Hawaii Revised Statutes 841. Inquests, Coroners

• 841-1 Who are Coroners.
  The chief of police or his authorized subordinate of the counties of Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai, and the medical examiner of the city and...
• 841-2 Appointment of Deputies.
  The coroner may appoint as many deputy coroners as the coroner may deem necessary to aid the coroner in the discharge of the coroner's...
• 841-3 Duties.
  [(a)] As soon as any coroner or deputy coroner has notice of the death of any person within the coroner's or deputy coroner's jurisdiction...
• 841-4 Testimony Under Oath Reduced to Writing.
  The testimony of all witnesses examined by any coroner or deputy coroner pertaining to the death of any person wherein a coroner's investigation is...
• 841-5 Form of Oath.
  The coroner or deputy coroner may administer an oath to the witnesses as follows: "You solemnly swear that the evidence you shall give to...
• 841-6 Subpoenas; Penalty for Failure to Comply.
  [(a)] The coroner or any deputy coroner may issue subpoenas for the attendance of any witnesses that the coroner or any deputy coroner may...
• 841-7 Reports of Investigation.
  (a) The coroner or deputy coroner shall reduce the coroner's or deputy coroner's findings to writing in the following form: STATE OF HAWAII County...
• 841-8 Duty to Forward Copy of Reports to Any County or Prosecuting Attorney and to Person in Charge of Disposition of Body.
  (a) Every coroner, or deputy coroner, shall, without delay, forward to the county attorney in the case of coroners for the counties of Maui...
• 841-9 Fees.
  Upon the application by other than governmental agencies for a certified copy of any coroner's report and inquest, the coroner or deputy coroner shall...
• 841-10 Decent Burial.
  When any coroner or deputy coroner takes an inquest upon the dead body of a stranger or indigent person or, being called for that...
• 841-11 Witness Fees and Mileage; Expenses.
  Every witness attending upon any coroner's inquest shall be paid $1 for each day's actual attendance, and traveling expenses at the rate of 10...
• 841-12 Removal of Corpse.
  [(a)] No corpse or remains of any dead human body appearing to have come to death under any of the circumstances set forth in...
• 841-13 Disposition of Personal Effects.
  The clothing and personal property found on any human body appearing to have come to death under any of the circumstances set forth in...
• 841-14 Autopsies and Further Investigations.
  [(a)] If, in the opinion of the coroner, or of the coroner's physician, or of the prosecuting attorney, or of the chief of police...
• 841-14.5 Performance of Autopsy by Pathologist.
  An autopsy of a deceased person under this chapter shall be performed by an anatomic or forensic pathologist certified as such by the American...
• 841-14.6 Assistance Among Counties.
  (a) When a coroner of a county with a population of less than 200,000 requires assistance in conducting an autopsy, the coroner may request...
• 841-15 Notice to Next of Kin, Expense.
  The coroner called to investigate the death of any person shall notify the next of kin, if known, of the death by telephone, letter,...
• 841-16 Disposal of Decomposed Remains.
  The coroner's physician may order forthwith the cremation of the remains of any person appearing to have come to death under any of the...
• 841-17 Hospital Records.
  The chief of police of the city and county of Honolulu or the chief's deputy, and the coroner or deputy coroner, and the coroner's...
• 841-18 Coroner's Physician; Laboratory Facilities.
  The medical examiner or any of the medical examiner's assistants in the city and county of Honolulu, and any experienced or qualified government physician...
• 841-19 Notification of This Chapter.
  A copy of this chapter shall be transmitted to all physicians, undertakers, hospitals, and institutions established, licensed, or doing business in the State. [L...

Last modified: October 27, 2016