HRS §441-20
License needed to run a cemetery or pre-need funeral business
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗You cannot run a cemetery or sell pre-need funeral services without a license from the director. The director can exempt a cemetery if it proves it will not make any more burials.
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The statute, as written — License required to act as cemetery or pre-need funeral authority
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.
No person shall act as a cemetery or pre-need funeral authority without a license previously issued by the director in compliance with this chapter and the rules of the director; provided that the director shall exempt any cemetery authority upon its proof satisfactory to the director that it will not make any additional interments.
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