HCC §14-159
County may fix private roads without taking them over
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section says the County can improve, grade, repair, or build on certain private roads that are open to the public and needed for transportation or safety. Doing this work does not mean the County is taking the road, controlling it, or promising to fix it again later.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Purpose
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.
Section 265A-1, Hawai‘i Revised Statutes, provides that the council may enact an ordinance that authorizes the County to improve, grade, repair, or do construction work upon private roads. The council finds that there are private, nondedicated, and non- surrendered roads in Hawai‘i County that are open to the general public and necessary for public transportation or public safety, or both. The council further finds that the public interest of the County is served by performing such improvement, grading, repair or construction work upon such roads, in limited circumstances. Any such work undertaken by the County pursuant to this article shall not be construed as evidence of intention by the County to dedicate or condemn any subject road to the public use, take control over the subject road, nor obligate the County to improve, grade, repair, or do construction work upon the subject road in the future. (2024, ord 24-1, sec 2.) 14-159
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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