Hawaii Revised Statutes 326. Hansen's Disease

• 326-1 Establishment of Facilities for the Treatment and Care of Persons With Hansen's Disease.
  The department of health, subject to the approval of the governor, shall establish and maintain facilities and services as are necessary for the care and...
• 326-1.3 Liberty, Autonomy, and Dignity of Patient Residents.
  (a) In recognition of the disruptions and hardships experienced over the course of their lives by former Hansen's disease patients residing at Kalaupapa, the...
• 326-1.5 Patients Living in the Community; Policy on Services.
  It is the policy of the State that all persons who were institutionalized for segregation by order of the department of health because of...
• 326-2 Equal Treatment of Patients.
  Every Hansen's disease sufferer at Hale Mohalu and Kalaupapa shall be accorded as nearly equal care and privileges as is practicable under the different...
• 326-3 Care in Other Hospitals, Homes, Etc.
  Notwithstanding any law relating to this subject matter, the department of health may make arrangements for the care and treatment of any person within...
• 326-4 Officers and Employees; Sickness and Accident; Expense.
  In case any officer or employee of the department of health becomes ill or is injured at the facility at Kalaupapa and, in the...
• 326-5 Appropriations, How Spent.
  All moneys at any time appropriated for the upkeep, support, maintenance, and conduct of any hospital, facility, or place for persons affected with Hansen's...
• 326-6 Repealed.
  L 1992, c 156, §9.
• 326-7 to 10 Repealed.
  L 1969, c 152, §11.
• 326-11 Voluntary Transfer to and From Kalaupapa.
  Any person undergoing treatment and receiving care for Hansen's disease at Hale Mohalu on June 30, 1969, may be transferred to Kalaupapa for care...
• 326-12 Repealed.
  L 1969, c 152, §11.
• 326-13 Expenses; Rules.
  (a) The department of health shall bear all expenses of travel and other necessary expenses incurred under sections 326-1 to 326-14 and may adopt...
• 326-14, 15 Repealed.
  L 1969, c 152, §11.
• 326-16 Repealed.
  L 1992, c 156, §10.
• 326-17 to 19 Repealed.
  L 1969, c 152, §11.
• 326-20 Repealed.
  L 1992, c 156, §11.
• 326-21 Employment of Patients.
  At any facility for the care and treatment of persons with Hansen's disease, the department of health, with the consent of a patient, may...
• 326-22 Compensation of Patient Employees.
  The compensation for patients employed under section 326-21 shall be set by the department of health; provided that in no case shall the compensation...
• 326-23 Pensions for Patient Employees At Facilities.
  (a) All patient employees or patient laborers at every facility maintained for the treatment and care of persons with Hansen's disease shall be entitled,...
• 326-24 Rules.
  The director of health may adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 necessary for the conduct of all matters pertaining to Hansen's disease, the treatment...
• 326-25 Accounts, Reports.
  The department of health shall keep an accurate and detailed account of all sums of money expended by it. The department shall report to...
• 326-25.5 Annual Report.
  The department of health shall submit a report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of each regular session...
• 326-26 Persons Allowed At Places for Hansen's Disease Patients.
  (a) No person, not having Hansen's disease, shall be allowed to visit or remain upon any land, place, or inclosure set apart by the...
• 326-27 Kalaupapa Store; Loans for Operation and Maintenance.
  (a) All moneys to enable the department of health to operate and maintain the Kalaupapa store, situated in Kalaupapa, Molokai, shall be allocated by...
• 326-28 Kalaupapa Store Prices; Penalty.
  It shall be unlawful for the department of health or its agents to sell or offer for sale any merchandise at the Kalaupapa store...
• 326-29 Fishing Laws Exemption; Kalaupapa.
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, state laws on fishing shall not be applicable to Hansen's disease patients of Kalaupapa, provided the...
• 326-30 Making or Taking of Pictures Without Permission Prohibited.
  (a) No person shall photograph, film, or videotape any patient at any facility maintained by the department of health for the care and treatment...
• 326-31, 32 Repealed.
  L 1969, c 152, §11.
• 326-33 Damien Memorial Chapel.
  The Father Damien Memorial Chapel at Kalawao, Molokai, and the premises and graveyard thereof are hereby declared to be a public memorial to Father...
• 326-34 County of Kalawao; Governance.
  (a) The county of Kalawao shall consist of that portion of the island of Molokai known as Kalaupapa, Kalawao, and Waikolu, and commonly known...
• 326-35 Sheriff, Appointment, Removal.
  There shall be no county officer in the county other than a sheriff, who shall be a patient resident of and be appointed in...
• 326-36 Sheriff, Salary.
  The salary of the sheriff shall be fixed and paid by the department of health out of the appropriation allowed by the legislature for...
• 326-37 Sheriff, Duties.
  The sheriff of the county of Kalawao shall preserve the public peace and shall arrest and take before the district judge for examination all...
• 326-38 Sheriff, Powers.
  The sheriff may appoint and dismiss and reappoint as many police officers as may be authorized by the department of health for the county....
• 326-39 Penalty.
  Any person violating this chapter, or any rule or regulation of the department of health relating thereto, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor....
• 326-40 Kalaupapa; Policy on Residency.
  The legislature finds that Hawaii's Hansen's disease victims have in many ways symbolized the plight of those afflicted with this disease throughout the world....

Last modified: October 27, 2016