Getting a traffic ticket in Hawai`i and forgetting to pay it can get complicated, harassing, and expensive.

Not only will you find a stopper on your drivers license making it impossible to renew your license, not only will you not be able to just pay your ticket at the court, but you will have to send your money to Texas, pay up to 50% in additional fees to a Texas-based collection agency, and add another US$10.00 credit card handling fee for immediate service.


This can easily double the cost of your ticket.


The Hawai`i court system, like many other jurisdictions, has contracted with the Texas-based Municipal Service Bureau to collect on Hawai`i-issued traffic tickets.


Once the collection agency is involved, they will be provided with your social security number, your date of birth, your drivers license number, all your phone numbers, including unlisted numbers.

You can expect to receive two phone calls a day and every day until you pay your ticket including the handling fees the agency adds to the ticket amount.

Privacy concerns? Not for Hawai`i courts. All information is provided by the Honolulu District Court to this privately owned collection agency in Texas.


And don't try to send a check to the Hawai`i courts. Payments for Hawai`i traffic tickets is only accepted in Texas.
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  • yes that is all true, but there is a way out of the hassle without paying the ticket. It requires you actually owning the MSO to your car and not registering it, licensing it, safety checking it, or permitting it, in any way for any commercial purpose, see title 18 section 31 of the US CODE definition of Motor vehicle to be any description of vehicle with a motor AND USED FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES. ..  basically what this is saying in legalese is that all the motor vehicle laws as narrow in scope to affect only such things that are for commercial purposes, because the definition for motor vehicle is a vehicle used for commercial purposes.  this is because the state and federal government are prohibited from in any way reducing the right of the people to travel, YES even by automobile, it is considered a right not a privilege and i have all the supreme court cases to back that statement up.  so you wont be able to drive in a motor vehicle for not paying it, but you will be able to travel in an automobile at your leisure and under your own safe conduct.   For a list of all the relevant cases that will allow you to  exercise this right without going to jail email me and ill point you in the right direction finehawaiianart@gmail.com
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