HI · jury_instructions
Haw. Pattern Jury Instr. (Criminal) 13.47C
Promoting a Controlled Substance Near School Vehicles:
H.R.S. § 712-1249.6(1)(c)(Distribute Near Vehicles)
[In Count (count number) of the Indictment/Complaint, the]
[The] Defendant, (defendant's name), is charged with the offense
of Promoting a Controlled Substance Near School Vehicles.
A person commits the offense of Promoting a Controlled
Substance Near School Vehicles if he/she knowingly distributes a
controlled substance within ten feet of a parked school vehicle
during the time that the vehicle is in service or waiting to
transport school children.
There are three material elements of the offense of
Promoting a Controlled Substance Near School Vehicles, each of
which the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt.
These three elements are:
1. That, on or about (date) in the [City and] County of
(name of county), the Defendant distributed a controlled
substance; and
2. That the Defendant did so while within ten feet of a
parked school vehicle during the time that the vehicle was in
service or waiting to transport school children; and
3. That the Defendant acted knowingly as to each of the
foregoing elements.
"School vehicle" means any publicly or privately owned
motor vehicle used to transport pupils to and from a school,
school functions, or school-related events [except [vehicles
used to transport pupils attending schools above the twelfth
grade or pupils over eighteen years of age] [privately-owned
passenger vehicles when the transportation is provided without
compensation of any kind] [vehicles used to transport pupils
together with other passengers as part of the regularly
scheduled operation of a mass transit system] [privately-owned
vehicles when the transportation is provided by a community
association or nonprofit corporation, duly incorporated with the
department of commerce and consumer affairs, which operates for
the purpose of promoting recreation, health, safety,
ridesharing, or social group functions]].
“School” means any public or private preschool,
kindergarten, elementary, intermediate, middle, secondary, or
high school.
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- courts.state.hi.us
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- 2026-08-20
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- 2026-08-20
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