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BILL NU. 292
COUNTY OF HAWAII - STATE OF HAWAII.
ORDINANCE NO. 267
AN ORDINANCE AMEIQDING SECTION )+2 OF ORDINANCE NO. 25, TRAFFIC
CODE, OF THE REVISED ORDINANCES OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII 1y60,
AS AMENDED, PERTAINING TO OVERTAKING AND PASSING SCHOOL BUS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS iN AND FOR THE
COUNTY OF HAWAII;
SECTION 1. Section 1.+2 of Ordinance No. 25, Traffic Code,
of the County of Hawaii, is hereby amended to read as follows;
"SECTION 1~2. Overtaking and passing school. bus.
"(a) Every bus used for the transportation of
school children shall be equipped with alternately flashing
red lights visible to the front and rear of said bus.
The driver of any vehicle upon meeting or overtaking
from either direction any school bus which has stopped
for the purpose of receiving or discharging any school
children and displays a flashing red signal shall. briny
such vehicle to a stop before passing the school bus and
shall not proceed past the school bus until the red
flashing signal ceases operation,
"(b) It shall be the responsibility of the driver of
every bus used for the transportation of school children
to operate said red lights continuously while children
are crossing to or from the school bus or at any other
time when passing traffic is considered hazardous for the
children, These lights need not be operated when children
are not to cross the roadway, and shall not be operated
when. the school bus is stopped in a bus loading zone,
place where traffic is controlled by a i:raffic officer
or official traffic control signal, and while the bus is
in motion.
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"(c) The driver of a vehicle upon a highway
with separate roadways need not stop upon meeting or
passing a school bus ~•~hich is upon the other roadway,
"(d) Every school bus used for the transportation
of school children shall bear upon the front and rear
thereon a plainly visible sign contain3.ng the words
SCHOOL BUSS in letters not less than 1.0 inches :in
height and in strokes not less than 3/1a_ inch in width,
and the words ESTOP ON FLASHING RED LIGHTS in letters
not less than 6 inches in height and in strokes of not
less than 1/2 inch in taidth.
"(e) When a school bus is being operated upon the
highway for purposes other than the actual transportation
of children either to or from school on school days, all
markings thereon indicating SCHOOL BUSS and ESTOP OP;
FLASHING RED LIGHTS shall be covered or concealed."
SECTION 2, This Ordinance shall take effect on September 1,
1961+.
INTRODUCED BY;
(SGll) ELIAS P. YADAO
Supervisor, s Senatorial
District
Hilo, Hawaii
Date of Introduction: June 3, 1964
Date of Adoption; July 15, 1964
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