HRS §463-12
Licensees must post a bond to protect the public
This section requires every licensee to give the board a bond of at least $5,000. The bond must be from a surety company allowed to work in Hawaii. It protects people hurt by the licensee's intentional or wrongful acts, letting them sue on the bond.
The statute, as written — Bond
Each licensee shall give to the board a bond in the sum of not less than $5,000 executed by the applicant as principal and by a surety company authorized to do business in the State as surety. The bond shall be in such form as the board may prescribe, conditioned upon the honest conduct of the business of the licensee, and the right of any person injured by the wilful, malicious, or wrongful act of the licensee to bring in the person's own name an action on the bond.
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