Report Title:

Motor Vehicles; Pedestrian Crosswalks

Description:

Clarifies a driver's duty to stop or yield the right of way to a pedestrian in a crosswalk when traffic-control signals are not in place or not in operation.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	375
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to pedestrians' right of way.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  Section 291C-72, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

     "(a)  [The] When traffic-control signals are not in place or not in operation, the driver of a vehicle shall stop and yield the right of way[,] to a pedestrian who is crossing the roadway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian is either upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling[,] or [when the pedestrian is] approaching so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger."

     SECTION 2.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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