HRS §490:8-406
Tell the issuer quickly if your stock certificate is lost or stolen
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗If your stock certificate is lost, destroyed, or stolen, you must tell the company that issued it within a reasonable time after you find out. If you wait too long and the company transfers the certificate before you tell them, you cannot make a claim against them for that transfer or for a new certificate.
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The statute, as written — Obligation to notify issuer of lost, destroyed, or wrongfully taken security certificate
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 a security certificate has been lost, apparently destroyed, or wrongfully taken, and the owner fails to notify the issuer of that fact within a reasonable time after the owner has notice of it and the issuer registers a transfer of the security before receiving notification, the owner may not assert against the issuer a claim for registering the transfer under section 490:8-404 or a claim to a new security certificate under section 490:8-405.
Sections this one refers to
§490:8-404 When a company is at fault for registering a transfer to the wrong person
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