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HRS §415A-25

Penalties for not answering official questions or filing false papers

This section makes it a serious crime for a professional corporation or its officers or directors to ignore official written questions from the director or to file false documents. It applies only to penalties for these specific failures.

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The statute, as written — Penalties

(a) Each professional corporation that fails or refuses to answer truthfully within the time prescribed by this chapter interrogatories directed to the professional corporation in accordance with this chapter by the director shall be guilty of a class C felony. (b) Each officer or director of a professional corporation who fails or refuses within the time prescribed by this chapter to answer truthfully and fully interrogatories directed to that officer or director in accordance with this chapter by the director, or who signs any articles, statement, report, application, or other document filed with the director which is known to that officer or director to be false in any material respect, shall be deemed to be guilty of a class C felony.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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