Highways

Abandoned Vehicle Any vehicle left unattended on the highway for more than 24 hours.

Emergency Vehicle Any vehicle of the police and fire departments or federal agency having similar functions and any federal, state and county ambulance and any private vehicle designated by

ordinance, properly equipped with a blue or red flashing light and warning sound system.

Bicycle                        A device with two or three wheels having a diameter of 16″ or greater propelled by human power.

Bus                              Every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than ten passengers and used for the transportation of persons.

Business District  The territory contiguous to and including a highway when within any six hundred feet along such highway there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes which occupy at least three hundred feet of frontage on one side or three hundred feet collectively on both sides of the highway.

Commercial Motor Vehicle

For purposes of driver licensing, means a motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles used in commerce to transport passengers or property:

• If the vehicle has a gross combination weight rating of 26,001 or more pounds inclusive of a towed unit(s) with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 10,000 pounds;
• If a single vehicle has a gross vehicle weight rating of 26,001 or more pounds;
• If the vehicle (any GVWR), is designed to transport sixteen or more occupants including the driver; or
• If the vehicle, (any GVWR), is used in the transportation of hazardous materials requiring placarding.

For purposes of motor carrier regulations, means any

self-propelled or towed motor vehicle used on a highway in commerce to transport passengers or property when the vehicle—

• Has a gross vehicle weight rating or gross combination weight rating, or gross vehicle weight or gross combination weight, of 10,001 pounds or more, whichever is greater; or
• Is designed or used to transport more than 8 passengers (including the driver) for compensation; or

• Is designed or used to transport more than 15 passengers, including the driver, and is not used to transport passengers for compensation: or
• Is used in transporting hazardous material in a quantity requiring placarding.

Commercial Driver’s A license issued by a state or other jurisdiction in accordance License    with the standards contained in 49 CFR Part 383 to an individual which authorizes the individual to operate a           class of commercial motor vehicle.

Crosswalk                   That part of a roadway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curbs or, in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the transversable roadway; or any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface.

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Safety Zone

Every person who drives, operates, or is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle in any place open to the public for purposes of vehicular traffic or who is exercising control over or steering a vehicle being towed or pushed by a motor vehicle.

The weight of the vehicle plus the vehicle’s load-carrying capacity.

The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.

The area or space officially set apart within a roadway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is so marked as to be plainly visible.

Additional definitions may be found in §291C and §286.2, of the Hawaii Revised Statutes.