HCC §24-219

No damaging or tampering with parking meters

Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗

This section makes it illegal for anyone to damage, open, or interfere with a parking meter. It covers actions like defacing, breaking, or making a meter less useful. The rule is simple: do not mess with parking meters.

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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Tampering with meters prohibited

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.

No person shall deface, injure, tamper with, open, or wilfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any parking meter.

Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗as published Jul 16, 2026our copy taken Aug 21, 2026

Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.

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