(a) For information required by § 481F-4, any seller of print multiples who fails to disclose such information or discloses false information shall be liable to the purchaser of the print in an amount equal to the purchase price of the print plus the interest accrued from the date of purchase at the rate provided for in § 478-3.

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 481F-7

  • print: means any print produced in more than one copy by means of engraving, etching, woodcutting, lithography, serigraphy, or other similar processes or any combination thereof. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481F-1
  • seller: means a person who is in the business of selling, exclusively or nonexclusively, print multiples, or a person offering prints for sale who by the person's occupation holds the person's self out as having knowledge or skill peculiar to these works, or to whom that knowledge or skill may be attributed by the employment of an agent or other intermediary who by occupation represents as having that knowledge or skill. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481F-1
  • seller of print multiples: includes an auctioneer who sells such works at public auction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 481F-1
(b) For information required by § 481F-4, any seller of print multiples who intentionally fails to disclose or intentionally discloses false information shall be liable to the purchaser of the print in the amount of $1,000 or in an amount equal to three times the purchase price of the print, whichever is greater, plus the interest accrued from the date of purchase at the rate provided for in § 478-3.
(c) No action shall be maintained under this section unless the purchaser of the print tenders the print in the condition in which received by the purchaser to the seller for a refund and the seller fails to refund the full purchase price of the print plus the interest accrued from the date of purchase at the rate provided for in § 478-3.

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