Hawaii Notice to Cure or Quit (10-Day Lease Violation)

NOTICE TO CURE OR QUIT — STATE OF HAWAIʻI

Before use: Use the applicable chapter 521 ground below, confirm coverage under § 521-7 and any additional tenancy protections, and complete a lawful service method and cure deadline.

To Tenant(s): [________________________________]

Premises: [________________________________]

From Landlord / agent: [________________________________]

Mailing address, phone, and email: [________________________________]

Rental agreement date: [__/__/____]. Notice date: [__/__/____].

You are notified of the material noncompliance or authorized-rule breach identified below and required to remedy it by the stated deadline. This notice does not terminate a tenancy merely because a generic lease provision has been breached.

Non-rent notice grounds

Choose the applicable ground and complete the factual and deadline fields:

☐ HRS § 521-69(a)(1): Material noncompliance with § 521-51(1), requiring compliance with applicable building and housing laws materially affecting health and safety. Specific law violated: [________________________________]. Specific conduct, dates, and location: [________________________________].

☐ HRS § 521-72: Breach of a rule authorized under § 521-52. Rule text and date disclosed to Tenant: [________________________________]. Facts showing a valid rule, including its purpose, reasonable relationship, fair application, and specificity, and any required written consent to a later substantial modification: [________________________________]. Specific conduct and dates: [________________________________].

This notice does not treat every lease or maintenance breach as a ground for termination. Under § 521-69(a)(2), qualifying cleaning, repair, or replacement may instead support actual reasonable cost recovery. Section 521-69(b) separately governs roomers and boarders.

Required cure: [________________________________].

Date of delivery and receipt: [__/__/____]. Cure deadline: [__/__/____] at [____], allowing at least ten days after receipt.

For the § 521-69(a)(1) ground, if the material noncompliance is not remedied within the stated time, Landlord may terminate and seek possession under the applicable statutory procedure.

For the § 521-72 ground: Be informed that if you continue violating or again violate the identified rule after [__/__/____], a date not less than ten days after this notice, Landlord may terminate the rental agreement and sue for possession of your dwelling unit. If the breach continues or recurs after the stated date, § 521-72(b) permits a possession proceeding within thirty days after that continued or recurring breach.

The ordinary cure period selected here does not invoke the statutory exceptions dispensing with time to remedy for threatened irremediable harm under § 521-69(a), or the specified harm and § 521-51(1) or (6) violations under § 521-72(a). An exception does not itself create a fixed five-day or twenty-four-hour vacate deadline.

Rights and service record

Landlord's rights remain subject to applicable law, including the conditional anti-retaliation protections and exceptions in HRS § 521-74. Nothing in this notice authorizes self-help exclusion or waives a nonwaivable right under § 521-31(a). Any possession action must follow applicable court procedure. A signature acknowledging receipt is not agreement with the alleged breach.

Landlord / authorized agent signature: ________________________________

Printed name and capacity: [________________________________] Date: [__/__/____]

Record of delivery: I delivered this notice to [________________________________] on [__/__/____] at [____], at [________________________________], by [________________________________]. Applicable statutory service basis and supporting receipt or other evidence: [________________________________]. For § 521-69, posting at a conspicuous place on the dwelling is available if Tenant cannot be served as required; record the basis and posting details if used. This record does not apply court summons-service rules to the pre-suit notice.

Delivered by: ________________________________ Printed name: [________________________________]

Tenant acknowledgment of receipt, optional: __________________________ Date/time: [________________________________]