Hawaii Revised Statutes 445-90 – Definitions
When used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
“Boardinghouse” means a building or buildings having at least three rooms for the accommodation of six or more unrelated persons and in which the owner or operator furnishes at least one meal per day as part of the accommodations.
“Hotel” means any building or portion thereof or buildings containing more than nine rooming units, in which space is let by the owner or operator to six or more unrelated persons.
“Lodging or tenement house”, “group home”, “group residence”, “group living arrangement”, or “rooming house” means any building or portion thereof containing no more than nine rooming units, in which space is let by the owner or operator to three or more unrelated persons.
“Noisy or disorderly conduct” has the same meaning as defined in chapter 711.