HCC §24-207
Parked car lights at night
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section says when you must use lights on a parked car at night. If the street is well lit, you do not need lights. If it is dark, you must have lights showing white or amber to the front and red to the rear. Headlights must be dimmed.
The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Lamps on parked vehicles
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) Whenever a vehicle is lawfully parked upon a street or highway for any period of time from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise, and in the event there is sufficient light to reveal any person or object within a distance of five hundred feet upon such street or highway, no lights need be displayed upon the parked vehicle. (b) Whenever a vehicle is parked or stopped upon a roadway or adjacent shoulder, whether attended or unattended, for any period of time from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise, and there is not sufficient light to reveal any person or object within a distance of five hundred feet upon such highway, such vehicle so parked or stopped shall be equipped with one or more lamps meeting the following requirements: (1) At least one lamp shall display a white or amber light visible from a distance of five hundred feet to the front of the vehicle, and the same lamp or at least one other lamp shall display a red light visible from a distance of five hundred feet to the rear of the vehicle. The location of the lamp or lamps shall always be such that at least one lamp or combination of lamps meeting the requirements of this section is installed as near as practicable to the side of the vehicle which is closest to passing traffic. (2) The foregoing provisions shall not apply to a motor-driven cycle. (c) Any lighted headlamps upon a parked vehicle shall be depressed or dimmed. Division 3. Stopping for Loading and Unloading.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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