HCC §15-9
What counts as disorderly conduct and why it is banned
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section makes disorderly conduct illegal. It defines disorderly conduct as certain actions done to cause public trouble or that create a real risk of it, like fighting, making unreasonable noise, or creating a dangerous condition. The section lists specific examples of what counts.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Disorderly conduct prohibited; defined
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) Disorderly conduct is prohibited. (b) A person is guilty of disorderly conduct if, with purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, the person: (1) Engages in fighting or in threatening, violent, or tumultuous behavior; (2) Makes unreasonable noise or subjects another person to offensively coarse utterances, gestures, displays, or abusive language in a manner which is likely to provoke a violent response; or (3) Creates a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose of the actor.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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