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Chapter 415A

35 sections

§415A-1 Official name of the Hawaii Professional Corporation Act

§415A-2 Definitions for professional corporations

§415A-3 What professional corporations can be formed to do

§415A-4 Prohibited activities

§415A-5 What powers a professional corporation has

§415A-6 Who can provide professional services for a professional corporation

§415A-7 Corporation buying its own shares

§415A-8 Rules for naming a professional corporation

§415A-8.5 Administrative order to stop using a confusingly similar corporate name

§415A-9 Who can own and transfer shares in a professional corporation

§415A-10 What happens to shares when a shareholder dies or becomes disqualified

§415A-11 Who is responsible when a professional corporation makes a mistake

§415A-12 Professional corporations and client privacy

§415A-13 Voting of shares

§415A-14 Who can be directors and officers

§415A-14.5 Incorporators

§415A-14.6 What must be in a professional corporation's articles of incorporation

§415A-14.7 How to file documents and when they take effect

§415A-14.8 How to finish setting up the corporation

§415A-15 Amending the articles of incorporation when one shareholder's estate representative holds all shares

§415A-16 Mergers and share exchanges for professional corporations

§415A-16.5 Converting a professional corporation into another business or back

§415A-16.6 Articles of conversion

§415A-16.8 What happens when a business conversion takes effect

§415A-17 What happens when a professional corporation stops working

§415A-18 When the state can dissolve a professional corporation and how to fix it

§415A-18.5 Court-appointed trustees or receivers for a dissolved professional corporation

§415A-22 Annual report for professional corporations

§415A-24 Director can ask questions to check compliance

§415A-25 Penalties for not answering official questions or filing false papers

§415A-27 Professional corporations follow the general business corporation rules

§415A-28 Which existing corporations this law covers

§415A-29 Legislature can change the rules for these corporations

§415A-30 Effect of Repealing an Older Law

§415A-31 If one part is invalid, the rest still stands