Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 19 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Subtitle 4 - HIGHWAYS DIVISION › Chapter 105 - ACCOMMODATION AND INSTALLATION OF UTILITIES ON STATE HIGHWAYS AND FEDERAL AID COUNTY HIGHWAYS › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 19-105-4 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly
					 indicates otherwise:
"Active state highway projects" means projects for which
					 any phase of development has been programmed for federal-aid or state highway
					 funds and the state or other highway authority has control of the highway
					 rights-of-way. A project will be considered active until the date of its final
					 acceptance by the Federal Highway Administration or State and thereafter will
					 be considered completed.
"Arterial highway" means a highway used primarily for
					 through traffic, usually on a continuous route.
"AASHTO" means American Association of State Highway and
					 Transportation Officials.
"Auxiliary lane" means the portion of the roadway
					 adjoining the traveled way for parking, speed-change, turning, weaving, truck
					 climbing or for other purposes supplementary to through traffic
					 movement.
"Cap" means a rigid structural element surmounting a
					 pipe.
"Carrier" means a pipe directly enclosing a transmitted
					 fluid (liquid or gas).
"Casing" or "sleeve" means a larger pipe enclosing a
					 carrier pipe.
"Clear roadside policy" means a policy employed by a
					 highway authority to increase safety and traffic operation and improve the
					 appearance of highways by designing, constructing and maintaining highway
					 roadsides as wide, flat and rounded as practical and as free as practical from
					 physical obstructions above the ground such as trees, drainage structures,
					 massive sign supports, highway lighting standards, utility poles and other
					 ground-mounted obstructions. The policy is also directed at the removal of
					 roadside obstacles which are likely to be associated with accident or injury to
					 the highway user. Where such obstacles are essential, they must be constructed
					 to yield under specified levels of impact or placed at a location which affords
					 adequate protection to an out-of-control vehicle. In all cases full
					 consideration shall be given to sound engineering principles and economic and
					 environmental factors.
"Coating" means a material applied to or wrapped around a
					 pipe.
"Control of access line" means a line indicating the
					 restriction of access to the highway.
"Cradle" means a rigid structural element below and
					 supporting a pipe.
"Director" means the director of the state department of
					 transportation, or his duly authorized representative.
"Divided highway" means a highway with separated roadways
					 for traffic in opposite directions.
"Duct line" means a structure or arrangement of one or
					 more ducts, conduits, pipes, or other enclosed runways between two points
					 designed to contain underground conductors or cables.
"Encasement" means a structural element surrounding a
					 pipe.
"Exhibit 'A' " means exhibit entitled "Terminology for
					 Encasement and Allied Protection" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'B' " means exhibit entitled "Pole Placement
					 Details for Highways" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'C' " means exhibit entitled "Table for Pole
					 Placement Criteria on Cut and Fill Sections" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'D' " means exhibit entitled "Pole Placement
					 Details for Cut and Fill Sections (Sheet 1 of 3)" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'E' " means exhibit entitled "Pole Placement
					 Details for Cut and Fill sections (Sheet 2 of 3)" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'F' " means exhibit entitled "Pole Placement
					 Details for Cut and Fill Sections (Sheet 3 of 3)" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'G' " means exhibit entitled "Pole Placement
					 Details for Uncurbed Highways" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'H' " means exhibit entitled "Space Allocation of
					 Carrier Pipes Within Shoulder Areas (Extreme hardship cases)" dated
					 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'I' " means exhibit entitled "Space Allocation of
					 Carrier Pipes on Highways (Extreme hardship cases)" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'J' " means exhibit entitled" "Encased Carrier
					 Pipe Under Divided Highway" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'K' " means exhibit entitled "Encased Carrier
					 Pipe Under Undivided Highway" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'L' " means exhibit entitled "Typical Utility
					 Installations on Highway Structures - Concrete Box Girder Bridge Structure
					 (Sheet 1 of 3)" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'M' " means exhibit entitled "Typical Utility
					 Installations on Highway Structures - Concrete Slab Bridge Structure (Sheet 2
					 of 3)" dated 10/1/80.
"Exhibit 'N' " means exhibit entitled "Typical Utility
					 Installation on Highway Structures - At Pre-stressed or Tee-girder Bridge
					 Structure (Sheet 3 of 3)" dated 10/1/80.
"Expressway" means a divided arterial highway for through
					 traffic with full or partial control of access and generally with grade
					 separations at major intersections.
"Federal-aid county highways" means all highways on the
					 designated federal-aid secondary or, urban county system.
"Freeway" means an expressway with full control of access.
					 All interstate highways on the approved national system of interstate and
					 defense highways are in this category.
"Frontage road" means a local street or road auxiliary to
					 and located on the side of an arterial highway for service to abutting property
					 and adjacent areas and for control of access.
"Gallery" means an underpass for two or more
					 pipelines.
"Grout" means mortar or slurry pumped to backfill an
					 untrenched pipe.
"Jacket" means encasement by concrete poured around a
					 pipe.
"Highway" means any public way for vehicular travel,
					 including the entire area within the rights-of-way and related facilities,
					 constructed or improved in whole or in part with federal-aid or state highway
					 funds.
"Highway utility encroachment committee" means a committee
					 consisting of the state highways division construction and maintenance engineer
					 (chairman), design engineer, traffic engineer and head of right-of-way
					 branch.
"Median" means the portion of a divided highway separating
					 the traveled ways for traffic in opposite directions.
"Mew utility installations" means the initial
					 installations on the highway rights-of-way and the replacement of existing
					 facilities with those of a different type, capacity, or design or replacement
					 at a new location on the rights-of-way. Any replacement of an existing facility
					 or portion thereof with another of the same type, capacity, and design at the
					 same location is. considered to be maintenance.
"Normal" means crossing at a right angle.
"Oblique" means crossing at an acute angle.
"Pipe" means a cylindrical tube, any conduit including
					 ducts and cellular blocks for conveying water, gas, etc.
"Private lines" means privately-owned facilities which
					 convey or transmit the commodities outlined in this chapter, but are devoted
					 exclusively to private use.
"Ramp" means an interconnection of roadway traffic
					 interchange, or any connection between highway facilities of different levels,
					 on which vehicles may enter or leave a designated roadway.
"Resurfacing" means the placing of one or more new courses
					 on an existing surface.
"Right-of-way line" means the boundary of the highway
					 right-of-way and adjacent property owner.
"Rights-of-way" means real property or interests therein,
					 acquired, dedicated or reserved for the construction, operation and maintenance
					 of a highway in which federal-aid or state highway funds are or may be involved
					 in any stage of development. Land acquired under section 319(b), Title 23,
					 United States Code, (scenic strips - 1965 Highway Beautification Act) shall be
					 considered to be highway rights-of-way.
"Roadway" means the portion of a highway, including
					 shoulders for vehicular use. A divided highway has two or more roadways.
"Shoulder" means the portion of the roadway contiguous
					 with the traveled way for accommodation of stopped vehicles for emergency use,
					 and for lateral support of base and surface courses.
"Standard right-of-way line" means the line denoting the
					 width necessary to accommodate all of the elements of a typical roadway
					 cross-section to fulfill the design requirements of the highway. This line does
					 not generally encompass additional rights-of-way required for large cuts and
					 fills.
"State highways" means all highways on the designated
					 state highway system. The designated state highway system is composed of the
					 following highways:
(1) Federal-aid highways:
(A) Interstate and defense highways;
(B) Federal-aid primary state highways;
(c) Federal-aid secondary state highways; and
(D) Federal-aid urban state highways.
(2) Nonfederal-aid state highways.
"State highway projects" means those projects administered
					 by the State which involve the use of federal-aid or state highway funds for
					 the construction or improvement of a state highway or related highway
					 facilities or for the acquisition of rights-of-way for those projects,
					 including highway beautification projects under section 319, Title 23, United
					 States Code.
"Traveled way" means the portion of the roadway for the
					 movement of vehicles, exclusive of shoulders, and auxiliary lanes.
"Use and occupancy agreement" means the document by which
					 the State, approves the use and occupancy of highway rights-of-way by utility
					 facilities or private lines.
"Utility" means the utility company; i.e., any person or
					 private or public entity owning or operating utility facilities, including any
					 wholly owned or controlled subsidiary.
"Utility facilities" or "utilities" means all privately,
					 publicly or cooperatively owned lines, facilities and systems for producing,
					 transmitting or distributing communications, power, electricity, light heat,
					 gas, oil, crude products, water, sewer, steam, waste, storm water not connected
					 with highway drainage, and other similar commodities, including fire and police
					 signal systems and street lighting and traffic signal systems, which directly
					 or indirectly serve the public or any part thereof.
"Utility service connection" means a service connection
					 from a utilities distribution or feeder line or main to the premises
					 served.
"Visual quality" means those desirable characteristics of
					 the appearance of the highway and its environment, such as harmony between or
					 blending of natural and man-made objects in the environment, continuity of
					 visual form without distracting interruptions, and simplicity of designs which
					 are desirably functional in shape but without clutter.
"Walled" means a continuous concrete or cement-treated
					 sidefill.