Section 8-6-2 - Employee, student, parent, or library patron access to own personal record(a) All accessible personal records shall be made available for inspection to the employee, student, parent, or library patron to whom it pertains, in a reasonably prompt manner and in a reasonably intelligible form. Where necessary the department shall provide a translation into common terms of any machine readable code, or any code or abbreviation employed for internal department use.(b) Upon the request of an employee, student, parent, or library patron to gain access to personal records, the department shall permit the employee, student, parent, or library patron to review the record and have a copy made within ten days following the date of the request unless the personal record requested is exempted under section 8-6-5. The ten-day period may be extended for an additional twenty days if the department provides to the employee, student, parent, or library patron, within the initial ten working days, a written explanation of unusual circumstances causing the delay.(c) The department may charge the employee, student, parent, or library patron for any copies and for the certification of any copies; provided that the charges or fees shall not exceed the actual cost of duplication or of transcription into readable or intelligible form and duplication and shall not include any costs of searching for the record.[Eff. AUG 22, 1983] (Auth: HRS § 302A-1112) (Imp: HRS §§92E, 302A-1112)