HCC §3-29
Signs must not block doors, windows, or fire escapes
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This rule says signs cannot block doors, windows, fire escapes, or roof paths. Signs must stay at least two feet away from fire escape platforms and must swing away from them. It applies to anyone putting up signs on buildings.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Obstructing ingress and egress; obstructing fire-related
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.
structures. (a) No sign or supports or hangings for any sign shall be erected so as to cover a door or window of any building or otherwise to prevent free ingress and egress to or from any window, door or fire escape of any building. (b) No sign shall be constructed in a manner which interferes with the free passage from one part of the roof to another part of the roof or interferes with any opening on the roof. (c) No sign shall be attached to any part of a fire escape or upon or to any stand pipe or fire escape support, or be placed nearer than two feet from any fire escape platform. Every sign shall be so arranged as to swing away from the fire escape or platform. (2004, ord 04-142, sec 2.)3-29
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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