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Honolulu, Hawaii police will begin to write tickets for people caught using their phones or other electronic devices while crossing at a crosswalk:
Police in Honolulu will begin writing tickets for people who get distracted by their cellphones while walking in a cross walk Wednesday. Honolulu is the first major city in the country to pass such a law, citing a high rate of pedestrians being hit in crosswalks.
"Starting today, texting while walking in a cross walk can get you a ticket," Hawaii Public Radio's Bill Dorman reports for our Newscast unit. "In fact, a downward glance at a screen of any kind will cost you—a phone, a tablet, a video game."
Under the new law, the only legal reason for a pedestrian to use a cellphone while crossing a street or highway would be to call 911 to report an emergency.
Minimum fines for breaking the new law start at $15; for repeat offenders, the penalty ranges from $75 to $99. Higher rates — up to $100 for a first offense, $200 for a second, and $500 for a third — had been considered earlier this year.
Also at the City and County of Honolulu. Bill 6 (2017).
(Score: 4, Informative) by frojack on Wednesday October 25 2017, @07:39PM (4 children)
Its clear this was never meant to pass, it was a hack job on an existing bill to outlaw texting while driving, and someone struck out all those provisions and inserted anti-walking provisions.
http://www4.honolulu.gov/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-196183/DOC007%20(14).PDF [honolulu.gov]
Further, it does not outlaw talking on the phone, only "viewing" the phone, and it mentions nothing about crosswalks.
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Worse than that it gives directions to the maintainer of ordinances: Ordinance material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.
And the first thing bracketed and stricken will be:
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday October 25 2017, @08:34PM (2 children)
Legal publishers print books that have the diffs applied.
It is damn near impossible to make sense of a complex bill. The revised code books only appear quite a long time after bills are passed.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Hyper on Wednesday October 25 2017, @09:47PM (1 child)
Then all law changes need to be managed like code changes. If the file is changed then it can be viewed as a diff of just the lines changed, the old version, the new version and with the option of the new version diff showing changes from the old.
Source control management systems have had this functionary for years. How are laws so different that existing software could not be used to manage changes.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday October 25 2017, @10:03PM
Some other politician's understanding was that "The Internet is a series of tubes."
Happily, Lawrence Lessig set SCOTUS up with WordPerfect. Before that they used typewriters. IIRC they eventually started using Word, but had to - quite publicly - beg Microsoft to include footnotes in its word count.
Some of the documents that can be sent to the court have a specific limit on their word count. Hilarity ensued.
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(Score: 1, Flamebait) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday October 25 2017, @08:37PM
It is Hawaii, after all, I've noticed they take the whole English Law concept half-heartedly.
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