HCC §24-8
County Council sets traffic rules and signs
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section gives the County Council the job of deciding what traffic signs and markings to use, and of creating or changing many traffic rules like speed limits, parking zones, and turn restrictions. All signs must match federal standards for size, shape, and color.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Council to exercise certain functions by ordinance
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.
(a) The council shall by ordinance: (1) Determine and designate the type of all official traffic control devices; provided, such official control devices shall, with respect to size, shape and color, be uniform, shall correlate with and conform to, the system then current, as approved by the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. (2) Create, define, redefine, eliminate or change all speed zones, safety zones, quiet zones, crosswalks other than at intersections, freight and passenger loading and unloading zones, no-parking zones, time-limit parking zones, parking meter zones, tow or tow-away zones, bus stops, U-turn areas, prohibited U-turn areas, prohibited left and right turns, one-way streets, through streets, stop intersections, roadways closed to pedestrian traffic, and roadways closed to certain classes of vehicles.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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