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



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



(A)  Require that persons provide themselves
with protective devices;



(B)  Require the installation or provision of
protective 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 of
first aid stations with the necessary materials and personnel in or appurtenant
to 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 are
affected with any infectious, communicable, or other disease dangerous to the
public 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 adequate
to assure the public health and safety; provide for the care and treatment of
the persons; supplement the provisions of sections 325-32 to 325-37 concerning
compulsory immunization of persons against disease and institute additional
compulsory immunization programs; provide for the isolation or closing of
property which is a source of contamination or is in a dangerous condition in
any case where, in the governor's opinion, the existing laws are not adequate
to assure the public health and safety, and designate as public nuisances acts,
practices, conduct, or conditions which are dangerous to the public health or
safety or to property; authorize that public nuisances be summarily abated, and
if need be that the property be destroyed, by any police officer or authorized
person, or provide for the cleansing or repair of property, and if the
cleansing or repair is to be at the expense of the owner, the procedure
therefor shall follow as nearly as may be the provisions of section 322-2,
which are made applicable; further, authorize without the permission of the
owners or occupants, entry on private premises for any of such purposes.



(3)  Police and fire departments.  Summarily remove or
suspend, any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, any member of a police
commission, chief of police, chief of a fire department, police officer, or
firefighter.



(4)  Suspension of laws.  Suspend any law which
impedes or tends to impede or be detrimental to the expeditious and efficient
execution of, or to conflict with, civil defense or other emergency functions,
including without limitation, laws which by this chapter specifically are made
applicable 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]