ROH §41-14.6
How smoking citations are issued and enforced
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗This section explains how the city gives tickets to people who break the smoking rules. It says who makes the ticket forms, who gets a copy, and which city departments handle enforcement. It also allows officers to remove someone from a place if they keep smoking after being told to stop.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Enforcement - Administration
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) Summons or citation.
(1) There shall be provided for use by an officer or employee of the city duly authorized to issue a summons or citation, or any police officer a form of summons or citation for use in citing violators of this article, which does not provide for the physical arrest of such violators. The form and content of such summons or citation shall be as adopted or prescribed by the administrative judge of the district court, shall be printed on a form commensurate with the form of other summons or citations used in modern methods of arrest, and so designed to include all necessary information to make the same valid within the laws and regulations of the State of Hawaii and the City and County of Honolulu.
(2) In every case, when a citation is issued, the original of the same shall be given to the violator; provided that the administrative judge of the district court may prescribe that the violator be given a carbon copy of the citation and provide for the disposition of the original and any other copies.
(3) Every citation shall be numbered, and each carbon copy shall bear the same number as its original.
(b) Enforcement and administration of § 41-14.4 shall be under the jurisdiction of the department of planning and permitting, which department shall have the power to formulate any applicable rules necessary to carry out § 41-14.4 .
(c) Except as provided in subsection (b), enforcement of this article shall be under the jurisdiction of the Honolulu police department.
(d) In addition to the foregoing, any police officer or other officer or employee of the city duly authorized to issue a summons or citation may eject from the premises any person to whom a citation has been issued and who continues to smoke after the person has been requested by the police officer or other duly authorized officer or employee to stop smoking.
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