2011 Hawaii Code
DIVISION 2. BUSINESS
TITLE 23. CORPORATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS
414D. Hawaii Nonprofit Corporations Act
§414D-271 Authority to transact business required.

pARt XIV. FOREIGN CORPORATIONS

[§414D-271] Authority to transact business required. (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, in addition to 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 members 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 memberships or securities, or maintaining trustees or depositaries with respect to those securities;

(5) Selling through independent contractors;

(6) Soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail, through employees, agents, or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this State before they become contracts;

(7) Creating or acquiring 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;

(11) Transacting business in interstate commerce.

(c) The list of activities in subsection (b) shall not be limited to the activities listed. [L 2001, c 105, pt of §1]

Cross References

Foreign mergers, see, §414D-201.5.