Maui County, HI Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)

Chapter 10.60, Pedestrians, splits right-of-way by location. Inside a marked or intersection crosswalk, section 10.60.020 flips the duty onto drivers, who must slow or stop for a crossing pedestrian. Step outside that protected zone, under section 10.60.030, and the duty reverses: the pedestrian must yield to vehicles already using the roadway, whether crossing mid-block on Kaahumanu Avenue in Kahului or cutting across South Kihei Road between marked crossings. The chapter also bars a pedestrian from suddenly leaving a curb into the path of a vehicle too close to stop (section 10.60.020(B)), and section 10.60.060 separately requires pedestrians to use a sidewalk where one exists, or to walk facing traffic on the shoulder where none does.

Section 10.60.080 keeps a driver's due-care duty in force regardless of where a pedestrian crosses: drivers must still sound a horn and take precautions around children or confused or incapacitated pedestrians. The County has also established dozens of specific marked crosswalks by street segment under section 10.60.042, from Lower Main Street in Wailuku to Hana Highway in Hana; those locations, not any unmarked midpoint, are where the driver-yield rule of section 10.60.020 applies. Maui Police Department officers write these as ordinary traffic citations under Title 10's general enforcement provisions rather than under a separate criminal statute.