HRS §486K-5.5
Hotel liability for beach and ocean injuries
This section limits when a hotel can be held responsible for injuries or losses from beach or ocean activities. A hotel is only liable to its own guests if it failed to warn about a known danger that a careful guest would not have known about. The hotel has no duty to non-guests for conditions it did not create.
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The statute, as written — Hotelkeeper's liability limited for certain beach and ocean activities
In a claim alleging injury or loss on account of a hazardous condition on a beach or in the ocean, a hotelkeeper shall be liable to a hotel guest for damages for personal injury, death, property damage, or other loss resulting from the hotel guest going onto the beach or into the ocean for a recreational purpose, including wading, swimming, surfing, body surfing, boogie boarding, diving, or snorkeling, only when such loss or injury is caused by the hotelkeeper's failure to warn against a hazardous condition on a beach or in the ocean, known, or which should have been known to a reasonably prudent hotelkeeper, and when the hazardous condition is not known to the guest or would not have been known to a reasonably prudent guest. A hotelkeeper owes no duty and shall have no liability for conditions which were not created by the hotel to a person who is not a guest of the hotel for injury or damage resulting from any beach or ocean activity. As used in this section, "beach" means the beach fronting the hotel, and "hotel guest" means a guest of that particular hotel and other persons occupying the assigned rooms.
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