The purpose of this chapter is to encourage owners of land to make land and water areas available to the public for recreational purposes by limiting their liability toward persons entering thereon for such purposes.
Haw. Rev. Stat. § 520-1
Purpose
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Palmer v. United States (1991)
Most recently applied in 180 F. Supp. 2d 1132 - Brown v. United States (June 2001)
L 1969, c 186, §1
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Hawaii State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Hawaii statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.