HCC §14-146
Rules for handing out flyers at homes
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This law says you cannot throw, drop, or leave flyers on private property where people live. You can hand a flyer directly to someone there, or leave it in a way that keeps it from blowing around. Mail and newspapers have their own rules.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Distributing handbills at inhabited private premises
A copy, taken August 21, 2026. The version published by Hawaiʻi County is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
(a) No person shall throw, deposit, or distribute any handbill in or upon private premises which are inhabited, except by handling or transmitting any handbill directly to the owner, occupant, or other person then present in or upon the private premises; provided that the person distributing the handbill, unless requested not to do so by owner, occupant, or other person lawfully on the premises, may place or deposit any handbill in or upon the inhabited premises if the handbill is so placed or deposited as to secure or prevent the handbill from being blown or drifted about the premises or sidewalks, streets, or other public places, except that mailboxes may not be used when prohibited by Federal postal law or regulations. SUPP. 9 (1-2021) 14-58 GENERAL WELFARE § 14-146 (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to the distribution of mail by the United States, nor of any newspaper, except that a newspaper shall be placed on private property in a manner which prevents the newspaper from being carried or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk, or other public place or upon private property. (2020, ord 20-86, sec 1.) 14-146
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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