{"data":{"id":"us-hi/haw.-rev.-stat.-486k-5.5","jurisdiction":"us-hi","citation":"Haw. Rev. Stat. § 486K-5.5","heading":"Hotelkeeper's liability limited for certain beach and ocean activities.","body":"In a claim alleging injury or loss on account of a hazardous condition on a beach or in the ocean, a hotelkeeper shall be liable to a hotel guest for damages for personal injury, death, property damage, or other loss resulting from the hotel guest going onto the beach or into the ocean for a recreational purpose, including wading, swimming, surfing, body surfing, boogie boarding, diving, or snorkeling, only when such loss or injury is caused by the hotelkeeper's failure to warn against a hazardous condition on a beach or in the ocean, known, or which should have been known to a reasonably prudent hotelkeeper, and when the hazardous condition is not known to the guest or would not have been known to a reasonably prudent guest. A hotelkeeper owes no duty and shall have no liability for conditions which were not created by the hotel to a person who is not a guest of the hotel for injury or damage resulting from any beach or ocean activity.\n\nAs used in this section, \"beach\" means the beach fronting the hotel, and \"hotel guest\" means a guest of that particular hotel and other persons occupying the assigned rooms.","path":["HI Code","Division 2","Title 26","Chapter 486K"],"source_url":"http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol11_Ch0476-0490/HRS0486K/HRS_0486K-0005_0005.htm","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:11Z","sha256":"c8d6f6865d2a36ba412ffb4f760e2c46c5667087ca663e1b3b4a1c6e2e0c8f85","source_id":"us-hi","stale":false,"prev":"us-hi/haw.-rev.-stat.-486k-5","next":"us-hi/haw.-rev.-stat.-486k-5.6"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}