ROH §16-13.1

Residential safe rooms must meet minimum performance standards

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This section says that a residential safe room in your home must meet the minimum performance specifications required by the county's design rules. It does not list those specifications here. It simply makes following those standards a requirement.

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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Performance-based design criteria

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.

The residential safe room must meet the performance-based design criteria’s minimum performance specifications of this article.

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.

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