KCC §16-17.19

When lights on a vehicle combination can stay off

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When vehicles are hooked together and driving at night or when lights are needed, a light (except tail lights) that is hidden by another vehicle in the combination does not have to be on. But the front clearance lights on the front vehicle and all rear lights on the back vehicle must still be on.

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The ordinance, as written (Kauaʻi County) — Obstructed Lights Not Required

A copy, taken August 22, 2026. The version published by Kauaʻi County is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.

Whenever motor and other vehicles are operated in combination during the time that lights are required, any lamp (except tail lamps) which, by reason of its location on a vehicle of the combination, would be obscured by another vehicle of the combination, need not be lighted, but this shall not affect the requirement that lighted clearance lamps be displayed on the front of the foremost vehicle required to have clearance lamps, nor that all lights required on the rear of the rearmost vehicle of any combination shall be lighted.

Read the official text at ecode360.com ↗as published Jan 1, 2026our copy taken Aug 22, 2026

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