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Haw. Rev. Stat. § 521-44

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Haw. Rev. Stat. § 521-44
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Hawaii (state)
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(c) At the termination of a rental agreement
in which the landlord required and received a security deposit if the landlord
proposes to retain any amount of the security deposit for any of the purposes
specified in subsection (a), the landlord shall so notify the tenant, in
writing, unless the tenant had wrongfully quit the dwelling unit, together with
the particulars of and grounds for the retention, including written evidence of
the costs of remedying tenant defaults, such as estimates or invoices for material
and services or of the costs of cleaning, such as receipts for supplies and
equipment or charges for cleaning services. The security deposit, or the
portion of the security deposit remaining after the landlord has claimed and
retained amounts authorized under this section, if any, shall be returned to
the tenant not later than fourteen days after the termination of the rental
agreement. If the landlord does not furnish the tenant with the written notice
and other information required by this subsection, within fourteen days after
the termination of the rental agreement, the landlord shall not be entitled to
retain the security deposit or any part of it, and the landlord shall return
the entire amount of the security deposit to the tenant. A return of the
security deposit or the furnishing of the written notice and other required
information in compliance with the requirements of this subsection shall be
presumptively proven if mailed to the tenant, at an address supplied to the
landlord by the tenant, with acceptable proof of mailing and postmarked before
midnight of the fourteenth day after the date of the termination of the rental
agreement or if there is an acknowledgment by the tenant of receipt within the
fourteen-day limit. All actions for the recovery of