HCC §4-2-1

County can set up animal shelters for stray and lost pets

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This section lets the county's animal control agency create shelters to hold and care for dogs, cats, and other pets that are lost, stray, homeless, sick, or not claimed. It also allows them to handle these animals, including disposing of them if needed.

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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Pound established for dogs, cats, and domesticated animals

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.

The animal control and protection agency may establish pounds for the purpose of impounding, caring for, sheltering, and disposing of unlicensed, lost, stray, homeless, or diseased dogs, cats, or any seized animals not redeemed in the County of Hawai‘i.

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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