HCC §14-150
Clearing trash and dangerous plants from your property
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗If you own a lot next to a public street or highway, you must clear trash, overgrown weeds, and unsafe plants from the part within 100 feet of the road. You only have to do this if the mess creates a real risk of fire, health problems, safety issues, property damage, or crime.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Removal of refuse, undergrowth, and unsafe flora required
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.
Every owner of any occupied or unoccupied lot the frontage of which abuts or adjoins any public street or highway within the County, shall clear the lot of all refuse, uncultivated undergrowth, and unsafe flora thereon to a depth of not exceeding one hundred feet from any street or highway adjoining, whenever on the lot there is refuse, uncultivated undergrowth, or unsafe flora to an extent that the lot poses or is likely to pose an imminent danger for fire, health, safety, property damage, or crime hazard. (2020, ord 20-86, sec 2.) 14-150 14-59 SUPP. 9 (1-2021)
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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