ROH §40-9.5
How to appeal a false alarm determination
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗If a police officer says your alarm was false, you can ask the alarm system coordinator to review that decision. You must ask in writing within 10 days of getting the notice, and include certain details. The coordinator must decide within 14 days and mail you the answer within 7 days after that.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Review of false alarm determinations
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 alarm system coordinator shall, when requested by a permittee, review the determination by a responding police officer that an alarm was false. The review shall be conducted by the alarm system coordinator only if the permittee requests the review in writing within 10 days of the date on which the false alarm determination was mailed or delivered to the permittee. The written request for review of a false alarm determination shall include the following information:
(1) The permittee’s name and mailing address;
(2) Address of the premises at which the alarm system is installed;
(3) The date of the alarm being contested;
(4) The permit number for the alarm system; and
(5) The basis for the permittee’s belief that the alarm being contested was not a false alarm.
(b) The alarm system coordinator shall make a determination on the permittee’s request for review within 14 days of receiving the request for review and shall, within seven days thereafter, mail written notice of the coordinator’s determination to the permittee at the address supplied in the request for review.
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