Hawaii County, HI Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

Chapter 24 is Hawai'i County's traffic code, and it treats an RV, travel trailer, boat trailer, or other piece of towed or wheeled equipment left sitting on a street the same way it treats a broken-down car: as abandoned. Under §24-199(b), leaving a trailer, RV, boat trailer, or "equipment on wheels" unattended on a public street, or on a private street or thoroughfare the chapter already covers under §24-2 (one used by the public for more than six months, or one designated by the council), for more than twenty-four hours makes it legally abandoned.

The county declares that equipment a public nuisance, and the police department may take it into custody immediately, with no waiting period beyond the 24-hour clock itself. The "special mobile equipment" and "trailer" definitions in §24-3 sweep in travel trailers, camper trailers, boat trailers, and similar towed units; only devices moved solely by human power fall outside the chapter. Once impounded, the equipment is disposed of under HRS chapter 290's abandoned-vehicle procedure per §24-199(c). If the county can identify the registered owner, that owner owes a flat $250 fine plus every dollar the county spent on removal, under §24-199(d).

This traffic-code rule reaches vehicles and trailers left on streets and thoroughfares; it does not extend to equipment parked entirely within private property such as a driveway or side yard, which falls outside the street-based scope §24-2 sets for the chapter.