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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
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THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2020 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATED TO COMMERCIAL PROPERTY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that failure to maintain parking lots in commercial shopping centers can lead to hazardous conditions for people and automobiles. Often there is confusion about whether the landlord or tenant is responsible for this type of maintenance. The purpose of this Act is to clarify the responsibility for maintaining parking lots and common areas open to the public for commercial purposes.
SECTION 2. Section 520A-5 is amended to read as follows:
"§520A-5 Exceptions to limitations. Nothing in this chapter limits in any way any liability which otherwise exists:
(1) For wilful or malicious failure to guard or warn against a dangerous condition, use, or structure which the owner knowingly creates or perpetuates and for wilful or malicious failure to guard or warn against a dangerous activity which the owner knowingly pursues or perpetuates; or
(2) For injury suffered in any case where the owner of land charges the person or persons who enter or go on the land for the control or eradication of invasive species, except that in the case of land leased to the State or a political subdivision thereof, any consideration received by the owner for such lease shall not be deemed a charge within the meaning of this section.
(3) For failure to maintain walkways, parking lots, and other common areas of a property that is open to the public for commercial purposes."
SECTION 3. Chapter 520, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new part to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§520- Commercial landlord's remedies for
tenant's failure to maintain. (a) If the tenant is in
material noncompliance with section 520A-5(3), the landlord, upon learning of
any such noncompliance and after notifying the tenant in writing of the
noncompliance and allowing a specified time not less than ten days after
receipt of the notice, for the tenant to remedy the noncompliance:
(1) May terminate the rental
agreement and bring a summary proceeding for possession of the property or any
other proper proceeding, action, or suit for possession if the tenant is in
material noncompliance with section 520A-5(3); or
(2) May remedy the tenant's
failure to comply and bill the tenant for the actual and reasonable cost of
such remedy plus a fee of $500 for each day the noncompliance continues, if the noncompliance can be remedied by the
landlord which bill shall be treated by all parties as rent due and payable on
the next regular rent collection date or, if the tenancy has terminated,
immediately upon receipt by the tenant. No
allowance of time to remedy noncompliance shall be required when noncompliance
by the tenant causes or threatens to cause irremediable damage to any person or
property. If the tenant cannot be served with notice as required, notice
may be given the tenant by posting the same in a conspicuous place on the property.
(b) The landlord may bring an action or proceeding for waste or for breach of contract for damage suffered by the tenant's wilful or negligent failure to comply with the tenant's obligations under section 520A-5(3).
SECTION 4. New statutory material is underlined.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon approval.
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Report Title:
Commercial Property; Maintenance; Liability
Description:
Clarifies responsibility for maintenance of commercial property open to the public.
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