ROH §14-5.1
Property Owners Must Keep Sidewalks Clean
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗Property owners whose land touches a public street must keep the sidewalk and gutter next to their property clean, passable, and free of weeds. This does not apply if cleaning is dangerous or if the sidewalk is not reasonably accessible from the property.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Cleaning of sidewalks
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) Every property owner whose land abuts or adjoins a public street shall continually maintain, and keep clean, passable and free from weeds and noxious growths, the sidewalk and gutter area that abuts or adjoins the property owner’s property; provided that this requirement shall not apply where maintenance of an abutting sidewalk and gutter may be hazardous to the owner, or where a sidewalk and gutter, although abutting the owner’s residential property, are so situated that there is no reasonable access from the property to the sidewalk and gutter.
(b) The term “sidewalk” has the same meaning as that portion of a street between a curb line or the pavement of a roadway, and the adjacent property line intended for the use of pedestrians, including any setback area acquired by the city for road widening purposes. The term “gutter” has the same meaning as that paved portion of a roadway immediately adjacent to the curb or that portion of a roadway in concrete and 12 to 14 inches wide immediately adjacent to the curb.
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