Chapter 502
66 sections
§502-1 Bureau of Conveyances and Registrar Appointment
§502-3 Deputy registrar appointment and duties
§502-4 Rules for carrying out this chapter
§502-7 What key words mean in this law
§502-8 Special fund for the land records office
§502-11 Entry record
§502-12 Public access to land records indexes
§502-13 Indexing names of parties in recorded documents
§502-14 Recording transfers of someone else's property and partition returns
§502-15 Annual indexes of recorded documents
§502-16 Reclassifying and consolidating yearly indexes every ten years
§502-17 Filing Land Plans and Survey Requirements
§502-18 How to Describe Land Boundaries on a File Plan
§502-19 Rules for drawing plans on tracing cloth
§502-20 Replacing old maps and plans with new certified copies
§502-21 Recording land plans: what the registrar can and cannot accept
§502-22 Getting certified copies of filed maps and plans
§502-23 Fines for selling or leasing land without a filed map
§502-24 Reporting violations to the attorney general and county
§502-25 Fees for recording documents at the Bureau of Conveyances
§502-26 Getting copies of recorded documents and weekly updates
§502-27 Fees for copying recorded documents from microfilm
§502-31 How documents are recorded and formatted
§502-31.5 References to book and page after 1989
§502-32 When a document is officially recorded and office hours
§502-33 Rules for recording documents that refer to earlier records
§502-34 Grantee's address in deed
§502-41 How to certify a signature for recording a document
§502-42 What an Acknowledgment Certificate Must Say
§502-43 What to do when the officer does not know who is signing
§502-44 How a married woman can sign legal documents
§502-45 Acknowledging documents outside Hawaii
§502-46 Proving a document was properly signed when recorded
§502-47 Acknowledging or proving documents outside the U.S. or in the military
§502-48 Proving who you are when signing a property document
§502-49 Officers and judges must sign certificates for documents
§502-50 Recording property documents: acknowledgment and proof
§502-51 Recording documents signed by U.S. officials
§502-52 Official signatures can be recorded without extra acknowledgment
§502-53 Acknowledgment certificates must follow state rules to be valid
§502-54 Penalty for false acknowledgment certificates
§502-61 Changes noted in instrument
§502-62 Fine for not noting changes on documents
§502-63 Initials required for changed documents
§502-71 Keeping a record of every acknowledgment
§502-72 Where land records are stored every five years
§502-73 Court clerks must keep and show recorded books
§502-74 Fine for not keeping or depositing acknowledgment records
§502-81 When a document can be recorded and used as proof
§502-82 Using a recorded document as evidence in court
§502-83 What happens if you don't record a property document
§502-84 Recording marriage settlements and property powers of attorney
§502-85 Buyer's rights under a recorded land sale contract come first
§502-91 Old Records and Early Property Documents
§502-92 Making safe copies of old land records
§502-93 Cleaning up old court judgment records
§502-94 Hawaiian document translations and their legal use
§502-95 Old recording mistakes are treated as valid
§502-101 Recording veterans' discharge papers for free
§502-111 Family child care homes allowed in residential areas
§502-112 Ban on Transfer Fees in Property Deeds
§502-121 Definitions for electronic recording of property documents
§502-122 Electronic documents and signatures are valid for recording
§502-123 Recording documents electronically
§502-124 How to interpret this law consistently across states
§502-125 How this law relates to federal e-signature rules