HCC §24-175
When to stop for a school bus and bus sign rules
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section says drivers must stop for a school bus with flashing red lights when it is picking up or dropping off children, unless the bus is on a separate roadway. Bus drivers must turn on the red lights in certain situations. School buses must have clear signs with specific words.
The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Overtaking and passing school bus
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.
(a) The driver of any vehicle upon meeting or overtaking from either direction any school bus which has stopped for the purpose of receiving or discharging any school children and displays an alternating red signal meeting the requirements of sections 24-69 through 24-74, shall bring such vehicle to a stop before passing the school bus and shall not proceed past the school bus until the red alternating signal ceases operation. (b) It shall be the responsibility of the driver of every school bus, used for the transportation of school children, to activate the alternating red signal continuously while stopped on a highway outside of a business or residence district, for the purpose of receiving or discharging school children. (c) While stopped within a business or residence district for the purpose of receiving or discharging school children, bus drivers shall activate the alternating red signal when either of the following conditions exist: (1) There is a need for children to cross the road. (2) There is a narrow shoulder along the driver's right hand side of the roadway. (d) The driver of a vehicle upon a highway with separate roadways need not stop upon meeting or passing a school bus which is upon the other roadway. (e) Every school bus used for the transportation of school children shall bear upon the front and rear thereon a plainly visible sign containing the words “School Bus” in letters not less than eight inches in height and in strokes not less than one-half inch in width, and the words “Stop On Alternating Red Light” in letters not less than six inches in height and in strokes of not less than one-half inch in width. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC § 24-176 Division 6. Golf Carts.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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