§286-105 - What persons are exempt from license.
§286-105 What persons are exempt from license. The following persons are exempt from license:
(1) Any person while driving or operating a motor vehicle in the service or employ of any branch or agency of the federal government; provided that the person has received a license or permit from the branch or agency to operate and drive the motor vehicle; provided further that the branch or agency has been duly authorized by the federal government to issue the license or permit;
(2) Any person while driving or operating any road machine, farm tractor, or implement of husbandry temporarily operated or moved on a highway; provided that no person under the age of thirteen years shall be permitted to drive or operate any such road machine, farm tractor, or implement of husbandry on a highway;
(3) Any person who is at least eighteen years of age and who has in the person's possession a valid driver's license to drive the categories of motor vehicles listed in section 286-102(b), except section 286-102(b)(4), that is equivalent to a driver's license issued in this State but was issued to the person in another state of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, a province of the Dominion of Canada, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands for that category of motor vehicle which the person is operating;
(4) Any person who has in the person's possession a valid commercial motor vehicle driver's license issued by any state of the United States, Mexico, or a province of the Dominion of Canada that issues licenses in accordance with the minimum federal standards for the issuance of commercial motor vehicle driver's licenses; and
(5) Any person who drives or operates state or county motor vehicles while employed by, in the service of, or volunteering for the state or county fire departments, provided that they are trained and certified to drive category (4) motor vehicles as set forth in section 286-102(b)(4) by the state or county government, as appropriate, and provided that the person maintains a category (3) license as set forth in section 286-102(b)(3). [L 1937, c 234, §3; RL 1945, §7303; am L Sp 1949, c 19, §3; RL 1955, §160-33; am L 1957, c 82, §1 and c 159, §1; am L 1967, c 214, §7; HRS §286-105; am L 1970, c 164, §3; am L 1971, c 127, §2; am L 1972, c 2, pt of §6; am L 1976, c 5, §2; am L 1979, c 108, §1; gen ch 1985; am L 1986, c 224, §2; am L 1989, c 320, §5; am L 1990, c 11, §1 and c 342, §19; am L 1993, c 268, §1; am L 1997, c 73, §1]