Driving Impaired with a Child in the Car
HRS 291E-61 — a passenger younger than fifteen adds $500, forty eight hours, and a revocation of at least two years
A person eighteen years of age or older convicted of operating a vehicle under the influence, who had a passenger younger than fifteen years of age in or on the vehicle, receives an additional mandatory fine of $500 and an additional mandatory term of forty eight hours in jail.
Who handles this in Hawaii: Hawaii State Bar Association, Lawyer Referral and Information Service; and legal aid programs and the state offices, listed in the Hawaii directory.
- That comes on top of the sentence for a first offense or for one within ten years of a prior.
- The total jail term still may not exceed the maximum the base sentence allows.
- The revocation period is no less than two years.
Sources for this section (1)
- HRS 291E-61 — Operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant
Legal information, not legal advice. Verified as of October 2026. Applying it to a particular situation is the work of a licensed Hawaii attorney.