HCC §24-119
Special permits for tractors on highways
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section lets certain officials give special permits for tractors or farm machinery to drive on highways, even if normally not allowed. The permit is optional, not required. It applies to state highways and county highways.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Special permits for tractors
A copy, taken August 21, 2026. The version published by Hawaiʻi County is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
The State highway engineer or the State highway engineer’s representative in the case of State highways, or the director of public works, in the case of County highways, may in their discretion issue special permits authorizing the operation upon a highway of traction engines or tractors having movable tracks with transverse corrugations upon the periphery of such movable tracks or farm tractors or other farm machinery, the operation of which upon a highway would otherwise be prohibited under this division. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC § 24-120 Division 8. Emergency Equipment.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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