Hawaii Revised Statutes, Chapter 521 — Residential Landlord-Tenant Code
Hawaii Residential Landlord-Tenant Code: lease formation and required terms, security deposit maximum (one month) and return procedures, landlord and tenant duties, habitability standards, prohibited practices, notice periods, and tenant remedies. 61 sections (including 1 dual-version section for Act 278, 2025).
Provisions (61)
§ 521-1
Short title.
§ 521-10
Duties; obligation of good faith.
§ 521-11
Time; reasonable time.
§ 521-2
Purposes; rules of construction.
§ 521-21
Rent.
§ 521-22
Term of rental agreement.
§ 521-3
Supplementary general principles of law, other laws, applicable.
§ 521-31
Waiver; agreement to forego rights; settlement of claims.
§ 521-32
Separation of rents and obligations to property forbidden.
§ 521-33
Landlord's waiver of liability prohibited.
§ 521-34
Authorization to confess judgment prohibited.
§ 521-35
Attorney's fees.
§ 521-36
Effect of termination.
§ 521-37
Subleases and assignments.
§ 521-38
Tenants subject to rental agreement; notice of conversions.
§ 521-39
Medical cannabis; tenant use; eviction.
§ 521-4
Construction against implicit repeal.
§ 521-41
Landlord to supply possession of dwelling unit.
§ 521-42
Landlord to supply and maintain fit premises.
§ 521-43
Rental agreement, disclosure.
§ 521-44
Security deposits.
§ 521-45
Limitation of landlord and management liability.
§ 521-46
Application screening fee.
§ 521-5
Severability.
§ 521-51
Tenant to maintain dwelling unit.
§ 521-52
Tenant to use properly.
§ 521-53
Access.
§ 521-54
Tenant to use and occupy.
§ 521-55
Tenant's responsibility to inform landlord.
§ 521-56
Disposition of tenant's abandoned possessions.
§ 521-6
Territorial application.
§ 521-61
Tenant's remedies for failure by landlord to supply possession.
§ 521-62
Tenant's remedy of termination at beginning of term.
§ 521-63
Tenant's remedy of termination at any time; unlawful removal or exclusion.
§ 521-64
Tenant's remedy of repair and deduction for minor defects.
§ 521-65
Tenant's remedies for fire or casualty damage.
§ 521-66
Tenant's right to refund of rent, etc., on termination; return of security deposit.
§ 521-67
Tenant's remedy for failure by landlord to disclose.
§ 521-68
Landlord's remedies for failure by tenant to pay rent.
§ 521-69
Landlord's remedies for tenant's waste, failure to maintain, or unlawful use.
§ 521-69.5
REPEALED.
§ 521-7
Exclusions from application of chapter.
§ 521-70
Landlord's remedies for absence, misuse, abandonment and failure to honor tenancy before occupancy.
§ 521-71
Termination of tenancy; landlord's remedies for holdover tenants.
§ 521-72
Landlord's remedies for improper use.
§ 521-73
Landlord's and tenant's remedies for abuse of access.
§ 521-74
Retaliatory evictions and rent increases prohibited.
§ 521-74.5
Recovery of possession limited.
§ 521-75
Unconscionability.
§ 521-76
REPEALED.
§ 521-77
Investigation and resolution of complaints by the office of consumer protection.
§ 521-78
Rent trust fund.
§ 521-79
Definitions.
§ 521-8
Definitions.
§ 521-80
Early termination of tenancy; victims of domestic violence.
§ 521-81
Change of locks; victims of domestic violence.
§ 521-82
Court order to vacate; domestic violence.
§ 521-83
Early termination of tenancy; servicemember tenants.
§ 521-84
Pre-litigation mediation for tenancies subject to certain emergency proclamations.
§ 521-85
Death of a tenant; notice.
§ 521-9