The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-17
ORDINANCE NO. IA.


AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE
ERECTION OR MAINTENANCE OF
NEW TENEMENT HOUSES IN
ANY RESIDENCE PORTION IN
THE CITY AND COUNTY OF Ho-
NoLULU.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE PEOPLE
OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF
HONOLULU.
Section l. This ordinance shall be
known as the Tenement Ordinance. ,"
Section 3 Tenement House Defined.
The term Tenement House, in this
Ordinance shall be taken to mean every
house, building, structure or portion
thereof, which is designed for use or
adapted to be used or used as dwell,
ing by more than three families living
independently of -one another and hav-
ing common right in the stairways,
verandas, yards, water supply, or
priyles, or by more than two families
above the first story so living and
having a right in common to use the
conveniences aforesaid
A family living in a tenement may
consist of one or more persons.
Section 8. New Tenement House De-
fined. An existing tenement house is
any building erected as tenement
house or converted to such useaor alter
ed TOR such use, or so used before the
passage of this Ordinance, or any build
ing 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 cree
ted is any tenement house other than
an existing tenement house as above
defined.
+ Section 4. Prohibiting New Tene-
ment House in Residence Districts. It
shall not be lawful for any person to
locate, build, construct, maintain, or
keep new tenement house in any To-
eality within the City and County of
Honolulu in which two-thiras of the
buildings located as a whole or in part
ment house, are devoted or adapted to
exclusive residence purposes.
Provided, however, that. this Ordi-
nance shall not be applicable in any
locality where the owners of majority
of the lots which are located as a whole
or in part within FIVE hundred feet of
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to such location of such tenement house.
Said written consent shall be approved
by acknowledgment in like manner as
signatures to conveyances of real prop
erty, and shall be fled with the Clerk
of the City and County of Honolulu. It
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 brief summary
OF the contents of such consent. The
clerk may require such written consent
to be prepared in accordance with and
upon forms adopted or approved by
him.
Section 5. Any person who shall vio-
late any of the provisions of this Ordi-
nance shall be deemed guilty of
mlsdemeanor and upon conviction there
OF shall be punished by fine not ex-
ceed1ng Two Hundred Dollars, or by
Imprisonment for term not exceeding
three months, or by both such fine and
imprisonment.
Section 6. The continuance of anv
violation of this Ordinance shall be a
new otfense for each day on which the
same is so continued.
Section Z. This Ordinance shall take
effect from any after the date of it's
approval.
introduced by Supervisor
DANIEL LOGAN.
Date of Introduction, July 20, 1909.
Approved this 4th day of August, A.
D. 1909.
JOSEPH J. FERN,
Mayor.
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