HRS §145-9
Filing complaints and investigating produce businesses
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗The agriculture department can take complaints from producers about certain people in the produce business. It can investigate by looking at business records, produce, scales, and other items. This section explains how complaints and investigations work.
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The statute, as written — Complaints and investigations
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.
The department of agriculture and biosecurity may receive verified complaints from any producer against any commission merchant, dealer, broker, agent, processor, or retail merchant or any person assuming or attempting to act as such and upon receipt of the verified complaint may make any and all necessary investigations relative to the complaint. In conducting any investigation, the department or its authorized agent may examine any ledgers, books, accounts, memoranda, and other documents, farm produce, scales, measures, and any other articles and things used in connection with the business of the person of whom the complaint has been made.
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