(a) No hotelkeeper shall be liable in any sum to any guest of the hotel for the loss of wearing apparel, goods, merchandise, or other personal property not mentioned in section security box for valuables; limitation of liability for deposited valuables” class=”unlinked-ref” datatype=”S” sessionyear=”2019″ statecd=”HI”>486K-4, unless it appears that the loss occurred through the fault or negligence of the hotelkeeper.

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 486K-5

  • Guest: means a person who is registered at the hotel and to whom a bedroom is assigned. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486K-1
  • keeper: includes any individual, firm, or corporation actually operating a hotel. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486K-1
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Security box: means any metal or alloy box, used in a hotel for the safekeeping of any valuables, which may be securely locked with a locking mechanism that meets or exceeds Underwriters Laboratories standards and which shall be secured in a manner which precludes its removal from the room. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486K-1
  • Valuables: includes money, bank notes, bonds, precious stones, jewelry, ornaments, watches, securities, transportation tickets, photographic cameras, checks, drafts, and other negotiable instruments, business papers, documents, and other papers, and other articles of value. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 486K-1
(b) No hotelkeeper shall be liable in any event in any sum for the loss of any article or articles of wearing apparel, cane, umbrella, satchel, valise, bag, box, bundle, or other chattel belonging to any guest of, or in, any hotel, and not within a room or rooms assigned to the guest, unless the same is specially entrusted to the care and custody of the keeper or the keeper’s duly authorized agent. If so specially entrusted with any such article belonging to the guest, the keeper shall not be liable for the loss of the article in any sum exceeding $500; provided that the keeper’s liability may be in excess of $500 by special agreement in writing with the keeper or the keeper’s duly authorized representative.

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