ROH §14-20.1
Why the city allows festival banners on lampposts
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗This section explains the city's goal of keeping public areas attractive while supporting festivals that bring people together. It says festival organizers, like those for Aloha Week, can ask the city to hang decorative banners on lampposts on approved streets, and the community group pays for them.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Declaration of legislative intent
A copy, taken August 22, 2026. The version published by Honolulu is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
(a) While it is in the public interest to foster sightliness and physical good order within the city, it is also in the public interest to promote public festivals that can bring the residents of the city and their visitors together and promote ethnic traditions, customs, historical or cultural events, or athletic competition, and foster the development of tourism.
(b) The attractive decoration of public places and festivals complement one another. Organizers of festivals such as Aloha Week may be allowed to apply to the city requesting that attractive banners be displayed from public lampposts on authorized streets at the expense of the community organization to promote the public interest.
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