HCC §24-61
Lighting rules for vehicles without special lamp requirements
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section says that any vehicle not already required to have specific lights must have at least one white light in front and red lights or reflectors in back, visible from certain distances, during the times when lights are needed. It applies to all such vehicles, including animal-drawn ones.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Lamps on other vehicles and equipment
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.
Every vehicle, including animal-drawn vehicles and vehicles referred to in section 24-32, not specifically required by the provisions of this article to be equipped with lamps or other lighting devices, shall at all times specified in section 24-34 be equipped with at least one lamp displaying a white light visible from a distance of not less than one thousand feet to the front of the vehicle, and shall also be equipped with two lamps displaying red light visible from a distance of not less than one thousand feet to the rear of the vehicle, or as an alternative, one lamp displaying a red light visible from a distance of not less than one thousand feet to the rear and two red reflectors visible from all distances of six hundred to one hundred feet to the rear when illuminated by the upper beams of headlamps. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC § 24-62 Subdivision 6. Special Purpose Lamps and Signal Devices.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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