PART I.  GENERAL PROVISIONS

Note

  Sections 489-1 to 489-8 designated as Part I by L 2000, c 227, §3.

Law Journals and Reviews

  Airbnb in Paradise:  Updating Hawai`i's Legal Approach Towards Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy.  39 UH L. Rev. 435 (2017).

     [§489-1]  Purpose; construction.  (a)  The purpose of this chapter is to protect the interests, rights, and privileges of all persons within the State with regard to access and use of public accommodations by prohibiting unfair discrimination.

     (b)  This chapter shall be liberally construed to further the purposes stated in subsection (a). [L 1986, c 292, pt of §1]

Cross References

  Civil rights commission, see chapter 368.