Hawaii Revised Statutes
489D. Money Transmitters Act
489D-23 Prohibited practices.

§489D-23 Prohibited practices. It is a violation of this chapter for a licensee to:
(1) Directly or indirectly employ any scheme, device, or artifice to defraud or mislead any person, including, but not limited to, bait and switch advertising or sales practices;
(2) Directly or indirectly engage in any unfair or deceptive act or practice toward any person, including but not limited to any false or deceptive statement about fees or other terms of a money transmission or currency exchange;
(3) Directly or indirectly obtain property by fraud or misrepresentation;
(4) Knowingly make, publish, or disseminate any false, deceptive, or misleading information in the provision of money services;
(5) Knowingly receive or take possession for personal use any property of any money services business, other than in payment for services rendered, and with intent to defraud, and omit to make, or cause or direct to omit to make, a full and true entry in the books and accounts of the regulated business;
(6) Concur in making any false entry, or omit or concur in omitting any material entry in the books or accounts of the business;
(7) Knowingly make or publish to the commissioner or commissioner's designee, or concur in making or publishing to the commissioner or commissioner's designee, any written report, exhibit, or statement of the licensee's affairs or pecuniary condition containing any material statement that is false, or omit or concur in omitting any statement required by law to be contained therein; or
(8) Fail to make any report or statement lawfully required by the commissioner. [L 2006, c 153, pt of §1]

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