HRS §659-3
Court power to cancel a company's charter
This section gives circuit courts the power to hear cases brought by the state or the public utilities commission to cancel a company's charter. This can happen if the company breaks a law, misuses its powers, fails to use them, gives up its charter, or acts beyond what it is allowed to do.
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The statute, as written — Forfeiture of franchise
The several circuit courts shall have jurisdiction of all proceedings in, or in the nature of, quo warranto, brought by or in the name of the public utilities commission, or the State, for the forfeiture of the franchise of any corporate body offending against any law relating to such corporation, for misuser, for nonuser, for doing or committing any act or acts amounting to a surrender of its charter and for exercising rights not conferred upon it.
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