ROH §15-19.18
Single-beam headlights for pre-1950 vehicles
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗This rule allows certain older vehicles to use single-beam headlights instead of modern multi-beam ones, but only if the lights meet specific aiming and brightness limits. It applies only to vehicles made and sold before one year after December 31, 1948.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Single-beam road-lighting equipment
A copy, taken August 22, 2026. The version published by Honolulu is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
Head lamps arranged to provide a single distribution of light not supplemented by auxiliary driving lamps shall be permitted on motor vehicles manufactured and sold before one year after December 31, 1948, in lieu of multiple-beam road-lighting equipment hereinabove specified, if the single distribution of light complies with the following requirements and limitations:
(a) The head lamps 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 25 feet ahead project higher than a level of 5 inches below the level of the center of the lamp from which it comes, and in no case higher than 42 inches above the level on which the vehicle stands at a distance of 75 feet ahead; and
(b) The intensity shall be sufficient to reveal persons and vehicles at a distance of at least 200 feet.
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