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HRS §445-9

Closing, selling, or transferring your licensed business

If you close, sell, or transfer your licensed business before the license expires, you must tell the treasurer in writing and give back the license for cancellation within 30 days. If you don't, you can be fined up to $100.

businesses

The statute, as written — Canceled on transferring, etc., business; penalty

If any licensee closes out, transfers, or assigns the business for which a license is held, during the term for which the same was issued, the licensee shall within thirty days from the date of such closing out, transfer, or assignment, notify the treasurer of such fact in writing and return the license to the treasurer for cancellation, under a penalty not to exceed $100 for failure to do so.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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