Report Title:

Law Enforcement Officer

 

Description:

Replaces the term "law enforcement officer" for "peace officer".

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

978

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE PENAL CODE.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 701-118, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§701-118 General definitions. In this Code, unless a different meaning plainly is required:

(1) "Statute" includes the Constitution of the State and a local law or ordinance of a political subdivision of the State;

(2) "Act" or "action" means a bodily movement whether voluntary or involuntary;

(3) "Omission" means a failure to act;

(4) "Conduct" means an act or omission, or, where relevant, a series of acts or a series of omissions, or a series of acts and omissions;

(5) "Actor" includes, a person who acts, or, where relevant, a person guilty of omission;

(6) "Acted" includes, where relevant, "omitted to act";

(7) "Person," "he," "him," "actor," and "defendant" include any natural person and, where relevant, a corporation or an unincorporated association;

(8) "Another" means any other person and includes, where relevant, the United States, this State and any of its political subdivisions, and any other state and any of its political subdivisions; [and]

(9) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory or possession of the United States[.]; and

(10) "Law enforcement officer" means any public servant, whether employed by the State or county or by the United States, vested by law with a duty to maintain public order or, to make arrests for offenses or to enforce the criminal laws, whether that duty extends to all offenses or is limited to a specific class of offenses."

SECTION 2. Chapters 701, 702, 703, 704, 705, 706, 707, 708, 709, 710, 711, 712, and 712A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, are amended by substituting the term "law enforcement officer", or like term, wherever the term "peace officer", or like term, appears as the context requires.

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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