Maui County, HI Animal Ordinances: Beekeeping (2026)

060 of the Maui County Code, the permitted-and-accessory-use table for the Maui Research & Technology Park district, lists "Greenhouses, flower and truck gardens, nurseries, community gardens, beekeeping, and other similar agricultural uses excluding animal and livestock raising" and marks it "P" (permitted) in all five of the district's sub-areas: Employment/Campus, Mixed-Use, Residential, Civic, and Open Space/Park. That means a resident within this master-planned district's residential sub-area may keep bees without a conditional-use permit or public hearing, so long as the activity does not cross into "animal and livestock raising," which the same row excludes.

040, folds beekeeping into the general definition of "agriculture," alongside fruit, vegetable, and flower growing, forestry, aquaculture, grazing, and dairying, meaning beekeeping is treated as an agricultural pursuit wherever agriculture is a listed permitted use in a district's own use table, not only within the Maui Research & Technology Park. Outside that one master-planned area, the code carries no dedicated apiary ordinance: there is no county-wide hive count cap, minimum lot size, water-source requirement, or property-line setback specific to bees anywhere in Titles 6 (Animals), 8 (Health and Safety), or 19 (Zoning) as found in this code.

A beekeeper in a standard residential or agricultural district therefore relies on whichever district's use table treats "agriculture" or a similar use as permitted or accessory, and on Title 8's general nuisance provisions if the hives create a genuine hazard, rather than on any beekeeping-specific rule.