HRS §134-70

Penalty for filing a false or harassing gun protection petition

Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗

If you file a petition for a gun violence protective order and you know the information in it is false, or you file it to harass the person named in it, you commit a crime. This crime is a misdemeanor.

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The statute, as written — Penalties

A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.

A person who files a petition for an ex parte gun violence protective order or a one-year gun violence protective order under this part, knowing the information in the petition to be materially false or with an intent to harass the respondent, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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