§325-9  Quarantine without removal; duty ofpolice officers to assist in removals and enforcement of quarantine.  Ifthe department of health or its agent determines that the removal of the personinfected or suspected of being infected would directly and seriously aggravatethe disease so as to endanger the person's life, the department, or its agentmay make provision for the person, as directed in section 325-8, in the housein which the person may be; and, in such case, the department or its agent may causethe persons in the neighborhood to be removed, and may take such other measuresas it judges necessary for the public health and safety.  The department or itsagent, in effecting any removal or quarantine under this section or section325-8, may require any sheriff, deputy sheriff, chief of police, or policeofficer to aid and assist it, and such force as is reasonably necessary toeffect any such removal or quarantine may be used.

Every sheriff, deputy sheriff, chief of police,or police officer who is so required to aid and assist the department or itsagent shall immediately aid and assist it. [PC 1869, c 59, §27; RL 1935, §1096;am L 1941, c 262, §2; RL 1945, §2308; RL 1955, §49-9; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1,§19; HRS §325-9; gen ch 1985; am L 1989, c 211, §10; am L 1990, c 281, §11; amL 2005, c 29, §1; am L 2006, c 38, §8]