HRS §275-6
Emergency calls on shared phone lines
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This law makes it a crime to refuse to give up a shared phone line when someone needs it for an emergency call to fire, police, or medical help. It also makes it a crime to lie to get the line for an emergency when there is no real emergency.
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The statute, as written — Party line; refusal to yield in emergency
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
Any person who wilfully refuses to immediately relinquish a party line when informed that the line is needed for an emergency call to a fire department or police department or for medical aid or ambulance service, or any person who secures the use of a party line by falsely stating that the line is needed for an emergency call, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
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