HCC §24-56
When lights can stay off on a vehicle combination
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section says that when vehicles are connected and driven together at night or when lights are needed, some lights can be off if another vehicle in the combination hides them. But the front clearance lights on the front vehicle and all rear lights on the back vehicle must still be on.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Vehicles in combination; obstructed lights not required
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.
Whenever motor and other vehicles are operated in combination during the time that lights are required, any lamp (except tail lamps) need not be lighted which, by reason of its location on a vehicle of the combination, would be obscured by another vehicle of the combination. This section shall not affect the requirement that lighted clearance lamps be displayed on the front of the foremost vehicle required to have clearance lamps, nor that all lights required on the rear of the rearmost vehicle of any combination shall be lighted.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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