HCC §24-80
Old cars may use single-beam headlights if aimed correctly
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section allows motor vehicles made and sold before July 1, 1962 to use headlights that give only one beam instead of the usual multiple beams. The single beam must be aimed so it does not shine too high and must be bright enough to see people and cars at a distance. It only applies to those older vehicles.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Single-beam road-lighting requirement
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) Headlamp systems which provide only a single distribution of light shall be permitted on motor vehicles manufactured and sold prior to July 1, 1962, in lieu of multiple-beam road-lighting equipment herein specified if the single distribution of light complies with the following requirements and limitations: (1) The headlamps shall be so aimed that when the vehicle is not loaded none of the high-intensity portion of the light shall at a distance of twenty-five feet ahead project higher than a level of five inches below the level of the center of the lamp from which it comes, and in no case higher than forty-two inches above the level on which the vehicle stands at a distance of seventy-five feet ahead. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC § 24-80 (2) The intensity shall be sufficient to reveal persons and vehicles at a distance of at least two hundred feet.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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