HRS §445-9
Closing, selling, or transferring your licensed business
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗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
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.
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.
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