← Back to search

HRS §429-9

What happens to property of an inactive nonprofit group

If a nonprofit group has been inactive for three years or longer (or a different time its own rules state), someone holding the group's property can give it to a person named in the group's documents, or if none, to a similar nonprofit or a government body.

everyone

The statute, as written — Disposition of personal property of inactive nonprofit association

If a nonprofit association has been inactive for three years or longer, or a different period specified in a document of the nonprofit association, a person in possession or control of personal property of the nonprofit association may transfer custody of the property: (1) If a document of the nonprofit association specifies a person to whom transfer is to be made under those circumstances, to that person; or (2) If no person is so specified, to a nonprofit association or nonprofit corporation pursuing broadly similar purposes or to a government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality.
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.