HCC §12-44
County can issue bonds to pay for improvements
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗If property owners choose to pay for a special assessment in installments, the county can use general or improvement funds to cover the cost right away. The county must then issue district improvement bonds to repay those funds as soon as possible.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Improvement bonds authorized
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.
In the event of an election to pay all or part of any such special assessment in installments, the amount required for immediate use to pay the cost of the improvement, or the installments thereof from time to time as they fall due, may be advanced out of any funds available in the general fund or the permanent improvement fund; provided that as soon as practicable, the amounts so necessary shall be secured, and repaid if advances have been made, by the issuance of sufficient district improvement bonds of the County to raise such required amounts.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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