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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