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Haw. Rev. Stat. § 237-5 (2026)

  "Producer" defined

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     §237-5  "Producer" defined.  "Producer" means any person engaged in the business of raising and producing agricultural products in their natural state, or in producing natural resource products, or engaged in the business of fishing or aquaculture, for sale, or for shipment or transportation out of the State, of the agricultural or aquaculture products in their natural or processed state, or butchered and dressed, or the natural resource products, or fish.

     As used in this section "agricultural products" include floricultural, horticultural, viticultural, forestry, nut, coffee, dairy, livestock, poultry, bee, animal, and any other farm, agronomic, or plantation products. [L 1935, c 141, pt of §1; RL 1945, §5447; RL 1955, §117-6; am L 1957, c 34, §11(b); HRS §237-5; am L 1982, c 253, §1; am L 1984, c 73, §3]

 

Case Notes

 

  Cited:  41 H. 615, 619 (1957).

 

 

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1968–1987 · leading case: In re the Tax Appeal of United Meat Co., 735 P.2d 935 (Haw. 1987).
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In re the Tax Appeal of United Meat Co., 735 P.2d 935 (Haw. 1987). · cites it 2× “Under this scheme, “a person making sales at wholesale” is a “wholesaler” {see HRS § 237-4), and “any person engaged in the business of raising and producing agricultural products in their natural state” is a “producer” {see HRS § 237-5). Hence, Wong’s Meat Market is a…”
City Collectors, Ltd. v. Maldonado, 437 P.2d 95 (Haw. 1968). · cites it 4× “, contends, and the District Magistrate held that the transfer garnishments which were received by it before the plaintiff’s original garnishee summons was served on it took precedence under Section 237-5 and 237-6, 2 RLH 1955, over the original garnishment by City Collectors,…”
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