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HRS §708-837.5

Keeping rented items past the due date

This law makes it a crime to keep rented or leased personal property (not a rental car) past the due date in your contract. You must return it within 14 days after that date unless you get permission to extend the time. If you don't, it's a petty misdemeanor.

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The statute, as written — Failure to return leased or rented personal property; penalty

[(1)] A person commits the offense of failure to return leased or rented personal property other than a rental motor vehicle, when he knowingly or intentionally does not return the leased or rented personal property to the person, or his agent, from whom the personal property was leased or rented within fourteen days after the return date stated in the lease or rental contract, unless the person leasing or renting the personal property gives notice that he will not be able to return the leased or rented personal property by the date stated and with the permission of the owner of the property or his agent extends the date by which the personal property will be returned. [(2)] Failure to return leased or rented personal property is a petty misdemeanor.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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