropriately signed, except, that the driver of a passenger
vehicle may temporarily stop therein for the purpose of
and while actually engaged in loading or unloading passengers
v/hen such stopping does not interfere with any bus which
has entered or is waiting to enter or ak,out to enter such
bus stop.
SECTIOPd 29. Standing or parking close to curb. Upon any
roadway within the County of Hawaii no person shall stand
or park a vehicle other than parallel with the edge of the
roadway, headed in the direction of traffic, and tivith the
curbside wheels of the vehicle within twelve inches of the
edge of the roadway, except as provided in the following
paragraphs:
(a) In places where and at hours when stopping for the
loading or unloading of merchandise or materials is permitted,
vehicles used for the transportation of merchandise or materials
may back into the curb to take on or discharge loads when the
owner of such vehicle holds a permit issued by the chief of
police granting hire such privilege, and such permit shall be
either i.n the possession of the driver or on the vehicle at
the time such vehicle is backed against the curb to take on
or discharge a load, and it shal]. be unlawful for any owner
or driver to violate any of the specific terms or conditions
of any such special perriit.
(b) 6Vhile parked wholly wit}:in parking spaces marked
or designated pursuant to Section 25 of this ordinance.
(c) Upon Kilauea Street, between Uhea and }iaihai
Streets, vehicles shall park in single f5_le along the center
and unpaved portion, parallel with the edge of the roadway.
(d) Within the special parking areas provided in the
Lanakila Homes area, vehicles shall park diagonally.
SECTION 30. Parking not to obstruct traffic. No person
shall park any vehicle upon a street or alley in such manner
or under such conditions as to leave available less than ten
feet of the width of the street or alley for the free move-
ment of vehicular traffic.
SECTION 31. Unlawful parking. No person shall stand
or park a vehicle upon any roadway for the principal
purpose of:
(a) Displaying it for sale.
(b) 1Vashing, greasing or repairing such vehicle, except
the making of repairs necessitated by an emergency.
SECTION 32. Obstruction to sidewalk prohibited. No
person shal]. stand or park a vehicle in such a manner that
any portion of such vehicle obstructs a sidewalk or portion
thereof; subject, however, to the backing against the curb
provisions of Section 27, subsection (a).
SECTIGPd 33. Abandoned cars on highway. No person shall
abandon any vehicle on the public highway. The chief of
police .is hereby authorized to remove or cause to be removed
any such abandoned vehicle from the highway, and the registered
owner of such vehicle shal]. be liable for all reasonable
expenses incurred by such removal.
SECTION 34. Registered ovmer's responsibility; registration
plate as prima facie evidence as to parking. In any pro-
ceeding for violation of the parking provisions of this
ordinance the serial number displayed on the registration
plate attached to the vehicle involved in such violation shall
constitute in evidence a prima facie presur;rption that the
registered owner of such vehicle was the person who parked
such vehicle at the point where, ancJ during the time when,
such violation occurred.
SECTION 35. Special parking privileges. Vehicles of
government agencies, public utility companies, garages,
contractors, or any other person may stand and park contrary
to the parking provisions set forth in this ordinance when
the ovmer of such vehicle holds a special permit issued by
the chief of police granting him such privilege for a
limited time. Said permit shall be either in the possession
of the driver or on the vehicle at the time. It shall be
unlawful for any owner br driver to violate any of the
specific terms or conditions of the permit.
OPERATION OF i,tOTOR VEHICLES
SECTION 36. Drive on right side of roadway; exceptions.
Upon all roadways of sufficient width a vehicle shall be
driven upon the right half of the roadway, except as follows:
(a) When overtaking and passing another vehicle proceed-
ing in the same direction under the rules governing such
movement.
(b) When the right half of a roadway is closed to
traffic while under construction or repair.
(c) Upon a roadway divided into three marked lanes
for traffic under the rules applicable thereon; or
(d) Upon a roadway designated and signposted for one-
way traffic.
SECTION 37. Driver of s1oV/ moving vehicle. The driver
of a slow moving vehicle shall drive the same as close as
possible to the right-hand edge of the roadway, and when
traveling outside of a business or residential district upon
roadways less than twenty-seven feet wide and upon which
vehicular traffic is permitted to operate in both directions,
the driver shall not follow another slow moving vehicle
within 200 feet, but this shall not be construed to prevent
such slow moving vehicle from overtaking and passing another
slow moving vehicle. This section shall not apply to
funerals or other lawful processions.
SECTION 38. passing vehicles proceeding in opposite
directions. Drivers of vehicles proceeding in opposite
directions shall pass each other to the right, and upon
roadways having width for not more than one line of traffic in
each direction, each driver shall give to the other at least
one-half of the main traveled portion of the roadway as
nearly as possible.
SECTION 39. Overtaking a vehicle on the left. The
following rules shall govern the overtaking and passing of
vehicles proceeding in the same direction, subject to those
limitations, exceptions and rules hereinafter stated:
(a) The driver of a vehicle overtaking another vehicle
proceeding in the same direction shall pass to the left of
the other vehicle at a safe distance and shall not again
drive to the right of the roadway until safely clear of the
overtaken vehicle.
(b) The driver of a vehicle shall not drive to the
left side of the center of the roadway in overtaking and
passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction,
unless such left side is clearly visible and is free from
oncoming traffic, for a sufficient distance ahead, to
permit such overtaking and passing to be made in safety.
(c) Except when overtaking and passing on the right
is permitted the driver of an overtaken vehicle shall give
way to the right in favor of the overtaking vehicle on
audible signal and shall not increase the speed of his vehicle
until completely passed by the overtaking vehicle.
SECTION 40. When overtaking on the right is permitted.
(a) The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass
upon the right of another vehicle only under the following
conditions:
1. When the vehicle overtaken is making or about to
make a left turn.
2. Upon a street or highway with unobstructed pavement
not occupied by parked vehicles of sufficient width and lane
marked for two or more lines of moving vehicles in each
direction.
3. Upon a one-way street, or upon any roadway on
which traffic is restricted to one direction of movement,
where the roadway is free from obstructions and of sufficient
width for two or more lines of moving vehicles.
(b) The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass
another vehicle upon the right only under conditions permitting
such movement in safety. In no event shall such movement be
made by driving off the pavement or main traveled portion
of the roadway.
SECTION 41. Prohibited passing. No driver of a vehicle
shall overtake and pass on any highway another vehicle pro-
ceeding in the same direction:
(a) At the intersection of any street or highway except
when the vehicle being overtaken is making or about to make
a right turn.
(b) On a two-lane bridge.
(c) At a crosswalk, whether marked or unmarked, where
the vehicle to be overtaken and passed has stopped at such
crosswalk to yield a pedestrian or another vehicle the
right-of-way.
(d) On a double center-lined highway, when the solid
line is on the same side as the vehicle, except where such
overtaking and passing can be made in safety and without
driving to the left of the said solid center line.
SECTION 42. Overtaking and passing school bus.
(a) The driver of a vehicle upon a public highway
Out6ide of a business or residence district upon meeting
or overtaking from either direction any school bus which has
stopped on the highway for the purpose of receiving or
discharging any school children shall decrease the speed
of such vehicle and shall proceed past such school bus at a
speed not greater than is reasonable and prudent and in no
event greater than ten miles per hour and with due caution for
the safety of pedestrians.
(b) Every bus used for the transportation of school
children shall bear upon the front and rear thereon a
plainly visible sign containing the words "SCHOOL BUS"
in letters not less than 10 inches in height. When a school
bus is being operated upon a highway for purpose other than
the actual transportation of children either to or from
school (on school days) all markings thereon indicating
"SC}FOOL bU5" shall be covered or concealed.
(c) The driver of a vehicle upon a highway with
separate roadways need not stop upon meeting or passing a
school bus which is on a different roadway or when upon
a controlled-access highway and the school bus is stopped
in a loading zone which is a part of or adJacent to such
highway and where pedestrians are not permitted to cross
the roadway.
SECTION 43. Further limitations on driving to the left
side of the center of the roadway.
(a) No vehicle shall at any time be driven to the left
of the center line of a roadway under the following conditions:
1. When approaching the crest of a grade or upon a
curve in the highway where the driver's view is obstructed
within such distance as to create a hazard in the event
another vehicle might approach from the opposite direction.
2. When approaching within one hundred feet of or
traversing any intersection or railroad grade crossing.
3. 4"then the view is obstructed upon approaching within
one hundred feet of any bridge, viaduct, or tunnel.
4. On any roadway rnarked for four or more lanes of
traffic except w}ren driving into or out of a private
road or driveway.
(b) The foregoing limitations shall not apply upon
a one-way roadway.
SECTION 44. Driving on roadways laved tc.~r trar.:~.c.
Whenever any roadway has been divided into two or more
clearly marked lanes for traffic the following rules in
addition to all others consistent herewith shall apply:
(a) A vehicle shall be driven as nearly as practical
entirely within a single lane and shall not be moved from
such lane until the driver has first ascertained that such
movement can be made with safety.
(b) Upon a roadway which is divided into three lanes
a vehicle shall not be driven in the center lane except when
overtaking and passing another vehicle where the roadway
is clearly visible and such center lane i.s clear of traffic
within a safe distance, or in preparation for a left turn
or vahere such center lane is at the time allocated exclu-
sively to traffic moving in the direction the vehicle is
proceeding and is signposted to give notice of such allocation.
(c) Official signs may be erected directing slow moving
traffic to use a designated lane or designating those lanes
to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction
regardless of the center of the roadway and drivers of vehicles
shall obey the directions of every such sign.
SECTION 45. Driving on divided highways. 1henever
any highway has been divided into two roadways by leaving
an intervening space or by a physical barrier or clearly
indicated dividing section so constructed as to impede
vehicular traffic, every vehicle shall be driven only upon
the right-hand roadway and no vehicle shall be driven over,
across, or within any such dividing space, barrier, or section,
except through an opening in such physical barrier or dividing
section or space or at a crossover or intersection established
by public authority; provided, however, that in every event,
any driver who enters such cross-over opening or intersection
shall bring his vehicle to a full stop before emerging upon
the same or adjacent roadway of such divided highway.
SECTION 46. Following other vehicles.
(a) The driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow
another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent,
having due regard for the speed of such vehicles and the
traffic upon and the condition of the highway.
(b) The driver of any motor truck or motor vehicle
drawino, another vehicle when. traveling upon a roadway
outside of a business or residence district and which is
following another motor truck or motor vehicle drawing another
vehicle shall whenever conditions permit leave sufficient space
so that an overtaking vehicle may enter and occupy such
space without danger, except that this shall not prevent
a motor truck or motor vehicle drawing another vehicle from
overtaking and passing any like vehicle or other vehicle.
(c) When any vehicle shall be drawn or towed by another
vehicle upon a roadway, the distance between vehicles shall
not exceed twenty feet. No vehicle shall draw or tow at the
same time more than one vehicle upon any roadway. A truck-
trailer and semi-trailer shall be regarded as one vehicle
when determining the number of vehicles.
(d) UJhen one vehicle is towing another and the connection
consists of a chain, rope, or cable, which is over fifteen
feet long, there shall be displayed midway of such connection
a white flag or cloth not less than twelve inches sruare.
(e) i:4otor vehicles being driven upon any roadway
outside of a business or residence district in a caravan or
motorcade whether or not towing other vehicles shall be so
operated as to allow sufficient space between each vehicle
or combination of vehicles so as to enable any other vehicle
to enter and occupy such space without danger. This
provision shall not apply to funeral processions.
SECTION 47. Trailers and towed vehicles.
(a) 'rVhen one vehicle is towing another the drawbar
or other emergency connection shall be of sufficient strength
to pull all weight towed thereby.
(b) When one vehicle is drawing a trailer, semi-.
trailer, or pole or pipe dolly, there shall be an additional
emergency connection between said vehicles sufficient to
hold the vehicle being towed in the event the normal
connection should break or become disconnected.
(c) No person shall operate a train of vehicles when
any trailer, semi-trailer, or other vehicle being towed
whips or swerves from side to side dangerously or unreason-
ably or fails to follow substantially in the path of the
towing vehicle.
SECTION 43. Rec,uired position and method of turning
at intersections. The driver of a vehicle intending to turn
at an intersection shall do so as follows:
(a) moth the approach for a right turn and a right
turn shall be made as close as practicable to the right-
hand curb or edge of the roadway.
portion)ofApheorightohalflofttherroadway bearedst thetcenter
line thereof, and after entering the intersection, the
left turn shall be made so as to leave the intersection
in that portion nearest the center line on the right half of
the roadway being entered.
into actwo-wayostreetrshallfbetmadefasmclosel-was street
to the left-hand curb or edge of the roadwa y practicable
turn shall be made so as to leave the intersectiontin that
portion nearest the center line on the right half of the
roadway being entered.
(d) Approach for a left turn from a two-way street into
a one-way street shall be made in that portion of the right
half of the roadway nearest the center line thereof and by
passing to the right of such center line ~~/here it enters
the intersection. A left turn from a one-evay street into a
two-way street shall be made by passing to the right of the
center line of the street being entered upon leaving the
intersection.
(e) Where both streets or, roadways are one-way both the
approach for a left turn and a left turn shall be made as
close as practicable to the left-hand curb or edge of the
roadway.
(f) In all cases where official marks, buttons or signs
are placed within or adjacent to .intersections, no driver
of a vehicle shall execute a turn at such intersections
otherwise than as directed and required by such markers,
buttons or signs.
SECTION 49. Procedure at channelized intersections.
UVhere acceleration or deceleration lanes are provided for
right or left turns at unsignalized intersections, vehicles
shall proceed as follows:
(a) Any vehicle intending to turn right into a through
street, entrance to which is gained by means of a right-turn
acceleration lane, shall enter such through street by way of
the acceleration lane so provided and shall rnerge with caution
into the right-hand traffic lane of the through street
without coming to a stop, unless otherwise provided by official
signs and pavement markings. 49henever any vehicle traveling
on a through street shall have entered a channelized inter-
section or shall have approached the channelized intersection
so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard, the vehicle
traveling on the said acceleration .lane shall yield the right-
of-way to the vehicle traveling on the throug}r street.
(b) Any vehicle intending to turn right from a through
street, exit frorn which is rnade by means of a right-turn
deceleration lane, shall enter the deceleration lane and
merge with caution into the right-hand traffic lane of the
street entered into without coming to a stop, unless otherwise
provided by official signs and pavement markings. The vehicle
traveling on the deceleration lane shall yield the right-
of-way to any vehicle within the above said right-hand
traffic lane which is so close as to constitute an immediate
hazard.
(c) Any vehicle intending to turn left into the
far-roadway or lane of a through street shall come to a
complete stop and after seeing h.is way clear shall cross the
near-roadway or lane of such through street and shall then
proceed into the left-turn acceleration lane designated
in or near the center of the through street and shall
merge with caution into the said far-roadway or lane without
again coming to a stop, unless otherwise provided by official
signs and pavement markings. 6Vhenever any vehicle traveling
on a through street shall have entered a channelized inter-
section or shall have approached the channelized intersection
so closely as to constitute an immediate hazard, the vehicle
traveling on the said acceleration lane shall yield the right-
of-way to the vehicles traveling on the through street.
(d) Any vehicle intending to turn left from a through
street, exit from which is made by means of a left-turn
deceleration lane designated in or near the center of the
through street, shall enter the deceleration lane and shall
cross the through street after seeing its way clear. Vlhen-
ever any vehicle traveling on a through street shall have
entered a channelized intersection or shall have approached the
channelized intersection so closely as to constitute an
immediate. hazard, tY~e vehicle on the said deceleration lane
shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle traveling on the
through street.
SECTION 50. Turning into private driveways. The driver
of a vehicle intending to turn into a private driveway
shall do so as follows:
(a) Both the approach for a right turn and a right
turn shall be made as close as is practicable to the right-
hand curb or edge of the roadway.
(b) Approach for a left turn shall be made in that
portion of the right half of the roadway nearest the center
line of the road'r~ay and the left turn shall be made with
proper care to avoid accident.
SECTION 51. Right-of-way; vehicles approaching or
entering intersections.
(a) The driver of a vehicle approaching an intersection
shall yield the right-of-way to a vehicle which has entered
the intersection from a different highway.
(b) When two vehicles enter an intersection from dif-
ferent highways approximately'at the same time, the driver
of the vehicle on the left shall yield the right-of-way to
the vehicle on the right.
(c} The foregoing rules are modified at through
streets and otherwise hereinafter stated in this ordinance.
SEC2"IUN 52. Right-of-way; vehicles turning left at
intersections. The driver of a vehicle within an inter-
section intending to turn to the left shall yield the right-of-
way to any vehicle approaching from the opposite direction
which is within the intersection, or so close thereto as to
constitute an immediate hazard, but said driver, having so
yielded and having given a signal when and as raguired by
this ordinance may make such left turn and the drivers of
all other vehicles approaching the intersection from said
opposite direction shall yield the right-of-way to the vehicle
:Making the left turn.
SECTION 53. Right-of-way; vehicles entering through
street or stop intersections.
(a) The driver of a vehicle shall stop as required by
this ordinance at the entrance to a through street and shall
yield the right-of-way to other vehicles which have entered
the intersection from said through street or which are approach-
ing so closely on said through street as to constitute an
immediate hazard, but said driver having so yielded may
proceed and the drivers of all other vehicles approaching
the intersection on said through street shall yield the right-
of-way to the vehicle so proceeding into or across the
through highway.
Cb) The driver of a vehicle shall likewise stop in
obedience to a stop sign as required herein at an intersection
where a stop sign is erected at one or more entrances thereto
although not a part of a through street, and shall proceed
cautiously, yielding to vehicles not so obliged to stop which
are within the intersection or approaching so closely as to
constitute an immediate hazard, but may then proceed.
SECTION 54, Limitations on turning around.
(a) The driver of any vehicle shall not turn such
vehicle so as to proceed in the opposite direction upon any
street in a business district, upon any four-lined highway,
or at any intersection where traffic is controlled by
traffic signal lights during the hours between 6:00 a.r:~.
to midnight of each day with the exception of the following:
1. Intersection of Kamehameha Avenue and Shipman Street.
2. Intersection of D,tamane Street and Lehua Street in
I;onokaa.
3. Intersection of L.ihivdai Street and Liholiho Street.
(b) The driver of any vehicle shall not turn such vehicle
so as to proceed in the opposite direction unless such
movement can be made in safety and without backing or other-
wise interfering with other traffic.
(c) The driver of any vehicle shall not turn so as to
proceed in the opposite direction upon any curve, or upon
the approach to, or near the crest of a grade, where such
vehicle cannot be seen by the driver of any other vehicle
approaching from either direction within five hundred feet.
SEC`lIGN 55, Limitations on backing. It shall be unlawful
for the driver of a vehicle to pack the same into an intersection
or over a crosswalk.
SECTIG;1 56. prohibited left and right turns.
(a) When official -traffic signs are erected
notice thereof, no driver of a vehicle shall make alleft or
right turn at any sianposted intersection within a congested
district. For the provisions of this paragraph, the chief
of police may place or erect signs of a temporary nature
during peak traffic hours at any intersection he may deem to
be congested.
(b) Left turns prohibited.
1. }3etween the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. of any
day, except Sundays and public holidays, the operator
of any vehicle shall not make any left turn between
intersections in a business district provided that
adequate signs and/or markings are placed.
The department of public works shall place
signs and/or markings as recommended by the police
department and the planning and traffic commission
where a left turn movement into a driveway may
create an undue hazard or congestion to a nearby
intersection.
2. i1o vehicle shall make a left turn at the following
designated intersections vahen official signs are
erected giving notice thereof:
a. l"Jaianuenue Street into Rainbow Drive (makai
intersection).
b. Rainbow Drive into 'JJaianuenue Street (mauka
intersection).
c. Right turns prohibited.
1. No vehicle shall make a right turn at the follovf-
ing designated intersections when official signs
are erected giving notice thereof.
a. lVaianuenue Street into Rainbow Drive (mauka
intersection).
b. Rainbow Drive into 6'Jaianuenue Street (makai
intersection).
SECTION 57. One-way streets. LJpon the following named
streets and parts of streets, or portions thereof, vehicular
traffic shall move only in the indicated direction when signs
indicating the direction of traffic are erected and maintained
at every intersection vrhere movement in the opposite direction
is prohibited.
(a) FURIIEAUX STREET. All vehicular traffic shall move
only makai to mauka between Karaeharneha Avenue and the makai
line of Kilauea Street.
(b) }iAILI STREET. All vehicular ,traffic shall move
only from makai to mauka between Kamehameha Avenue and
l:alai Street, between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and ~:15 a.m.
on school days.
(c) HALAI STREET. All vehicular traffic shall. move only
from Puna to Hamakua, between }(aili Street and l'Jaianuenue
Street, between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 8:15 a.m. on
school days.
(d) KILAiJEA STREET. All vehicular traffic shall move
only from Hamakua to Puna between Haili Street and Keawe
Street.
(e) KUKLJAU STREET. All vehicular traffic shall move
only from makai to mauka between Kilauea Street and Ululani
Street.
(f) 6.;A,'hALAliOA 1iIGIII'7AY. All vehicular traffic shall
move only from itamakua to ~=una between the Old Volcano Road
leading to the Tuberculosis Rehabilitation Center and
FAP F2 (3) (Kanoelehua Street Extension).
(g) NAl'JAHI LAI1E. All vehicular traffic shall move
only from makai to mauka between Kameharneha Avenue and
Punahoa Street.
(h) VJAIANUENUE STREET. All. vehicular traffic shall
move only from mauka to makai between Halai Street and
Kameharneha Avenue between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and x:15
a.m. on school days.
(i) KAPIOLANI STP.EET. All vehicular traffic shall
move only from the Hamakua to the Puna direction between the
hours of 5:00 a.m, and 12:00 noon on Sundays.
SECTION 58. Stop when traffic is obstructed. No
driver of a vehicle shall enter an intersection or a marked
or unmarked crosswalk unless there is sufficient space on
the other side of the intersection or crosswalk to accommodate
the vehicle he is driving without obstructing the passage
of other vehicles or pedestrians, notwithstanding any
traffic control signal.
SECTION 59. Starting, stopping, turn.i.ng or backing.
The driver of any vehicle before starting, stopping, turning
from a direct line, or backing shall first see that such
movement can be made in safety. If such movement cannot
be made in safety, or if it interferes unduly with the normal
movement of other -traffic, said driver shall wait for a more
favorable opportunity to make suci~rnovernent. If the opera-
tion of another vehicle should be affected by a stopping
or turning movement, the driver of such other vehicle shall
be given a plainly visible signal, in the manner described
in Section 124 of this ordinance.
SECTION 60. Vehicles not to be driven on sidewalk.
No person'shall drive a vehicle within any sidewalk area
except at a permanent or temporary driveway; provided,
however, that no person shall drive a vehicle over the sidewalk
area into any designated bus stop.
SECTION 61. Stop before entering through streets and
before enteri-ng intersections where stop signs are erected.
(a) When stop signs, officially designated, are erected
upon streets or highways intersecting any through street at
the entrance thereto, or upon any other street or highvaay
at the entrance to any intersection, every driver of a vehicle
and every driver or operator of any moving vehicle shall
stop at the stop line; provided, however, that in the event
there is no stop line, then said driver or operator shall
stop at the nearest line marking the crosswalk at such
entrance; and provided, further, that in the event there
are no such lines, then said driver or operator shall
stop at the place where such street meets the prolongation
of the nearest property line of such through street or other
street or highway to be entered.
(b) The "stop line" shall be a clearly visible white
line extending across the right half of the roadway and
placed on streets and highways having such stop signs.
(c) The following streets or indicated portions thereof
are through streets, as defined in subsection (u), section
4, of this ordinance:
1. AINAKO AVENUE, frorn Kaumana Road to 'Jlaianuenue
Street.
2. ANDREWS AVENUE.
3. AaIAUULU ROAD, from Wainaku Avenue to its end.
4. BAKER AVENUE.
5. BANYAN DRIVE, from Aalapuna Street to Kalanianaole
Street.
6. BROWN AVENUE.
7. AINAOLA DRIVE, from Kawailani Street to its end
in a westerly direction.
8. FIAIFIAI STREET, from Kinoole Street to the Ainaola
Drive.
`~. HAILI STREET, from Kinoole Street to Halai Street.
10. 1iALAI STREET, from Halai bill to VJaianuenue Street
except at Iiaili Street from a southerly (Puna)
direction and at Punahele Street from a northerly
(Hamakua) direction.
11. TFiE HAWAII BELT ROAD.
12. THE HIGHWAY known as the Kailua-Keauhou Beach
~ROad, from Kai.lua Wharf to Keauhou Beach in Kona.
13. T,`iE HIGHWAY known as the Karnuela to Flawi Road
from Mamalahoa Highway at Kamuela to the Niulii-
„~Iahukona Road in Hawi.
14. THE HIGHWAY known as the h.4iddle Road, from
Kealakekua where it intersects the ~+1amalahoa
Highway to Keokea where it again intersects the
~amalahoa Highway in Kona.
15. THE HIGHVlAY known as the Niulii-1~iahukona Road,
from 6Aahukona l'Jharf to Niulii in Kohala.
16. TFIE HIGHWAY known as the Olaa to Kapoho Road, from
Olaa to Kapoho.
17. THE HIGHWAY known as the Saddle Road, from the
road leading to the Hilo Country Club in Hilo, to
the ihamalahoa Highway at Kamue.la in Kohala.
18. HINANO STREET, except at Piilani and Kekuanaoa
Streets.
19. HOKIl STREET, from Kilauea Street to Kinoole Street.
20, HUALALAI STREET, from Kilauea Street to Kinoole
Street.
21. IOLANI STREET.
22. KEKUANAOA STREET, from Kilauea to Kanoelehua
Streets, except at Manono Street.
23. KAINEHE STREET, from Kamehameha Avenue to Aalapuna
Street.
24. KAIULANI STREET, from 1'Jaianuenue Street to its end.
25. KAIVJIKI ROP,D, from i;tamalahoa Highway to its end.
26. KALANIANiOLE STREET, from Kamehameha Avenue to
its end.
27. KALANIKOA STREET, except at Kekuanaoa Street.
.
28. KAi~/EHAi~HA AVENUE, from Wailuku Drive to Kalani-
anaole Street, except entering intersection with
Waianuenue Street from a northerly (Puueo) direction.
29. KANOELEHUA STREET, from Kamehameha Avenue to
the end of Kanoelehua Street.
30. KAPIOLANI STREET, from Ponahawai Street to its end
in a southeasterly direction.
31. KAUHANE AVENUE.
32. KAUMANA DRIVE, £rom Hilo Country Club Road to
Waianuenue Street.
33. KAWAILANI STREET, from Kinoole Street to its
end in a westerly direction, except where it
intersects Ainaola Drive from a westerly direction.
34• KEAWE STREET, from Wailuku Drive to Kilauea
Street, except at Waianuenue Street.
35. KILAUEA STREET, from Haili Street to Haihai
Street, except at Mamo Street.
36. KILOHANA STREET, from Kamehameha Avenue to
Banyan Drive.
37. KINOCLE STREET, from Waianuenue Street to
Haihai Street.
3$. KUKUAU STF.EET, from Kapiolani Street to its
end in the mauka direction.
39. KUb?U STREET, from Kamehameha Avenue to Kilauea
Street.
40. LANIKAULA STREET, from Kilauea Street to
Kanoelehua Street.
41. LAUKAPU STREET, except at Kekuanaoa Street.
42. LIHIWAI STREET, from Kamehameha Avenue to
Mamane Street.
43. NAMALAHOA HIGHWAY, from 4-mile bridge by way
of Puna, to the Honolii Gulch, except where
it intersects the Kanoelehua Cutoff Road,
Mamane Street in Honokaa and the Hawaii Belt
Road.
44. MAN,O STREET, from Kamehameha Avenue to Kinoole
Street, except at Keawe Street.
45. MANONO STREET, from Kamehameha Avenue to Kawili
Street, except at Lanikaula Street.
46. MILILANI STREET, except at Kekuanaoa Street.
47. MOHOULI STREET, except at Kinoole Street.
4$. OPERATIONS ROAD.
49. PAUAHI STREET, from Kilauea Street to
Kamehameha Avenue.
50. PIILANI STREET, from Kanoelehua Street to
Nianono Street.
51. PIOPIO STREET, from Kamehameha Avenue to
Kilauea Street.
52. PONAHAWAI STREET, from Kinoole Street to its
end in the mauka direction.
53. PUA AVENUE.
54. PUAINAKO STREh~T, from Kinoole Street to its
end in a westerly direction.
55. PUNAHiLE STREET, from Halai Street to Kaumana
'Drive.
56. PUNAHOA STREET, from Piopio Street to Emma
Street.
57. PUUO STREET, from Ulailuku Drive to Kauila
Street.
5$. RAILROAD AVi'sNUE.
59. SPENCER AVENUE.
60. ULULANI STREET, from Ponahawai Street to its
end in a southeasterly direction.
61. WAIANUENUE STREET, from Akolea Road to
Kamehameha Avenue, except where it intersects
Kaumana Drive.
62. WAILUKU DRIVE, from Kamehameha Avenue to
Kaiulani Street, except at Keawe Street and
Wainaku Street.
63. WAINAKU STREET, from Mamalahoa Highway to
Wailuku Drive.
64. HEMA STREET, except at Kapiolani Street.
65. IPUKA STREET.
66. KUAKINI HIGHWAY, from b:amalahoa Highway to
Palani Road.
67. PALANI ROAD, from Mamalahoa Highway to the
Kailua-Keauhou Beach Road.
6$. ILIMA STREET in Honokaa.
69. MAILE STREET in Honokaa.
70. PIKAKE STREET in Honokaa.
71. KILAU HOMESTEAD ROAD in Laupahoehoe.
72. WRIGHT ROAD (FASP S-253 (1).)
SECTION 62. Intersecting through streets and stop
intersections.
(a) s'very operator of a vehicle traveling on a
through street entering or intersecting another through
street shall exercise due caution and yield the right-of-way
as defined and shall also stop at the following intersections:
1. Entering Alae Street from Kamakaohonu Street.
2. Entering Haili Street from a southerly direction
from Halai Street.
3. Entering Hanalei Street from Josephine Lane.
4. .,ntering Kahaopea Street from Maikai Road.
5. Entering gamuela-Kawaihae Road from Kawaihae Park
Road at Kohala.
6. Entering Kekaulike Street from Shipman Street.
7. Entering Keokea Loop Road from Apapane Road.
~. Entering Laimana Street from Alae Street.
9. Entering Lanihuli Street from Lei Street.
10. Entering Manulele Street from Oleana Street.
11. °~tering Ponahawai Street from Punahoa Street.
12. Entering Ululani Street from Kukuau Street.
13. s'ntering Mahiai Road intersection from Amaumau
Road from a southwesterly direction.
(b) To enforce the provisions of Sections 61 and 62
respectively, the county engineer is hereby authorized a.nd
required to erect and maintain appropriate signs, devices
or markers to be placed and maintained on each and every
street intersecting a "Through Street" designated herein,
such signs, devices or marks to bear the word "Stop" and
to be located in such position and to be provided with
letters of a size to be clearly legible from a distance
of at least one hundred feet along the street intersecting
the through street. All such signs shall be illuminated
and plainly visible at night or so placed as to be illuminated
and plainly visible by street lights or by the headlights of
approaching vehicles.
SECTION 63. Turn right anytime with caution intersections.
When official TURN RIGHT ANYTIME WITH CAUTION signs are
erected at any intersection, the driver of a vehicle may make
a right turn movement without coming to a stop provided
such movement is made with proper care to avoid accident.
To enforce the provisions of this section, the chief
engineer or the territorial highway engineer is authorized
to erect said signs with the advice of the planning and
traffic commission when the said commission determines that
said movement will facilitate traffic flow within the inter-
section, and at the same time provide adequate safety to
pedestrains as well as motorists.
SECTION 64. Slow Yield Right-of Way Intersection.
When official Slow Yield Right-of-Way sign is erected
at any intersection, the driver of a vehicle approaching said
sign shall slow down to a speed of not more than 10 miles
per hour and yield the right-of-way to other vehicles which
have entered the intersection or which are approaching so
closely as to constitute an immediate hazard.
If a driver is involved in a collision at any intersection
or interferes with the movement of other vehicles after driving
past a yield sign, such collision or interference shall be
deemed prima facie evidence of the drivers failure to yield
the right-of-way.
To enforce the provisions of this section, the chi'` ~~ngi.n?er ~~e
territorial highway engineer is authorized to erect said sign
with the advice of the planning and traffic commission when
the said commission determines that said movement will facilitate
traffic flow within the intersection, and at the same time
provide adequate safety to pedestrians as well as motorists
SECTION 65. Emerging from alley or private driveway.
(a) The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley,
driveway, or building, shall stop such vehicle immediately
prior to driving onto a sidewalk or into the sidewalk area
extending across any alley-way, and upon entering the roadway
yield the right-of-way to all vehicles approaching on said
roadway.
(b) The operator of a vehicle entering a public highway
from a private road or driveway shall yield the right-of-way
to all vehicles approaching on such public highway.
(c) The operator of a vehicle entering a public highway
from a private road or driveway shall stop in obedience to
a stop sign as required by this ordinance when said stop sign
is erected at the entrance to the public highway by the county
engineer or territorial highway engineer for the County of
Hawaii.
For the provisions of this section, the county engineer
is hereby authorized to erect stop signs at the entrance to
a public highway when the county engineer or the planning and
traffic commission determines its need in the interest of
traffic safety upon the basis of an engineering and traffic
investigation.
SECTION 66. Operation of vehicles upon approach of
authorized emergency vehicles.
(a) Upon the immediate approach of an authorized
emergency vehicle equipped with at least one lighten lamp
exhibiting a red light visible under normal atmospheric
conditions from a distance of five hundred feet to the
front of such vehicle or when the driver is giving audible
signal by siren, exhaust whistle, or bell:
1. The driver of every other vehicle shall yield the
right-of-way and shall immediately drive to a position
parallel to, and as close as possible, the right-handed
edge or curb of the roadway, clear of any intersection, and
shall stop and remain in such position until the authorized
emergency vehicle has passed, except when other wise directed
by a police officer.
2. This section shall not operate to relieve the driver
of an authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with
due regard for the safety of all persons using the highway.
SECTION 67. Following fire apparatus prohibited. The
driver of any vehicle, other than one on official business, shall
not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire
alarm closer than five hundred feet, or drive into or park such
vehicle within the block where fire apparatus has stopped in
answer to a fire alarm.
SECTION 6$. Driving over fire hose prohibited. No
vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of the fire
department when laid down on any street or private driveway
without the consent of the fire department official in command.
SECTION 69. Speed restrictions.
(a) No person shall operate a vehicle on a highway at
a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the
conditi ons then existing.
(b) Where no special hazard exists the following speeds
shall be lawful but any speed in excess of said limits shall
be prima facie evidence that the speed is not reasonable or
prudent and that it is unlawful:
1. Fifteen miles per hour in the following areas:
a. All streets within the Waiakea N.ill Camp 1 area.
b. Konawaena School Road from P~Iamalahoa Highway
' to the school.
c. All streets within Lanakila Homes area, except
for Kapiolani Street and Wailoa Street.
2. Twenty miles per hour while passing a school building,
or the grounds thereof, while children are going to or leaving
such school during opening or closing hours or while the play-
grounds of any such school are in use by school children, and
in addition thereto the following areas:
a. Wailuku Drive between Kinoole Street and
Kamehameha Avenue.
3. Twenty-five miles per hour in any business district
or when passing a public park and in addition thereto the
following areas:
a. Mamalahoa Highway from the Hamakua boundary of
Honomu School to Paheehee Gulch at Honomu, Hilo.
b. Akaka Falls Road at Honomu.
c. Mamalahoa Highway from the Hilo side of Vr'ailea
to Hakalau Gulch at Hakalau, Hilo.
d. Chin Chuck Road at Hakalau, Hilo.
e. Kukuau Street in Hilo.
f. Kailua Village, from Kailua Vd'harf to Keauhou Road
in Kailua, Kona. ~.
g. Kinoole Street, between Kukuau Street and a point
measuring 300 yards on the Puna side of Hualalai
Street in Hilo.
h. Pamalahoa Highway from its intersection with Kuakini
Highway for a distance of 500 feet in the Holualoa
direction.
i. IbIamane Street (P~Iamalahoa Highway) in Honokaa, from
Nienie Gulch traveling in a southeasterly direction
to its first intersection with Ohia Street (Old
Homestead Road)
4. Thirty miles per hour in any residential district
and in addition thereto the following areas:
a. Kanoelehua Street in Hilo between Kamehameha Avenue
and Lanikaula Street.
b. Mamalahoa Highway, from a point 1,200 feet on the
Hilo side of the Honuapo Landing road, to a point
1,800 feet on the Naalehu side of the said Honuapo
Landing road.
c. Haihai Street, from Kilauea Street to Laula Street.
d. Waianuenue Street, from Kapiolani Street to Halai
Street.
5. Thirty-five miles per hour in the following areas:
a. Kamuela Village, from. the old CCC Camp to Kamuela
Airport on b,amalahoa Highway at Kohala.
b. Kamuela Village, from the Parker Ranch Store to the
County Warehouse at Vtiaiaka on the Kamuela to Hawi
Road in Kohala.
6. Forty-five miles per hour in the following areas:
a. Mamalahoa Highway, in Mountain View, from a point
500 feet on the Hilo side of the Kulani Road to a
point 300 feet on the Volcano side of the Mountain
View stables, except when the school zone speed
limit is in effect.
b. Mamalahoa Highway, in Kurtistown, from a point 300
feet on the Hilo side of the Iwasaki Camp Road to
the 13~ mile Homestead Road, except when the school
zone speed limit is in effect.
c. Hawaii Belt Road in Papaikou from the Honokaa side
of Kapue Bridge to the Kaieie Homestead Road.
d. Hawaii Belt Road in Ninole from a point 1,300 feet
Hilo of Waikolu Bridge to the Hilo end of SDR-3
(15).
e.' Any speed in excess of the aforesaid limits shall
be prima facie evidence that the speed is not
reasonable or prudent and that it is unlawful.
SECTION 70. Minimum speed. No person shall drive a
motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede or block the
normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when reduced
speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with
law.
Police officers are hereby directed to enforce this
provision by orders to drivers, and in the event of apparent
willful disobedience to this provision and refusal to comply
with the orders of an officer in accordance herewith the continued
slow operation by a driver shall be a misdemeanor.
SECTION 71. Speed of heavy vehicles restricted.
(a) No vehicle equipped wholly with pneumatic tires
shall be operated upon any highway at a greater speed than
thirty-five miles per hour when the weight including load
exceeds 34,000 pounds.
(b) No vehicle equipped wholly or partly with solid
tires shall be operated upon any highway at a greater speed
than ten miles per hour when the weight including load exceeds
14,000 pounds.
(c) The rates of speed for vehicles equipped wholly
with cushion wheels or with a combination of cushion and
pneumatic tires shall not be more than 25f greater than those
provided for vehicles equipped wholly or partly with solid
tires. A "cushion" wheel, when used herein, shall designate
a wheel which by reason of its construction, is nonrigid and
is resilient within itself.
(d) No vehicle or trailer carrying a weight in excess
of six tons, including the weight of the vehicle, which is
equipped wholly or partly with metal tires or other hard non-
resilient material shall be operated upon any highway at a
speed in excess of six miles per hour.
SECTION 72. Persons under the influence of intoxicating
liquor or of drug.
(a) It is unlawful and punishable as provided in sub-
section (c) of this section for any person who is under the
influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs to drive or be in
actual physical control of any vehicle within the County of
Hawaii.
(b) It is unlawful and punishable as provided in sub-
section (c) of this section for any person who is a habitual
user or under the influence of any drug to a degree which renders
him incapable of safely driving a vehicle to drive any vehicle
within the County of Hawaii. The fact that any person charged
with a violation of this subsection is, or has been, entitled
to use such drug, under the laws of the Territory of Hawaii,
shall not constitute a defense against any charge of violating
this subsection.
(c) Every person who is convicted of a violation of this
section shall be punished by a fine of not less than X100.00
nor more than "500.00.
SECTION 73. Negligent driving, Any person who drives
any vehicle negligently so as to endanger any person or property
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
SECTION 7e,. Unlawful to sit on the outer side of driver
or to obtain view of highway through steering wheel.
(a) No person shall
another person to the lef
seat in a left-hand-drive
on the driver's seat in a
(b) No person shall
view of the highway ahead
or seated so low as to be
operate a motor vehicle with
t of the driver on the driver's
vehicle or to the right of the driver
right-hand-drive vehicle.
operate a motor vehicle when the
is viewed through the steering wheel
unable to give a clear hand signal.
SECTION 75. Boarding or alighting from any vehicle.
No person shall board or alight from ary moving vehicla.
SECT70Pa 76. Unlawful riding on motorscooters and
motorcycles. It shall be unlawful for any owner or operator
of any motorscooter, motorcycle or bicycle, to permit or allow
any person other than the operator thereof to ride thereon,
unless the same is equipped with:
(a) A seat at least 1$ inches in length, with hand and
foot rests provided for the passengex•; or
(b) A separate passenger's seat, hand and foot rests; or
(c) A sidecar designed for the carriage of passengers.
S~TION 77. Duties of driver, etc., of locomotive or
cane car used in agricultural or industrial work at grade
crossings. The driver, engineer, or person in charge of any
locomotive or cane car, where operated on stationary rails
used in agricultural or industrial work, shall not cause or
permit such locomoti ve or cane car to enter upon or cross any
highway without first stopping and yielding the right-of-
way to any vehicle crossing or about to cross the grade
crossing, or which is approaching so closely on said highway
as to constitute an immediate hazard; but having so yielded
may proceed; provided, however, that a flagman shall have first
stationed himself in a conspicuous spot, approximately in the
center of the highway in close proximity to the tracks or grade
crossing, displaying a red flag not less than 16 inches square,
except that from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before
sunrise, in lieu of the said flag, a red light or lantern shall
be so displayed plainly visible for a distance of 500 feet from
both sides of the tracks or grade crossing.
SECTION 7$. Persons propelling push carts or riding
bicycles or animals to obey traffic regulati ons. 3very person
propelling any push cart or riding a bicycle or an animal upon
a roadway,~and every person driving any animal-drawn vehicle,
shall be subject to the provisions of this ordinance applicable
to the driver of any vehicle, except those provisions which,
by their very nature, can have no application.
SECTION 79. Clinging to moving vehicles prohibited. No
person riding upon any bicycle, coaster, roller skates, or
toy vehicle, shall attach the same or himself to any vehicle
upon a roadway.
SECTION $0. Riding on roadways and bicycle paths.
(a) 'Every person operating a bicycle upon a roadway shall
ride as near to the right-hand side of the roadway as practicable,
exercising due care when passing a standing vehicle or one
proceeding in the same direction.
(b) Persons riding bicycles upon a roadway shall not
ride more than two abreast except on paths or parts of roadways
set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles.
(c) 4henever a usable path for bicycles has been provided
adjacent to a roadway bicycle riders shall use such path and
not the roadway.
PEDESTRIANS' RIGHTS AND DUTIES
SECTION $1. Pedestrians subject to traffic control
signals. Pedestrians shall be subject to traffic control
signals at intersections and other places, as heretofore
provided, but at all other places pedestrians shall be
accorded the privileges and shall be subject to the restric-
tions stated in the following sections.
SECTION $2. Pedestrians' right-of-way in crosswalks.
(a) The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way,
slowin,a, down or stopping if need be to so yield to a pedestrian
crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk or within
any unmarked crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon the half
of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling, or when
the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half
of the roadway as to be in danger, but no pedestrian shall
enter any crosswalk or part of a crosswalk when vehicular
traffic is so close thereto as to constitute an immediate
hazard.
(b) Pedestrians shall walk briskly within a crosswalk
so as not to impede the flow of vehicular traffic.
SECTION $3. Crossing at other than crosswalks; "jay-
walking."
(a) svery pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point
other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked
crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way
to all vehicles upon the roadway.
(b) Any pedestrian crossing a roadway at a point
where a pedestrian tunnel or overhead crossing has been provided
shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
(c) Between adjacent intersections at which traffic
control signals are in operation, pedestrians shall not cross
at any place except in a marked crosswalk.
(d) Pedestrians shall not cross any roadway within 200
feet of any intersecti on where traffic is controlled by a
traffic si.'gnal device or by a police officer, except w~.thin
a marked or unmarked crosswalk.
(e) Pedestrians shall not cross any roadway other than
at right angles to the edge of the roadway.
SECTION $4. Pedestrians on roller skates, etc. It shall
be unlawful for any person upon roller skates or riding in or
by means of any coaster, or vehicle or similar device, to go
upon any part of the roadway, except while crossing a street
within a crosswalk, at which time he shall be subject to the
general provisions of this ordinance pertaining to pedestrians.
SECTION $5. Pedestrians to use right half of crosswalks.
Pedestrians shall move, whenever practicable, upon the right
half of crosswalks.
SECTION $6. Pedestrians soliciting rides. No person
shall stand in a roadway for the purpose of soliciting a ride
from the driver of any vehicle.
SECTION $7. Blind and crippled pedestrians' right-of-way.
Except at intersections r~diere the movement of traffic is being
regulated by police officers, the driver of a vehicle shall come
to a stop and take such precauti ons as may be necessary before
proceeding so as to avoid injury to a crippled pedestrian using
crutches, or to a blind or partially blind pedestrian, carrying
in full view a cane, white in color, or white with red ends,
and blowing a wh3~tle similar to the type of whistle used by
police officers. l~++
Sr-'CTION $$. Pedestrians to travel on left side of roadway.
(a) Where a street or highway is provided with a usable
sidewalk, no pedestrian shall travel along the paved or improved
roadwayst devoted to vehicular traffic.
(bl `adhere no sidewalks or safety lanes have been provided,
pedestrians traveling on and along the roadway, shall travel
only on the left-hand edge thereof.
SI,CTION $9. Unlawful to sit, kneel, squat, or lie in
highway. It is unlawful for any person to sit, kneel, squat
or lie upon any roadway, or sidewalk curbing except when over-
come by illness or in an emergency.
SECTION 90. Reconstructed, specially constructed and hot
rod vehicles.
(a) No person shall operate upon any street or high way
a reconstru cted or rebuilt motor vehicle, a specially constructed
v=.hicle, or• a hot rod, without first having obtained a permit
for the vehicle from the chief of police.
(b) Before issuing such permit, the chief of police shall
require a written report of inspection on such vehicle as to
brakes, lights, and general working conditions, issued by some
responsible authority designated by him.
(c) Permits issued for the operation of reconstructed
vehicles may be revoked at any time the chief of police has
reason to believe that such vehicles are a menace to traffic.
(d) The county treasurer sh all not register any re-
constructed vehicle unless the applicant has presented to the
treasurer a certificate of inspection from the chief of police.
SF~CTI ON 91. 49idth and height of vehicles restricted.
(a) 'No motor vehicle or other power vehicle, truck-
tractor, trailer or semi-trailer of a greater width than nine
feet, including load, and of a height in excess of thirteen
feet, including load, shall be operated on any street or
highway except under the provisions specified in Section 11715,
Revised Laws of Hawaii 1945.
(b) No motor vehicle operated on a public highway shall
have a wheel base longer than two hundred twenty inches; and
no bed or body of any motor or power vehicle shall extend or
overhang in the rear from the rear axle of such vehicle, more
than a distance equal to fifty-five (55) per cent of the length.
The point of measurement in determining said fifty-five (55)
percent of the length of the wheel base extension in the rear
shall start at the center line of the rear axle housing; for
the purpose of this section, axles placed in the same trans-
verse plane which are closer than forty-two inches shall be
considered as one axle; provided, however, that the restriction
regarding length or the bed or body of any motor vehicle shall
not apply to any such vehicle equipped with a dual rear axle.
(c) No vehicle shall be operated on or over any highway
having any luggage, package, trunk, crate, box or any other
load thereon extending beyond the extreme width of the vehicle.
(d) Whenever the load on any vehicle shall extend more
than four feet beyond the rear of the bed or body thereof,
there shall be displayed at the end of such load in such position
as to be clearly visible at all times from the rear of such
vehicle a red flag not less than twelve inches both in length
and width, except that between one-half hour after sunset and
one-half hour before sunrise there shall be displayed at the
end of such load a red light, visible under normal atmospheric
conditions at least two hundred feet from the rear of such
vehicle.
(e) The load upon any vehicle operated alone, or the load
upon the front vehicle of a combination of vehicles, shall not
extend more than four feet beyond the front wheels of such
vehicle or the front bumper of such vehicle if it is equipped
with such a bumper.
SECTION 92. Permission to operate certain heavy vehicles.
The territorial highway engineer or his representative, in case
of territorial highways, or the county engineer, or his repre-
sentative, in case of county roads, may grant written permission
for the moving of heavy vehicles and objects exceeding the
height, width, and length specified in Section 91 of this
ordinance, in which case a copy of said permit shall be
submitted to the police department of the district thereof
before exercising the rights of said permit. Said engineer
may require a sufficient bond to protect the County of Hawaii
from any loss or damage by reason of such operation and moving.
S4CTICN 93. Use of flanges, etc., on wheels. No traction
engine, road engi ne, hauling engine, trailer, steam roller,
automobile, truck or other power vehicle shall be operated upon
any street or highway, the face of the tires of which are fitted
with flanges, ribs, clamps, cleats, lugs, ch ains, spikes or
other projections destructive to the road surface, other than
rubber blocks. In cases of traction engines and steam plows
which are equipped or provided with flanges, ribs, clamps,
cleats, rings or lugs, such vehicle shall be permitted to pass
over any public highway provided that cleats are fastened
upon all the wheels of such vehicles, not less than two and
one-half inches wide and not more than one and one-half inches
high, so placed that not less than two cleats on each wheel
shall touch the ground at all times, and that the weight shall
be the same on all parts of said cleats. Vehicles of the track
laying type shall not be operated on a high way unless the portion
of the track in contact with the highway is provided with a
smooth surface of sufficient area to carry the load of the
vehicle without damage to the road.
SrCTION 94. Horns and warning devices.
(a) 'very motor vehicle when operated upon a highway shall
be eauipped with a horn in rood working order and capable of
emitting sound audible under normal conditions from a distance
of not less than two hundred feet, but no horn or other warning
device shall emit an unreasonably loud or harsh sound or a
whistle. The driver of a motor vehicle shall when reasonably
necessary to insure safe operation give audible warning with
his horn, but shall not otherwise use such horn, when upon a
highway.
(b) No vehicle shall be equipped with nor shall any
person use upon a vehicle any siren, whistle, or bell, except
as otherwise permitted in this section.
(c) Any authorized emergency vehicle may be equipped
with a siren, whistle, or bell, capable of emitting sound
audible under normal conditions at not less than five hundred
feet of a type approved by the chief of police, but such siren
shall not be used except when such vehicle is operated in
response to an emergency call or in the immediate pursuit of
an actual or suspected violator of the law, in which said
latter event, the driver of such vehicle shall sound said
siren to warn pedestrians and other drivers of the approach
thereof; provided, further, that said emergency vehicle may
be equipped with one red blinkar light showing at the front
thereof.
S~:CTION 95. Rear vision mirror required. 3very motor
vehicle shall be equipped with a. mirror attached to and so
located and adjusted on such vehicle to give the operator
thereof a clear reflected view of the highway directly to
the rear of or on a line parallel to the side of the body of
such motor vehicle.
SECTION 96. Windshields to be unobstructed and equipped
with wipers.
(a) No person shall drive any motor vehicle upon any
highway while the windshield or rear window or windows thereof
are so obscured by foreign matter, stains or defective lami-
nation, or is so damaged or repaired, as to obscure the vision
of the operator to a substantial degree.
(b) No person shall drive any motor vehicle with any
non-transparent material or object suspended within the wind-
shield area as viewed from the driver's seat, nor shall any
parson drive any motor vehicle upon the hood or radiator of
which is attached any fxtur~ or ornament of any material which
vibrates, swings, or flutters within view of the driver of
said vehicle.
(c) T?o person shall operate a motor vehicle upon any
highway unless such vehicle shall have attached to the driving
side of tha orindshield, if any, a suitable and workable wind-
shield wiper which may be operated b;~ hand or automatically.
(d) P;o person shall operate a motor vehi-c le upon any
public highway with "stickers" or posters en the windshield
covering an area greater t}.an four inches by six inches
and such stickers or posters shall be placed in the lower right-
hand corner of the windshield. The same requirements shall
prevail for rear window in vehiclas where the usa of rear
vision mirror is through such rear wind ow.
SECTION 9'7, mufflers; prevention of noise, i%very motor
vehicle shall at all times be equipped with a muffler in good
working order and in constant operation to prevent excessive
or unusual noise, and no person shall use a muffler cutout,
bypass or similar device upon a motor vehicle on a highway.
For the provisions of this section, a muffler shall be
defined as a device consisting of a series of chambers or baffle
plates, or other mechanical design for the purpose of receiving
exhaust gas from the engine of the vehicle, and effective in
reducing noise.
SECTION 9~. Lights. No p,~rson shall operate a motor
vehicle upon any highway from thirty minutes after sunset
until thirty minutes before sunrise unless such vehicle shall
have in operation lights as required by the provisions of
the Revised Laws of the Territory of Hawaii. Any lighted head-
lamps upon a parked vehicle shall be depressed or dimmed.
(a) Light beams to be lowered. On approaching another
vehicle proceeding from the opposite direction, and wh en
within not less than three hundred feet of same, any person,
driving a motor vehicle equipped with headlamps empowered to
throw two or more sets of beams for driving purposes, shall
temporarily substitute the lower beams, in case the higher
beams are then being used, until said approaching vehicle has
passed said person.
(b) Spotlights. No spotlight shall be used in any city,
town or village, and no spotlight shall be so used as to shine
in the eyes of the drivers of approaching vehicles, and when
used every spotlight must be turned off not less than three
hundred feet from an approaching vehicle.
(c) Lamps on parked vehicles. Whenever a vehicle is
parked or stopped on a street or highway during the time
between one-half hour after sunset and one-half hour before
sunrise there shall be displayed upon the rear thereof a red
light visible not less than two hundred feet from the rear thereof;
provided, however, that no lights need be displayed upon such
vehicle when parked or stopped within any business district,
residence district or when there is attached upon the rear of
such vehicle a red reflector so maintained as to be visible from
all distances within three hundred feet to fifty feet from such
vehicle.
(d) Signal lamp or lamps.
1. Any motor vehicle may be equipped with signal lamp
or lamps.
2. A signal lamp or lamps shall be capable of clearly
indicating any intention to turn either to the right
or to the left and shall be visible and understandable
during the daytime and nighttime from a distance of
100 feet both to the front and rear.
3. When a vehicle is equipped with a signal lamp or
lamps, such lamp or lamps shall at all times be
maintained in good working condition.
4. No signal lamp or lamps shall project a glaring or
dazzling light.
(e) Stop lamp.
1. All motor vehicles shall be equipped with a stop
lamp on the rear which shall emit a red or yellow light and
which shall be actuated upon application of the service (foot)
bralce, and which may but need not be incorporated with a tail
lamp. Said stop lamp shall be plainly visible and under-
standable from a distance of 100 feet to the rear both during
normal sunlight and at night time.
SECTION 99. Additional lighting; equipment. Vehicles
described in the following paragraphs, when operated upon a
public highway, shall be equipped as required herein and all
lamp equipment required shall be lighted from thirty minutes after
sunset until thirty minutes before sunrise.
(a) On every bus or truck eighty inches or more in
overall width, in addition to other requirements, there shall
be the following:
1. On the front, two clearance lamps, one at each side.
2. On the rear, two clearance lamps, one at each side.
3. On the side, two side marker lamps, one at or near
the front and one at or near the rear.
4. On each side, two reflectors, one at or near the
front and one at or near the rear.
(b) Cn every truck-tractor:
1. On the front, two clearance lamps, one at each side.
2. On the rear, ona stop limit.
(c) On every trailer or semi-trailer having a gross
weight in excess of 3,000 pounds:
1. On the front, two clearance lamps, one at each side.
2. On each side,-two side marker lamps, one at or near
the front and one at or near the rear.
3. On each side, two reflectors, one at or near the
front and one at or near the rear.
4. On the rear, two clearance lamps, one at each side,
also two reflectors, one at each side, and one stop
light.
(d) On every-pole trailer in excess of 3,000 pounds
gross weight:
1. On each side, one cl earance lamp which may be in
combination to show to the front, side and rear.
2. On the rear of the pole trailer or load, two reflectors,
one at each side.
(e) On every trailer, semi-trailer, or pole trailer
weighing 3,000 pounds gross or less:
i. On the rear, two reflectors, one on each side. If
any trailer or semi-trailer is so loaded or is of such
dimensions as to obscure the stop light on the towing
vehicle, then such vehicle shall also be equipped
with one stop light.
Color of clearance lamps, side marker lamps, and reflectors.
(a) Front clearance lamps and those marker lamps and
reflectors mounted on the front or on the sides near the front
of a vehicle shall display or reflect an amber color.
(b) Rear clearance lamps and those marker lamps and
rdlectors mounted on the rear or on the sides near the rear
of a vehicie shall display or reflect a red color.
(c) All lighting devices and reflectors mounted en the
rear of any vehicle shall display or reflect a red color,
except the stop light or other signal device, which may be
red, amber, or yellow, and except the light illuminating the
license plate or the light emmitted by a backup lamp, which
shall be white.
Mounting of reflectors, clearance lamps, and side marker
lamps
(a) Reflectors shall be mounted at a height not less
than twenty-four inches and not higher than sixty inches above
the ground on which the vehicle stands, except that if the
highest part of the permanent structure of the vehicle is
less than twenty-four inches the reflector at such point shall
be mounted as high as that part of the permanent structure
will permit.
(b) The rear reflectors on a pole trailar may be
mounted on each side of the bolster or load.
(c) Any required red reflector on the rear of a vehicle
may be incorporated with the tail lamp, but such reflector
shall meet all the other reflector requirements of this section.
(d) Clearance lamps shall be mounted on the permanent
structure of the vehicle in such a manner as to indicate its
extreme width and as near the top thereof as practicable.
Clearance lamps and side marker lamps may be mounted in
combination provided illumination is given as required with
reference to both.
Visibility of reflectors, clearance lamps, grad marker
lamps.
(a) very reflector upon any vehicle referred to in
this section shall be of such size and characteristics and so
maintained as to be readily visible at night from all distances
within three hundred feet to fif ty feet from the vehicle when
directly in front of lawful upper beams of head lamps. Reflectors
required to be mounted on the sides of the vehicle shall reflect
the required color of light to the sides, and those mounted on
the rear shall reflect a red color to the rear.
(b) Front and rear clearance lamps shall be capable of being
seen and distinguished under normal atmospheric conditions at
the times lights are required at a distance of two hundred feet
£rom the front and rear, respectively, of the vehicle.
(c) Side marker lamps shall be capable of being seen
and distinguished under normal atmospheric conditions at the
times lights are required at a distance of two hundred feet
from the side of the vehicle on which they are mounted.
Auxiliary driving lamps.
(a) A motor vehicle may be equipped with not more than
three auxiliary driving lamps mounted on the front at a height
not less than twelve inches nor more than forty-two inches
above the level surface upon which the vehicle stands, and
every such auxiliary driving lamp or lamps shall meet the
requirements and limitations set forth in this section and
the Revised Laws of the Territory of Hawaii.
(b) A motor vehicle may be equipped with a back-up light
which shall be tilted at an angle towards the ground so that
the beam of said back-up light does not extend beyond a
distance of ten feet from the rear of said motor vehicle. It
shall be unlawful to operate any motor vehicle in a forward
motion with a lie}~ted back-up light.
SECTION 100. Red or green light or reflector prohibited
in front of vehicle.
No vehicle shall be equipped with any light or reflector
which casts or raflects red or green toward the front of said
vehicle.
SECTIODI 101. Brakes.
(a) Brake equipment required.
1. ,very motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, what
operated upon a highway shall be equipped with brakes
adequate to contrcl the movement of and to stop and Yiold
such vehicle, including two separate means of applying the
brakes, each of which means shall be effective. to apply
the brakes to at least two wheels. If these two separate
means of applying the brakes are connected in any way,
they shall be so ccnstructed that failure of any part of
the operating mechanism shall not leave the motor vehicle
without brakes on at least two wheels.
2. 3very motorcycle, and bicycle with motor attached,
when operat~ad upon a highway shall be equipped with at
least one brake, which may be operated by hand or foot.
3. Every trailer or semi-trailer of a gross weight of
3,000 pounds or more when operated upon a highway shall be
equipped with brakes adequate to control the movement of
and to stop and to hold such vehicle. much brakes shall
be so designed as to be capable of being applied by the
driver of the towing motor vehicle from its cab. Further,
said brakes shall be so designed and connected that in case
of an accidental breakaway of the towed vehicle the brakes
shall be automatically applied.
4. very new motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer,
except any motorcycle, hereafter sold or built in the County
of Hawaii and operated on the highways thereof shall be
equipped with service brakes upon all wheels of every such
vehicle, except that any semi-trailer of less than 1,500
pounds gross weight need not be equipped with brakes.
5. In any combination of motor-drawn vehicles, means
shall be provided for applying; the rearmost trailer brakes,
of any trailer equipped with brakes, in approximate synchronism
with the brakes on the towing vehicle and developing the
required braking effort on the rearmost wheels at the fastest
rate; or means shall be provided for applying braking effort
first on the rearmost trailer w~ eels equipped with brakes;
or both of the above means capable of being used alternatively
may be employed.
6. One of the means of brake operation shall consist of
a mechanical connection from the operating lever to the
brake shoes or bands and this brake shall be capable of
holding the vehicle, or combination of vehicles, stationary
under any condition of loading on any up or down grade upon
which it is operated.
7. The brake shoes operating within or upon the drums
on the vehicle wheels of any vehicle may be used for both
service and hand operation.
(b) Performance ability of brakes.
G:very motor vehicle or combination of motor-drawn vehicles
shall be capable at all times and under all conditions of
loading of being stopped on a dry, smooth, approximately
level road, free from loose material, upon application of
the service (foot) brake, within the distances specified
below, or shall be capable of being decelerated at sus-
tained rata corresponding to those distances:
Feet to stop
from 20 miles
per hour
Vehicles or combinations
of vehicles having brakes
on all wheels............
Vehicles or combinations of
vehicles not having brakes
on all wheels .............
30
40
(c) Piaintenance of brakes. All brakes
maintained in food working order and shall be
as to operate as equally as practicable vri.th
w~hsels on opposite Aides of the vehicle.
Deceleration
in feet per
second
14
10.$
shall be
so adjusted
respect to the
SEC TIP' 102. Doors on busses. ^very bus as defined
in this ordinance shall be equipped with an exit and entrance
door which shall be placed on the right-kiand side of the front
of the bus and shall be directly within the vi ew and under
control of the driver; provided, however, that all busses of
the sampan type, may, in lieu of the foregoing provisions,
be equipped with a guide rail made of steel or galvanized
piping and bolted as to be rigid. Said gu ide rail shall be
located at the edge of the First portion of seat to the
riFrht of the dri ver and adjacent to the entrance and so con-
structed and placed so as to prsvent any passenger or passengers
from falling out from the said sampan bus when suddenly reducing
speed or stopping.
All safety guides shall be of the type approved by the
police department of the County of Hawaii.
For the purposes of this section, "sampan'' busses shall
mean and include all busses of open construction particular
to Hilo with a rated seating capacity of fifteen passengers
or less.
SECTION 103. Signaling devices required on certain motor
vehicles.
(a) No motor vehicle shall be driven upon any street
or highway when the body of the vehicle is so constructed or
when the vehicle is so loaded that the operator of the vehicle
when sitting directly behind the steering wheel is unable to
clearly show the whole forearm from the extreme left of the
vehicle or load when indicating a turn or stop signal to both
approaching and following traffic, unless such vehicle is
equipped rdth signal lamp or lamps or a mechanical signalling
device as approved by the chief of police.
(b) All mechanical hand signal devices when required
shall be visible at least twelve inches from the extreme left
of the vehicle or vehicle load,
SECTION 104. Inspacti on of vehicles.
(a) Vehicles without required equipment or in unsafe
condition.
1. No person shall drive or move on any highway any
motor vehicle, trailer, semi-trailer, or pole trailer,
or any combination thereof, unless the equipment
upon any and every said vehicle is in Qood working
order and adjusted as required by law and said vehicle
is in such safe mechanical condition as not to endanger
the driver or other occupant or any person upon the
hiF,hway.
(b) Inspections by officers of the police department.
1. The chief of police or officers of the police
department may at any time upon reasonable cause
to believe that a vehicle is unsafe or not equipped
as required by law, or that its equipment is not in
proper adjustment or repair, require the driver of
such vehicle to stop and sub mit such vehicle to an
inspection and such test with, reference thereto as
may be appropriate.
2. In the event such vehicle is found to be in unsafe
condition or any required part or equipment is not
present or is not in proper repair and adjustment,
the officer shall give a written notice to the
driver and shall send a copy to the police department.
maid notice shall require that such vehicle be
pla ced in safe conditi on and its equipment in proper
r=pair and adjustment specifying- the particulars w2th
reference thereto and that a certificate of inspection
and approval be obtained.
(c) Owners and drivers to comply w2th inspection
requirements.
1. PIo person driving a vehicle shall refuse to submit
such vehicle to an inspection ~.nd test when so
or.:iered by the chief of police .or an officer of the
police department when there is reasonable cause to
believe that said vehicle is unsafe or not equipped
as required by law.
2. Every owner of driver, upon receiving a notice as
provided in subsection (b) of this section, shall
comply therewith and shall secure an official
certificate of inspection and approval w'r:ich shall
be issued in duplicate, one copy to be retained by
the owner or driver and the other co py to be forwarded
to the police department.
3. T1o p-arson shall operate any vehicle upon the highways
of the County of EIawaii after receiving a notice with
reference thereto as above provid ed, except that he
may so do at the discretion of a police offi cer for
the purpose of returning_ such vehicle to the residence
or place of business of the owner or driver, or to
a garage, until such vehicle and its equipment have
been placed in proper repair and adjustment and a
certificate of inspection and approval has been
obtained.
4. Upon certification of the chief of police that any
vehicle is in such unsafe conditi on as to constitute
a menace to safety, or upon notification and demand
that the vehicle is not equipped as required in this
ordinance, the chief of pdice shall so notify
the county treasurer of the County of Hawaii.
(d) Chief of Police to require periodic inspections.
1. The chief of police shall, at least once a year but
not more frequently than twice a year, require that
every motor vehicle, trailer, semi-trailer and pole
trailer, operated in the County of Hawaii be inspected
during the official inspection period or periods
of each respective year by a licensed examiner of an
official inspection station and that an official
certificate of inspection and approval be obtained
for each such vehicle.
2. Such inspections shall be made and such certificates
o>tained with respect to the mechanism and equipment
of every such vehicle.
3. The official inspection period for 1952 shall begin
on January 1 and end 30 days after the effective
date of this or dinan ce. The official inspecti on
period for 1953 and subsequent years shall begin on
Januarv 1 and on Piarch 31 of each respective year,
and that the second official inspection period may
be held upon reasonable cause between July 1 and
August 31 of each respective year.
4, All vehicles so inspected and approved shall cause
to be displayed in a conspicuous place, (the wind-
shield on all motor vehicles) a safety sticker, the
form of which shall be prescribed by the chief of
police.
5. The chief of police may authorize the acceptance
in the County of Hawaii of a certificate of inspection
and approval issued to such vehicles in another juris-
dicti on having an insp ection law similar to this
county.
(e) Official inspection stations.
1. The chief of police shall prescribe, issue and furnish
at cost all necessary forms, permits and instructions
to the official inspection stations and its examiners
for the inspection of all motor vehicles, trailers
and semi-trailers as required by paragraph 5, sub-
section (f) of this section.
2. Application for such permit shall be made upon an
official form and shall be eranted only when the
chief of police is satisfied t.,at the station is
properly equipped and has competent personnel to
make such inspections and adjustments and will be
properly conducted. Before issuing a permit, the chief
of police may require the applicant to file a bond
that he will make compensation for any damage to a
'vehicle during an inspection due to negligence on
the part of such applicant or his employees.
3. The chief of police shall sup=wise and cause
inspections to be made of such stations and shall
suspend or revoke and require the surrender of the
permit issued to a station and its examiners which
he finds is not properly equipped or conducted.
The chief of police shall maintain at the office of
the police department a list of all stations holding
permits and those whose permits have been revoked.
4. No parrnit for an official station shall be assigned
or transferred or used at any location other than
Therein designated and every said permit shall be
posted in a conspicuous place at the location designated.
(f) Gperati on of official inspection stations.
1. Official inspection stations shall be conducted to
conform to all provisions of the Traffic Code
pertaining the reto.
2. The owner of the official inspection station shall
be responsible for the work of its examiners and
for the conduct of the station with regard to the
requirements as set forth herein,
3. The fee for an examination of equipment and mechanical
condition of any vehicle as described in this section
shall not exceed one dollar and fifty cents and
shall be paid for by the persons submitting same for
approval. However, the provisions of this paragraph
shall not prohibit the inspecting stati on from
charging extra for necessary adjustments and repairs.
4. Only the licensed examiners approved by the chief
of police shall be permitted to approve the inspection
check forms, issued by the Police Department, and they
shall be responsible for the issuance of the official
stickers.
5. Official inspection stations are reouired to inspect
the following for defects or non-conformities with the
provisions of the Traffic Code:
a. Steering system.
b. `Wheel alignment.
c. Brakes.
d. Horn.
e. Lights, including marker and clearnace lamps.
f. Windshield and rear window.
g. Windshield wiper.
h. Rear vision mirror.
i. License plates.
j. P~Iechanical hand sign
k. Tires.
1. P:iscellaneous (other defects that may contribute
to an accident).
6. The check list for each vehicle shall be made out in
triplicate. The original shall be given to the
vehicle owner, the first carbon copy shall be Forwarded
to the chief of police, and the second carbon copy
shall be retained by the inspecting station.
7. Any vehicle satisfactorily passing an inspection as
required by this section shall be issued a "safety
sticker" by the official inspection station. The
licensed examiner shall affix the vehicle license
number, date of inspection, official station number,
his inspection certificate numb er, and restrictions,
if any, to the reverse side of the sticker. He shall
then attach the said sticker to the lower right-hand
corner of the windshield of the vehicle, or in the
event the vehicle is a motorcycle, trailer, or semi-
trailer, shall attach the said sticker upon a con-
spicuous place upon the said vehicle.
(g) Government vehicles.
1. The provisons of this section shall apply to all
Territorial and County-owned vehicles.
2. The provisions of this section shall not apply to
vehicles owned by the Federal government.
S3C"'ION 105. Impounding of unsafe motor vehicles.
Upon certification of the chief of police that any motor
vehicle is in such unsafe condition as to constitute a menace
to the public, said chief of police may forthwith impound said
motor vehicle; provided, however, that the chief of police
shall release said unsafe motor vehicle to a g~arafe or
automotive repair shop for the purpose of being equipped and/or
repaired, and after .aid vehicle has been so aduipped and/or
repaired as to constitute a safe vehicle as reruir~~d by the
provisions of this ordinance, said rotor vehicle shall then
be returned to the owner thereof.
DISCL'LI,AN:"SOUS PR.CVISIONS
SECTION 106. Unattended motor vehicle. Tdo person driving
or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit it to stand
unattended and unoccupied by a person ably to control the
same without first stopping the enine, locking the ignition,
removing the i~:;nition key from the vehicle, and effectively
setting the brakes thereon, and whenstanding upon any grade,
turning the front wheels to the curb or side of the highway.
SECTION 107. Fegulations overning traffic during
processions, parade and funerals.
(a) No person shall drive a vehicle between the vehicles
comprising a funeral or other aut horized procession while
they are in motion and when such vehicles are conspicuously
designated as by law required. This provision shall not apply
at intersections where traffic is controlled by traffic control
signals or police officers.
(b) No funeral procession, or parade that impedes the
normal flow of traffic excepting the forces of the United
States Army or Navy, the military forces of this Territory,
and the forces of the police and fire departments, shall
occupy, march, or proceed along any street except in accordance
with a permit issued by the chief of police and such other
regulations as are set forth herein which may apply.
(c) A funeral composed of a procession of vehicles shall
be identified as such by the display of lighted headlamps on
each vehicle. Each driver in a funeral or other procession
shall drive as near to the right-hand edge of the roadway as
practicable and follow the vehicle ahead as closely as is
practicable and safe.
SECTION 10$. Tracking mud on highway. No vehicle using
the public highway shall track mud or dirt onto the traveled
portion of such highway in such quantities as will constitute
a hazard when the roadway is wet, or obscure the painted
pavement markings thereon. In the event that mud or dirt is
unavoidably tracked onto the highway, it shall be the duty of
the operator of the offending vehicle to have said mud or dirt
removed immediately.
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SECTION 109. Unlawful riding. No person shall aide
on any portion of a vehicle not designated or intended for
the use of passengers. This provision shall not apply to
employees engaged in the necessary discharge of his duty or
to persons riding within truck bodies in space intended for
merchandise.
No passenger upon any truck or bus shall ride in such
a manner so as to allow any part of his body to extend over
the front, rear or sides of said vehicle.
SECTION 110. Obstruction to driver's view or driving
mechanism.
(a) No person shall drive a vehicle when it is so
loaded or when there are in the front seat such number of
persons, exceeding three, including the driver, as to
obstruct the view of the driver to the front or sides of
the vehicle or as to interfere with the driver's control
over the driving mechanism of the vehicle.
(b) No passenger in a vehicle shall ride in such a
position as to interfere with the driver's view ahead or to
the sides, or to interfere with his control over the driving
mechanism of the vehicle.
SECTION 111. Duty upon striking unattended vehicle.
The driver of any vehicle which collides with another vehicle
which is unattended shall immediately stop and shall then and
there locate and notify the driver or owner of such vehicle
of the name and address of the driver and of the owner of
the vehicle striking the unattended vehicle together with the
license of said vehicle, or shall le are in a conspicuous place
in the vehicle struck a written notice giving the name and
address of the driver and of the owner of the vehicle doing the
striking, together with the license number of said vehicle,
and a statement of the circumstances thereof.
SECTION 112. Duty upon striking fixtures upon a highway.
The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting
only in damages to fixtures legally upon or adjacent to a
street or highway shall take reasonable steps to locate and
notify the owner or person in ch arge of su ch property of su ch
fact, and of his name and address, and of the vehicle license
number of the vehicle he is driving, and shall upon request
exhibit his driver's license, and shall make a report of such
accident when and as required by this ordinance.
SECTION 113. Duty to report accidents. The driver of
any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to
or death of any person or total property damage to an apparent
extent of twenty-five dollars or more, shall immediately or
as soon thereafter as possible report such accident to the
police department.
The police department may require any driver of any
vehicle involved in an accident of which a report must be
made as required in this section, to file supplemental
reports wh enever the original report is insufficient in the
opinion of said department.
SECTION 114. Garage keeper to report on accidents. The
person in charge of any garage or repair shop to which is
brought any motor vehicle which shows evidence of having
been involved in a serious accident or struck by any bullet
shall report to the police department immediately after such
vehicle is received giving the license number and engine
number of the vehicle and the name and address of the owner
or driver of such vehicle.
SECTION 115. Obstruction of intersection.
(a) No hedge, shrubbery, fence or similar obstruction
shall be maintained or permitted within a radius of thirty
feet from the intersection of property lines at the corners
of any street or highway intersection when any point on such
obstruction within the said radius extends to a greater height
than three feet above the nearest edge of the roadway of the
abutting street.
(b) The chief of police shall cause a notice to be
served upon the owner or occupant of all proparty where
violations of this section exist, to remove such obstruction
within one week from the service of such notice.
(c) If the obstruction is not removed, or its removal
is not commenced and diligently prosecuted within the given
time, the chief of police shall forthwith notify the county
engineer of the department of public works of said obstruction
and it shall be the duty of the departrent of public works
to remove said obstructions. All costs, sustained or incurred
in the course of so removing the obstruction shall be paid
by the owner, lessee, or the person in control of the obstruc-
tion, and the County ma.y institute action to recover the costs
and expenses for the removal of same,
SECTION 116. Obstruction of visibility of traffic sign
or ai?;nal. No person small hang, suspend, place or construct
any awning, frame, balcony, cornice, or any other projection,
so as to obstruct the visibility of any traffic sign or signal
placed or erected as authorized or required by law.
SECTIOP? 117. Putting glass, etc., on a highway.
(a) No person shall throw or deposit upon any street or
highway any glass bottle, glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans, or
any other substance likely to injure any person, animal or
vehicle on a highway.
(b) Any person who drops, or permits to be dropped
or thrown upon any highway any destructive of injurious
material shall immediately remove the same or cause it to be
moved.
(c) Any person removing a wrecked or damaged vehicie
from a highway shall remove any glass or other injurious
substance dropped upcn the highway from such vehicle,
SECTION 11$. Spilling loads on highways prohibited.
(a) No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any highway
unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded as to prevent
any of its load from dropping, sifting, leaking, or otherwise
escaping therefrom, except that sand may be dropped for the
purpose of securing traction, or water or other substance
may be sprinkled on a roadway in cleaning or maintaining
such roadway.
(b) No person shall operate on any highway any vehicle
with any load unless said load and covering thereon is securely
fastened so as to prevent said covering or load from becoming
loose, detached, or in any manner a hazard to other users
of the highway.
SECTION 119. Improper use of roads. It shall be
unlawful to operate any vehicle upon any street or highway
in such a manner that the parts of the vehicle, or the load
carried thereon, shall damage the road.
For the purpose of this section, "Damage to the road"
shall be defined as such effect on the road or structures
as will impair the riding qualities of the road, or require
repairs in order that the anticipated lifa of the road or
structure may not be decreased. The owner of any vehicle
causing damage to a public highway shall be held responsible
for all costs in restoring said highway to its conditions prior
to the damage.
SECTION 120. Vehicles equipped with two-way radio or
telephone.
(a) The driver of any motor vehicle which is equipped
with a two-way radio or telephone, of such design that
continuous or intermittent manipulation of earphone and/or
mouthpiece is necessary for the carrying on of conversation,
shall not make or receive calls while his vehicle is in
motion upon the highway, but may make and/or receive calls
from a parked position only, and he shall not move from such
parked position so long as he maintains conversation by means
of such two-way radio or telephone.
(b) No operator of a motor vehicle shall operate,
manipulate or use a loud speaker or any similar device, when
said motor vehicle is in motion.
(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply
to the driver of an authorized emergency vehicle operating
during an emergency, or to a police officer in the performance
of his duty, or to any passena~er of a vehicle other than the
driver thereof. emergency vehicles when operating under the
exceptions specified in this section, shall drive at all
times with due caution and care with respect to the safety
of others.
SECTION 121. Display of warning devices when vehicla
is disabled.
(a) 4dhenever any motor truck, truck tractor, trailer,
sami-trailer, or a pole trailer is disabled upon the
traveled portion of any unliyJzted hi~way or the shoulder thereof
at any time when lighted lamps are required on vehicles, the
driver of such vehicle shall display the following warning
devices upon the hi~*hway during the time the vehicle is so
disabled on the highway, except as provided otherwise:
1. A lighted fusee shall be immediately-placed on the
roadway at the traffic side of the motor vehicle unless
lanterns are displayed.
2. Within the burning period of t~~ fusee and as
promptly as possible three lighted flares (not torches) or
three lanterns shall be placed on the roadway as follows:
One at a distance of approximately one hundred feet in
advance of the vehicle; one at a distance of approximately
one hundred feet to the rear of the vehicle; each in the
center of the lane of traffic occupied by the disabled
vehicle; .and one at the traffic side of the vehicle ap-
proximately ten feet rearward or forward thereof.
(b) Whenever any vehicle used in the transportation
of inflammable liquids in bulk or in the transportation of
compressed inflammable gasses is disabled upon a highway at
any time or place mentioned in subparagraph (a) of this
section, the driver of such vehicle shall display upon the
roadway the following lighted warning devices:
1. One red lantern shall be immediately placed on the
roadway at the traffic side of the vehicle and two other red
lanternsshall be placed to the front and rear, respectively
of the vehicle in the manner prescribed in sub-section (a-2j.
When a vehicle of the type specified in this. paragraph
is disabled, the use of flares, fusees, or any signal produced
by flame as warning devices is prohibited.
(c) Whenever any vehicle of a type referred to in this
section is disabled upon the traveled portion of a highway
or the shoulder thereof, at any time when the display of fusees,
flares, or lanternsis not required, the driver of such vehicle
shall display two red flags upon the roadway in the lane of
traffic occupied by the disabled vehicle, one at a distance
of approximately one hundred feet in advance of the vehicle,
and one at a distance of approximately one hundred feet to
the rear of the vehicle.
(d) In the alternative, it shall de deemed a compliance
with this section in the event three portable reflector
units on standards of a type approved by the chief of police
are displayed at the times and under the conditions specified
in this section either during the daytime or at night time
and such portable reflector units shall be placed on the'
roadway in the locations as described with reference to the
placing of electric lanterns and lighted flares.
(e) 'The flares, fusees, lanterns,and flags to be
displayed as required in this section shall conform with the
requirements as hereinabove set forth.
SECTION 122. Vehicles transporting explosives and
flammable liquids. Any vehicle transporting any explosive
or flammable liquids as a cargo or part of a cargo upon a
highway shall at all times comply with the provisions of this
section.
(a) Said vehicle shall be mar?ced or placarded on each
side and the rear with the word "Ex losives" or }'Flammable
Liquids," whichever applies, in letters not less than eight
inches high, or there shall be displayed on the rear of such
vehicle a red flag not less than twenty-four inches square
marked with the word "Danger" in white letters six inches
hi h.
(b) very said vehicle shall be equipad with not less
than two fire extinguishers of a type approved by the fire
c~ief of the County of Hawaii, filled and ready for immediate
use and placed at a convenient point on the ve't~icle.
":CTIUPd 123. Liabilit;% for damage to highway or structure.
(a) Any person driving any vehicle, object, or contrivance
upon any highway or hi:^;hway structure shall be liable for all
damages which said highway or structu ra rray sustain as a result
of any such operation, driving or moving o:f any vehicle,
object, or contrivance, or as a result of operating, driving
or moving any vehicle, object, or contrivance, weighing in
excess of the maximum weights prescribed in Section 11714,
Revised Laws of Hawaii 1945, but authorized by a special
permit, as by law provided.
(b) Whenever such driver is not the owner of such
vehicle object, or contrivance, but is so operating, driving,
or moving the same with the express of implied permission
of said owner, then the said owner and driver shall lie jointly
and severally liable for any such damage.
(c) Such damage may ba recovered in a civil action
brought by the authority in control of such highway or highway
structure.
S,CTICN 124. Signals on starting, stopping, and turning.
(a) Any stop or turn signal when required herein shall
be given either by means of the hand and arm, or signal lamp
or lamps, or by a mechanical device of a type approved by the
police department, but when a vehicle is so constructed or
loaded that a hand and arm signal would not be visible both
to the front and rear of ouch vehicle than said signals must
be given by such lamp or lamps or mechanical signal device.
(b) The signals herein required to be given by hand
and arm shall be given from the left side of the vehicle in
the following manner, and such signals shall indicate as
follows:
1. Right turn. Left ha nd and forearm extended upward
with an open palm facing forward and with the thumb
side of the hand not less than six inches from the
side o£ the vehicle.
2. Left turn. Left hand and arm extended horizontally.
3. Stop or decrease speed. Left hand and forearm
exten ded downward showing the palm of the hand to
the rear with the thumb side of the hand not less
than six inches from the side of the vehicle.
4. Re-en tering; lane of traffic from parked position.
Hand and arm extended horizontally.
(c) In a right-hand drive vehicle, the driver shall
indicate his intenti on to turn to the left by extending his
right hand and arm upward and beyond the right side of the
vehicle; his intenti on to turn to the riErJ~t by extending his
right hand and arm horizontally from and beyond the right side
of the vehicle; and his intention to stop or to suddenly
decrease speed by extending his riy>ht hand and arm down-
ward from and beyond the right si de of the vehicle, showing
the palm of the hand to the rear.
(d) No person shall stop or decrease the speed of a
vehicle without first giving an appropriate signal for a
distance of fifty feet in a business or residence district,
and one hundred feet outside of said districts, in the manner
hereinbefore provided to the driver of any vehicle to the rear.
In the event such signal cannot be given for the said
distances required, the driver shall signal as soon as possible
until the stop has been made.
(e) A signal of intention to turn rik;ht or left herein
required, whether haven by hand-and-arm, signal lamp or lamps,
or by a mechanical device shall be given continuously during
the last fifty feet traveled by th=_ vehicle before turning
in a business or residence district, and one hundred feet
outside of said districts.
S3CTIOIv' 125. Vlarning signs required for the protection
of working-men on the highways. It shall be unlawful for
any person or parsons to work upon that portion of any high way
devoted to vehicular traffic, or for any governmental department,
corporation, firm, association, estata, or individual to permit
any parson or persons to so work, unless there shall be placed
in the center of the highway, if work is done upon said
highway, or on the side of the roadway, if work is done
immediately adjacent to said ro adway, suitable signs with
black letters not less than four inches in height on a yellow
field carrying the warning, "N.en at work," and having attached
thereto one or crore red flags ten inches wide by twelve inches
long, such signs to be placed no less than two hundred feet
nor more than six hundred feet on both approaches from the
place where any such person or persons is so working; provided,
however, that between one-half hour after sunset and one-half
hour before sunrise, there shall be required on any such sign
a red lantern or lanterns, properly lighted in lieu of a red
flag or flags.
Ps'NALTIES, ETC.
SECTION 126. Operator's license suspended. Any person
arrested for violation of this ordinance who offers as a
defense ignorance of the terms of this ordinance shall have
his operator's license suspended until he shall have passed
a. satisfactory examination showing a proper knowledge of
tha provi~si ons of this ordinance, such examination to be
conducted under the jurisdiction of the Examiner of Chauffeurs
Licenses.
Each time that a person is convicted for the violation
of this ordinance, his license shall be marked and upon the
third conviction for the violation of this ordinance, his
license may, in the discretion of the coixrt, be suspended
for such time as the court sees fit, in addition to any
other p.nishmant provided for by this ordinance.
SECTION 12~. Offenses under former ordinances saved.
Nothing contained in any provision of this ordinance shall
apply to an act done or omitted, or to an offense com¢nitted
at any time before the enactment of this ordinance. Such
act or omission shall be go verned by, and any such offense shall
be punished according to the pro visions of the ordinances
existing when such act, omission or offense, occurred in the
same manner as if this ordinance had not been enacted.
SECTION 12$. Disposition of fines and forfeitures. All
fines or forfeitures collected upon conviction or upon the
forfeiture of bail of any person charged with a violation
of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be paid in to
the county treasurer and deposited in the General Fund of the
County of Hawaii.
SdCTIOPd 129. Interpretation. S`,'herevar consistent v~ith
the context of this ordinance, words in th> present, past
or future shall be construed to be interchangeable with and
to include such other respective tenses; and words in the
masculine, feminine or neuter genders shall ba construed to
be interchangeable with and to include such respective other
genders; and words in the singular ;h all be construed to
include the plural; and wor ds in the plural to include the
singular and each shall be construed to be interchangeable
with the other.
SECTION 13C. P=nalties. Any parson convicted of a
violation of any provision of this ordinance shall be
punished by a fine of nct more than five hundred dollars,
except as otherwise provided 'Herein.
S-~CTIGN 131. Repeal of prior ordinance, preservation
of rights and liabilities, construction of revised ordinance.
a. 8epeal of prior ordinance; what not repealed.
Ordinance Ivo. >19 of the County of Hawaii 1949, as amended,
and all other ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby
repealed, and so much of said ordinances as are applicable or
correspond hereto shall be in force in lieu hereof; provided,
however, that said repeal shall not apply to or affect the
following, except to the extant that the same heretofore
have been superseded or repealed, to wit:
1. Any ordinance or part thereof of wh ich no part is
embraced in the said ordinance.
2. Any prcvision of a temporary nature the function
of which has not been fulfilled.
b. Preservation of ri~rts a.nd liabilities. Said repeal
shall not affect any act done, ratified or confirmed, or any
right accruing or accrued or established, or any action, suit
or proceeding had or commenced in any civil cause, prior
to said repeal, but all rights and liabilities under any
ordinance embraced in the said ordinance or so repealed shall
continue, and may be enforced in the same manner and with the
same effect as if said repeal had not been made.
c. Constructi on of P~evised Ordinances. Provisions in
said ordinance :hall be construed as continuations or
amendments of applicable or corresponding provisions of
previously existing laws and not as new enactments. In case
of a conflict between said and other ordinances, or in case
of latent and patent ambiguity or obvious clerical error in
.,
said ordinance, reference may be made to the previously
existing ordinances for the purpose of applying the rules of
construction relating to repeal by implication or for the
purpose of resolving the ambiguity or correcting the error.
SsCTZON 132. This ordinance shall take effect upon its
approval. ~
Dated at Hilo, Hawaii, this ~ n day of <
1954.
Introduced by:
Supervisor epr entative
Dis rict.
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