HCC §24-53
Vehicle light and reflector colors
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This law sets the colors for lights and reflectors on vehicles. Front lights and reflectors must be amber, and rear ones must be red, with a few exceptions for stop lights, license plate lights, and back-up lights.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Color of clearance lamps, identification lamps, side marker
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.
lamps, back-up lamps, and reflectors. (a) Front clearance lamps, identification lamps, and those marker lamps and reflectors mounted on the front or on the side near the front of a vehicle shall display or reflect an amber color. (b) Rear clearance lamps, identification lamps, and those marker lamps and reflectors mounted on the rear or on the sides near the rear of a vehicle shall display or reflect a red color. (c) All lighting devices and reflectors mounted on the rear of any vehicle shall display or reflect a red color, except the stop light or other signal device, which may be red or amber, and except that the light illuminating the license plate shall be white and the light emitted by a back-up lamp shall be white or amber.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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