HRS §486K-3
Selling unclaimed hotel baggage and giving the money
If a hotel keeps your baggage for unpaid charges, after three months it can sell the baggage at a public auction. The hotel must publish a notice in a local newspaper three times before the sale. The money from the sale pays the hotel bill and sale costs, and any leftover money goes to you or the state if you don't claim it.
The statute, as written — Sale of detained baggage; notice; disposition of proceeds
All baggage and property so held by the keeper of the hotel, after the expiration of three months from the date of the detention, shall be sold at public auction, after notice thereof published three times in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the hotel is kept. The proceeds thereof shall be applied to the payment of the amount due and the expenses of the notice and sale. The balance, if any remaining, shall be paid over to the owner of the property or the owner's representative. If the balance is not claimed by the owner within sixty days after sale, then the balance shall be paid over to the director of finance of the State and shall be kept by the director in a special deposit for payment to the owner and shall be disposed of as provided in chapter 523A.
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