HRS §281-20
Investigators can inspect licensed premises anytime
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section allows an investigator to enter and inspect any licensed business at any time, without notice or a warrant. The investigator can look at the premises, books, and records to check if the licensee is following the law and license conditions.
The statute, as written — General right of inspection
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
Any investigator may, at all times, without notice and without any search warrant or other legal process, visit and have immediate access to every part of the premises of every licensee for the purpose of making any examination or inspection thereof or inquiry into the books and records therein, to ascertain whether all of the conditions of the license and all provisions of this chapter are being complied with by the licensee. [L Sp 1933, c 40, §10; RL 1935, §2579; RL 1945, §7230; RL 1955, §159-19; HRS §281-20; am L 1986, c 344, §14; am L 1990, c 171, §7; am L 2022, c 76, §5]
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