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Oʻahu · City Council · Bills and resolutions

Bill 13 (2025): RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY.

BILL013(25) · introduced by ANDRIA TUPOLA, TYLER DOS SANTOS-TAM, Jan. 29, 2025

Summary, as the council's system prints it
Allows an owner or landlord of private real property to request the designation of the HPD as the owner’s or landlord’s agent to inspect the property in accordance with the lease, rental agreement, or HRS Chapter 521 (the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code), for a term not to exceed 12 months, subject to approval by the Chief of Police. Requires that an inspecting police officer provide advance notice of the inspection pursuant to the lease, rental agreement, or the Residential Landlord-Tenant Code; inspect the property during reasonable hours, to include 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.; and show the consent for the inspection to any person on the premises during the inspection upon their request. Allows the inspecting police officer to request a person not authorized to be present on the property to leave and not return pursuant to HRS Section 708-814, relating to criminal trespass in the second degree; document any violations of the lease in a report; and provide a copy of the report to the owner, landlord, mortgagor
Last event, as printed
July 2, 2025: Final reading notice published in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.
The measure in the council's system
BILL013(25)

Committee reports

Basis. Title, summary, introducers, dates, last event and vote are copied from the council's document system (hnldoc) as read by script; nothing is paraphrased. First on the record Sept. 19, 2026. Corrections: the corrections log.