HCC §12-38
What happens if you miss an installment payment
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗If you miss a payment on your assessment, the entire remaining balance becomes due right away, and the late amount gets a penalty. You can catch up by paying all late amounts, penalties, and costs before the sale. The council can waive penalties to encourage large payments to bondholders.
landowners
The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Failure to pay installments
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.
(a) Failure to pay any installment, whether of principal or interest, when due, shall cause the whole of the unpaid principal to become due and payable immediately, and the delinquent installment or installments shall thereafter bear penalty at the rate of two percent per month or fraction of a month from the date of delinquency until the day of sale as provided in this chapter. At any time prior to the date of sale, the owner may pay the amount of all delinquent installments, with penalty, and all costs and expenses accrued, and shall thereupon be restored to the right thereafter to pay in installments in the same manner as if default had not been made. (b) The council may, by resolution, approve a waiver of such amounts of penalty and upon such terms, as it finds is needed to induce payment of substantial funds to be used for the payment of obligations which are owed and which will be owing to bondholders; in approving such a waiver, due consideration shall be given to an equitable apportionment of the costs of the affected improvement district among the various assessed assessment units.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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