Hawaii Revised Statutes Division 2. Business § 486-103

The state measurement standard artifacts shall be in conformity with the measurement standards of the United States. As applicable, they shall have been calibrated for such use by the National Institute of Standards and Technology or other appropriate agency and shall be maintained in such calibration as is prescribed by that bureau or agency by the laboratory of the state measurement standards branch. They shall not be removed from that laboratory except upon request of the National Institute of Standards and Technology or other appropriate agency for calibration audit, provided that they may be relocated for the convenience of the State by directive of the governor.