Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 13 - DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES
Subtitle 11 - OCEAN RECREATION AND COASTAL AREAS
Part 1 - SMALL BOAT FACILITIES AND PROVISIONS GENERALLY APPLICABLE TO ALL STATE NAVIGABLE WATERS
Chapter 233 - MOTOR VEHICLE AND PARKING RULES
Subchapter 1 - MOTOR VEHICLE RULES
Section 13-233-5 - Speed restrictions

Universal Citation: HI Admin Rules 13-233-5

Current through January, 2025

(a) Basic rules and maximum limits.

(1) No person shall drive a vehicle on a roadway or in any parking lot maintained within a small boat harbor at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the existing conditions. Vehicular speed shall be controlled as necessary and with due care to avoid colliding with any person, vehicle, or other structure.

(2) Except when a special hazard exists that requires lower speed for compliance with paragraph (1) the limits specified in this section or established as authorized by this section shall be maximum lawful speeds, and no person shall drive a vehicle on a roadway or in any parking lot within a small boat harbor at a speed in excess of these maximum limits:

(A) Ten miles per hour. Any pier, wharf, other structure, or parking lot.

(B) Fifteen miles per hour. Any roadway eighteen feet or less in width.

(3) The maximum speed limits set forth in this section may be altered as authorized in subsection (b).

(4) The driver of every vehicle shall, consistent with the requirements of paragraph (1), drive at an appropriate reduced speed when approaching and going around a curve, when traveling upon any narrow or winding roadway, when a special hazard exists with respect to pedestrians or other traffic by reason of weather or road conditions, and unless directed to stop by a police officer or traffic control device, when approaching and crossing an intersection.

(5) Whenever the department determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that any maximum speed limit established in this section is greater than is reasonable or safe under the conditions found to exist at any horizontal or vertical curve upon any part of a roadway, the department may post a recommended safe speed thereat which shall serve as a guide to vehicle drivers at all times when using the road.

(b) Establishment of speed zones. Whenever the department determines upon the basis of an engineering and traffic investigation that any maximum speed set forth under subsection (a) is less than is reasonable under the conditions found to exist at any part of a small boat harbor roadway system, the department may determine and declare a reasonable and safe maximum limit thereat, which shall be effective when appropriate signs giving notice thereof are erected. The maximum speed limit may be declared to be effective at all times or at such times as are indicated upon the signs; and differing limits may be established for different times of day, different types of vehicles, varying weather conditions, and other factors bearing on safe speeds, which shall be effective when posted upon appropriate signs.

(1) No person shall drive any vehicle equipped wholly or partly with solid rubber tires at a speed greater than ten miles per hour.

(2) No vehicle transporting any explosive as cargo or part of a cargo shall be operated upon any roadway in a small boat harbor at a speed in excess of twenty miles per hour.

(d) Speed contest. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in, or to aid or abet by whatever means, any motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition of speed within a small boat harbor.

(e) Speed restrictions not applicable to emergency vehicles. The speed restrictions set forth in this section shall not apply to an authorized emergency vehicle when responding to an emergency call, or when used in the pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law, or when responding to but not upon returning from a fire alarm.

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