2009 Hawaii Code
Volume 07
TITLE 20 - SOCIAL SERVICES
CHAPTER 363 - VETERANS RIGHTS AND BENEFITS
§363-5 - Councils' responsibility; burial of servicemen, veterans and dependents.

     §363-5  Councils' responsibility; burial of servicemen, veterans and dependents.  The councils of the counties of Hawaii, Kauai, and Maui shall each provide for the establishment of the veterans cemetery or cemeteries to be located within their respective counties, which includes grading, filling, leveling, platting, paving of roadways and walks, installation of curbs, building of fences, planting of grass, trees and shrubs, erection of memorial buildings and monuments, and building of other necessary or convenient structures, and shall make provisions for the maintenance and upkeep of such cemetery or cemeteries.  The councils shall each provide for the interment of the remains, of (1) residents or former residents of their respective counties who died while in the armed forces of the United States, and (2) of honorably discharged veterans of the armed forces of the United States with either peacetime or wartime service and who are residents of their respective counties at the time of death, or who were former residents, and (3) of the widows, widowers, or minor children of such deceased servicemen or veterans, and (4) of the wife, husband, or minor children who predecease a serviceman or veteran who would be himself entitled to interment provided that he must subscribe to a statement that he himself will be so interred in the same veterans cemetery; and provided further that as to former residents, the cost of transportation of the remains to the county of interment shall be borne by the family or estate of the deceased. [L 1947, c 214, §2; RL 1955, §348-2; am L 1957, c 131, §1; HRS §363-5; am L 1972, c 94, §1]