(a) Any vehicle, or combination of vehicles, designed to operate at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour or less, including a neighborhood electric vehicle, and traveling on a public highway, except when guarded by a flagperson or a flare, or unless provided by ordinance, shall display a triangular slow moving vehicle emblem meeting ASAE Standard S276.2 as developed by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, mounted on the rear of the vehicle, or combination of vehicles, base down and at a height of not less than three nor more than five feet from the ground to base.

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-130

  • Highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained and those private streets, as defined in § 46-16, over which the application of this chapter has been extended by ordinance, when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Neighborhood electric vehicle: means a self-propelled electrically powered motor vehicle to which all of the following apply:

    (1) The vehicle is emission free;

    (2) The vehicle is designed to be and is operated at speeds of twenty-five miles per hour or less;
    (3) The vehicle has four wheels in contact with the ground;
    (4) The vehicle has a gross vehicle weight rating of less than three thousand pounds; and
    (5) The vehicle conforms to the minimum safety equipment requirements as adopted in the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • Vehicle: means every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a roadway or highway, including mopeds and bicycles, but excluding toy bicycles, devices other than bicycles moved by human power, and devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
(b) The use of the emblem on any vehicle, other than a vehicle designed to operate at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour or less, or on a stationary object on a public highway is prohibited.
(c) Any person who violates this section shall be fined not more than $500.