§388-12  Reciprocal agreements with otherstates; actions.  (a)  The director of labor and industrial relations mayenter into reciprocal agreements with the labor department or correspondingagency of any other state or with the person, board, officer, or commissionauthorized to act on behalf of such department or agency, for the collection insuch other states of claims or judgments for wages and other demands based uponclaims assigned to the director.

(b)  The director may, to the extent providedfor by any reciprocal agreement entered into by law or with an agency ofanother state as herein provided, maintain actions in the courts of such otherstate for the collection of claims for wages, judgments, and other demands andmay assign such claims, judgments, and demands to the labor department oragency of such other state for collection to the extent that such an assignmentmay be permitted or provided for by the law of such state or by reciprocalagreement.

(c)  The director may, upon the written consentof the labor department or other corresponding agency of any other state or ofany person, board, officer, or commission of such state authorized to act onbehalf of such labor department or corresponding agency, maintain actions inthe courts of this State upon assigned claims for wages, judgments, and demandsarising in such other state in the same manner and to the same extent that suchactions by the director are authorized when arising in this State.  However,such actions may be maintained only in cases where such other state by law orreciprocal agreement extends a like comity to cases arising in this State. [L1965, c 77, §1(c); Supp, §95-11; HRS §388-12]