ROH §13-5.1
It is illegal to sell on public streets if you block people
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗This section makes it illegal for a solicitor or canvasser to do business on a public street, sidewalk, or mall if their activity blocks or bothers people using that space. It also defines who counts as a solicitor or canvasser, including people taking orders for future delivery or using a place just to show samples and take orders.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Use unlawful for certain business purposes
A copy, taken August 22, 2026. The version published by Honolulu is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
(a) It is unlawful for any solicitor or canvasser to engage in business on any public street, sidewalk, or mall where such person’s operation tends to, or does impede or inconvenience the public or any person in the lawful use of such street, sidewalk, or mall.
(b) “Solicitor or canvasser,” as used in this article, means any person, traveling by foot, or any other type of conveyance, or by wagon, automobile, motor truck, taking or attempting to take orders for the sale of goods, wares, merchandise, or other personal property for future delivery, or for services to be furnished or performed in the future, whether or not such person carries or exhibits any samples or collects advance payments on sales. The term shall also include any person who, for oneself or for another, hires, leases, uses, or occupies any building, structure, tent, room, shop, vehicle, or any other place for the sole purpose of exhibiting samples and taking orders for future delivery.
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