HCC §24-172
No cutting through driveways or parking lots to skip intersections
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This rule stops drivers from using sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, or business entrances to turn between streets and avoid intersections. It is okay to use those areas if you are actually doing business at that place.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Cutting corners
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 operate or drive any vehicle on or across any sidewalk area or through any driveway, parking lot or any business entrance for the purpose of making right or left turns from one street into another by avoiding intersections or as a means of travelling from one street to another; provided, however, that this section shall not prohibit the use of such driveway, parking lot or business entrance for such purposes when such use is incidental to business to be transacted on the premises. Division 5. Emergency Vehicles and School Buses, Right-of-Way.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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