ROH §41-7.1
Loud noises near hospitals
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗This law bans loud noises, gunfire, explosives, and noisy businesses within 500 feet of a large hospital. It also bans driving past such a hospital in a way that makes unnecessary noise. Businesses already there when the hospital was built are allowed to keep operating.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Unlawful to make loud noises
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) It is unlawful to discharge firearms or explosives or to make any loud noises within 500 feet from the nearest point of any main hospital building with a capacity for treating not less than 36 patients.
(b) It is unlawful to conduct, operate, maintain, or carry on within 500 feet from any such main hospital building any noisy or noisome workshop, factory, trade, manufacture, industry, or business; provided that this provision shall not apply to any such workshop, factory, trade, manufacture, industry, or business in existence at the time of the erection of such hospital building or of an extension to a hospital building.
(c) It is unlawful for any person, in passing any hospital building of the character and capacity described, to drive or operate any vehicle in such manner as to make or create any unnecessary noise.
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Published by the City and County of Honolulu through American Legal Publishing.
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