§264-33.5 Underground installation of utility facilities along federal-aid highways; when required; when waived. (a) The director of transportation shall arrange for the installation of all utility cables and facilities below the ground, within a berm or away from the alignment of a highway, during the design or redesign and construction or reconstruction phases of any new or existing federal-aid highway project, when a determination is made that federal highway funds are available to pay for the federal share of the cost differential between underground and overhead facilities.
(b) The director of transportation may make exceptions to subsection (a) if:
(1) The director determines that exceptions are appropriate due to either:
(A) Any of the following criteria: environmental, safety, research, technology, corridor alignment, or management concern; or
(B) The following criteria collectively: state funding impacts, economic feasibility, and federal funding concerns; or
(2) The projects do not lend themselves to undergrounding, such as: resurfacing, traffic signal installation, drainage installation, bikeway markings, guardrail installation, traffic markings, and enhancement improvements. [L 1996, c 84, §2]
Cross References
Overhead or underground construction of high-voltage electric transmission lines, see §269-27.6.
Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes
Title 15. Transportation and Utilities
264-1 Public highways and trails.
264-1.5 Emergency powers; traffic emergency zones.
264-2.1 County highways; ownership.
264-3 Disposal of abandoned public highway.
264-4 Restoration of boundary markers.
264-5 In lieu of other compensation.
264-6 State highway not to be disturbed without permit.
264-8 Specifications, standards, procedures.
264-9 Backfilling, repaving, repairing, expense of permit holder.
264-10 Deposit of fees, etc.; inspectors.
264-12 Penalty for violations.
264-13 Easements, etc., along state highways.
264-14 Permit and paving requirements.
264-15 Highway advance acquisition; source of funds.
264-16 State highway clearing accounts.
264-18 Use of highway fund for bikeways.
264-20 Flexibility in highway design; liability of State, counties, and public utilities.
264-20.7 Clean ground transportation goal.
264-22 State highway department.
264-25 Signs and markings on federal-aid highways.
264-26 Combination of federal and state funds.
264-28 Federal-aid projects; mandatory on council.
264-30 Transfers of county funds.
264-31 Maintenance of federal-aid highways.
264-32 Utility facility defined.
264-33 Relocation of utility facilities.
264-34 Portions of projects deemed one.
264-35 Assistance for displaced families and business.
264-36 Conformance with county general or master plans.
264-42 Authority to include other public highways in the state highway system.
264-44 Maintenance of state highway system.
264-61 Definition of a controlled-access facility.
264-62 Authority to establish controlled-access facilities.
264-63 Acquisition of property.
264-65 New and existing facilities; grade-crossing eliminations.
264-66 Authority to enter into agreements.
264-72 Control of outdoor advertising.
264-74 Removal of nonconforming outdoor advertising.
264-75 Compensation for removal of outdoor advertising.
264-76 Unlawful outdoor advertising.
264-79 Agreements with the United States authorized.
264-85 Junkyards lawfully in existence.
264-86 Requirement as to screening.
264-87 Authority to acquire interest in land for removal and screening of existing junkyards.
264-90 Agreements with the United States authorized.
264-101 Vending from highways prohibited.
264-122 Highway development special fund.
264-123 Authority to assess impact fees; needs assessment study.
264-124 Impact fees; director's consent.
264-125 Refund of impact fees to county.
264-127 Limitations on actions.
264-131 Sidewalk project priority lists.
264-142 Ground transportation facilities.