2015 Hawaii Revised Statutes
TITLE 17. MOTOR AND OTHER VEHICLES
291. Traffic Violations
291-3.2 Consuming or possessing intoxicating liquor while a passenger in a motor vehicle.

HI Rev Stat § 291-3.2 (2015) What's This?

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Intextication: Txting Whl Drvng. Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? 32 UH L. Rev. 359 (2010).

§291-3.2 Consuming or possessing intoxicating liquor while a passenger in a motor vehicle. (a) No person shall consume any intoxicating liquor while a passenger in any motor vehicle or on any moped upon any public street, road, or highway.

(b) No person shall possess, while a passenger in a motor vehicle or on a moped upon any public street, road, or highway, any bottle, can, or other receptacle containing any intoxicating liquor which has been opened, or a seal broken, or the contents of which have been partially removed.

(c) Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a petty misdemeanor. [L 1981, c 152, pt of §1; am L 1986, c 171, §4; am L 1987, c 33, §8; am L 2000, c 62, §2]

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