§132-9  Submission of building plans forapproval.  Before work commences upon the construction of any building ofthe types hereinafter enumerated, or upon an alteration or addition to anybuilding, the plans and specifications for the work shall be submitted to thecounty fire chief.  Neither the person causing the construction, alteration, oraddition to be made, nor the person's architect or agent, shall authorize,order, or permit the work thereon to start and no contractor, builder, or otherperson may start the work, before approval of the plans and specifications bythe county fire chief.

The foregoing provisions shall be applicable tobuildings, the whole or any part of which are being, or intended to be, usedas:

(1)  Hospitals, sanitariums, asylums, children'snurseries, and other such institutions;

(2)  Hotels, apartment houses, rooming houses, andtenement houses; provided that when any such building to be constructed or uponwhich alterations or additions are to be made, is only one story high, withliving accommodations permanently designated and intended for less thantwenty-five persons, this section shall not apply;

(3)  Schools, churches, auditoriums, halls,gymnasiums, dance halls, nightclubs, factories, office buildings, stores, andall other such buildings where persons work, congregate, or assemble; providedthat when any such building to be constructed, or upon which alterations oradditions are to be made, is only one story high, and is permanently designatedand intended for a total accommodation at any one time of less than one hundredpersons, this section shall not apply.

This section shall be applicable to the Stateand the counties, and other municipal subdivisions, and their officers, as wellas to private persons. [L 1945, c 166, §1; RL 1955, §184-10; am L 1963, c 3,§1; HRS §132-10; am and ren L 1978, c 241, §2(11); gen ch 1985]