§480-16 Violation a felony. (a) Any person who violates section 480-4, 480-6, 480-9, or 480-17, including any principal, manager, director, officer, agent, servant, or employee, who had engaged in or has participated in the determination to engage in an activity that has been engaged in by any association, firm, partnership, trust or corporation, which activity is a violation of section 480-4, 480-6, 480-9, or 480-17, is punishable if a natural person by a fine not exceeding $100,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding three years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court; if the person is not a natural person then by a fine not exceeding $1,000,000.
(b) The actions authorized by this section and section 480-18 shall be brought in the circuit court of the circuit where the offense occurred. [L 1961, c 190, §14; Supp, §205A-14; HRS §480-16; am L 1975, c 94, §1]
Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes
Title 26. Trade Regulation and Practice
480. Monopolies; Restraint of Trade
480-2 Unfair competition, practices, declared unlawful.
480-3.3 Endless chain schemes.
480-4 Combinations in restraint of trade, price-fixing and limitation of production prohibited.
480-5 Requirements and output contracts; tying agreements.
480-7 Mergers, acquisitions, holdings, and divestitures.
480-8 Interlocking directorates and relationships.
480-10 Exemption of labor organizations.
480-13 Suits by persons injured; amount of recovery, injunctions.
480-13.3 Class actions by private persons.
480-14 Suits by the State; amount of recovery.
480-15 Injunction by attorney general or the director of the office of consumer protection.
480-17 Individual liability for corporate or company act.
480-19 Additional parties defendant.
480-20 Duty of the attorney general; duty of county attorney, etc.
480-22 Judgment in favor of the State as evidence in private action; suspension of limitation.
480-23 Immunity from prosecution.