STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1242

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: S.B. No. 1403
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B.
No. 1403 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE TRAFFIC CODE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to strengthen enforcement of
prohibitions against stopping, standing, or parking vehicles in
designated areas on the highways.

     Your Committee finds that traffic safety and the flow of
traffic may be impeded by stopped, standing, and parked vehicles,
and should be prohibited when these conditions exist.  Your
Committee further finds that prohibitions against these
infractions may be legally indicated at the present time only by
signs, which if excessive in numbers, mar the landscape.

     This bill proposes that the Director of Transportation, the
counties, and owners of private highways, with the consent of the
county official responsible for traffic control, may use signs or
curb markings to restrict or prohibit the stopping, standing, and
parking of vehicles on highways.

     Testimonies in support of this bill were received from the
Department of Transportation and the City and County of Honolulu.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
1403 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred
to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation,



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                                   KENNETH T. HIRAKI, Chair