HCC §12-31
How the county tells owners about assessments and collects them
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗The finance director must tell property owners about their assessments by publishing a notice in a newspaper and mailing each owner a letter. The letter must say the amount owed and when and where to pay. The director also collects the money and keeps it in a special fund for the improvement district.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Notice and collection of assessments
A copy, taken August 21, 2026. The version published by Hawaiʻi County is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
The director of finance shall forthwith publish notice of assessment once in at least one daily newspaper of general circulation in the County, and notify the several owners of the assessment units assessed, respectively, by registered letter or certified mail with request for a return receipt, of the several amounts assessed on the respective assessment units and of the date and place the assessments are payable. Such mailed notice shall be addressed to the owners appearing in the records of the real property tax division of the department of finance, County of Hawai‘i, as the addresses appear in the records, or as otherwise known to the director of finance if not shown in the records. The director of finance shall also collect the assessments and set aside all moneys collected in a special fund or funds for the frontage improvement or improvement district, as the case may be.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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