Title 17, Motor And Other Vehicles

PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS §291C-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter: "Alley" means a street or highway intended to provide access to the rear or side of lots or buildings and not intended for the purpose of through vehicular traffic. "Arterial street" means any United States …

PART X. SPEED RESTRICTIONS §291C-101 Basic rule. No person shall drive a vehicle at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent and having regard to the actual and potential hazards and conditions then existing. Consistent with the foregoing, every person shall drive at a safe…

§291C-102 Noncompliance with speed limit prohibited. (a) A person violates this section if the person drives: where the maximum or minimum speed limit is established by county ordinance or by official signs placed by the director of transportation on highways under the director's…

§291C-103 Racing on highways. (a) Except as provided in section 291C-149, no person shall drive any vehicle in any race, speed competition or contest, drag race or acceleration contest, test of physical endurance, exhibition of speed or acceleration, or for the purpose of making …

§291C-104 Speeding in a school zone or construction area. (a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle at a speed greater than the maximum speed limit established pursuant to subsection (b) within a school zone or a construction area; provided that if the person drives a motor vehic…

§291C-105 Excessive speeding. (a) No person shall drive a motor vehicle at a speed exceeding: (b) For the purposes of this section, "the applicable state or county speed limit" means the maximum speed limit established: (c) Any person who violates subsection (a) shall be guilty o…

[§291C-106] Speed limit for Daniel K. Inouye highway. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the speed limit for the Daniel K. Inouye highway shall be sixty miles per hour beginning at mile marker 12; provided that the speed limit shall be forty-five miles per hour or any…

§291C-107 Speed limits; factors to consider. (a) The department of transportation or a county shall consider the following factors when setting a maximum speed limit pursuant to section 291C-102: (b) As used in this section, "engineering study" means a survey of highway and traff…

[§291C-108] Noncompliance with maximum speed limit under automated speed enforcement system. (a) Whenever a motor vehicle travels through a location actively monitored by an automated speed enforcement system, all registered owners of all motor vehicles in vehicular traffic shall…

PART II. COLLISIONS AND COLLISION REPORTS [§291C-11] Provisions of part apply throughout State. This part applies upon highways and elsewhere throughout the State. [L 1971, c 150, pt of §1]

PART XI. STOPPING, STANDING AND PARKING §291C-111 Noncompliance with stopping, standing, or parking requirements. (a) With respect to highways and property under their respective jurisdictions, the director of transportation shall be authorized to and the counties by ordinance ma…

[§291C-111.5] State highway enforcement program; establishment; annual reports. (a) There is established the state highway enforcement program within the department of transportation for administrative purposes. The purpose of the state highway enforcement program is to enable th…

§291C-112 Certain uses of parked vehicles prohibited between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.; definition; exceptions. (a) No person shall use any vehicle for purposes of human habitation, whether or not the vehicle is designed or equipped for that purpose, while the vehicle is parked on …

§291C-113 Ordinances regulating use of vehicles for purposes of human habitation. Each of the counties may enact and enforce ordinances regulating the use of vehicles for purposes of human habitation. Upon each of the counties enacting an ordinance pertaining to the use of vehicl…

[§291C-114] Parking on sidewalks. The director of transportation is authorized to and the counties by ordinance may with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions prohibit or restrict the stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles on sidewalks. [L 1988, c 191, §1]

[§291C-115] Wheel boots prohibited. (a) It shall be unlawful for a person or entity, including any county police department, to apply or cause to be applied, a wheel boot to a motor vehicle located on any public or private street, roadway, or highway, as applicable, or on any pub…

[§291C-116] Street parking restrictions. (a) No vehicle shall be parked abutting the curb or edge of a vehicle travel way within twenty feet of a crosswalk or intersection, regardless of the presence or absence of official signs or curb markings; provided that any vehicle may be …

§291C-12 Collisions involving death or serious bodily injury. (a) The driver of any vehicle involved in a collision resulting in serious bodily injury to or death of any person shall immediately stop the vehicle at the scene of the collision or as close thereto as possible but sh…

§291C-12.5 Collisions involving substantial bodily injury. (a) The driver of any vehicle involved in a collision resulting in substantial bodily injury to any person shall immediately stop the vehicle at the scene of the collision or as close thereto as possible but shall then fo…

§291C-12.6 Collisions involving bodily injury. (a) The driver of any vehicle involved in a collision resulting in bodily injury to any person shall immediately stop the vehicle at the scene of the collision or as close thereto as possible but shall then forthwith return to and in…

PART XII. MISCELLANEOUS RULES [§291C-121] Unattended motor vehicle. No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit it to stand unattended without first stopping the engine, locking the ignition, removing the key from the ignition, effectively setting the brake the…

[§291C-121.5] Leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle. (a) Notwithstanding chapter 571 or any other law to the contrary, a person violates this section if the person, being the operator or an adult passenger of a motor vehicle, leaves the motor vehicle for five minutes or l…

[§291C-122] Limitations on backing. (a) The driver of a vehicle shall not back it unless such movement can be made with safety and without interfering with other traffic. (b) The driver of a vehicle shall not back it upon any shoulder or roadway of any controlled-access highway. …

§291C-123 Driving or parking upon bikeway; parking penalty. (a) No person shall drive any vehicle other than a bicycle, electric foot scooter, or moped upon a bicycle lane or bicycle path, except upon a permanent or authorized temporary driveway, or park any vehicle upon a bicycl…

§291C-124 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 a number of persons, exceeding three, as to obstruct the view of the driver to the front or sides of the vehicle, or as …

§291C-125 Opening and closing vehicle doors. No person shall open the door of a motor vehicle on the side available to moving traffic unless and until it is reasonably safe to do so, and can be done without interfering with, or causing immediate hazard to the movement of other tr…

[§291C-126] Riding in house trailers. No person or persons shall occupy a house trailer while it is being moved upon a public highway. [L 1971, c 150, pt of §1]

[§291C-127] Coasting prohibited. The driver of any motor vehicle when traveling upon a down grade shall not coast with the gears or transmission of the vehicle in neutral or with the clutch disengaged. [L 1971, c 150, pt of §1]

[§291C-128] Following emergency vehicle prohibited. The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business shall not follow any emergency vehicle traveling in response to an emergency closer than five hundred feet or drive or park such vehicle within five hundred feet of w…

[§291C-129] Crossing fire hose. No vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of a fire department when laid down on any street, private road, or driveway, to be used at any fire or alarm of fire, without the consent of the fire department official in command. [L 1971, c 1…

§291C-13 Collisions involving damage to vehicle or property. The driver of any vehicle involved in a collision resulting only in damage to a vehicle or other property that is driven or attended by any person shall immediately stop the vehicle at the scene of the collision or as c…

§291C-130 Slow moving vehicle emblem required; penalty. (a) Any vehicle, or combination of vehicles, designed to operate at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour or less, including a neighborhood electric vehicle, and traveling on a public highway, except when guarded by a flagpe…

[§291C-130.5] Dangerous wheels; prohibited. No person shall operate a vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer equipped with dangerous wheels. [L 2016, c 100, §2]

§291C-131 Spilling loads on highways; penalties. (a) No vehicle shall be moved on any highway, unless the vehicle is so constructed, covered, or loaded as to prevent any of its load other than clear water or feathers from live birds from dropping, sifting, leaking, blowing, spill…

§291C-132 Littering from vehicles. (a) No person shall throw, place, or drop litter from a vehicle on any highway. The driver of the vehicle may be cited for any litter thrown, placed, or dropped from the vehicle. (b) "Litter" means rubbish, refuse, waste material, garbage, trash…

§291C-133 Waste material falling from motor vehicles. (a) Notwithstanding sections 291C-131 and 291C-132 to the contrary, a driver of a motor vehicle from which waste material falls onto a highway or roadway shall be responsible for the removal of the fallen waste material. If th…

[§291C-134] Neighborhood electric vehicles; speed; restrictions. (a) A neighborhood electric vehicle shall not be operated at a speed of more than twenty-five miles per hour. (b) A neighborhood electric vehicle shall not be driven on a highway that has a posted speed limit of mor…

§291C-134.5 Electric personal assistive mobility devices; restrictions. (a) Unless otherwise prohibited or regulated by a county ordinance, an electric personal assistive mobility device may be operated on sidewalks, at a speed no greater than eight miles per hour, and bicycle pa…

§291C-135 Tow trucks; signage and insurance requirements. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the registered owner or lessee of a tow truck shall: This section shall not apply to a county that has adopted ordinances regulating towing operations. [L 2000, c 260, §1; am …

[§291C-136] Towing by consent; payment. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, towing companies engaged by the registered owner of a vehicle for towing services, including storage if any, shall release the towed vehicle to the registered owner, legal owner, insurer, or a …

§291C-137 Mobile electronic devices. (a) No person shall operate a motor vehicle while using a mobile electronic device. (b) The use of a mobile electronic device for the sole purpose of making a "911" emergency communication shall be an affirmative defense to this law. (c) No pe…

[§291C-138] Waipio valley access; required four-wheel drive vehicle use. (a) No vehicle, other than a low-range, four-wheel drive vehicle, shall at any time be driven through or in the connecting roadway corridor between the Waipio valley lookout and the floor of Waipio valley; p…

[§291C-139] Electric foot scooters. (a) This section shall apply whenever an electric foot scooter is operated upon any highway, street, roadway, or other designated public area set aside for the use of electric foot scooters. (b) Every person operating an electric foot scooter u…

[§291C-139.5] Skateboards; helmet required. (a) No person under eighteen years of age shall operate a skateboard upon a street, roadway, or bikeway, or any other public property, unless the person is wearing a properly fitted and fastened helmet that: (b) This section shall not b…

§291C-14 Duty to give information and render aid. (a) The driver of any vehicle involved in a collision resulting in injury to or death of any person or damage to any vehicle or other property that is driven or attended by any person shall give the driver's name, address, and the…

PART XIII. OPERATION OF BICYCLES AND PLAY VEHICLES §291C-141 Effect of regulations. (a) It is a traffic infraction for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act required in this part. (b) The parent of any child and the guardian of any ward shall not authorize…

[§291C-142] Traffic laws apply to persons riding bicycles. Every person riding a bicycle upon a roadway shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this chapter, except as to special regulations in this par…

§291C-143 Riding on bicycles. (a) A person propelling a bicycle shall not ride other than upon or astride a permanent and regular seat attached thereon. (b) No bicycle shall be used to carry more persons at one time than the number for which it is designed and equipped. [L 1971, …

[§291C-143.5] Low-speed electric bicycles; operator age. No person under the age of fifteen shall operate a low-speed electric bicycle as defined under title 15 United States Code section 2085. [L 2019, c 208, §1]

§291C-144 Clinging to vehicles. No person riding upon any coaster, roller skates, sled, or toy bicycle or other toy vehicle shall attach it or oneself to any vehicle upon a roadway, and no person riding a bicycle or moped upon any roadway shall attach the bicycle or moped or ones…