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2023 Hawaii Revised Statutes
Title 36. Civil Remedies and Defenses and Special Proceedings
657. Limitation of Actions
PART I. PERSONAL ACTIONS
- 657-1 Six years.
- 657-1.5 Limitation of actions not applicable to State. No limitation of actions provided for under this or any other chapter shall apply to bar the institution or maintenance of any action by or on behalf of the State and its agencies, unless the State is specifically designated in such a statute as subject to the limitation period contained therein. No defense to any action brought by the State or any of its agencies shall be predicated upon the lapse of time. [L 1991, c 8, §1] Case Notes Plaintiffs water commission and department of water supply of county of Hawaii could not benefit from this section; plaintiffs were obligated to bring their claims in a timely manner within applicable limitations period. 930 F. Supp. 1411 (1996). Where plaintiff office of Hawaiian affairs brought suit in its own corporate name under §10-16, rather than as an agency of the State on behalf of the people of the State, this section did not exempt plaintiff from the statute of limitations for bringing a suit under §673-10. 110 H. 338, 133 P.3d 767 (2006).
- 657-1.8 Civil action arising from sexual offenses; application; certificate of merit.
- 657-2 Mutual current account.
- 657-3 Counterclaim.
- 657-3.5 Relation back of amendments.
- 657-4 Two years; libel and slander.
- 657-5 Domestic judgments and decrees.
- 657-5.5 Judgments for support.
- 657-6 Four years; causes arising in foreign jurisdiction, etc.
- 657-7 Damage to persons or property.
- 657-7.3 Medical torts; limitation of actions; time.
- 657-7.5 Third-party defendants, time in which plaintiff may amend.
- 657-8 Limitation of action for damages based on construction to improve real property.
- 657-9 Action barred in foreign jurisdiction.
- 657-10 Special limitations.
- 657-11 Recoveries authorized by federal statute.
- 657-12 REPEALED.
- 657-13 Infancy, insanity, imprisonment.
- 657-14 Disability to exist at accrual of action.
- 657-15 Two or more disabilities.
- 657-16 and 657-17 REPEALED.
- 657-18 Extension by absence from State.
- 657-19 Extension by injunction.
- 657-20 Extension by fraudulent concealment.
- 657-21 Extension by keeping defendant in ignorance.
- 657-21.5 Extension by sentencing of criminal defendant.
- 657-22 When process not commencement.
- 657-23 Extension while criminal case is pending.
- 657-24 Periodic payments of damages.
Case Notes
The statutory scheme and legislative history of 386-8 indicated that the phrase "except as limited by [this] chapter" was not intended to restrict an employee's right to intervene in a lawsuit that was timely filed by his or her employer; thus, employee was not barred by the statute of limitations under 657-7 to intervene in plaintiff insurer's timely filed suit, and the circuit court erred in granting defendant's motion for summary judgment. 126 H. 406, 271 P.3d 1165 (2012).
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