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(a) A foreign corporation may not transact business in this State until it obtains a certificate of authority from the department director.
(b) The following activities, among others, do not constitute transacting business within the meaning of subsection (a):
(1) Maintaining, defending, or settling any proceeding;
(2) Holding meetings of the board of directors or shareholders or carrying on other activities concerning internal corporate affairs;
(3) Maintaining bank accounts;
(4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the corporation's own securities or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities;
(5) Selling through independent contractors;
(6) Soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this State before they become contracts;
(7) Creating as borrower or lender, or acquiring, as borrower or lender, indebtedness, mortgages, and security interests in real or personal property;
(8) Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages and security interests in property securing the debts;
(9) Owning, without more, real or personal property;
(10) Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within thirty days and that is not one in the course of repeated transactions of a like nature; and
(11) Transacting business in interstate commerce.
(c) The list of activities in subsection (b) is not exhaustive.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Hawaii Revised Statutes Division 2. Business § 414-431 - last updated January 01, 2022 | https://codes.findlaw.com/hi/division-2-business/hi-rev-st-sect-414-431.html
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