Rules for driving near parades, funerals, and processions

No person shall drive a vehicle between the vehicles comprising a funeral or other authorized processions while they are in motion and when the vehicles are conspicuously designated as required by law. This provision shall apply at intersections where traffic is controlled by traffic control signals or by police officers. When the lead car of any funeral or other processions shall have entered any intersection, notwithstanding the light conditions at those intersections controlled by signal devices, then all other traffic shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles comprising the funeral or other processions until it has passed through the intersection. The foregoing provisions of this Section shall apply only to funeral or other processions moving under police escort.No parade or other procession excepting the military forces of the United States, the military forces of the State of Hawai'i, the forces of the Police Department and the forces of the Fire Department, shall occupy, march or proceed along any roadway except in accordance with a permit issued by the Chief of Police and other regulations as are set forth in this Section which may apply.A funeral procession composed of any number of vehicles shall be identified as a funeral procession by the conspicuous display on the top center of the first vehicle immediately in back of the funeral vehicle (hearse) and on the top center of the last vehicle in the procession, a banner not less than eight (8) inches long and four (4) inches wide, predominantly black or violet in color, with the word "Funeral" imprinted on both sides thereof in letters no less than one and one-fourth (1-1/4) inches in height and the display on the top center of the funeral vehicle (hearse) a flashing amber light having a minimum diameter of six (6) inches. The flags and the lights shall be fastened to the vehicles by means of magnets or suction cups. While in the procession, every driver shall turn on the head lamps of his or her vehicle as further identification.