Report Title:

Movable Sign Restrictions; Pedestrians

 

Description:

Restricts the holding of movable signs by pedestrians in certain public highway locations.

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

867

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 to read as follows:

"§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 contributions from the occupant of any vehicle.

(b) No person shall stand on or in proximity to a street or highway for the purpose of soliciting the watching or guarding of any vehicle while parked or about to be parked on a street or highway.

(c) Except as otherwise provided by county ordinance, no person shall hold or display a movable sign [within]:

(1) Within the right-of-way boundaries of a public highway [or on] that has a posted speed limit greater than thirty miles per hour;

(2) On the sidewalk abutting a public highway [or in] that has a posted speed limit of greater than thirty miles per hour;

(3) In an area adjacent to the highway [for the purpose of carrying on political campaign activities as defined in section 19-6(7) and] that has a posted speed limit of greater than thirty miles per hour;

(4) Within twenty yards of an intersection where traffic is controlled by a traffic-control signal; or

(5) On a bridge;

which [seek] seeks to draw the attention of occupants of motor vehicles using the highway. [A]

(d) An unattended movable sign shall not be displayed in the locations provided for in subsection (c).

(e) For purposes of this section, a movable sign is any attended or unattended 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 Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.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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