Report Title:

Signwaving; Restrictions

 

Description:

Prohibits holding movable signs in right-of-way boundaries of highway, sidewalk abutting a highway, and adjacent to highway with posted speed limit greater than 35 miles per hour.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1222

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to the traffic code.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 291C-77, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (c) to read as follows:

"(c) Except as otherwise provided by county ordinance, no person shall hold or display a movable sign [within the right-of-way boundaries of a public highway or on the sidewalk abutting a public highway or in an area adjacent to the highway for the purpose of carrying on political campaign activities as defined in section 19-6(7) and] which [seek] seeks to draw the attention of occupants of motor vehicles using the highway[. A]:

(1) Within the right-of-way boundaries of a public highway;

(2) On the sidewalk abutting a public highway; or

(3) In an area adjacent to a highway that has a posted speed limit of greater than thirty-five miles per hour.

For the purposes of this section, a movable sign is any portable device, display, emblem, billboard, notice, picture, painting or writing, other than official signs placed or required by the state or county."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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