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HRS §486-24

When officials can stop sales and use of noncompliant items

The administrator can order you to stop using, selling, or moving measuring tools, packages, or consumer goods that do not follow the law. You must obey these orders. The section explains the administrator's power to issue these orders.

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The statute, as written — Stop-use, stop-sale, hold, and removal orders

The administrator may issue citations and, incident thereto, stop-use, hold, and removal orders with respect to measures and measurement standards being, or susceptible of being, unlawfully used; and issue citations and, incident thereto, stop-sale, hold and removal orders with respect to packages or consumer commodities kept, offered, or exposed for sale, sold, or in process of delivery, whenever in the course of the administrator's enforcement of the law the administrator determines that such measure or measurement standard or packages or consumer commodities do not comply with this chapter or the rules adopted thereunder, and no person shall use, sell, remove, or move from the premises, as specified, any measure, measurement standard, package, or amount of commodity contrary to the terms of a stop-use, stop-sale, hold, or removal order issued under this section.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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