Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 480D-1

  • Debt: means any obligation or alleged obligation of a person to pay money arising out of any transaction, whether or not the obligation has been reduced to judgment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 480D-2

This chapter is intended to ensure that consumers are not subjected to unfair, deceptive, coercive, abusive, or harassing conduct in collection activities that are covered by this chapter. This chapter is intended to cover collection activities by debt collectors in collecting consumer debts.