(a) No person shall throw, place, or drop litter from a vehicle on any highway. The driver of the vehicle may be cited for any litter thrown, placed, or dropped from the vehicle.

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-132

  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Driver: means every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 291C-1
  • 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
  • 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) “Litter” means rubbish, refuse, waste material, garbage, trash, offal, or debris of whatever kind or description, whether or not it is of value, and includes improperly discarded paper, metal, plastic, glass, or solid waste.
(c) The court shall sentence any person convicted of the offense of littering from vehicles as follows:

(1) For the first offense, defendant shall spend four hours of either picking up litter on public property or performing community service.
(2) For any subsequent offense, defendant shall spend eight hours of either picking up litter on public property or performing community service.
(d) The court shall fine the person convicted of committing the offense of littering at least $100, but not more than $500.

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