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HRS §287-15

Reporting unpaid court judgments to the administrator

If a person does not pay a court judgment within 60 days after the winner asks in writing, the court must send a certified copy of the judgment to the administrator. If the person who owes is from another state, the administrator sends that copy to that state's license official.

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The statute, as written — Report of nonpayment of judgments

Whenever any person fails within sixty days to satisfy any judgment upon the written request of the judgment creditor or the judgment creditor's attorney, the clerk of the court or the judge of a court which has no clerk in which any such judgment is rendered shall forward to the administrator immediately after the expiration of the sixty days a certified copy of the judgment. If the defendant named in any certified copy of a judgment reported to the administrator is a nonresident, the administrator shall transmit a certified copy of the judgment to the official in charge of the issuance of licenses and registration certificates of the state of which the defendant is a resident.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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