No person who, having rented or leased a motor vehicle under an agreement in writing which provides for the return of such vehicle to a particular place at a particular time, and having failed to return the vehicle to such place within the time specified, and thereafter having been served with a written notice, or upon whom oral demand has thereafter personally been made, to return such vehicle to the place specified in the written agreement within seventy-two hours from the time of the service of notice or personal communication of such demand, shall fail to return such vehicle to the lessor within such period. The notice hereinabove provided for may be served in the same manner that any other notice may be served under existing statutes. (1976 Code Sec. 18-16)