Maui County, HI Special Events & Permits: Parade Permits (2026)
Key Facts
- Permit trigger
- 200+ persons or 50+ vehicles
- Issuing authority
- Chief of police
- Governing section
- Maui County Code 10.52.060(B)
- Exempt groups
- Military, police, fire processions
- Driver rule
- No cutting through moving procession
Summary
A funeral, procession or parade of two hundred or more people, or fifty or more vehicles, cannot use a Maui County street without a permit from the chief of police. Section 10.52.060 of the Maui County Code also bars drivers from cutting through a moving procession and sets identification rules for funeral vehicles.
No funeral, procession, or parade containing two hundred or more persons or fifty or more vehicles, excepting the forces of the United States Army or Navy, or the military forces of the state of Hawaii and the forces of the police and fire departments, shall occupy, march or proceed along any street, except in accordance with a permit issued by the chief of police and such other regulations as are set forth in this title which may apply.
Full Breakdown
060, 'Operating through funeral or other processions,' regulates both individual drivers near a procession and the procession organizers themselves. Subsection A prohibits any driver from operating a vehicle between the vehicles of a funeral or other authorized procession while they are in motion and conspicuously marked as required by law, though the rule lifts at intersections controlled by traffic signals or police officers. Subsection B is the permit trigger: no funeral, procession, or parade of two hundred or more persons, or fifty or more vehicles, may occupy, march, or proceed along any street except under a permit issued by the chief of police, subject to whatever other regulations in Title 10 apply; the only carve-outs are for United States Army or Navy forces, Hawaii state military forces, and police or fire department forces.
Subsection C sets identification and driving-discipline rules for funeral processions of vehicles: each vehicle must display a placard of a type the chief of police designs, and every driver in the procession must hug the right-hand edge of the roadway as practicable and follow the vehicle ahead as closely as is safe. Because the permit threshold is written in terms of headcount or vehicle count rather than the purpose of the gathering, it reaches parades, marches and funeral processions alike once they hit two hundred participants or fifty vehicles, while smaller gatherings fall outside the permit requirement altogether.
Violations & Fines
Holding a parade, procession or funeral of two hundred or more people, or fifty or more vehicles, on a Maui County street without a chief-of-police permit violates Section 10.52.060(B). A driver who cuts between the moving vehicles of an authorized, properly marked procession, other than at a signal- or officer-controlled intersection, separately violates Section 10.52.060(A). Both are enforced by the Maui Police Department.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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