Title 17, Motor And Other Vehicles

[§291C-63] Vehicle entering stop or yield intersection. (a) Preferential right-of-way at an intersection may be indicated by stop signs or yield signs. (b) Except when directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic-control signal, every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop …

§291C-64 Vehicle entering highway from private road or driveway. The driver of a vehicle about to enter or cross a highway (including bicycle lane or bicycle path) from an alley, building, private road, or driveway or from any public or private property other than a highway that …

[§291C-65] Operation of vehicles on approach of authorized emergency vehicles. (a) Except as otherwise provided by county ordinance, upon the immediate approach of an authorized emergency vehicle making use of audible and visual signals, the driver of every other vehicle shall yi…

[§291C-7] High-risk and dangerous corridors and intersections. (a) The department of transportation and county transportation agencies having jurisdiction over roads, highways, and similar infrastructure shall: (b) When rehabilitation or other changes to a high-risk or dangerous …

PART VII. PEDESTRIANS' RIGHTS AND DUTIES [§291C-71] Pedestrian obedience to traffic-control devices and traffic regulations. (a) A pedestrian shall obey the instructions of any official traffic-control device specifically applicable to the pedestrian, unless otherwise directed by…

§291C-72 Pedestrians' right-of-way in crosswalks. (a) The driver of a vehicle shall stop for a pedestrian who is crossing the roadway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian is either: and shall not proceed until the pedestrian has passed the vehicle and the driver can safely proc…

§291C-73 Crossing at other than crosswalks. (a) Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway. (b) Any pedestrian crossing a ro…

[§291C-74] Drivers to exercise due care. Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter, every driver of a vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian upon any roadway and shall give warning by sounding the driver's horn when necessary and shall exerc…

[§291C-75] Pedestrians to use right half of crosswalks. Pedestrians shall move, whenever practicable, upon the right half of crosswalks. [L 1971, c 150, pt of §1]

§291C-76 Pedestrians on roadways. (a) Where sidewalks are provided it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to walk along and upon an adjacent roadway, bicycle lane, or bicycle path. (b) Where sidewalks are not provided any pedestrian walking along and upon a highway shall, when p…

§291C-77 Pedestrians soliciting rides, business, or attention of motorist. (a) Except as otherwise provided by county ordinance, no person shall stand in, walk along, or otherwise occupy a portion of a highway for the purpose of soliciting a ride, employment, business, or contrib…

[§291C-78] Driving through safety zone prohibited. No vehicle shall at any time be driven through or within a safety zone. [L 1971, c 150, pt of §1]

[§291C-79] Pedestrians' right-of-way on sidewalks. The driver of a vehicle emerging from or entering an alley, building, private road, or driveway shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian approaching on any sidewalk extending across the alley, building entrance, road, or dr…

[§291C-8] County police officer authority. Each county police officer may enforce this chapter for any violation of this chapter that occurs on any federal, state, or county street, roadway, or highway. [L 2025, c 164, §2]

PART VIII. TURNING AND STARTING AND SIGNALS ON STOPPING AND TURNING §291C-81 Required position and method of turning at intersections. The driver of a vehicle intending to turn at an intersection shall do so as follows:

§291C-82 Turning so as to proceed in the opposite direction. (a) No vehicle shall be turned so as to proceed in the opposite direction upon any curve, or upon the approach to or near the crest of a grade, where such vehicle cannot be seen by the driver of any other vehicle approa…

[§291C-83] Starting parked vehicle. No person shall start a vehicle which is stopped, standing, or parked unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable safety. [L 1971, c 150, pt of §1]

§291C-84 Turning movements and required signals. (a) No person shall turn a vehicle at an intersection unless the vehicle is in proper position upon the roadway as required in section 291C-81, or turn a vehicle to enter a private road or driveway, or otherwise turn a vehicle from…

[§291C-85] Signals by hand and arm or signal lamps. (a) Any stop or turn signal when required herein shall be given either by means of the hand and arm or by signal lamps, except as otherwise provided in subsection (b). (b) Any motor vehicle in use on a highway shall be equipped …

§291C-86 Method of giving hand-and-arm signals. All signals herein required given by hand and arm shall be given from the left side of the vehicle in the following manner and such signals shall indicate as follows:

PART IX. SPECIAL STOPS REQUIRED §291C-91 Obedience to signal indicating approach of train. (a) Whenever any person driving a vehicle approaches a railroad grade crossing under any of the circumstances stated in this section, the driver of the vehicle shall stop within fifty feet …

§291C-92 All vehicles must stop at certain railroad grade crossings. The director of transportation and the counties are authorized to designate particularly dangerous highway grade crossings of railroads and to erect stop signs thereat. When such stop signs are erected, the driv…

§291C-93 Certain vehicles must stop at all railroad crossings. (a) The driver of any motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire, or of any school bus carrying any school child, or of any vehicle carrying explosive substances or flammable liquids as a cargo or part of a cargo, bef…

§291C-94 Emerging from alley, driveway, or building. The driver of a vehicle emerging from an alley, building, private road, or driveway or from any public or private property other than a highway that is adjacent to a bicycle lane, bicycle path, sidewalk, or sidewalk area shall …

§291C-95 Overtaking and passing school bus. (a) Whenever a school bus is stopped on a highway or road in a residential area with its visual signals actuated as described in subsection (g), the driver of any motor vehicle on the same highway or road in a residential area in the la…

§291D-1 Purpose. (a) Act 222, Session Laws of Hawaii 1978, began the process of decriminalizing certain traffic offenses, not of a serious nature, to the status of violations. In response to a request by the legislature, the judiciary prepared a report in 1987 that recommended, a…

[§291D-11] Time computation. In computing any period of time prescribed or allowed by this chapter, the day of the act, event, or default from which the period of time begins to run shall not be included. The last day of the period so computed shall be included, unless it is a Sa…

§291D-12 Powers of the district court judge sitting in the traffic, emergency period, and fireworks division. (a) A district court judge sitting in the traffic, emergency period, and fireworks division and hearing cases pursuant to this chapter shall have all the powers of a dist…

§291D-13 Trial and concurrent trial. (a) There shall be no right to trial unless the defendant contests the notice of traffic infraction, notice of emergency period infraction, or notice of fireworks infraction pursuant to section 291D-8. If, after proceedings to contest the noti…

§291D-14 Rules. (a) The supreme court may adopt rules of procedure for the conduct of all proceedings pursuant to this chapter. (b) Chapter 626 shall not apply in proceedings conducted pursuant to this chapter, except for the rules governing privileged communications, and proceed…

§291D-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter: "Concurrent trial" means a trial proceeding held in the district or family court in which the defendant is tried simultaneously in a civil case for any charged traffic infraction, emergency period infraction, or fireworks infraction a…

§291D-3 Applicability. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, all traffic infractions, emergency period infractions, and fireworks infractions, including infractions committed by minors, shall be adjudicated pursuant to this chapter, except as provided in…

[§291D-3.5] U-drive vehicles; traffic infractions. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, except those pertaining to the care and maintenance of the vehicle, if the registered owner of record is the lessor of a rental or U-drive motor vehicle, as defined in section 286-2,…

§291D-4 Venue and jurisdiction. (a) All violations of state law, ordinances, or rules designated as traffic infractions, emergency period infractions, or fireworks infractions in this chapter shall be adjudicated in the district and circuit where the alleged infraction occurred, …

§291D-5 Notice of infraction; form; determination final unless contested. (a) The notice of traffic infraction for moving violations, the notice of emergency period infraction, and the notice of fireworks infraction shall include the summons for the purposes of this chapter. When…

§291D-6 Answer required. (a) A person who receives a notice of traffic infraction, notice of emergency period infraction, or notice of fireworks infraction shall answer the notice within twenty-one days of the date of issuance of the notice. There shall be included with the notic…

§291D-7 Court action after answer or failure to answer. (a) When an admitting answer is received, the court shall enter judgment in favor of the State in the total amount specified in the notice of traffic infraction, notice of emergency period infraction, or notice of fireworks …

§291D-8 Hearings. (a) In proceedings to contest a notice of traffic infraction, notice of emergency period infraction, or notice of fireworks infraction where the person to whom the notice was issued has timely requested a hearing and appears at the hearing: (b) In proceedings to…

§291D-9 Monetary assessments. (a) A person found to have committed a traffic infraction, emergency period infraction, or fireworks infraction shall be assessed a monetary assessment not to exceed the maximum fine specified in the law or rule defining the traffic infraction, emerg…

PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS §291E-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: "Administrative revocation" means termination of the respondent's license, and the privilege to operate a vessel underway on or in the waters of the State pursuant to p…

PART II. TESTING AND IMPLIED CONSENT §291E-11 Implied consent of operator of vehicle to submit to testing to determine alcohol concentration and drug content. (a) Any person who operates a vehicle upon a public way, street, road, or highway or on or in the waters of the State sha…

§291E-12 Persons qualified to take blood specimen. No person, other than a physician, physician assistant, registered nurse, or phlebotomist deemed qualified by the director of a clinical laboratory that is licensed by the State, or person licensed in a clinical laboratory occupa…

§291E-13 Additional tests. The person tested may choose any physician, physician assistant, registered nurse, or person licensed in a clinical laboratory occupation under section 321-13 to withdraw blood and also may choose any qualified person to administer a test or tests in ad…

[§291E-14] Consent of person incapable of refusal not withdrawn. The consent of a person deemed to have given the person's consent pursuant to section 291E-11 shall not be withdrawn by reason of the person's being dead, unconscious, or in any other condition that renders the pers…

§291E-15 Refusal to submit to breath, blood, or urine test; subject to administrative revocation proceedings. If a person under arrest refuses to submit to a breath, blood, or urine test, none shall be given, except as provided in section 291E-21, or pursuant to a search warrant …

[§291E-17] Other evidence not excluded. This part shall not limit the introduction of any other competent evidence bearing on the question of whether the person was under the influence of an intoxicant or was operating a vehicle while under the age of twenty-one and after consumi…