Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 19 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Subtitle 4 - HIGHWAYS DIVISION
Chapter 105 - ACCOMMODATION AND INSTALLATION OF UTILITIES ON STATE HIGHWAYS AND FEDERAL AID COUNTY HIGHWAYS
Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 19-105-4 - Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Active state highway projects" means projects for which any phase of development has been programmed for federal-aid or state highway funds and the state or other highway authority has control of the highway rights-of-way. A project will be considered active until the date of its final acceptance by the Federal Highway Administration or State and thereafter will be considered completed.
"Arterial highway" means a highway used primarily for through traffic, usually on a continuous route.
"AASHTO" means American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
"Auxiliary lane" means the portion of the roadway adjoining the traveled way for parking, speed-change, turning, weaving, truck climbing or for other purposes supplementary to through traffic movement.
"Cap" means a rigid structural element surmounting a pipe.
"Carrier" means a pipe directly enclosing a transmitted fluid (liquid or gas).
"Casing" or "sleeve" means a larger pipe enclosing a carrier pipe.
"Clear roadside policy" means a policy employed by a highway authority to increase safety and traffic operation and improve the appearance of highways by designing, constructing and maintaining highway roadsides as wide, flat and rounded as practical and as free as practical from physical obstructions above the ground such as trees, drainage structures, massive sign supports, highway lighting standards, utility poles and other ground-mounted obstructions. The policy is also directed at the removal of roadside obstacles which are likely to be associated with accident or injury to the highway user. Where such obstacles are essential, they must be constructed to yield under specified levels of impact or placed at a location which affords adequate protection to an out-of-control vehicle. In all cases full consideration shall be given to sound engineering principles and economic and environmental factors.
"Coating" means a material applied to or wrapped around a pipe.
"Control of access line" means a line indicating the restriction of access to the highway.
"Cradle" means a rigid structural element below and supporting a pipe.
"Director" means the director of the state department of transportation, or his duly authorized representative.
"Divided highway" means a highway with separated roadways for traffic in opposite directions.
"Duct line" means a structure or arrangement of one or more ducts, conduits, pipes, or other enclosed runways between two points designed to contain underground conductors or cables.
"Encasement" means a structural element surrounding a pipe.
"Exhibit 'A' " means exhibit entitled "Terminology for Encasement and Allied Protection" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'B' " means exhibit entitled "Pole Placement Details for Highways" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'C' " means exhibit entitled "Table for Pole Placement Criteria on Cut and Fill Sections" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'D' " means exhibit entitled "Pole Placement Details for Cut and Fill Sections (Sheet 1 of 3)" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'E' " means exhibit entitled "Pole Placement Details for Cut and Fill sections (Sheet 2 of 3)" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'F' " means exhibit entitled "Pole Placement Details for Cut and Fill Sections (Sheet 3 of 3)" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'G' " means exhibit entitled "Pole Placement Details for Uncurbed Highways" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'H' " means exhibit entitled "Space Allocation of Carrier Pipes Within Shoulder Areas (Extreme hardship cases)" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'I' " means exhibit entitled "Space Allocation of Carrier Pipes on Highways (Extreme hardship cases)" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'J' " means exhibit entitled" "Encased Carrier Pipe Under Divided Highway" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'K' " means exhibit entitled "Encased Carrier Pipe Under Undivided Highway" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'L' " means exhibit entitled "Typical Utility Installations on Highway Structures - Concrete Box Girder Bridge Structure (Sheet 1 of 3)" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'M' " means exhibit entitled "Typical Utility Installations on Highway Structures - Concrete Slab Bridge Structure (Sheet 2 of 3)" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'N' " means exhibit entitled "Typical Utility Installation on Highway Structures - At Pre-stressed or Tee-girder Bridge Structure (Sheet 3 of 3)" dated 10/1/80.
"Expressway" means a divided arterial highway for through traffic with full or partial control of access and generally with grade separations at major intersections.
"Federal-aid county highways" means all highways on the designated federal-aid secondary or, urban county system.
"Freeway" means an expressway with full control of access. All interstate highways on the approved national system of interstate and defense highways are in this category.
"Frontage road" means a local street or road auxiliary to and located on the side of an arterial highway for service to abutting property and adjacent areas and for control of access.
"Gallery" means an underpass for two or more pipelines.
"Grout" means mortar or slurry pumped to backfill an untrenched pipe.
"Jacket" means encasement by concrete poured around a pipe.
"Highway" means any public way for vehicular travel, including the entire area within the rights-of-way and related facilities, constructed or improved in whole or in part with federal-aid or state highway funds.
"Highway utility encroachment committee" means a committee consisting of the state highways division construction and maintenance engineer (chairman), design engineer, traffic engineer and head of right-of-way branch.
"Median" means the portion of a divided highway separating the traveled ways for traffic in opposite directions.
"Mew utility installations" means the initial installations on the highway rights-of-way and the replacement of existing facilities with those of a different type, capacity, or design or replacement at a new location on the rights-of-way. Any replacement of an existing facility or portion thereof with another of the same type, capacity, and design at the same location is. considered to be maintenance.
"Normal" means crossing at a right angle.
"Oblique" means crossing at an acute angle.
"Pipe" means a cylindrical tube, any conduit including ducts and cellular blocks for conveying water, gas, etc.
"Private lines" means privately-owned facilities which convey or transmit the commodities outlined in this chapter, but are devoted exclusively to private use.
"Ramp" means an interconnection of roadway traffic interchange, or any connection between highway facilities of different levels, on which vehicles may enter or leave a designated roadway.
"Resurfacing" means the placing of one or more new courses on an existing surface.
"Right-of-way line" means the boundary of the highway right-of-way and adjacent property owner.
"Rights-of-way" means real property or interests therein, acquired, dedicated or reserved for the construction, operation and maintenance of a highway in which federal-aid or state highway funds are or may be involved in any stage of development. Land acquired under section 319(b), Title 23, United States Code, (scenic strips - 1965 Highway Beautification Act) shall be considered to be highway rights-of-way.
"Roadway" means the portion of a highway, including shoulders for vehicular use. A divided highway has two or more roadways.
"Shoulder" means the portion of the roadway contiguous with the traveled way for accommodation of stopped vehicles for emergency use, and for lateral support of base and surface courses.
"Standard right-of-way line" means the line denoting the width necessary to accommodate all of the elements of a typical roadway cross-section to fulfill the design requirements of the highway. This line does not generally encompass additional rights-of-way required for large cuts and fills.
"State highways" means all highways on the designated state highway system. The designated state highway system is composed of the following highways:
(1) Federal-aid highways:
(A) Interstate and defense highways;
(B) Federal-aid primary state highways;
(c) Federal-aid secondary state highways; and
(D) Federal-aid urban state highways.
(2) Nonfederal-aid state highways.
"State highway projects" means those projects administered by the State which involve the use of federal-aid or state highway funds for the construction or improvement of a state highway or related highway facilities or for the acquisition of rights-of-way for those projects, including highway beautification projects under section 319, Title 23, United States Code.
"Traveled way" means the portion of the roadway for the movement of vehicles, exclusive of shoulders, and auxiliary lanes.
"Use and occupancy agreement" means the document by which the State, approves the use and occupancy of highway rights-of-way by utility facilities or private lines.
"Utility" means the utility company; i.e., any person or private or public entity owning or operating utility facilities, including any wholly owned or controlled subsidiary.
"Utility facilities" or "utilities" means all privately, publicly or cooperatively owned lines, facilities and systems for producing, transmitting or distributing communications, power, electricity, light heat, gas, oil, crude products, water, sewer, steam, waste, storm water not connected with highway drainage, and other similar commodities, including fire and police signal systems and street lighting and traffic signal systems, which directly or indirectly serve the public or any part thereof.
"Utility service connection" means a service connection from a utilities distribution or feeder line or main to the premises served.
"Visual quality" means those desirable characteristics of the appearance of the highway and its environment, such as harmony between or blending of natural and man-made objects in the environment, continuity of visual form without distracting interruptions, and simplicity of designs which are desirably functional in shape but without clutter.
"Walled" means a continuous concrete or cement-treated sidefill.
