PART IV. 
JUNIOR POLICE



 



§27-26  Junior police officer training
programs.  The State shall appropriate funds to facilitate the training
programs of the several junior police organizations, and shall make adequate
provisions by procuring insurance and assuming liability on the part of the
State therefor, for the medical care and hospitalization of children who may be
injured, for the defrayment of funeral expenses and for the death of children
dying from injuries received, and for the protection against public liability,
while performing duty as junior police officers and in all other activities
certified as proper junior police functions by the police departments of the
several counties, as follows:



The cost of medical care and hospitalization of
any child so injured will be met in a sum not to exceed $20,000 and the funeral
expenses of any child dying from injuries received while performing such duty
will be met in a sum not to exceed $1,500.  A death benefit in the principal
sum of $5,000 shall be awarded to the legal guardian, parents, or designated
beneficiary or beneficiaries of the child whose death was caused by reason of
participation in junior police activities.



The State shall procure insurance to protect
any child participating in the junior police program from claims for damages
arising or resulting from the child's activities as a junior officer in an
amount not to exceed $100,000 for each claim or cause of action.  This
protection for legal liability shall inure to the benefit of the legal guardian
or parents of the child in the event they are named as parties to the action.



The right of the child or of any other person
lawfully claiming damages by reason of injuries to, or death of the child,
shall in nowise be affected by this section. [L 1967, c 203, §9; HRS §27-26; am
L 1973, c 151, §1; gen ch 1985]



 



Cross References



 



  Police departments, generally, see chapter 52D.



 



Attorney General Opinions



 



  Coverage is limited to JPO's in public schools; to extend
coverage to nonpublic schools would violate state constitution.  Att. Gen. Op.
73-15.