Source: https://www.animallaw.info/statute/hi-dog-bite-chapter-663-tort-actions
Timestamp: 2019-04-24 06:38:06+00:00

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Full Statute Name: HAWAII REVISED STATUTES ANNOTATED. DIVISION 4. COURTS AND JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS. TITLE 36. CIVIL REMEDIES AND DEFENSES AND SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS. CHAPTER 663. TORT ACTIONS. PART I. LIABILITY; SURVIVAL OF ACTIONS. § 663-9 Liability of animal owners.
Summary: This statute represents Hawaii's relevant dog bite law. Under the statute, an owner or harborer of an animal is strictly liable for personal or property damage to any person, regardless of the animal owner's or harborer's lack of scienter of the vicious or dangerous propensities of the animal.
§ 663-9 Liability of animal owners.
(a) The owner or harborer of an animal, if the animal proximately causes either personal or property damage to any person, shall be liable in damages to the person injured regardless of the animal owner's or harborer's lack of scienter of the vicious or dangerous propensities of the animal.
(b) The owner or harborer of an animal which is known by its species or nature to be dangerous, wild, or vicious, if the animal proximately causes either personal or property damage to any person, shall be absolutely liable for such damage.
Laws 1980, ch. 218, § 2.
§ 663-9.1 Exception of animal owners to civil liability.
“Enter or remain unlawfully” means to be in or upon premises when the person is not licensed, invited, or otherwise privileged to be upon the premises. A person is not licensed or privileged to enter or remain in or upon premises if a warning or warnings have been posted that are reasonably adequate to warn other persons that an animal is present on the premises. A person who, regardless of the person's intent, enters or remains in or upon premises that are at the time open to the public does so with license and privilege unless the person defies a lawful order not to enter or remain, personally communicated to the person by the owner of the premises or some other authorized person. A license or privilege to enter or remain in a building that is only partly open to the public is not a license or privilege to enter or remain in that part of the building that is not open to the public. A person who enters or remains upon unimproved and apparently unused land that is neither fenced nor otherwise enclosed in a manner designed to exclude intruders does so with license and privilege, unless notice against trespass is personally communicated to the person by the owner of the land or some other authorized person, or unless notice is given by posting in a conspicuous manner.
“Intentionally” shall have the same meaning as in section 702-206(1).
“Knowingly” shall have the same meaning as in section 702-206(2).
“Premises” includes any building or portion thereof or any real property owned, leased, or occupied by the owner or harborer of an animal.
(b) Notwithstanding sections 663-1 and 663-9, any owner or harborer of an animal shall not be liable for any civil damages resulting from actions of the animal occurring in or upon the premises of the owner or harborer where the person suffering either personal or property damage as a proximate result of the actions of the animal is found by the trier of fact intentionally or knowingly to have entered or remained in or upon such premises unlawfully.
(2) The use of the animal to cause damage to person or property was justified under chapter 703.
Laws 1980, ch. 218, § 3; Laws 1984, ch. 90, § 1; Laws 2017, ch. 12, § 71, eff. April 26, 2017.

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