HRS 0708-0837 ANNOTATIONS

As to civil remedies, see §§603-29, 604-6.2, and 633-8.

Act 171, Session Laws 1980, enacted this section as part of a package of penal sanctions and civil remedies intended "to provide an effective means for businesses, which have rented personal property to others, to obtain speedy and rightful return of their property while respecting the rights of persons who have leased the property." Conference Committee Report No. 37-80 (57-80).

Where police stopped defendant's rental car after they had received a report from the car's owner that the car was overdue, police had reasonable suspicion to stop the car, even if the report turned out to be mistaken due to its timing, because the police were acting on a police report from the car's owner, whose honesty had not been questioned. 241 F.3d 1124.

Mentioned: 86 H. 207, 948 P.2d 1048.