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HRS §831-4

This law does not change other legal powers or rights

This section says that the rules in this chapter do not take away powers that courts, parole authorities, prison officials, or other laws already have. It also does not change any qualifications for jobs, voting, or other rights, or affect inheritance laws. In short, it keeps other laws and powers in place.

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The statute, as written — Saving provisions

(a) This chapter does not affect the power of a court, otherwise given by law to impose sentence or to suspend imposition or execution of sentence on any conditions, or to impose conditions of probation, or the power of the Hawaii paroling authority to impose conditions of parole. (b) This chapter does not deprive or restrict the authority and powers of officials of a penal institution or other penal facility, otherwise provided by law, for the administration of the institution or facility or for the control of the conduct and conditions of confinement of a convicted person in their custody. (c) This chapter does not affect the qualifications or disqualifications otherwise required or imposed by law for a designated office, public or private, or to serve as a juror or to vote or for any designated profession, trust, or position, or for any designated license or privilege conferred by public authority. (d) This chapter does not affect the rights of others arising out of the conviction or out of the conduct on which the conviction is based and not dependent upon the doctrines of civil death, the loss of civil rights, the forfeiture of estate, or corruption of blood. (e) This chapter does not affect laws governing rights of inheritance of a murderer from the murderer's victim.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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