Hawaii Consumer Laws

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Created by FindLaw's team of legal writers and editors | Last reviewed February 02, 2018

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Welcome to FindLaw's section on Hawaii's consumer laws, with articles covering a wide variety of laws and regulations that protect consumers from the excesses of business and help encourage consumer activity. In this section you will find articles on illegal business practices such as deception (i.e. odometer tampering, false advertising) and Ponzi and pyramid schemes, as well as antitrust laws meant to maintain consumer choice through competition. This section also covers Hawaii's lemon laws, which require auto dealers to replace vehicles -- or reimburse consumers -- if a newly purchased automobile has serious defects. Click on one of the links below to learn more about Hawaii's consumer laws.

Learn About Hawaii Consumer Laws

  • Hawaii Lemon Laws

    Overview of Hawaii's so-called lemon laws, which protect consumers by requiring car dealerships to replace or refund a vehicle that has serious defects that cannot be fixed.

  • Hawaii Antitrust Laws

    Summary of Hawaii's antitrust laws, which are intended to protect consumers by preventing any one company from dominating the marketplace in a way that keeps competitors out of the marketplace.

  • Hawaii Identity Theft Laws

    Overview of Hawaii's laws prohibiting the offense of identity theft, in which the perpetrator commits financial and other kinds of fraud under cover of another individual's personally identifying information.

  • Hawaii Deceptive Trade Practices Law

    What you need to know about how Hawaii law prohibits deceptive trade practices, which may include such acts as false advertising, bait and switch, and automobile odometer tampering.

  • Hawaii Pyramid and Ponzi Scheme Laws

    Overview of the laws prohibiting the establishment of so-called Ponzi schemes or pyramid schemes in Hawaii, in which past investors are paid by collecting funds from new investors.

  • Hawaii Homestead Laws

    The basics of Hawaii's homestead protection law, which allows financially struggling property owners to declare a certain portion of their home a "homestead" and thus off-limits to creditors.

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