The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-09-16
ORDINANCE NO..
REGULATING THE USE AND oP.
GRAFTON OF MOTOR VEHICLES
ON THE PUBLIC HIGHWAYS OF
THE COUNTY OF MAUI.
DEFINITIONS.

construed to have the meaning herein
ascribed to them:
G) vehicle" Any device for the
conveyance, drawing or other trans
p%ortation of persons or property, suit
able for use on the highways. whether
operated on wheels or runners or by
other means. except those propelled
OF drawn by human power or those
used exclusively upon tracks.
(2) Motor Vehicle" Any self-pro-
PEELED vehicle not operated exclusively
on tracks, except tractors.
CD Operator" Any person who
drives or operates a vehicle or tractor.
a. Operate" Drive, propel, or
cause to be operated, driven or pro.
PEELED.
(5) Public Highways" All roads,
streets, alleys, lanes courts, parks.
p%arkways, ~driveways, squares OF
places intended for or used by the
general public for passage of vehicles
in the County of Maui.
co. "In~tersecting Highway" Any
highway which joins another at an
angle, whether or not it crosses the
other.
60 Garage" Every place of bust
ness where motor vehicles are re-
ceived for housing, storage or repair,
for compensation.
(S) Sheriff" Sheriff shall mean
the Sheriff OF the County of Maui and
his deputies.
90 Business District" Business
district shall mean the territory con-
tiguous to a public highway which is
on the line of said highway mainly
built up on either or both sides with
structures devoted to business.
Provided, that the Sheriff shall
have placed conspicuously and shall
maintain continuously at the boun-
Diary line of such business district,
signs which shall be placed on the
right side of such highway looking
towards such district, which shall
bear in letters of a size to be easily
readable by persons using the high
way the words and figures "15 MILES
SPEED LIMIT"
Q0) Residence District" The ter
ritory contiguous to a public highway,
which is on the line of said highway
not mainly devoted to business, where
for not less than a quarter Of a mile
the dwelling houses and business
structures on either or both sides Of
such highway average less than n
hundred (100) fee apart.
Provided, that the Sheriff shall
have placed conspicuously and shall
maintain continuously at the boun-
darydary line of such business dis.
trict, signs which shall be placed on
the right side of such highway look
ing towards such district, which shall
bear in letters of a size to be easily
readable by persons using the high
way, the words and figures 40 MILES
SPEED LIMIT"
EQUIPMENT.
Section 2. Brakes" Every motor
vehicle while being used upon any
public highway shall be provided with
efficient brakes which shall be kept
in good working order. All brakes
shall be of sufficient power to bring
such vehicle when travelling at a rate
of speed of 10 miles an hour over a
dry, level, macadam road to a full
stop within ten (10) feet from point
of application of the brake.
Every operator of such vehicle when
requested so to do by the Sheriff, his
Deputy or any Examiner of Chauf-
feurs, shall submit such vehicle to a
brake test.
Section 8. Signaling" Every mo-
tor vehicle shall be equipped with a
suitable bell, gong, or horn in good
working order capable of emitting
sound audible under normal conditions
not less than two hundred (200) feet.
1t shall be unlawful for any vehicle
except vehicles of the Police, Fire
Department, Hospital Ambulance and
Emergency Repair Vehicle or Public
Utility Companies, to be equipped
with a siren whistle.
Section A. "Mufflers." Every motor
vehicle must have devices in good
working order which shall be at all
times in constant operation to pre-
vent excessive or unusual noise, an,
moving smoke and the escape of gas,
steam or oil, as we'll as the falling
out of residue from fuel. All exhaust
pipes carrying exhaust gases from the
engine shall be directed parallel to
the ground or slightly upward. De
vices known as "muffler cut-outs'
shall not be used within the limits OF
any business or residence district as