ROH §15-21.7
Who pays for damage to roads or bridges
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗If you drive something on a road or bridge and it causes damage because you broke the law or because it was too heavy (even with a special permit), you must pay for the repairs. If you are driving someone else's vehicle with their permission, both you and the owner must pay.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Liability for damage to highway or structure
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) Any person driving any vehicle, object, or contrivance upon any highway or highway structure shall be liable for all damage that such highway or structure may sustain as a result of any illegal operation, driving or moving of such vehicle, object, or contrivance, or as a result of operating, driving, or moving any such vehicle, object, or contrivance weighing in excess of the permitted maximum weight but authorized by a special permit issued as provided in § 15-21.12 .
(b) Whenever such driver is not the owner of such vehicle, object, or contrivance, but is so operating, driving, or moving the same with the expressed or implied permission of its owner, then such owner and driver shall be jointly and severally liable for any such damage.
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