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HRS §487-2

Office of Consumer Protection

This section creates the Office of Consumer Protection inside the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. The department's director also leads this office and can hire an executive director. The executive director must be a lawyer licensed in Hawaii and is exempt from civil service rules.

state agencies

The statute, as written — Office of consumer protection; director

There is created within the department of commerce and consumer affairs an office of consumer protection. The director of commerce and consumer affairs shall be the director of the office of consumer protection and may appoint an executive director of the office of consumer protection. The executive director shall have been admitted to practice law before the supreme court of this State and shall be exempt from chapter 76.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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