§445-94 Certificates. (a) No license shall be issued for a lodging or tenement house, group home, group residence, group living arrangement, hotel, or boardinghouse, until the applicant secures from the department of health and presents to the treasurer a certificate setting forth that an agent of the department has examined the building or buildings, with a description sufficient to identify and locate the same, and that the same are in good sanitary condition.

(b) No initial license shall be issued for a lodging or tenement house, group home, group residence, group living arrangement, hotel, or boardinghouse, until the applicant secures a clearance from the appropriate county agency responsible for ensuring compliance with county building and zoning codes and presents to the treasurer a certificate setting forth that an agent of the agency has examined the building or buildings, proposed to be used for such purposes, with a description sufficient to identify and locate the same; and that the same are in compliance with the building and zoning codes. [L 1896, c 64, §70; am L 1898, c 38, §1; RL 1925, §2055; RL 1935, §2477; RL 1945, §7080; RL 1955, §155-61; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §19; HRS §445-94; am L 1986, c 149, §4; am L 1987, c 333, §5; am L 1988, c 162, §1; am L 1990, c 164, §16]