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ROH §14-20.8

When the city can cancel banner approval and how to appeal

Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗

The city director can cancel approval for banners at any time for reasons like breaking rules, damaged banners, public safety, or traffic hazards. If approval is canceled, the applicant can appeal using the official rules.

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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Revocation of approval

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) The director may revoke any approval of an application made under this article at any time for but not limited to any of the following reasons: (1) Failure or refusal by the community organization or the Hawaii Convention Center or the Hawaii Visitors Convention Bureau to comply with this article or any other applicable statute, ordinance or rule; (2) Failure by the community organization or the Hawaii Convention Center or the Hawaii Visitors Convention Bureau to promptly provide replacement of any banner deemed by the director to be damaged, soiled, or in disrepair; (3) The public health, safety, or welfare is jeopardized; or (4) When any banner that by reason of its size, location, movement, content, coloring, or manner of illumination constitutes a traffic hazard or a detriment to traffic safety by obstructing the vision of drivers, or by obstructing or detracting from the visibility of any official traffic control device or by diverting or tending to divert the attention of drivers of moving vehicles from the traffic movement on the public streets and roads. (b) Whenever the director revokes approval of the banner application under the conditions set forth in subsection (a), the applicant may appeal the revocation in accordance with the rules authorized. )
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗as published Jan 1, 2026our copy taken Aug 22, 2026

Published by the City and County of Honolulu through American Legal Publishing.

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