[§708-837]  Failure to return a rental motor
vehicle; penalty.  A person commits the offense of failure to return a
rental motor vehicle when he intentionally does not return the motor vehicle to
the person, or his agent, from whom the vehicle was rented within forty-eight
hours after the time stated on the rental agreement, unless the person renting
the vehicle gives notice that he will not be able to return the vehicle in the
stated time and extends the time in which the vehicle will be returned.



Failure to return a rental motor vehicle is a
misdemeanor. [L 1973, c 63, §1]



 



Cross References



 



  As to civil remedies, see §§603-29, 604-6.2, and 633-8.



 



COMMENTARY ON §708-837.5



 



  Act 171, Session Laws 1980, enacted this section as part of a
package of penal sanctions and civil remedies intended "to provide an
effective means for businesses, which have rented personal property to others,
to obtain speedy and rightful return of their property while respecting the
rights of persons who have leased the property."  Conference Committee
Report No. 37-80 (57-80).



 



Case Notes



 



  Where police stopped defendant's rental car after they had
received a report from the car's owner that the car was overdue, police had
reasonable suspicion to stop the car, even if the report turned out to be
mistaken due to its timing, because the police were acting on a police report
from the car's owner, whose honesty had not been questioned.  241 F.3d 1124.



  Mentioned:  86 H. 207, 948 P.2d 1048.