Also, old convictions will be resurrected so they show for 10 years on the abstracts. I don't understand how this change happened in April, but some people should be warned about it.
ANSWER: The Hawaii Supreme Court in April issued a new retention schedule to govern how long violations will show on a person's abstract.
This was a follow to Act 226 of the 1995 Legislature, which said if a person has three or more DUI convictions in a 10-year period, the person is considered a habitual offender and the offense becomes a felony.
This means a DUI conviction will show on a person's abstract for 10 years from the date of sentencing. Milton Hee, manager of the traffic violations bureau, said the practice previously was to have the convictions show on the abstract for five years.
Because of the 10-year specification in the law, some DUI violations now are reappearing on the abstracts.
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