(a) Each limited liability company and foreign limited liability company that fails or refuses to file its annual report for any year within the time prescribed by this chapter shall be subject to a forfeiture of an amount to be determined by the director not exceeding $100 for every such offense, violation, neglect, or failure, to be recovered by action brought in the name of the State by the director. A continuance of a failure to file the required statement shall be a separate offense for each thirty days of the continuance. The director, for good cause shown, may reduce or waive the penalty imposed by this section.

Attorney's Note

Under the Hawaii Revised Statutes, punishments for crimes depend on the classification. In the case of this section:
ClassPrisonFine
Class C felonyup to 5 yearsup to $10,000
For details, see Haw. Rev. Stat. § 706-660
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 428-1302

  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Director: means the director of commerce and consumer affairs. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 428-101
  • Foreign limited liability company: means an unincorporated entity organized under laws other than the laws of this State which afford limited liability to its owners comparable to the liability under § 428-303 and is not required to obtain a certificate of authority to transact business under any law of this State other than this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 428-101
  • Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
  • Limited liability company: means a limited liability company organized under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 428-101
  • Manager: means a person, whether or not a member of a manager-managed limited liability company, who is vested with authority under section 428-301(b). See Hawaii Revised Statutes 428-101
  • Person: includes any individual or entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 428-101
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 428-101
(b) Each limited liability company, domestic or foreign, that delivers for filing to, files, or causes to be filed with the director any record, statement, or other document required by this chapter which is known to the limited liability company to be false in any material respect, shall be guilty of a class C felony.
(c) Any person who signs or certifies as correct any record, statement, or other document filed pursuant to this chapter, knowing the same to be false in any material respect, shall be guilty of a class C felony.
(d) Any person who negligently but without intent to defraud signs or certifies as correct any record, statement, or other document filed pursuant to this chapter, which is false in any material particular, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500.
(e) Each domestic or foreign limited liability company that knowingly fails or intentionally refuses to answer truthfully and fully within the time prescribed by this chapter interrogatories directed to the limited liability company by the director in accordance with this chapter shall be guilty of a class C felony.
(f) Any manager or member of a domestic or foreign limited liability company who knowingly fails or intentionally refuses within the time prescribed by this chapter to answer truthfully and fully interrogatories directed to the manager or member of a limited liability company by the director in accordance with this chapter shall be guilty of a class C felony.
(g) A person has “knowledge” of a fact within the meaning of this section not only when the person has actual knowledge, but also when the person has knowledge of the other facts as in the circumstances showing bad faith.

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