HRS §441-4
County approval for cemetery location and boundaries
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗Cemeteries are exempt from general subdivision laws, but each county can make its own cemetery rules. You must get county council approval for a new cemetery's location and boundaries, or for any expansion, and show that approval when filing the dedication certificate.
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The statute, as written — Subdivision law not applicable; approval of location and boundaries by council
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.
No provision of law, ordinance, or government regulation relating generally to subdivisions, or the sale or transfer of land within subdivisions, shall be applicable to cemeteries. Each county may enact ordinances dealing separately with the development of cemeteries. No cemetery shall hereafter be established, nor shall the boundaries of any existing cemetery be extended, without the location and boundaries of the cemetery or extension thereof having first been approved by the council of the county in which the cemetery is located. The approval may be endorsed in writing by authority of the council, upon the certificate of dedication referred to in section 441-2, and the registrar of conveyances or the assistant registrar of the land court, shall not accept for filing any certificate of dedication without such endorsement or, in lieu thereof, a certified copy of a resolution of the council approving the location and boundaries of the cemetery or extension thereof which resolution shall be recorded.
Sections this one refers to
§441-2 Cemetery owners must file a dedication certificate
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