No person shall operate a lodging or tenement house, group home, group residence, group living arrangement, hotel, or boardinghouse, until the person secures a clearance from the appropriate county agency responsible for ensuring compliance with county building and zoning codes setting forth that an agent of the agency has examined the building or buildings, proposed to be used for such purposes, with a description sufficient to identify and locate the same; and that the same are in compliance with the building and zoning codes.
Haw. Rev. Stat. § 445-94
[Clearance required.]
L 1896, c 64, §70; am L 1898, c 38, §1; RL 1925, §2055; RL 1935, §2477; RL 1945, §7080; RL 1955, §155-61; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §19; HRS §445-94; am L 1986, c 149, §4; am L 1987…
Official source: Hawaii State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Hawaii statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.