ROH §15-19.20
When lights can stay off on a vehicle combo
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗When vehicles are hooked together and driving at night or when lights are needed, a light that is hidden by another vehicle in the combo does not have to be on. But the front vehicle must still show its clearance lights, and the back vehicle must have all its rear lights on.
The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Lights not required where obscured from view
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.
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.
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Published by the City and County of Honolulu through American Legal Publishing.
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