ROH §21-4.80
Noise rules for commercial and industrial buildings
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗This rule says that businesses and factories cannot put speakers or sound equipment outside their buildings if the property is next to homes, apartments, or resort areas. The only exception is for drive-thru facilities that follow a different rule.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Noise regulations
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.
For any commercial or industrial development, no public address system or other devices for reproduction or amplifying voices or music, except as described for drive-thru facilities in § 21-5.70-11(b), may be mounted outside any structure on any zoning lot that is adjacent to any zoning lot in the country, residential, apartment, apartment mixed-use, or resort zoning district.
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