HRS §189-14
Officials can inspect boats and businesses dealing in marine life
The department can board boats and enter businesses that handle marine life to inspect and check records. If you block an inspection, refuse to show records, or interfere with an officer, you commit a petty misdemeanor and face the punishment in section 189-4.
businesseslandowners
The statute, as written — Rights of entry, penalties
The department may board any vessel, whether commercial or non-commercial, capable of being used in taking marine life, or enter any place of business where marine life is sold, stored, processed, cooked, canned, or cured, for purposes of investigation and inspection, and inspect any and all books and records containing account of the marine life taken, bought, or sold. Any person who fails to permit an inspection as provided in this section, or who refuses to produce any book or record containing any information of the marine life taken, bought, or sold, and any person who interferes with any officer or agent of the department in the performance of the officer's or agent's duty as authorized in this section, shall be guilty of a petty misdemeanor and punished as provided by section 189-4.
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