ROH §15-21.6
Police can weigh trucks and order extra load removed
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗Police can stop and weigh a vehicle if they think it is too heavy. If it is too heavy, the driver must stay until the extra load is removed. The owner or driver is responsible for the removed load. Refusing to comply is a violation.
The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Police officers may weigh vehicles and require removal of excess loads
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.
(a) 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 same by means of either portable or stationary scales, and may require that such vehicle be driven to the nearest public scales in the event such scales are within 2 miles.
(b) Whenever an officer, upon weighing a vehicle and load as above provided, determines that the weight is unlawful, such officer may require the driver to stop the vehicle in a suitable place and remain standing until such portion of the load is removed as may be necessary to reduce the gross weight of such vehicle to such limit as permitted under this article. All material so unloaded shall be cared for by the owner or operator of such vehicle at the risk of such owner or operator.
(c) 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 this section, is deemed to have committed a violation.
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