Title 17, Motor And Other Vehicles

[§291-61] Requirement to provide parking for persons with disabilities; ordinances to enforce. (a) Each county may adopt ordinances to: (b) An official appointed by a county may enter the property of a place of public accommodation to enforce any applicable ordinances adopted pur…

PART IV. PARKING FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES §291-71 Designation of parking spaces for electric vehicle charging systems. (a) Places of public accommodation with at least one hundred parking spaces available for use by the general public shall have at least one parking space equipped w…

§291-72 Parking spaces reserved for electric vehicles and electric vehicle charging systems; penalties. (a) Any person who parks a non-electric vehicle in a space designated and marked as reserved for electric vehicles or parks any vehicle in a parking space equipped with an elec…

§291-73 Ordinances to enforce authorized. (a) Each county may adopt ordinances to enforce the requirements of section 291-71, including the establishment of penalties for failure to comply with the requirements of that section or maintain electric vehicle charging systems in work…

§291-8 Freight on motor cars; projection of, prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person driving, operating, or in charge of any motor car or truck used for the transportation of passengers, to carry or permit to be carried any baggage or freight on the motor car or truck in …

§291-9 Freight; on running board. No person shall carry on the running board of any motor car or truck used for the transportation of passengers any baggage, freight, or packages which project in any way beyond the running board, or which will cause the doors of the motor car or …

§291A-1 Enactment of compact. The Nonresident Violator Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining herein in the form substantially as follows: NONRESIDENT VIOLATOR COMPACT ARTICLE I. FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF POLICY (a) The …

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 …