HRS §437D-7
Car rental ads must show damage waiver cost
Car rental companies and their agents must clearly show the daily damage waiver rate in any ad that lists a rental price. The waiver rate must be stated as an extra daily charge. Print, TV, and radio ads have specific size or timing rules to make the disclosure as noticeable as the price.
businesses
The statute, as written — Rate disclosure requirements; advertising
(a) Each lessor, and each officer, employee, agency, or other representative of the lessor, who states or permits to be stated the rental cost of a rental motor vehicle in any advertisement, shall state conspicuously, in plain language and in conjunction with the advertised rental cost of the vehicle, the daily rate of the applicable damage waiver, and that the rate constitutes an additional daily charge to the lessee. (b) When a written advertisement, including all print media, contains the statement of the rental cost of a vehicle, the disclosure required by this section shall be printed in type no less than one-third the size of the type used to print the rental cost, or twelve-point type, whichever is larger. When the video presentation of a television advertisement contains the statement of the rental cost of a vehicle, the depiction of the disclosure required by this section shall be no less than one-third the size of the depiction of the rental cost. When a radio advertisement or the audio presentation of a television advertisement contains the statement of the rental cost of the vehicle, the oral statement of the rental cost shall be immediately accompanied by an oral statement of the disclosure required by this section. (c) Except as set forth in this section, the statement of the rental cost and the disclosure shall be equally prominent in all respects.
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