← Back to search

HRS §445-95

Rules for running a lodging or boarding house

This section lists conditions that owners or operators of lodging houses, group homes, hotels, and similar places must follow. It covers keeping the property clean, allowing inspections, keeping tenant records, and banning certain activities like noise, prostitution, liquor sales, and gaming. It also says they cannot provide health care services unless properly licensed.

businesseslandlords

The statute, as written — Conditions for conditional operation

The owner or operator of a lodging or tenement house, group home, group residence, group living arrangement, hotel, or boardinghouse shall: (1) Not permit noisy or disorderly conduct in the building or buildings; (2) Not allow any person engaging in acts of prostitution to reside therein or resort thereto; (3) Not allow intoxicating liquor or other intoxicating substance to be furnished or sold therein, except as authorized by law; (4) Keep the building or buildings and premises in good sanitary condition, in accordance with law and with the orders of the agent of the department of health; (5) At all times allow the police and agents of the state department of health and agents of the appropriate county agencies responsible for compliance with the county's building and zoning codes access for purposes of inspection to enforce or administer this chapter and other applicable laws or rules; (6) Not allow any gaming; (7) If a lodging or tenement house, group home, group residence, group living arrangement, or boardinghouse, keep records identifying its tenants, lodgers, or boarders; and (8) Not deliver or purport to deliver health care services or treatment unless it is licensed, certified, or contracted for by the State or other governmental agencies to do so.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

LawTrove is not legal advice. The summary above is a computer-generated restatement — the authoritative text is the official version linked above.