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Hawaii Revised Statutes Division 5. Crimes and Criminal Proceedings § 708-810

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(1) A person commits the offense of burglary in the first degree if the person intentionally enters or remains unlawfully in a building, with intent to commit therein a crime against a person or against property rights, and:

(a) The person is armed with a dangerous instrument in the course of committing the offense;

(b) The person intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly inflicts or attempts to inflict bodily injury on anyone in the course of committing the offense; or

(c) The person recklessly disregards a risk that the building is the dwelling of another, and the building is such a dwelling.

(2) An act occurs “in the course of committing the offense” if it occurs in effecting entry or while in the building or in immediate flight therefrom.

(3) In the case of a dwelling that is a multi-unit building, the owner of the multi-unit building, owner of an individual unit, a property manager, or an authorized representative of the condominium association may act as a complainant.

(4) Burglary in the first degree shall be a class B felony.

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