HRS §641-31
Appeal stays valid despite bond or cost problems
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗If you appeal a court decision and fail to file a required bond or pay costs, or if your bond or payment has minor errors, your appeal is still valid. The court can only take action allowed by court rules, or if no rule exists, it can decide what to do, including dismissing the appeal.
The statute, as written — Bonds, costs, failure to file or pay, defects
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.
Failure of an appellant to file a bond or to pay costs, or informality or insufficiency of a bond or payment of costs, does not affect the validity of the appeal, but is ground only for such remedies as are specified by the rules of court or, when no remedy is specified, for such action as the court having jurisdiction deems appropriate, which may include dismissal of the appeal.
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