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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 4, ARTICLE 3, OF THE HAWAIʻI COUNTY CODE 1983 (2016 EDITION, AS AMENDED), RELATING TO ANIMALS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I:
SECTION 1. Chapter 4, article 3, of the Hawai‘i County Code 1983 (2016 Edition, as amended) is amended by adding a section to be appropriately inserted and to read as follows:
“ Section 4-3- . Feeding prohibited.
(a) A person may not feed or attempt to feed a stray or feral animal on property owned, leased, rented, managed, or operated by the County, unless the person is a certified community
cat caretaker who is authorized by the animal control and protection agency through an annual contract for a community cat management program to feed and care for stray and feral cats
at designated locations and times, as determined by the animal control and protection administrator.
(b) Any person convicted of a violation of this section is subject to a fine not more than $50 for the first violation and not more than $500 for any subsequent violation.
(c) For the purposes of this section:
“Certified community cat caretaker” means an individual who has:
(1) Completed County-approved, standardized training courses in colony care, best practices in feeding stray and feral cats, environmental and public health impact mitigation, trap-neuter-vaccinate-r
eturn-manage procedures, and recordkeeping and reporting requirements;
(2) Signed a written agreement with the County to comply with the provisions of this section; and
(3) Received a certified community cat caretaker identification card and number from the animal control and protection administrator.
“Feed” means to deliberately introduce any food material, substance, or attractant directly to or in the vicinity of an animal.
“Feral” means undomesticated or living in a wild and unconfined state.
(d) Nothing in this section prohibits, restricts, or limits the ability of the County or of a person authorized or contracted by the County to trap, remove, impound, or seize an animal
or to undertake any other power or duty under this chapter of the Hawai‘i Revised Statutes, chapters 142 or 143.”
SECTION 2. New material is underscored. In printing this ordinance, the underscoring need not be included.
SECTION 3. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions
or applications of the ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this ordinance are severable.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect on January 1, 2026.
INTRODUCED BY:
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COUNCIL MEMBER, COUNTY OF HAWAI‘I
_______________, Hawai‘i
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