Chapter 841 — Chapter 841

§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 county of Honolulu, shall, ex officio, be the coroner for his respective county. [L 1935, c 90, §1; am L 1939, c 104, §7…

§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 purpose, does not determine it necessary, on view of the body, that any inquest should be taken, the coroner or deputy coroner …

§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 cents a mile each way. The fees and mileage of witnesses and all reasonable expenses of the i…

§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 section 841-3, shall be moved or disturbed from its place of death or disposed of by any person including the coroner or the co…

§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 section 841-3 may be recovered and held as evidence by any police officer, pending the investigation of …

§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 (in the city and county of Honolulu), an autopsy of the remains of any human body appearing to have come…

§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, cable, or radiogram, as each case may necessitate. The director of finance of the county in which the death…

§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 circumstances set forth in section 841-3 if, in the coroner's physician's opinion, the remains constitut…

§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 physician may examine the records of any hospital relating to any patient of the hospital in connection with any investigat…

§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 designated by the coroner in the counties of Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai, sha…

§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 1949, c 355, pt of §5; RL 1955, §260-19; HRS §715-19; ren L 1972, c 9, pt of §1]

§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 duties as coroner from amongst the subordinates in the coroner's department. [L 1935, c 90, §2; RL 1945, §10902; …

§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 as the result of violence, or as the result of any accident, or by suicide, or suddenly when in apparent health, or when unatt…

§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 required, shall be taken under oath, reduced to writing by the coroner, or deputy co…

§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 this inquest concerning the death of the person (giving the name of the person dead if possible) which is now under inves…

§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 deem necessary to interrogate in the death then under investigation, returnable forthwith or…

§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 (or City and County) of.......................... CORONER'S INQUEST An inquisition taken at.........…

§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 and Kauai, and …

§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 collect the sum of $2 as a governmental realization for the preparation and issuance of the same. All fees so collec…