Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-07-27
BY AUTHORITY
ORDINANCE NO. IA.
AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING
THE ERECTION OR MAINTE-
NANCE OF NEW TENEMENT
HOUSES IN ANY RESIDENCE
PORTION IN THE CITY AND
COUNTY OF HONOLULU.

COUNTY OF HONOLULU.
BE IT ORDAINED by THE PEo-
PIE OF THE CITY AND COUN-
TY OF HONOLULU.
Section /. This Ordinance shall
be known as the Tenement Ordin-
ance."
Section 2. Tenement House De-
fined. The term Tenement House"
in this Ordinance shall be taken to-
mean every house, building, struc-
ture or portion thereof, which is de-
signed for Use or adapted to be used
or used as a dwelling by more than
three families living independently
of one another and having COM
mon right in the stairways, veran-
das, yards, water supply, or privies,
or by more than two families above
the first story so living and having
q right in common to use the con-
veniences aforesaid
A family living in a tenement
may consist of one or more persons.
Section 3. New Tenement House
Defined. An existing tenement
house is any building erected as o
tenement house or converted TO such
use or altered for such use, or so
used before the passage of this Or
dinance, or any building adapted
for such use, provided that permit
was issued for the erection of said
building before the passage of this
Ordinance.
A new tenement house hereafter
erected is any tenement house other
than an existing tenement house as
above defined.
Section 4. Prohibiting New Ten
ement Houses In Residence Districts.
It shall not be lawful for any person
to locate, build, construct, maintain
or keep n new tenement house in
any locality within the City and
County of Honolulu in which two
thirds Of the buildings located as T.
whole or In part within five hun
dred feet of such tenement house.
are DEVOTED or adapted to exclusive
residence purposes.
Provided, however, that this Or
dinance shall not be applicable iu
any locality where the owners of u
majority of the lots which are To-
Gated as n whole or in part within
five hundred feet of such tenement
house, consent in writing to such
location of such tenement house.
Said written consent shall he APP
proved by acknowledgment in like
manner MS signatures to conveyanccs
of real property and shall be filed
County of Honolulu II shall be the
duty of the Clerk to file said consent
and to keep record in book to be
called Register of New Tenements,
containing n brief summary of the
contents of such consent. The
clerk may, require such written con-
sent to be prepared in accordance
with and upon forms adopted or APP
proved by him.
Section Any person who shall
violate any of the provisions of this
Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by fine
not exceeding Two Hundred Doll
lars, or by imprisonment for term
not exceeding three months, or by
both such fine and imprisonment.
Section G. The continuance or
any violation of this Ordinance shall
be new offense for each day on
which the same Is continued.
Section T. This Ordinance shall
take effect from and after the date
of its approval.
Introduced by Supervisor
DANIEL LOGAN.
Date of introduction, July Goth,
1903.
The foregoing Ordinance was, at
n regular meeting of the Board of
Supervisors of the City and County
of Honolulu, held on Tuesday, July
20. 1909, passed to print on the fol-
lowing vote of the said Board:
Ayes: AHA, Aylett, Cox, Kane,
Logan, Quinn. Total: G.
Noes: None.
Absent and not voting: McClol-
Ian. Total: /.
d. KALAUoKALANL JR,