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HRS §702-228

When you can be held responsible for actions done for a company or group

If you act for a company or group, you can be held responsible for your actions just as if you did them for yourself. If the law requires the company or group to do something and you are the person in charge of doing it, you can be held responsible for recklessly not doing it. If you are convicted because of your responsibility for the company or group's actions, you can be sentenced as if you were convicted personally.

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The statute, as written — Liability of persons acting, or under a duty to act, in behalf of corporations or unincorporated associations

(1) A person is legally accountable for any conduct the person performs or causes to be performed in the name of a corporation or an unincorporated association or in its behalf to the same extent as if it were performed in the person's own name or behalf. (2) Whenever a duty to act is imposed by law upon a corporation or an unincorporated association, any agent of the corporation or the unincorporated association having primary responsibility for the discharge of the duty is legally accountable for a reckless omission to perform the required act to the same extent as if the duty were imposed by law directly upon the agent. (3) When a person is convicted of an offense by reason of the person's legal accountability for the conduct of a corporation or of an unincorporated association, the person is subject to the sentence authorized by law when a natural person is convicted of an offense of the grade and class involved.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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