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Phone: (808) 326- 5684
BRENDA J. FORD •��� ''''; .�� _• Fax: (808) 329- 4786
Council Member = E -Mail: bford @co.hawaii.hi.us
District 7 - Central Kona '." o. N:�''�
HAWAII COUNTY COUNCIL
County of Hawai `i
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Kailua -Kona, Hawai 'i 96740 �•
DATE: December 14, 2010
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TO: Dominic Yagong, Chairperson,
and Members of the Hawai`i County Council �.
FROM: Brenda J. Ford, Council Member r
SUBJECT: An Amendment To Bill 317, Draft 1, An Ordinance Amending Chapter 24 Of The
Hawai`i County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, As Amended), Relating To Vehicles
And Traffic.
Please see proposed amendment attached pertaining to crosswalks on one -way streets and on
two -way streets to provide an adequate line -of -sight between the vehicle driver and the
pedestrian on crosswalk approaches.
BJF/
Comm. No. 17
Serving the Interests of the People of Our Island Ref. To: #Vreseatd Camel 1
Ref. Date DEC 1 5 2010
Hawaii County Is An Equal Opportunity Provider And Employer
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BILL NO.
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 24 OF THE HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983
(2005 EDITION, AS AMENDED), RELATING TO VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI`I:
SECTION 1. Chapter 24, article 8, division 1, section 24 -190, of the Hawai`i County
Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), is amended to read as follows:
Section 24 -190. Picking up or discharging passengers.
(a) Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in
compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or official
traffic- control device, no person shall stand or park a vehicle, whether
occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger
or passengers:
(1) In front of or within four feet of a public or private driveway or
within a distance up to seventy -five feet of a public or private
driveway when appropriate signs or markings are installed;
(2) Within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant;
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Within thirty feet on both the approach and departure side of a
crosswalk on a two -way street; within thirty feet on the approach side
only of a crosswalk on a one -way street; or within a distance up to
seventy -five feet of a crosswalk when appropriate signs or markings
are installed;
(4) Within thirty feet of an intersection or within a distance up to
seventy -five feet of an intersection when appropriate signs or
markings are installed;
(5) Within twenty feet of a driveway entrance to any fire station and
on the side of the street opposite the entrance to any fire station
within seventy -five feet of such entrance when properly marked;
(6) Within seventy -five feet upon the approach to any traffic- control
signal except where designated by a parking stall;
(7) At any place where special signs or markings prohibit standing;
(8) Except where otherwise specifically provided for by ordinance
applicable to driveways located upon the following streets, in front
of or within thirty feet of any driveway located on Aupuni and
Pauahi Streets in the City of Hilo; or
(9) Within the turnaround area of a dead -end street, when special signs
are erected.
(b) The Department of public works shall indicate by signs or by markings
painted upon the curbings the areas within which parking has been
prohibited by this division.
SECTION 2. Material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New material is
underscored. In printing this ordinance, the brackets, bracketed material and stricken material
and underscoring need not be included.
SECTION 3. If any provision of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person
or circumstance, is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications
of the ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to
this end, the provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect upon its approval.
INTRODUCED BY:
COUNCIL MEMBER, COUNTY OF HAWAI`I
, Hawai`i
Date of Introduction:
Date of 1 Reading:
Date of 2 Reading:
Effective Date:
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