KCC §16-19.3
Police can weigh trucks and make drivers remove extra load
Read the official text at ecode360.com ↗Police can order a driver to stop and weigh their vehicle if they think it's overloaded. If it's overweight, the driver must remove enough load to get within the legal limit. Refusing to cooperate is a crime.
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The ordinance, as written (Kauaʻi County) — Police Officers May Weigh Vehicles and Require Removal of Excess Loads
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.
Any police officer having reason to believe that the weight of a vehicle and load is unlawful is authorized to require the driver to stop and submit to a weighing of the vehicle by means of either portable or stationary scales and may require that the vehicle be driven to the nearest public scales in the event the scales are within two (2) miles.Whenever an officer upon weighing a vehicle and load, as provided in Section 16-19.3(a), determines that the weight is unlawful, the officer may require the driver to stop the vehicle in a suitable place and remain standing until a portion of the load is removed as may be necessary to reduce the gross weight of the vehicle to the limit permitted under this Article. All material so unloaded shall be cared for by the owner or operator of the vehicle at the risk of the owner or operator.Any driver of a vehicle who fails or refuses to stop and submit the vehicle and load to a weighing when directed by an officer or who fails or refuses to otherwise comply with the provisions of this Section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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