HCC §14-162
When the county can fix a private road
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section lists the conditions a private road must meet before the county may improve or repair it. The road must be open to the public, not owned or maintained by another government, and serve enough homes or units. The county only does this if money and resources are available.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Eligibility criteria to be considered
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.
Subject to the availability of appropriations and necessary resources, the department may improve, grade, repair, or do construction work by remedial patching, resurfacing, paving, or installation of signs, marking, and lighting, upon those portions of private, nondedicated, and non-surrendered roads that have been determined by the director to meet the following criteria: (1) The subject road has not been dedicated or surrendered to the County or any other governmental entity, and is not otherwise owned by the County or any other governmental entity; (2) The subject road is not maintained by any governmental entity other than the County pursuant to this article; (3) The subject road is open to, serves, and benefits the general public; SUPP. 18 (7-2025) 14-64 GENERAL WELFARE § 14-162 (4) The subject road is not signed, marked, delineated, fenced, barricaded, or otherwise designed, constructed, or operated to exclude access by the general public, in whole or in part, which may be through such means as signs indicating that the road is a “private” road, or any restrictions on parking that are not applicable to all persons except as otherwise provided by law; (5) The subject road directly serves one of the following: (A) Fifty or more contiguous parcels; (B) Fifty or more residential structures; or (C) A parcel of land which has two or more condominium buildings or apartment buildings that contain twenty-four or more condominium or apartment units; (6) The subject road is not part of a cluster plan development, planned unit development, or similar type of development; (7) Improving, grading, repairing, or construction work upon the subject road by the County will be practicable and safe; (8) The developer or subdivider of the subject road has not agreed to maintain the subject road in perpetuity; (9) Improvement, grading, repair, or construction work upon the subject road surface will increase the safety of motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians or is otherwise in the public interest; (10) The requesters demonstrate a lack of ability to improve, grade, repair, or perform the construction work requested pursuant to section 14-164 and supply documentation to this effect; (11) The subject road does not suffer such design defects as to make use of the subject road hazardous to the general public regardless of improvement, grading, repair, or construction work; and (12) The County is provided legal access and right of entry to work within the roadways and adjacent areas necessary to complete the work. (2024, ord 24-1, sec 2.) 14-162
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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