§79-14 Leave for employee summoned as witness. Any provisions of the law to the contrary notwithstanding, any officer or employee of the State or its political subdivisions who is summoned as a juror or witness in any judicial proceeding, subject to the officer's or employee's claim for exemption from jury duty as in the law provided, shall be entitled to leave of absence with pay for the period required for such service. Any such officer or employee who serves as a juror or witness and who receives a fee or mileage allowance shall not suffer the loss of such monies or have it offset against the officer's or employee's salary account. No such officer or employee who is summoned as a witness in a proceeding involving or arising from the officer's or employee's outside employment or the officer's or employee's personal business affairs shall be entitled to have the officer's or employee's absence credited to the leave with pay provided in this section. [L 1953, c 154, §1; RL 1955, §5-43; HRS §79-14; am L 1970, c 50, §1; am L 1977, c 186, §1; gen ch 1985]