HCC §24-208
Rules for stopping in passenger loading zones
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section says you can only stop, stand, or park in a marked passenger loading zone to quickly pick up or drop off people, and only for up to three minutes. The zones are listed in a schedule and marked with signs. When the rules are not active, you can park there unless other rules say no.
The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Standing in passenger loading and unloading zones
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) No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle for any purpose or period of time other than for the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers in any place marked as a passenger curb loading and unloading zone during hours when the regulations applicable to such curb loading and unloading zone are effective, and then only for a period not to exceed three minutes. (b) The streets described in schedule 35, section 24-287, are designated as passenger loading and unloading zones when appropriate signs or markings giving notice thereof are erected. (c) When the provisions of this section are not in effect, vehicles may park in passenger loading and unloading zones unless otherwise prohibited by this chapter.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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