HCC §24-4
Where you can and cannot ride skateboards and roller skates
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This law says you cannot ride skateboards, roller skates, roller blades, coasters, or similar devices on roads or sidewalks in most places. You may only cross a road on foot in a crosswalk, and you can only ride on a sidewalk if it is a special driveway set aside for that use in downtown Hilo.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Use of coasters, roller skates, roller blades, skateboards, and
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.
other similar devices prohibited. (a) No person shall ride a coaster, roller skates, roller blades, skateboard, or any similar device upon any roadway except while crossing a street in a crosswalk and when so crossing such person shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to pedestrians. (b) No person shall ride a coaster, roller skates, roller blades, skateboard, or any similar device upon any sidewalk or sidewalk area, except upon a permanent or temporary driveway specifically designated and authorized for such use, in the following designated locations: (1) Within the downtown Hilo commercial area bounded by the Wailuku River on the west; Hilo Bay on the north; twenty feet east of the eastern most boundary of Ponahawai Street (this boundary shall also continue in a northerly direction, from the point twenty feet east of the Ponahawai Street and Kamehameha Avenue intersection, across Kamehameha Avenue, through Bayfront Park and the Hawai‘i Belt Road, to Hilo Bay) on the east; and twenty feet south of the southern most boundary of Kapiolani and Kaiulani Streets on the south (including the portion of Waianuenue Avenue which is contiguous to Kapiolani and Kaiulani Streets).
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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