HRS §101-41
Water companies can take private land for public use
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗This section lets certain water companies take private property for their work. To qualify, a company must be set up to develop, store, move, or deliver irrigation water and have at least $50,000 in paid-in capital. The capital can be cash or property worth that amount.
businesses
The statute, as written — Special power of eminent domain
A copy, taken August 20, 2026. The version published by the Legislature is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
Corporations organized to develop, store, convey, distribute, and transmit water for irrigation, and which shall have at least $50,000 of fully paid in capital represented by cash or by tangible property of a market value equal to the amount at which the property is entered as assets on the books of the company, shall have the right to exercise the power of eminent domain as hereinafter provided.
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