§446-2  Debt adjusting prohibited; penalty;
contracts void.  Any person who acts or offers to act as a debt adjuster in
this State shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than six
months, or both.  Any contract for debt adjusting entered into with a person
engaged in the business for a profit shall be void and unenforceable and the
debtor may recover from the debt adjuster all sums or things deposited with the
debt adjuster and not disbursed to the debtor's creditors. [L 1967, c 3, §3; HRS
§446-2; gen ch 1985]



 



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  Classification of offense and authorized punishment, see
§§701-107, 706-640, 663.