HCC §24-60
Lights required on farm tractors and equipment
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section says that farm tractors and self-propelled farm equipment must have certain lights and reflectors when on the road at times when lights are needed. It also covers lights for a tractor pulling another piece of equipment. The lights must be visible from certain distances and show the width of the vehicle.
landowners
The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Lamps on farm tractors, equipment and implements
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.
of husbandry. (a) Every farm tractor and every self-propelled unit of farm equipment or implement of husbandry shall at all times mentioned in section 24-34, be equipped with two single-beam or multiple-beam headlamps meeting the requirements of sections 24-76, 24-77 and 24-78 or 24-80, or as an alternative, section 24-82, and at least two red lamps visible when lighted from a distance of not less than one thousand feet to the rear, and at least two red reflectors visible from all distances within six hundred feet to one hundred feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps. (b) Every combination of farm tractor and towed farm equipment or towed implement of husbandry shall at all times mentioned in section 24-34, be equipped with lamps as follows: (1) The farm tractor element of every such combination shall be equipped as required in paragraph (a) of this section. (2) The towed unit of farm equipment or implement of husbandry element of such combination shall be equipped on the rear with two red lamps visible when lighted from a distance of not less than one thousand feet to the rear, and two red reflectors visible to the rear from all distances within six hundred feet to one hundred feet to the rear when directly in front of lawful upper beams of headlamps. (3) These combinations shall also be equipped with a lamp displaying a white or amber light, or any shade of color between white and amber, visible when lighted from a distance of not less than one thousand feet to the front. This lamp shall be so positioned to indicate, as nearly as practicable, the extreme left projection of the combination carrying it. (c) The two red lamps and the two red reflectors required in subsections (a) and (b) of this section on a self-propelled unit of farm equipment or implement of husbandry or combination of farm tractor and towed farm equipment shall be so positioned as to show from the rear as nearly as practicable the extreme width of the vehicle or combination carrying them.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
LawTrove is not legal advice. The summary above is a computer-generated restatement — the authoritative text is the official version linked above.