Hawaii Revised Statutes
521. Residential Landlord-Tenant Code
521-37 Subleases and assignments.

§521-37 Subleases and assignments. (a) Unless otherwise agreed to in a written rental agreement and except as otherwise provided in this section, the tenant may sublet the tenant's dwelling unit or assign the rental agreement to another without the landlord's consent.
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to a tenant of a dwelling unit administered, owned, or subsidized by the United States, the State, a county, or any agency thereof.
(c) A written rental agreement may provide that the tenant's right to sublet the tenant's dwelling unit or assign the rental agreement is subject to the consent of the landlord. [L 1972, c 132, pt of §1; gen ch 1985]

Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes

Hawaii Revised Statutes

Title 28. Property

521. Residential Landlord-Tenant Code

521-1 Short title.

521-2 Purposes; rules of construction.

521-3 Supplementary general principles of law, other laws, applicable.

521-4 Construction against implicit repeal.

521-5 Severability.

521-6 Territorial application.

521-7 Exclusions from application of chapter.

521-8 Definitions.

521-9 Notice, notification, knowledge, etc.

521-10 Duties; obligation of good faith.

521-11 Time; reasonable time.

521-21 Rent.

521-22 Term of rental agreement.

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.

521-41 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.

521-51 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.

521-61 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.

521-70 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.

521-80 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.