STAND. COM. REP. NO. 470________

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1547
                                     




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 H.B.
No. 1547 entitled: 

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to facilitate the enforcement of
the prohibition 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, or parked vehicles,
and should be prohibited when these conditions exist.  Your
Committee further finds that prohibitions against stopping,
standing, and parking on highways must now be indicated by signs.

     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 curb
markings, as well as signs, to prohibit the stopping, standing,
or parking of vehicles on highways, when appropriate.

     Testimony supporting the intent of this bill was received
from the Department of Transportation.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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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 H.B. No.
1547 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