Hawaii Revised Statutes 443B-4.60 – Collecting without a registration
Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 443B-4.60
- Collection agency: includes :
(1) Any person using any name other than the person's own in collecting the person's own claims with the intention of conveying, or which tends to convey the impression that a third party has been employed;
(2) Any person who, in the conduct of the person's business for a fee, regularly repossesses any merchandise or chattels for another; and
(3) Any person who regularly accepts the assignment of claims or money due on accounts or other forms of indebtedness and brings suits upon the assigned claims or money due on accounts or other forms of indebtedness in the person's own name; provided that any suits shall be initiated and prosecuted by an attorney who shall have been appointed by the assignee. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 443B-1
Any collection agency whose registration has been terminated but continues to conduct business as a collection agency shall be engaging in an unregistered activity, and any agency so engaged, and any employee or agent of the agency who engages in an unregistered activity, shall be subject to the sanctions provided in this chapter. Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to limit or prohibit other available civil or criminal actions against an agency engaged in an unregistered activity or any employee or agent of the agency engaged in an unregistered activity.