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HRS §806-36

Corporate property treated as the corporation's for criminal cases

This section says that when a corporation manages, controls, or holds property, that property is considered the corporation's own property for criminal cases against other people. This applies to both real property and personal property.

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The statute, as written — Property owned by corporation

All property, real and personal, whereof any body corporate shall by law have the management, control, or custody, shall, for the purpose of any indictment or proceeding against any other person for any offense committed on or in respect thereof, be deemed to be the property of the body corporate.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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