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Hawaii Revised Statutes Division 5. Crimes and Criminal Proceedings § 708-870

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(1) A person commits the offense of deceptive business practices if in the course of engaging in a business, occupation, or profession the person knowingly or recklessly:

(a) Uses or possesses for use a false weight or measure, or any other device for falsely determining or recording any quality or quantity;

(b) Sells, offers or exposes for sale, or delivers less than the represented quantity of any commodity or service;

(c) Takes or attempts to take more than the represented quantity of any commodity or service when as buyer the person furnishes the weight or measure;

(d) Sells or offers for sale adulterated commodities; or

(e) Sells or offers or exposes for sale mislabeled commodities.

(2) “Adulterated” means varying from the standard of composition or quality prescribed by statute or lawfully promulgated administrative regulation, or if none, as set by established commercial usage.

(3) “Mislabeled” means:

(a) Varying from the standard of truth or disclosure in labeling prescribed by statute or lawfully promulgated administrative regulation, or if none, as set by established commercial usage; or

(b) Represented as being another person's product, though otherwise labeled accurately as to quality and quantity.

(4) Deceptive business practices is a misdemeanor.

(5) This section does not apply to deceptive business practices, as defined in subsection (1), for which a specific penalty is provided by a statute other than this Code.

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