HCC §24-140
Warning signs required for road work safety
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section requires warning signs with black letters on yellow saying 'Men Working' before anyone can work on a road used by cars. Signs must be placed a certain distance before the work area on both sides. At night, signs must have a lit lamp or lantern.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Warning signs required for the protection of working men
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.
No person shall work upon that portion of any highway devoted to vehicular traffic, and no governmental department or person shall permit any person to so work, unless there shall be placed in the center of the highway or on the side of the roadway, if work is done immediately adjacent to the roadway, suitable signs with black letters not less than four inches in height on a yellow field carrying the warning “Men Working.” Such signs are to be placed no less than two hundred feet nor more than six hundred feet on both approaches to the place where any such person 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 properly lighted lantern or lamp.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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