HCC §4-2-4
Who can enforce animal control rules
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗The county's animal control agency can choose people with proper training to be animal control officers. These officers enforce the county's animal rules and state law. The agency decides who is qualified.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Enforcement by animal control officer
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 designate persons who possess qualifications and training satisfactory to the County to serve as animal control officers to carry out the provisions of this article, chapter 143, Hawai‘i Revised Statutes, and other provisions of this chapter which expressly authorize such animal control officers to take specific action by ordinance.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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