Rules and Regulations - Liquor Commission (Amended 2024)

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E. STIPULATIONS. Except as otherwise provided by law, any of the foregoing procedures may be modified or waived by stipulation of the parties and informal dispositions may be made of any contested case by stipulation, agreed settlement, consent order, or default. F. JUDICIAL REVIEW. Judicial review shall be as provided by law. RULE 1-7 PROTESTS. No protest against the granting of a liquor license shall be considered by the Commission unless such protest is filed in accordance with this rule. A. Oral or written protests shall be filed with the Commission at or before the preliminary hearing and/or the public hearing. B. The protest shall designate the application for which the protest is being filed. C. Each person whose written protest is to be considered shall date, print name and sign such protest. Separate signatures are required for each spouse, co-owner or co -lessee filing a protest. Protests by owners or lessees of real estate or owners of record of shares in a cooperative apartment shall include the tax map key(s) and unit number(s), when applicable, on the letter or petition of protest. D. The protest shall contain the name and address of each person submitting a protest. E. Each person submitting a protest shall indicate whether such person is a registered voter for the area within five hundred feet of the nearest point at which the applicant proposes to establish or continue the business under the license applied for, or whether such person is an owner or lessee of record of real estate, or is the owner of record of shares in a cooperative apartment situated within a distance of 500 feet from the nearest point of the premises for which a license is asked, or both. F. A protest filed by a person who is not a property owner or is not a registered voter within 500 feet of the proposed licensed premises shall indicate the nature of the protestor's interest. These protests shall not be included in the calculation of a 40 percent protest affecting an automatic refusal pursuant to Section 281-39.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as amended, or in the calculation of a majority protest affecting an automatic refusal of an application pursuant to Section 281-59, Hawaii Revised Statutes, as amended. G. When a protest against an application for a liquor license is duly filed by a property owner who owns more than one parcel of real estate within 500 feet of the proposed licensed premises, such protest shall be applicable and counted for each parcel held within 500 feet of the proposed premises. H. When the property within 500 feet of the proposed premises is held by a trust, protests may be filed by the named trustee of record. N.