§480-17 Individual liability for corporate or company act. (a) Whenever a corporation violates any of the penal provisions of this chapter, the violation shall be deemed to be also that of the individual directors, officers, or agents of the corporation who have authorized, ordered, or done any of the acts constituting in whole or in part the violation.
(b) Whenever a limited liability company violates any of the penal provisions of this chapter, the violation shall be deemed to be also that of the individual members, managers, or agents of the limited liability company who have authorized, ordered, or done any of the acts constituting in whole or in part the violation. [L 1961, c 190, §15; Supp, §205A-15; HRS §480-17; am L 1997, c 224, §1]
Case Notes
Does not limit liability of corporate officers, directors, or agents to criminal liability. 6 H. App. 125, 712 P.2d 1148.
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.