The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Hawaii
- Level
- State
- Authority
- HRS §§ 321-9, 325-13 (Auth); HRS §§ 321-1, 325-8 (Imp)
- Issued
- 2008-03-13 Mar. 13, 2008
- Effective
- standing throughout 2020 Q2 to 2021 Q3 (chapter 11-156 was replaced by chapter 11-156.1 effective Mar. 20, 2026, after the period) (read as 2026-03-20)
- End
- standing through the period; repealed and replaced 2026-03-20 (read as 2026-03-20)
- In force
- Standing since Mar. 20, 2026 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally (diagnosed or provisionally diagnosed persons; their contacts); employers as the workplaces from which isolated persons are excluded (see Ex. DUT-HI-012)
- Character
- sanitary code duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Hawaii DUT-HI
Operative words
Any person who has been informed by the department, a private practitioner, or a hospital that he or she has been diagnosed or provisionally diagnosed with a communicable disease for which strict isolation is indicated in Exhibit C, shall remain in the person's residence... until the expiration of the prescribed period of isolation for the particular disease.
Penalty
misdemeanor for violation of any Department rule (HRS § 325-14; HRS § 321-18)
What it required
Every person diagnosed or provisionally diagnosed with a listed communicable disease was bound to remain isolated for the prescribed period, every contact of such a person was bound to 'comply with the restrictions specified in Exhibit C,' and violation of the Department's rule was a misdemeanor under HRS §§ 325-14 and 321-18.
Retrieval noteGraded verified_secondary because the text was read in Cornell LII's compilation, not in a Department of Health posting: the Department's rules page now carries only the 2026 replacement chapter 11-156.1 and a 2025 Ramseyer draft, and no Department PDF of the 2008 chapter was located. § 11-156-5(b): a person with a disease 'for which other than strict isolation is required in Exhibit C, shall remain isolated to the degree specified until the expiration of the prescribed period of isolation for that disease or until advised by the attending practitioner or by the department that the disease has reached a stage such that isolation is no longer necessary for the protection of the public.' § 11-156-5(c): 'Any person who has been a contact of a person diagnosed or provisionally diagnosed with a communicable disease specified in Exhibit C shall comply with the restrictions specified in Exhibit C.' The Department's own statement of the rule as 'exclusion from school and workplace' is Ex. DUT-HI-012.