Haw. Code R. § 15-213-4 - Operation of vehicles

(a) No motor vehicle shall be operated on a pier or within the harbor facility in a careless or negligent manner or in disregard of the rights and safety of others, or without due caution or circumspection, or at a speed or in a manner which endangers or is likely to endanger persons or property, or while the operator thereof is under the influence of intoxicating liquor, narcotic or habit-forming drug, or if such vehicle is so constructed, equipped, loaded or in such other condition as to endanger or be likely to endanger other persons or the property of another.

(b) No person shall operate or use a motor vehicle on the pier or within the Kewalo Basin facility, unless the person is restrained by a seat belt assembly. While the motor vehicle is in use or operation, every passenger:

(1) Age four or over in the front seat of a motor vehicle shall be restrained by a seat belt assembly;

(2) Age seventeen or under in the back seat of a motor vehicle shall be restrained be a seat belt assembly; and

(3) Age of less than four shall be restrained by an approved child passenger restraint system in the front seat or back seat.

(c) In addition to subsections (a) and (b) above, no person shall stand in the bed of any pickup truck while the pickup truck is in operation. For the purposes of this subsection, a "pickup truck" is defined as a truck with a cab on the front part of the vehicle covering the driver's seat, a bed behind the cab designed primarily to transport property or cargo, with sides and a tailgate to retain the contents within the confines of the bed, and has a maximum gross vehicle weight rating of 11,000 pounds or less. No operator of any pickup truck shall operate the vehicle with a passenger(s) in the bed of the vehicle 12-years old or younger, nor with any passenger (s) older than 12 unless the passenger(s) is seated and the following conditions are met:

(1) There is no seating available in the cab of the vehicle;

(2) The sides of the bed are securely attached and the tailgate is securely closed; and

(3) Every passenger in the bed of the pickup truck is seated in the bed and does not attempt to control unlashed cargo. This subsection shall not apply to persons identified in section 291-14(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes.

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Haw. Code R. § 15-213-4

[Eff DEC 03 2008] (Auth: HRS § 206E-4) (Imp: HRS § 206E-4)