HRS §183-19
Removing stray cattle or horses from protected lands
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗If branded wild cattle or horses are found on protected state lands, the department can remove, shoot, or destroy them without paying the owner. They must give 30 days' public notice in the county first. This applies to forest reserves, game management areas, public hunting areas, and natural area reserves.
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The statute, as written — Exclusion of livestock from forest reserves, game management areas, public hunting areas, and natural area reserves; notice
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.
When branded wild cattle or horses are found on any forest land, game management area, public hunting area, or natural area reserve in the State, which land is duly set apart and established as a forest reserve, game management area, public hunting area, or natural area reserve, or if the land is privately owned and surrendered as defined in section 183-15, the department, in all cases where the land is so set apart and established as a forest reserve, game management area, public hunting area, or natural area reserve, whether from privately owned lands or public lands, may remove, shoot, or destroy the cattle or horses without compensation to the owner, after thirty days' public notice of the intended action in the county where the cattle or horses are found.
Sections this one refers to
§183-15 Giving private land to the state for forest or water reserves
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