HB1758

Report Title:

Domestic abuse protective orders

Description:

Authorizes the use of a copy, facsimile telecommunication, or other reliable reproduction of a domestic abuse protective order to be used in lieu of the original order for any and all purposes for which the original order could be used.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1758
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING to domestic abuse.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 586-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§586-6 Notice of order. (a) Any order issued under this chapter shall either be personally served upon the respondent, or served by certified mail, unless the respondent was present at the hearing in which case the respondent shall be deemed to have notice of the order. A filed copy of each order issued under this chapter shall be served by regular mail upon the chief of police of each county.

(b) Except as otherwise provided in the order, a copy, facsimile telecommunication, or other reliable reproduction of an order issued pursuant to this chapter may be used in lieu of the original order for any and all purposes for which the original order could be used; provided that any such copy, facsimile telecommunication, or other reproduction shall be a complete reproduction of the entire original order."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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