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HRS §445-94

Clearance required before operating certain housing or lodging businesses

Before you can run a lodging house, hotel, boardinghouse, group home, or similar place, you must get a clearance from your county agency that checks building and zoning rules. The clearance says an agent inspected the building and it meets those codes.

businesses

The statute, as written — [Clearance required.] 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.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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