HCC §4-3-7
No feeding stray or feral animals on county property
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This rule says you cannot feed or try to feed stray or feral animals on any property the county owns, rents, or manages. If you break this rule, you may have to pay a fine. The county or its workers can still trap or remove animals.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Feeding 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.
(a) A person may not feed or attempt to feed a stray or feral animal on property owned, leased, rented, managed, or operated by the County. (b) Any person convicted of a violation of this section is subject to a fine not more than $50 for the first violation and not more than $500 for any subsequent violation. SUPP. 20 (7-2026) 4-6 ANIMALS § 4-3-7 (c) For the purposes of this section: “Feed” means to deliberately introduce any food material, substance, or attractant directly to or in the vicinity of an animal. “Feral” means undomesticated or living in a wild and unconfined state. (d) Nothing in this section prohibits, restricts, or limits the ability of the County or of a person authorized or contracted by the County to trap, remove, impound, or seize an animal or to undertake any other power or duty under this chapter or the Hawai‘i Revised Statutes, chapters 142 or 143. (2025, ord 25-63, sec 1.)4-3-7 Intentionally left blank. 4-6.1 SUPP. 20 (7-2026) This page intentionally left blank. SUPP. 20 (7-2026) 4-6.2 ANIMALS § 4-4-1 Article 4. Dogs. * Editor’s Note: A new article 4, “Dogs” was created and divided into: division 1, “Dog License Fees;” division 2, “General Provisions;” and division 3, “Dangerous Dogs,” by Ordinance 22-36. Further, sections 4-12 to 4-13 were placed within division 1; sections 4-20 to 4-27, and 4-29 to 4-30 were placed within division 2; and sections 4-28, and 4-31 to 4-31.3 were placed within division 3. Division 1. Dog License Fees.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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