HCC §14-40
Damaging county property is illegal and punishable
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This law makes it a crime to intentionally damage or destroy county-owned property like buildings, signs, or playgrounds. If you do, you can be fined or jailed. The county can also make you pay for repairs.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — 1. Property damage prohibited; penalty
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) It shall be unlawful for any person maliciously or wilfully to mar, injure, damage, destroy, or deface or aid in marring, injuring, damaging, destroying, or defacing any public building, sign, sidewalk, light pole, wall fixture, playground, structure, facility, or other property of the County without its consent. SUPP. 13 (1-2023) 14-19.1 GENERAL WELFARE § 14-40.1 (b) Any person violating this provision shall be punished, upon conviction, by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or by imprisonment not to exceed ninety days, or both. In addition to the penalties provided herein, the County may recover for damages to its property, the measure of which shall be the cost of repairing, replacing, or rebuilding the property injured or destroyed. (1986, ord 86-99, sec 2.)14-40.1 Article 7. Radio Interference.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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