Makawao, HI

Maui County Code section 3.48.305 taxes short-term rentals through real property tax classification, not a hotel-room tax. An owner-occupant holding a bed and breakfast, short-term…

Maui County requires every short-term rental home to have a manager who is genuinely reachable. Under Maui County Code § 19.65.030(D)-(E), the permit holder must either serve as…

Maui County requires every short-term rental home to post house policies telling guests to park only in the designated onsite parking area, never on the street. The rule is mandatory…

Maui County caps short-term rental homes at six bedrooms on Maui and three on Lanai and Molokai, and limits total overnight guests to twice the number of approved bedrooms. The cap is…

An applicant may hold no more than one short-term rental home permit in Maui County, and the dwelling itself must be at least fifteen years old and owned by the applicant for fifteen…

Maui County can revoke a short-term rental home permit once the Department of Planning has logged at least three neighbor complaints about the property within a twelve-month period…

Maui County bans the sale, gift, use, firing, discharge or explosion of fireworks anywhere in the county unless the chief of police issues a permit for a supervised public display, a…

Maui County's fire code does not require a permit for cooking or recreational fires, but section 16.04E.210 conditions that exemption on compliance with the Hawaii Department of Health…

Maui County requires Department of Health Clean Air Branch approval for any fire lit for recreational, decorative, or ceremonial purposes, under section 16.04E.220 of the fire code…

Maui County requires a Fire Prevention Bureau permit to store, use, handle, or dispense LP-gas once the aggregate water capacity reaches 125 gallons, under the County's amended NFPA 1…

Maui County's Hawaiian Provisions for Indigenous Hawaiian Architecture require a battery-operated smoke alarm in any hale used for sleeping. The same chapter also uses roof-mounted…

Maui County allows private water catchment systems only in agricultural, residential, and rural zoned districts under Maui County Code section 14.04.010(E), and those systems are…

Maui County requires owners to trim any tree or shrub on their property that overhangs a sidewalk, street, or public place enough to impede traffic. Code section 12.24A.090 gives…

When the Department of Water Supply declares a water shortage, Maui County Code section 14.06A.060(B) lets the director prohibit irrigation, lawn watering, and vehicle washing…

Maui County requires every property owner whose land abuts a county street to keep the adjoining sidewalk or shoulder "clean, passable and free from weeds and noxious growths," giving…

Cutting down, digging up, mutilating, or burning a street or park tree in Maui County requires prior authorization from the director of public works for rights-of-way, or the director…

An accessory dwelling on Maui pays only half the water system development fee that a standalone home owes. Maui County Code section 14.07.080(A) sets the accessory dwelling building…

Maui County flatly bars any accessory dwelling from operating as a bed and breakfast home, short-term rental home, or transient vacation rental, closing off the ohana unit as a…

Maui County scales an accessory dwelling's maximum floor area to lot size, from 500 square feet on small lots up to 1,200 square feet on lots over two acres, and caps how many can go…

Maui County's building code exempts small detached accessory structures like sheds from needing a building permit, but only within strict limits: one story, no more than 120 square…

Maui County requires every licensed short-term rental home and bed-and-breakfast to post house policies banning "amplified sound that is audible beyond the property boundaries,"…

Maui County bans car stereos loud enough to be heard fifty feet outside the vehicle in any public area, and requires every vehicle on a county highway to run a working muffler that…

Maui County treats a dog that barks excessively as a nuisance under its animal control ordinance. Barking counts as excessive when it disturbs anyone for ten consecutive minutes or…

Maui County caps overnight street parking at sixty minutes: Maui County Code Section 10.48.110 bars parking on any roadway for longer than an hour between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m., with an…

Maui County bans parking within four feet of a driveway, on sidewalks, crosswalks or intersections, and requires cars to park parallel, facing traffic, with wheels inside twelve inches…

Maui County treats any vehicle left unattended on a public highway for more than twenty-four hours as abandoned. Section 10.48.200 of the Maui County Code bans abandoning vehicles…

Maui County Code section 10.68.110 bars trucks, buses, tractors and other vehicles over 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating from thirteen named residential streets, including…

Maui County Code Chapter 10.56A creates loading zones by ordinance, island-wide from Wailuku to Lanai. Inside a marked zone, drivers may stop only to load or unload passengers or…

New multiunit and commercial buildings on Maui must build a share of their parking EV-ready. Residential projects adding eight or more stalls need 70 percent electric-vehicle-capable…

Maui County runs its version of preferential parking through Chapter 10.78's permit parking zones: the department of transportation issues year-long permits for designated areas, and…

Maui County requires most required parking spaces, aisles, and driveways to be paved in asphalt or concrete, but lets half the spaces at most properties, and all of them in the…

Maui County zoning prohibits parking a camper van, RV, trailer, or pop-up-tent vehicle anywhere in the county, on a driveway or otherwise, if it's being used or rented out for…

Maui County requires every dog owner to keep the dog 'under restraint' at all times, meaning enclosed on the owner's property or on a leash no longer than ten feet held by a…

Maui County's dangerous dog ordinance is written to be breed-neutral: section 6.04.046 tells enforcement officers a dog's breed cannot be considered when deciding whether it is…

Maui County does not require every pet to be microchipped, but a dog officially designated 'dangerous' must be permanently identified with an implanted microchip within thirty days…

Maui County doesn't require every owned pet to be sterilized, but no dog or cat can leave animal control on adoption unless it is already neutered or the adopter signs a written…

Maui County bars feeding animals or staging food or water for them in any County park or recreational facility unless a director-issued permit specifically allows it. The same section…

Maui County sets no fixed head-count cap on dogs or cats. The county's amended Residential Code bars horses, cows, swine, goats, chickens, ducks and pigeons within twenty feet of any…

Maui County's zoning code lists beekeeping as a permitted use, by right, in every sub-district of the Maui Research & Technology Park, including its Residential sub-district: the…

Maui County's zoning code allows veterinary clinics, including indoor boarding tied to an established clinic, as a permitted use only in the Employment/Campus and Mixed-Use…

Maui County's zoning code bans exterior signage for home occupations outright: Maui County Code § 19.04.040 says no sign, display, or change to a dwelling's exterior may advertise a…

Maui County treats home-based child care as a permitted use in every residential district, with the maximum number of children tied to lot size under Maui County Code Section…

Maui County lets residents run a business from a home in any residential district under Maui County Code Chapter 19.67 without special zoning approval, as long as it stays small: one…

Maui County home businesses cannot generate more traffic than a residential neighborhood would normally see, and permitted-use home businesses are capped at two customers onsite at a…

Maui County caps residential fences and walls at 7 feet under Maui County Code Section 19.08.050, but drops that limit to 3 feet within 30 feet of any street intersection under Section…

Maui County's building code exempts small retaining walls from a building permit, but only within limits. Under § 16.25.105, section 105.2, item 15, a wall needs no permit if it holds…

Maui County lets homeowners build a fence or wall up to 7 feet high without a building permit. Deer-exclusion fencing gets a taller exemption, up to 10 feet, when it protects…

Maui County requires a building permit before installing most residential swimming pools. The code carves out one narrow exemption: a prefabricated pool accessory to a single-family…

Maui County closes every county park and recreational facility to the public between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. under Maui County Code section 13.04A.070(B)(1). The ban applies…

Maui County bars minors from public places and streets between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m. if under thirteen, between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. if thirteen to under sixteen, and between midnight and 4…

Maui County bans drinking or possessing an opened container of liquor anywhere within a "municipal parking lot," which the code defines to include county park parking areas…

Maui County makes it unlawful to urinate or defecate on the grounds of any county park or recreational facility outside a properly functioning public restroom. The rule sits in Maui…

Maui County makes it unlawful for a child under twelve to play or loiter on the traveled portion of a public highway in a "congested district," and lets a police or probation officer…

Maui County holds property owners, tenants and lessees strictly liable when they host a gathering where anyone under 21 possesses or drinks alcohol. Maui County Code Chapter 9.40 lets…

Skateboards, roller skates and toy vehicles cannot go on a Maui County roadway except while crossing in a crosswalk, and they cannot use a sidewalk inside a business district at all…

Maui County's smoking ban reaches outdoors in two places: within twenty feet of any County bus stop or shelter, and inside any motor vehicle carrying a passenger under eighteen, on a…

Maui County Code section 10.60.030 puts the burden on the pedestrian: anyone crossing a roadway outside a marked crosswalk, or outside an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, must…

Maui County requires a written permit from the Department of Public Works and Waste Management before anyone digs up, disturbs, or undermines a county street, sidewalk, alley, or other…

No one may stand or park a vehicle so that any part of it blocks a sidewalk in Maui County. Section 10.52.190 of the Maui County Code makes any portion of a vehicle obstructing a…

Maui County Code section 12.02.020 makes every abutting property owner responsible for keeping the sidewalk or shoulder in front of their land clean, passable and free of weeds. If an…

Maui County requires improved commercial property in Central, South, and West Maui to connect to reclaimed water service where it is available, for irrigation on golf courses…

Maui County's water code puts leak detection largely in the Department of Water Supply's hands rather than on consumers: section 14.06A.030 requires the department to monitor…

Maui County Code section 2.88.070 lets any person or organization nominate a property for the Hawaii or National Register of Historic Places. The county's nine-member cultural…

Maui County Code chapter 3.47 imposes its own three percent transient accommodations tax on gross rental proceeds from hotels, resorts, and other transient accommodations, layered on…

Maui County's Landscape Planting and Beautification chapter puts street-tree planting and upkeep under the director of public works. A landowner may plant a tree in the County…

Maui County protects historically, culturally or biologically significant trees by designating them 'exceptional trees' under Code section 12.24A.055. The County Council makes the…

Anyone wanting to hold an event, class, or reserved activity at a Maui County park or recreational facility needs a permit first under Maui County Code section 13.04A.090(A). The…

A funeral, procession or parade of two hundred or more people, or fifty or more vehicles, cannot use a Maui County street without a permit from the chief of police. Section 10.52.060…

Any carnival, bazaar, fair, or festival held in a Maui County park needs a special events permit from the Department of Parks and Recreation before it can happen. Permits generally cap…

Maui County limits outdoor sidewalk dining in the Wailuku Redevelopment Area to seating accessory to an adjoining restaurant or kiosk. No permanent fixtures can be attached to the…

Maui County bans operating a vehicle's sound amplification system so loudly it "can be heard outside the vehicle from fifty feet or more" in any public area, targeting the bass-heavy…

Maui County makes it unlawful to leave weeds, trash or waste creating an "unsanitary condition" on any property, including vacant lots, once an owner ignores a written removal notice…

Maui County declares any structurally unsafe, dilapidated or abandoned building a public nuisance and empowers the building official to order it repaired, rehabilitated or demolished…

Maui County has no general anti-camping ordinance, but Chapter 11.04 bans camping-style setups specifically at County bus stops and transit facilities: no tent, tarp, sleeping bag…

Maui County's sit-lie rule lives inside the transit code, not a citywide sidewalk ordinance: section 11.04.010(A)(19) bans sitting, lying, sleeping, or occupying a County bus stop or…

Maui County's residential building code requires windows in windborne-debris regions to have impact-resistant glazing protection meeting ASTM E 1996 and E 1886 standards, under section…

Maui County's amended Residential Code forces roof framing to resist hurricane-force wind uplift. Rafters and trusses must be tied to supporting walls with connectors rated for the…

In Maui's coastal high hazard zones, V and VE, buildings hit by hurricane wave action must sit on anchored pilings or columns with the lowest floor at least one foot above the base…

Maui County's sign-waving ordinance, adopted because election-season crowds on roadsides create safety hazards, bars anyone from holding or displaying a sign in a highway right-of-way…

Maui County caps window signs at fifty percent of available window area. The Commercial Signs chapter defines a window sign as anything placed on the outside of a window or hung inside…

Maui County effectively bars digital and animated billboards. The Commercial Signs chapter prohibits any sign that needs mechanical, electrical, or other power to animate, flash, or…

Inside Maui County's Wailuku Redevelopment Area, the zoning code bars merchandising displays and structures from sitting in any required front, side, or rear yard. Section 19.39.110…

Maui County requires anyone who peddles, hawks or sells door-to-door, from a stand, cart, vehicle or on foot, to hold a vendor's license from the director of finance before starting…

Maui County requires a permit from the Department of Public Works director before any electrical work begins. The National Electrical Code, as amended by the county, lists narrow…

Maui County waives its inspection fee for licensed day care centers across three separate construction codes. When the state requires an inspection for day care licensing, the county's…

Maui County makes it unlawful to install, alter, repair, or remodel a plumbing system without first getting a separate permit for each building or structure. The 2018 Uniform Plumbing…

Any construction requiring a Maui County building permit must pass a series of required inspections, and work cannot be covered or concealed until the building official signs off on…

Maui County requires anyone who wants to construct, enlarge, alter, repair, move, demolish or change the use of a building, or install regulated electrical, gas, mechanical or plumbing…

Maui County has no general residential sprinkler mandate, but its Hawaiian Provisions for Indigenous Hawaiian Architecture require automatic fire sprinklers on a hale (traditional…

Maui County bars ordinary latches or locks on swinging exit doors serving high-hazard rooms and crowded assembly or educational spaces. Those doors must use panic hardware or fire exit…

Every property in Maui County must be enrolled for solid waste pickup, either through the county's own collection or a private hauler. Section 8.04.015 has required this arrangement…

Maui County bills residential trash pickup by the 'refuse collection unit,' defined as six containers, boxes, bags or bundles. A dwelling's monthly fee covers one such unit, and…

Maui County Code Chapter 20.22 requires every liquor-licensed bar and restaurant to recycle its glass containers instead of tossing them in the trash, register with the department of…

Maui County Code Chapter 20.20 makes it a violation to discard litter on public property, private property without consent, or a roadway, punishable under section 20.20.090 by a fine…

In Maui County's Wailuku Redevelopment Area, every outdoor trash storage area serving a commercial or multi-family property must be screened on at least three sides by a wall or hedge…

Maui County outlaws the entire shared dockless scooter business model: Chapter 10.73 makes it unlawful to offer any dockless vehicle for rent, or to rent one, anywhere in the County…

Maui County prohibits any illicit discharge into its storm-drainage system under Chapter 14.80 through 14.82 of the County Code, enacted by Ordinance No. 5749 in 2024. The Department…

Maui County requires a special flood hazard area development permit from the Department of Public Works before any construction, fill, grading or other development begins in a mapped…

New construction and substantially improved buildings in Maui County's mapped flood zones must have the lowest floor, including any basement, built at least one foot above the base…

Maui County Code Chapter 20.08 requires a grading permit before any grading or stockpiling and a separate grubbing permit before clearing vegetation, with a stricter…

Maui County requires a Fire Prevention Bureau permit before installing or modifying any photovoltaic system under its amended fire code, with one exception: systems on one- and…

Maui County bans hibachis, grills, and similar cooking or heating devices on balconies, under overhangs, or within 10 feet of any structure at multifamily buildings, under fire code…

Maui County Code section 19.510.100 makes each B-CT country town business district follow its own architectural design guidelines so new and renovated buildings stay compatible with…

Maui County's Open Space Incentive System lets apartment, hotel, and business buildings along the coast between the ocean and coastal highways earn extra floor area and building height…

Maui County treats mobile food trucks operating on farms as "agricultural food establishments," and while most need only register with the planning department, trucks on Molokai always…

Maui's zoning code defines a mobile food truck by its three-day limit on any one lot, and its off-street parking table confirms trucks are a permitted standalone use only where the…

Within Lahaina's historic district no. 1 and no. 2, the Front Street area covered by Maui County Code § 19.52.090, it is unlawful for anyone to carry on or solicit business on any…

Maui County Code section 20.20.060 lets a property owner or occupant tow an unauthorized abandoned or derelict vehicle from private property, but only after posting a no-parking notice…

Live adult entertainment in Maui County needs a conditional permit approved by the County Council under Code Chapter 19.85. No site can sit within 1,000 feet of a residential district…

Running an automotive repair or body shop out of a Maui County home requires a special use permit, and body shops are barred outright on lots under two acres. Even with a permit…

Maui County doesn't set a separate lot-coverage percentage for single-family lots; instead, Maui County Code Section 19.08.040 caps impervious surface. For any dwelling permitted after…

Maui County sets minimum yard setbacks for single-family homes in the R-1, R-2 and R-3 districts under Maui County Code Section 19.08.040: 15 feet front and 6 feet side/rear for any…

Maui County caps single-family building height at 30 feet across the R-1, R-2 and R-3 residential districts under Maui County Code Section 19.08.040, the same table that sets the…

Maui County Code Chapter 20.35 requires every outdoor light fixture countywide to be fully shielded, bans new or replacement mercury vapor lamps, caps highway lighting at 3,000 Kelvin…

Maui County Code section 20.35.060(E) bars outdoor light fixtures, other than neon, from being aimed to throw glare onto a neighbor's property or aimed upward or at the ocean, and…

Maui County's agricultural district ordinance both warns neighbors that farm noise, dust, and machinery are normal and expected, and voids any deed covenant that tries to block…

Maui County's planning director and planning commissions are not bound by any homeowner association bylaws, covenants, or restrictions when deciding a short-term rental home permit. An…