PART IV. JUNIOR POLICE

 

§27-26  Junior police officer trainingprograms.  The State shall appropriate funds to facilitate the trainingprograms of the several junior police organizations, and shall make adequateprovisions by procuring insurance and assuming liability on the part of theState therefor, for the medical care and hospitalization of children who may beinjured, for the defrayment of funeral expenses and for the death of childrendying from injuries received, and for the protection against public liability,while performing duty as junior police officers and in all other activitiescertified as proper junior police functions by the police departments of theseveral counties, as follows:

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

The State shall procure insurance to protectany child participating in the junior police program from claims for damagesarising or resulting from the child's activities as a junior officer in anamount not to exceed $100,000 for each claim or cause of action.  Thisprotection for legal liability shall inure to the benefit of the legal guardianor parents of the child in the event they are named as parties to the action.

The right of the child or of any other personlawfully 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; amL 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 extendcoverage to nonpublic schools would violate state constitution.  Att. Gen. Op.73-15.