Every operator of a motor vehicle shall exercise due care in the operation of such vehicle upon any highway in order to avoid colliding with any vehicle, pedestrian, other object, or embankment on or off the roadway. (Ord. 413 § 10-14.20, 1965)

A. No person shall operate a vehicle when it is so loaded, or when there are in the front seat such number of persons, exceeding three, as to obstruct the view of the operator to the front or sides of the vehicle or as to interfere with the operator’s control over the operating mechanism of the vehicle.

B. No passenger in a vehicle shall ride in such a position as to interfere with the operator’s view ahead or to the sides, or to interfere with his control over the operating mechanism of the vehicle. (Ord. 413 § 10-14.1, 1965)

No person shall ride, and no person driving a motor vehicle shall allow any person to ride on any portion of a vehicle not designed or intended for the use of passengers. This provision shall not apply to employees engaged in the necessary discharge of a duty, or to persons riding within truck bodies and within trailers in a space intended for merchandise; provided, however, no operator shall allow any person to ride or be upon, and no person shall at any time ride or be upon any load of merchandise or other articles on any such truck or trailer while such vehicle shall be in motion. (Ord. 413.1 § 1(e), 1965; Ord. 413 § 10-14.21, 1965)

A. It is unlawful for an owner or an operator of a truck or other vehicle designed and constructed for commercial purposes to use such vehicles for the transportation of passengers without a special permit from the chief of police. The chief of police shall issue such permit only after he is thoroughly satisfied that passengers can be transported with safety in such vehicle and that the operator of such vehicle is competent. Such permit shall be issued for not more than forty-eight hour periods and shall bear the name of the operator, registration number of the vehicle, the owner’s name, and the number of passengers allowed to be carried; and if passengers are carried for hire, or if school children are carried, either with or without remuneration, the owner shall show financial responsibility or insurance to cover any accident that might arise while such vehicle is so used; provided, however, that where such vehicle is used in the regular course of business of the owner in transporting the employees of the owner to or from their respective places of employment or where such vehicle is used in transporting school children to and from school without remuneration, such permit may be issued for yearly periods.

B. Provisions in this section to the contrary notwithstanding, where such vehicle is used in transporting members of the owner’s immediate family for recreational purposes or where such vehicle is used in transporting not more than five persons, including the owner of such vehicle to or from their respective places of employment, no such permit need be obtained from the chief of police. (Ord. 413 § 10-14.18, 1965)

The driver of a school bus shall actuate the visual signals required by subsection (g) of Section 291C-95 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, or by any other law, when stopped for the purposes of receiving or discharging school children. (Ord. 413.106 § 1, 1978: Ord. 413.85 § 1, 1975: Ord. 413 § 10-14.17, 1965)

A. No person shall operate a vehicle between the vehicles comprising a funeral or other authorized procession while they are in motion and when such vehicles are conspicuously designated as by law required. This provision shall not apply at intersections where traffic is controlled by traffic-control signals or by police officers.

B. No funeral, procession, or parade containing two hundred or more persons or fifty or more vehicles, excepting the forces of the United States Army or Navy, or the military forces of the state of Hawaii and the forces of the police and fire departments, shall occupy, march or proceed along any street, except in accordance with a permit issued by the chief of police and such other regulations as are set forth in this title which may apply.

C. A funeral composed of a procession of vehicles shall be identified as such by the display upon the outside of each vehicle of a placard or a type designed by the chief of police. Each operator in a funeral or other procession shall operate as near to the right-hand edge of the roadway as practicable and follow the vehicle ahead as closely as is practicable and safe. (Ord. 413 § 10-14.8, 1965)

Unless otherwise authorized by the director of parks or his designated representative:

A. No person shall operate any vehicle within any county park except upon designated roadways or parking areas; and

B. No person shall park any vehicle within any county park except in designated parking areas. (Ord. 413.138 § 1, 1979)

The operator of any vehicle other than one on official business shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire alarm closer than five hundred feet, or operate into or park such vehicle within the block where such fire apparatus has stopped in answer to a fire alarm. (Ord. 413 § 10-14.4, 1965)

No vehicle shall be operated over any unprotected hose of the fire department when laid down on any street or private driveway without the consent of the fire department official in command. (Ord. 413 § 10-14.5, 1965)

The operator of a vehicle shall not back the same unless such movement can be made with reasonable safety and without interfering with the flow of other traffic. (Ord. 413 § 10-14.13, 1965)

No person shall open the door of a vehicle on the side toward moving traffic, except when such action can be done in safety, nor shall any person leave such door open for a period of time longer than necessary to load and unload passengers. (Ord. 413 § 10-14.19, 1965)

No person shall board or alight from any vehicle while such vehicle is in motion. (Ord. 413 § 10-14.12, 1965)

A person operating a motorcycle shall not ride other than upon the permanent and regular seat attached thereto, or carry any other person upon such motorcycle other than upon a firmly attached seat to the rear of the operator, the seat to be equipped with adequate foot rests. Nor shall any other person ride upon such motorcycle not equipped as set forth in this section. (Ord. 413 § 10-14.14, 1965)

Every person propelling any push-cart or riding an animal upon a roadway, and every person driving any animal-drawn vehicle, shall be subject to the provisions of this title applicable to the operator of any vehicle, except those provisions which by their very nature can have no application. (Ord. 413 § 10-4.7, 1965)

A. No person upon roller skates or riding coasters, toy vehicles, skateboards or similar devices shall go upon any roadway except while crossing such roadway within a crosswalk. When so crossing, such person shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all the duties applicable to pedestrians.

B. No person upon roller skates or riding coasters, toy vehicles, skateboards, or similar devices shall go upon any sidewalk in business districts. (Ord. 413.156 § 1, 1980: Ord. 413 § 10-4.8, 1965)

No person shall drive a vehicle onto or from any controlled access roadway except at such entrances and exits as are established by public authority. (Ord. 413.32 § 1(b), 1970: Ord. 413 § 10-14.24, 1965)

A. The operator of traveling upon a down-grade shall not coast with the gears of such vehicle in neutral.

B. The operator of a commercial motor vehicle when traveling upon a down-grade shall not coast with the clutch disengaged. (Ord. 413 § 10-14.3, 1965)

No person shall operate a vehicle within any sidewalk area except at a permanent or temporary driveway. (Ord. 413 § 10-14.9, 1965)

No person shall stand or park a vehicle in such a manner that any portion of such vehicle obstructs a sidewalk or portion thereof. (Ord. 413 § 10-14.10, 1965)

A. No hedge, shrubbery, fence or other similar obstruction shall be maintained or permitted within a radius of thirty feet from the intersection of property lines at the corners of any street or highway intersection, when any point on such obstruction within the radius extends to a greater height than three feet above the nearest edge of the roadway of the abutting street.

B. The chief of police shall cause a notice to be served upon the owner or occupant of all property where a violation of the provisions of subsection A of this section exists, requesting the removal of the obstruction therefrom within one week from the service of such notice. (Ord. 413 § 10-14.15, 1965)

It is unlawful for the directing officer or the operator of any railroad train to direct the operators or to operate the same in such a manner as to prevent the use of any street or highway for purposes of travel for a period of time longer than five minutes, except that this provision shall not apply to trains in motion other than those engaged in switching. It is unlawful to stop any railroad train within an intersection for the purpose of receiving or discharging passengers or freight. (Ord. 413 § 10-14.11, 1965)

It is unlawful for any person or persons to work upon that portion of any highway devoted to vehicular traffic, or for any governmental department, corporation, firm, association, estate, or individual to permit any person or persons to so work, unless there shall be placed in the center of the highway suitable signs with black letters not less than four inches in height on a yellow field carrying the warning, “men at work,” and having attached thereto one or more red flags ten inches wide by twelve inches long, such signs to be placed not less than two hundred feet nor more than six hundred feet from the place where any such person or persons is so working; provided, however, that between one-half hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise, there shall be required on any such sign a red lantern or lanterns, properly lighted, in lieu of a red flag or flags. (Ord. 413 § 10-14.16, 1965)

No vehicle using the public highway shall track mud or dirt onto the traveled portion of such highway in such quantities as will constitute a hazard when the roadway is wet, or obscure the painted pavement markings thereon. In the event that mud or dirt is unavoidably tracked onto the highway, it shall be the duty of the operator of the offending vehicle to have said mud or dirt removed as quickly as possible. (Ord. 413 § 10-14.7, 1965)

A. No person shall throw or deposit upon any street or highway any glass bottle, glass, pails, tacks, wire, cans, or any other substances likely to injure any person, animal, or vehicle on a highway.

B. Any person who drops, or permits to be dropped or thrown upon any highway, any destructive or injurious material shall immediately remove the same or cause it to be removed.

C. Any person removing a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a highway shall remove any glass or other injurious substance dropped upon the highway from such vehicle.

D. Any person hauling material which may fall or be blown from the vehicle such as sand, sawdust, etc., shall take such steps as are necessary to prevent the material so hauled from sifting to roadway or from being blown or from falling from such vehicle. (Ord. 413 § 10-14.6, 1965)

A. No person shall, without the consent of the owner or person in charge of a vehicle, climb upon or into any such vehicle with the intent to commit any injury thereto or with the intent to commit any crime, whether such vehicle be in motion or at rest.

B. No person, without the consent of the owner or person in charge of a standing, unattended vehicle, shall manipulate any of the levers, starting crank, brakes or other devices thereon; provided, however, that an operator of a motor vehicle may release the brakes and move a standing unattended vehicle for the purpose of extricating his vehicle from a parking location. (Ord. 413 § 10-14.2, 1965)