{"data":{"id":"us-hi/haw.-rev.-stat.-425e-903","jurisdiction":"us-hi","citation":"Haw. Rev. Stat. § 425E-903","heading":"Activities not constituting transacting business.","body":"(a) Activities of a foreign limited partnership that do not constitute transacting business in this State within the meaning of this article include:\n\n(1) Maintaining, defending, and settling an action or proceeding;\n\n(2) Holding meetings of its partners or carrying on any other activity concerning its internal affairs;\n\n(3) Maintaining accounts in financial institutions;\n\n(4) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the foreign limited partnership's own securities or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities;\n\n(5) Selling through independent contractors;\n\n(6) Soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or electronic means or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this State before they become contracts;\n\n(7) Creating or acquiring indebtedness, mortgages, or security interests in real or personal property;\n\n(8) Securing or collecting debts or enforcing mortgages or other security interests in property securing the debts, and holding, protecting, and maintaining property so acquired;\n\n(9) Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within thirty days and is not one in the course of similar transactions of a like manner; and\n\n(10) Transacting business in interstate commerce.\n\n(b) For purposes of this article, the ownership in this State of income-producing real property or tangible personal property, other than property excluded under subsection (a), constitutes transacting business in this State.\n\n(c) This section shall not apply in determining the [contracts] or activities that may subject a foreign limited partnership to service of process, taxation, or regulation under any other law of this State.","path":["HI Code","Division 2","Title 23","Chapter 425E"],"source_url":"http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/hrscurrent/Vol08_Ch0401-0429/HRS0425E/HRS_0425E-0903.htm","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:11Z","sha256":"921ff20e1934fc8972f5ff8726aa8c7109d7062c20d510206189062e011b9032","source_id":"us-hi","stale":false,"prev":"us-hi/haw.-rev.-stat.-425e-902","next":"us-hi/haw.-rev.-stat.-425e-904"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}