HCC §14-9
Exceptions to the explosives and dangerous items rules
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section lists who is allowed to use explosives and dangerous items despite the general ban. It covers police, licensed security officers, and certain employees who need them for work. They must follow other rules in this law.
everyone
The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Exceptions
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) The chief of police and his subordinates may purchase, possess, discharge, use, and transport shells, cartridges, bombs, guns, and obnoxious substances in carrying out their duties. (b) Notwithstanding the prohibitions prescribed in subsections 14-8(a) and (b), private security officers who are employees of licensed private police or security agencies may purchase, possess, discharge, use, or transport shells, cartridges, bombs, guns, and other devices in carrying out their duties, subject however, to the conditions prescribed in sections 14-11 and 14-12. (c) An employee of a government or private organization who, by necessity of employment, is required to go on private property to carry out a duty, may possess, discharge, use, or transport shells, cartridges, bombs, guns, and other devices subject to the conditions prescribed in section 14-12.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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