HCC §24-189
Where you cannot stop, stand, or park your vehicle
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This rule lists places where you cannot stop, stand, or park your car, unless you must avoid a crash or follow police or signs. It covers sidewalks, crosswalks, intersections, safety zones, bridges, tunnels, and areas with no-parking signs. If you park in these spots, you are breaking the law.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Stopping, standing, or parking in certain areas prohibited
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) Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or a special traffic-control device, no person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle: (1) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street; (2) On the sidewalk; (3) Within an intersection except where designated by parking stalls; (4) On a crosswalk; (5) Within or along any safety zone where special signs are erected prohibiting parking; (6) Alongside or opposite any street, excavation, or obstruction when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic; (7) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway, within a highway tunnel; (8) At any place where special signs or markings prohibit stopping; or (9) The areas described in schedule 34, section 24-286 are designated as no stopping, standing or parking zones, and appropriate signs or marking giving notice thereof shall be erected.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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