§128-8  Additional powers in a civil defenseemergency period.  The governor, in the event of a civil defense emergencyperiod, may exercise the following additional powers pertaining to civildefense:

(1)  Protective devices, shelters, first aid stations.

(A)  Require that persons provide themselveswith protective devices;

(B)  Require the installation or provision ofprotective devices and shelters in or appurtenant to dwellings, hotels,factories, and other places of business, office buildings, hospitals, schools,and theaters, and other places where the public congregate; and

(C)  Require the installation or provision offirst aid stations with the necessary materials and personnel in or appurtenantto hotels, factories, and other places of business, office buildings, schools,and theaters, and other places where the public congregate.

(2)  Quarantine, immunization, etc., nuisances. Provide for and require the quarantine or segregation of persons who areaffected with any infectious, communicable, or other disease dangerous to thepublic health and safety, or persons who are the source of other contamination,in any case where in the governor's opinion the existing laws are not adequateto assure the public health and safety; provide for the care and treatment ofthe persons; supplement the provisions of sections 325-32 to 325-37 concerningcompulsory immunization of persons against disease and institute additionalcompulsory immunization programs; provide for the isolation or closing ofproperty which is a source of contamination or is in a dangerous condition inany case where, in the governor's opinion, the existing laws are not adequateto assure the public health and safety, and designate as public nuisances acts,practices, conduct, or conditions which are dangerous to the public health orsafety or to property; authorize that public nuisances be summarily abated, andif need be that the property be destroyed, by any police officer or authorizedperson, or provide for the cleansing or repair of property, and if thecleansing or repair is to be at the expense of the owner, the proceduretherefor shall follow as nearly as may be the provisions of section 322-2,which are made applicable; further, authorize without the permission of theowners or occupants, entry on private premises for any of such purposes.

(3)  Police and fire departments.  Summarily remove orsuspend, any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, any member of a policecommission, chief of police, chief of a fire department, police officer, orfirefighter.

(4)  Suspension of laws.  Suspend any law whichimpedes or tends to impede or be detrimental to the expeditious and efficientexecution of, or to conflict with, civil defense or other emergency functions,including without limitation, laws which by this chapter specifically are madeapplicable to civil defense personnel. [L 1951, c 268, pt of §2; RL 1955,§359-8; HRS §128-8; am L 1977, c 191, §2; am L 1983, c 124, §15; gen ch 1985;am L 1986, c 339, §4]