HCC §14-39
Police chief must protect public lawns and gardens
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗The chief of police has to protect lawns, gardens, and other planted areas that belong to the State or County, or that are public. The chief must put up signs telling people to stay off these areas. This rule does not apply to the Hilo bayfront area from February 1 through October 31 each year.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Duty of chief of police; cultivated grounds
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.
It shall be the duty of the chief of police to protect lawns, gardens, grass plots, and other cultivated grounds belonging to the State and the County within the County, and all lawns, gardens, grass plots, and other cultivated grounds of a public nature within the County, and to place or cause to be placed on these places signs and notices warning persons to keep off these places; provided that this section shall not apply, during the period from February 1 through October 31 of each year, to the Hilo bayfront area, situated makai of the Hawai‘i Belt Road, from the intersection of Kamehameha Avenue and Hawai‘i Belt Road as delineated in the attached map.* * Editor’s Note: No map is attached.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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