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HRS §414-353

Notice that dissenting shareholders must receive

When shareholders approve a corporate action that gives dissenters' rights, the company must send a written notice to those shareholders. The notice must be sent within ten days after the action and must include specific information about how to demand payment and where to send shares.

The statute, as written — Dissenters' notice

(a) If proposed corporate action creating dissenters' rights under section 414-342 is authorized at a shareholders' meeting, the corporation shall deliver a written dissenters' notice to all shareholders who satisfied the requirements of section 414-352. (b) The dissenters' notice must be sent no later than ten days after the corporate action was taken, and must: (1) State where the payment demand must be sent and where and when certificates for certificated shares must be deposited; (2) Inform holders of uncertificated shares to what extent transfer of the shares will be restricted after the payment demand is received; (3) Supply a form for demanding payment that includes the date of the first announcement to news media or to shareholders of the terms of the proposed corporate action and requires that the person asserting dissenters' rights certify whether or not the person acquired beneficial ownership of the shares before that date; (4) Set a date by which the corporation must receive the payment demand, which date may not be fewer than thirty nor more than sixty days after the date the subsection (a) notice is delivered; and (5) Be accompanied by a copy of this part.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

Sections this one refers to

§414-342 When shareholders can dissent and get paid

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