§322-42 Certificate as to building. No permit or license shall be issued by any county officer for the erection, maintenance, use, or operation of any building for which a permit or license may be issued by the county officer under chapters 54, 61 to 64, 67, and 70 or under any ordinance made in pursuance of any of the chapters, nor for the erection, maintenance, use, or operation of any bakery, laundry, poi shop, abattoir, stable, fish, meat, or vegetable store or market, hotel, tenement, lodging house, or any place or building where noisome or noxious trades or manufactures are carried on, or intended to be carried on, for which a permit or license may be issued by the county officer, except upon a certificate of the department of health.

This certificate shall be furnished free of charge, and shall set forth that an agent of the department has examined the place, land, and building on, in, or to which it is proposed to erect, move, maintain, use, or operate the building, any of the aforesaid commercial establishments, or place, or building where noisome or noxious trades or manufactures are carried on, or intended to be carried on, and that the place, land, or building is in a fit and sanitary condition suitable for the purpose for which the premises are intended to be used; that facilities have been provided therein and thereon for proper drainage and sewage disposal; that provision has been made in the plans and specifications of proposed buildings, or of alterations of existing buildings, for proper ventilation and air space and for water and sewage disposal, and that the location is at the time a proper one for the nature of the business to be there carried on without danger to public health.

No such permit shall be issued except upon a condition, which shall be embodied in the permit and which shall be binding upon the licensee, that the place, land, or building shall be kept and maintained by the licensee in good sanitary condition in accordance with general health laws, regulations, and orders of the department during the term of the license.

The department may direct the cancellation of any such permit or license issued by any county officer, in case any such place, land, or building fails at any time and in any respect to meet the requirements of the general health laws, regulations, and orders of the department. [L 1911, c 132, §3; am L 1913, c 80, §1; RL 1925, §969; RL 1935, §1319; RL 1945, §2710; RL 1955, §47-41; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §19; HRS §322-42]