HCC §24-43
Electric turn signals
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section says when turn signals are required, they must flash on the side you're turning toward, with specific colors and visibility distances. It also says turn signals can be built into other lights.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Electric turn signals
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) When required under section 24-41(b), a vehicle shall be equipped with electric turn signals which shall indicate an intention to turn by flashing lights showing to the front and rear of a vehicle or on a combination of vehicles on the side of the vehicle or combination toward which the turn is to be made. The lamps showing to the front shall be mounted on the same level and as widely spaced laterally as practicable and, when signaling, shall emit white or amber light, or any shade of light between white and amber. The lamps showing to the rear shall be mounted on the same level and as widely spaced laterally as practicable, and, when signaling, shall emit a red or amber light, or any shade of color between red and amber. (b) Turn signal lamps on vehicles eighty inches or more in over-all width shall be visible from a distance of not less than five hundred feet in normal sunlight. Turn signal lamps on vehicles less than eighty inches wide shall be visible at a distance of not less than three hundred feet in normal sunlight. (c) Turn signal lamps may, but need not be, incorporated in other lamps on the vehicle.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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