2023 Hawaii Revised Statutes › Title 38. Procedural and Supplementary Provisions › 846E. Registration of Sex Offenders and Other Covered Offenders and Public Access to Registration Information › 846E-9 Failure to comply with covered offender registration requirements.

§846E-9 Failure to comply with covered offender registration requirements.
(a) A person commits the offense of failure to comply with covered offender registration requirements if the person is required to register under this chapter and the person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly:
(1) Fails to register with the attorney general by providing to the attorney general or the Hawaii criminal justice data center the person's registration information;
(2) Fails to report in person every five years until June 30, 2009, and beginning on July 1, 2009, once every year, during the thirty-day period following the offender's date of birth, to the chief of police where the covered offender's residence is located, or to such other department or agency designated by the attorney general;
(3) While reporting to the chief of police or such other department or agency designated by the attorney general, fails to correct information in the registry within the offender's knowledge that has changed or is inaccurate regarding information required by section 846E-2(d)(1) through (12);
(4) While reporting to the chief of police or such other department or agency designated by the attorney general, fails to provide new information that may be required by section 846E-2(d)(1) through (12);
(5) While reporting to the chief of police or such other department or agency designated by the attorney general, does not allow the police or other designated department or agency to take a current photograph of the person;
(6) Fails to register in person with the chief of police having jurisdiction of the area where the covered offender resides or is present within three working days whenever the provisions of section 846E-2(g) require the person to do so;
(7) Fails to notify the attorney general or the Hawaii criminal justice data center of a change of any of the covered offender's registration information in writing within three working days of the change;
(8) Provides false registration information to the attorney general, the Hawaii criminal justice data center, or a chief of police;
(9) Signs a statement verifying that all of the registration information is accurate and current when any of the registration information is not substantially accurate and current;
(10) Having failed to establish a new residence within the ten days while absent from the person's registered residence for ten or more days fails to notify the attorney general in writing within three working days of the covered offender's current residence information;
(11) Fails to mail or deliver the periodic verification of registration information form to the attorney general within ten days of receipt, as required by section 846E-5; provided that it shall be an affirmative defense that the periodic verification form mailed to the covered offender was delivered when the covered offender was absent from the registered address and the covered offender had previously notified the Hawaii criminal justice data center that the covered offender would be absent during the period that the periodic verification form was delivered; or
(12) Fails to report to the chief of police where the covered offender resides, or to such other department or agency that may be designated by the attorney general in rules adopted pursuant to chapter 91, during the first week of the months of January, April, July, and October of every year, and verify and update the covered offender's registration information as required by section 846E-5(b).
(b) With respect to subsection (a)(1), (2), (6), (7), (10), (11), or (12), if a defendant intends to rely upon the defense that the covered offender was in custody or civilly committed, the defendant shall within the time provided for the filing of pretrial motions or at a later time as the court may direct, notify the prosecutor in writing of the defendant's intention and file a copy of the notice with the court.
(c) Failure to comply with covered offender registration requirements is a class C felony. [L 1997, c 316, pt of §2; am L 2004, c 59, §5; am L 2005, c 45, §10; am L 2006, c 106, §5; am L 2008, c 80, §8; am L 2013, c 64, §9]