HRS §507-1
Lien for caring for someone else's animals
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗If you take care of animals for their owner and get paid for it, you can hold onto the animals until the owner pays you for your work. This is called a lien.
landowners
The statute, as written — Animals, lien for care of
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.
Whoever pastures, feeds, or shelters animals by virtue of a contract with or by the consent of the owner of the animals for a compensation agreed upon, has a lien on the animals for pasturing, feeding, or sheltering to secure payment thereof with costs.
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