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HRS §425-162

What a foreign partnership can do without doing business in Hawaii

Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗

This section lists activities that a foreign limited liability partnership can do in Hawaii without being considered as doing business here. It also says owning income-producing property in Hawaii does count as doing business. This list does not affect other laws about taxes, lawsuits, or regulation.

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The statute, as written — Foreign limited liability partnerships; activities not constituting the transaction of business

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.

(a) Activities of a foreign limited liability partnership that do not constitute the transaction of business include: (1) Maintaining, defending, or settling an action or proceeding; (2) Holding meetings of its partners or carrying on any other activity concerning its affairs; (3) Maintaining bank accounts; (4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the partnership's own securities, or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities; (5) Selling through independent contractors; (6) Soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees, agents, or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this State before they become contracts; (7) Creating or acquiring indebtedness, with or without a mortgage, or other security interest in property; (8) Collecting debts or foreclosing mortgages or other security interests in property securing the debts, and holding, protecting, and maintaining property so acquired; (9) Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within thirty days and is not one in the course of similar transactions; and (10) Transacting business in interstate commerce. (b) The ownership in this State of income-producing real property or income-producing tangible personal property, other than property excluded under subsection (a), constitutes the transaction of business in this State. (c) This section shall not apply to a determination of contracts or activities that may subject a foreign limited liability partnership to service of process, taxation, or regulation under any other law of this State.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

LawTrove is not legal advice. The summary above is a computer-generated restatement — the authoritative text is the official version linked above.