HRS §322-4
Health officials can get a warrant to enter property
If a health department worker needs to enter land, a building, a boat, or a plane to stop a public health danger, and the owner refuses, the worker can ask a judge for a warrant. The warrant lets a police officer go with the worker, between sunrise and sunset, to fix or remove the problem.
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The statute, as written — Entering lands, buildings, etc
Whenever any member of the department of health deems it necessary for the preservation of the lives or health of the public to enter any land, building, vessel, or aircraft for the purpose of examining into, abating, destroying, removing, or preventing any nuisance, source of foul or noxious odors, gases or vapors, water in which mosquito larvae exist, source of filth, or cause of sickness or disease, or other thing detrimental to the public health, and is refused such entry, the member may make complaint to the district judge in whose circuit the nuisance, source, place, or cause is, and the district judge may thereupon issue a warrant, directed to any police officer of the circuit, commanding the police officer to take sufficient aid, and, being accompanied by the member of the department, between the hours of sunrise and sunset, to repair to the place described in the complaint, and to abate, destroy, remove, or prevent, under the directions of the member, the nuisance, source or cause. [PC 1869, c 59, §13; am L 1911, c 111, §4; RL 1925, §927; RL 1935, §1314; RL 1945, §2705; am L 1953, c 32, §2; RL 1955, §47-5; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §19; HRS §322-4; am L 1970, c 188, §§39, 40; gen ch 1985]
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