HCC §24-69
Red flashing lights on school buses and emergency vehicles
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section requires school buses to have red flashing lights that can be seen from 500 feet in daylight. Emergency vehicles may have the same lights, but they are not required. The lights must be mounted high and wide apart.
The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — School bus and emergency vehicle signal lamps
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 school bus shall, and every authorized emergency vehicle may, in addition to any other equipment and distinctive markings required by this chapter be equipped with signal lamps mounted as high and as widely spaced laterally as practicable, which shall be capable of displaying to the front two alternately flashing red lights located at the same level and to the rear two alternately flashing red lights located at the same level, and these lights shall have sufficient intensity to be visible at five hundred feet in normal sunlight.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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