HRS §172-13

Protecting government survey markers from damage

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This section makes it illegal to damage, move, or remove survey markers, corner posts, witness trees, or bench marks used in government surveys without written permission from the state comptroller. Violators face a fine, jail time, or both.

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The statute, as written — Destruction, defacing or removal of survey monuments; penalty.] It shall be unlawful, without the written consent of the state comptroller, for any person to destroy, deface, change, or remove to anot

A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.

her place, any trigonometrical survey station, boundary line mark or monument, corner post, or any other government line of survey, or to cut down any witness tree or any tree blazed to mark the line of a government survey, or any bench mark in any government survey. Any person who violates this chapter, shall be fined not more than $500, or imprisoned not more than four months, or both.

Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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