HomeMy WebLinkAboutBIL 181 Draft 01 2010-2012COUNTY OF HAWAII
STATE OF HAWAII
BILL NO. 181
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 24, HAWAII COUNTY CODE 1983 (2005
EDITION, AS AMENDED), RELATING TO VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 24, article 7, division 2, section 24 -149 of the Hawai`i County
Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), is amended to read as follows:
"Section 24 -149. Maximum speed limit.
(a) The following maximum speed limit shall be in effect except where a special speed limit has
been enacted:
(1) Ten miles per hour below the posted speed limit within construction zones.
(2) Twenty miles per hour.
In any school zone, the beginning of which is demarcated by a school speed limit sign
supplemented with a flashing speed limit sign beacon, and the end of which is
demarcated by an end school zone or standard speed limit sign.
(3) Twenty -five miles per hour.
(A) When passing a school site or the grounds thereof, which are contiguous to or
located in close proximity to, the highway and posted with the standard "school"
warning sign while children are going to be leaving the school during opening or
closing hours. This speed limit shall also apply during school recesses when
passing any school grounds which are not separated from the highway by a fence
or other physical barrier capable of restraining a child, while the grounds within
seventy -five feet of the highway are in use by a child, and the highway is posted
with the standard "school" warning sign.
(B) During school days for a distance of up to one thousand feet on both sides of a
crosswalk designated by the director of public works as a school crossing and
posted with the standard "School Crossing."
(C) In a residential district, unless otherwise indicated.
(D) On all highways and streets unless otherwise specified by this chapter.
(4) Thirty miles per hour.
In a business district.
cb,) Any person who violates any provision of section 24- 149(a)(3)(A) or section 24 -149
(a)(3)(B) shall upon conviction be subject to fines equal to two times the fines as provided
for in section 24 -16."
SECTION 2. Severability. 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 severable.
SECTION 3. New material is underscored. In printing this ordinance, underscoring
need not be included.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect upon its approval.
, Hawai`i
Date of Introduction:
Date of 1st Reading:
Date of 2nd Reading:
Effective Date:
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