§291E-19  Authorization to establish intoxicant control roadblock programs.  The police departments of the respective counties may establish and implement intoxicant control roadblock programs in accordance with the minimum standards and guidelines provided in section 291E-20.  The chief of police in any county establishing an intoxicant control roadblock program pursuant to this section shall specify the procedures to be followed in carrying out the program in rules adopted under chapter 91; provided that the procedures shall be in conformity with and not more intrusive than the standards and guidelines described in section 291E-20.  In the case of internal police standards that do not fall within the definition of "rule" under section 91-1, failure to comply scrupulously with the internal police procedures shall not invalidate a roadblock that otherwise meets the minimum statutory criteria provided in section 291E-20. [L 2000, c 189, pt of §23; am L 2021, c 230, §4]

Law Journals and Reviews

  Drunk, Driving, and Untouchable:  The Implications of State v. Heapy on Reasonable Suspicion in Hawai`i.  31 UH L. Rev. 607 (2009).

Case Notes

  Section 291E-20 does not authorize law enforcement officers conducting sobriety checkpoints to pursue and detain drivers of motor vehicles appearing to avoid the sobriety checkpoints in a lawful manner; permitting officers to do so was beyond the lawful scope of the statutory procedures and, therefore, more intrusive than the standards and guidelines described in §291E-20 and violative of this section.  113 H. 283, 151 P.3d 764 (2007).