Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 445-94

  • Boardinghouse: means a building or buildings having at least three rooms for the accommodation of six or more unrelated persons and in which the owner or operator furnishes at least one meal per day as part of the accommodations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 445-90
  • county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
  • Hotel: means any building or portion thereof or buildings containing more than nine rooming units, in which space is let by the owner or operator to six or more unrelated persons. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 445-90

No person shall operate a lodging or tenement house, group home, group residence, group living arrangement, hotel, or boardinghouse, until the person secures a clearance from the appropriate county agency responsible for ensuring compliance with county building and zoning codes setting forth that an agent of the agency has examined the building or buildings, proposed to be used for such purposes, with a description sufficient to identify and locate the same; and that the same are in compliance with the building and zoning codes.