Hawaii Building code adoption
Other / specialized · 0 cities tracked · 0 with amendments.
Overview
Governance
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Cities tracked
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This jurisdiction follows a non-standard governance pattern. See the per-city notes below.
Adopted building codes (state level)
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City-level adoption
No per-city adoption data tracked for this state.
Quirks & watch-items
Quirks & watch-items
- Hawaii has only 4 counties — each adopts independently within 2 years of state adoption
- State law (HRS §107-24) requires adoption of most recent model codes within 1 year of publication
- No atlas cities in Hawaii — record kept for 50-state completeness
- Hawaii uses NFPA 1 (2024) rather than IFC for fire — so IFC row = "No statewide"
- Fire-code governance is split: State Fire Council adopts the State Fire Code (NFPA 1) under HRS Ch. 132; once adopted it joins the State Building Codes per HRS §107-25 (parallel to SBCC's IBC/IRC/IECC track under DAGS)
- Counties adopt their own fire code on a lag — Honolulu currently uses NFPA 1 (2021) per City & County Ord. effective Jan 3, 2025; Maui/Hawaii/Kauai counties' specific editions not retrievable via public web (county fire-dept pages return 403/404), but each operates on the same 2-year HRS §107-24 catch-up window
- No Hawaii county uses the IFC — all four counties track NFPA 1 because the state-mandated baseline is NFPA 1
- Code Check's "NEC 2011" was off by 12 years and 4 editions (current is 2023 NEC, effective Sept 1, 2024)