Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-15.3 – Regulation of adult family boarding home and care home
Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-15.3
- county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Premises: shall include but not be limited to a lodging or tenement house, group residence, group living arrangement, hotel, boardinghouse, or restaurant as further defined in § 445-90, or any other like facility serving unsupervised or unrelated individuals. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 46-15.6
“Building code” means an ordinance the purpose of which is to provide minimum standards to safeguard life or limb, health, property, and public welfare by regulating and controlling the design, construction, quality of materials, use and occupancy, location, and maintenance of all buildings and structures within the county’s jurisdiction and certain equipment specifically regulated by the ordinance.
“Fire code” means an ordinance adopted under § 132-3 or an ordinance intended to prescribe regulations consistent with recognized good practice for the safeguarding to a reasonable degree of life and property from the hazards of fire and explosion arising from the storage, handling, and use of hazardous substances, materials, and devices and from conditions hazardous to life or property in the use or occupancy of buildings or premises.
“Licensed adult family boarding home” means an adult family boarding home licensed under chapter 346, part IV.
“Licensed care home” means a care home licensed under section 321-15.6.
“Life safety code” means an ordinance the purpose of which is to establish minimum requirements that will provide a reasonable degree of safety from fire in buildings and structures.