HRS §236D-17
Penalty for not doing what this law requires
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗If you are required to do something under this law and you do not do it within a reasonable time, you must pay the State $1,000. The attorney general can sue you to collect that money.
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The statute, as written — Who liable, amount
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.
Every person who fails or refuses to perform, within a reasonable time, any and every duty required by this chapter, or who fails or refuses to make and deliver within a reasonable time any statement or record required by this chapter, shall forfeit to the State the sum of $1,000, to be recovered in an action brought by the attorney general in the name of the State.
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