HCC §12-9
County approves past special assessments and bonds
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section makes official all past special assessments and improvement bonds the County issued, even if there were minor mistakes. It confirms these debts are legal and must be paid. It also allows the County to fix any missing steps for assessments or bonds not yet done.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Ratification and validation
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 levy of all special assessments, all outstanding improvement bonds of the County payable from special assessments, and all acts and proceedings heretofore had or taken or purportedly had or taken, by or on behalf of the County under law or under color of law preliminary to and in the authorization, execution, sale, issuance, and payment (or any combination thereof) of all such bonds are hereby validated, ratified, approved and confirmed, including but necessarily limited to the terms, provisions, conditions, and covenants of any resolution and ordinance appertaining thereto, the redemption of improvement district bonds before maturity and provisions therefor, and the use of the proceeds of such assessments and bonds, notwithstanding any lack of powers, authority, or otherwise, other than constitutional, and notwithstanding any defects and irregularities, other than constitutional, in such assessments, bonds, acts and proceedings, and in such authorization, execution, sale, issuance and payment, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such acts and proceedings heretofore not been levied nor purportedly levied and issued nor purportedly issued. Such outstanding assessments and bonds are and shall be, and such assessments and bonds heretofore not levied nor purportedly levied and issued nor purportedly issued shall be, after such levy or issuance, binding, legal, valid, and enforceable obligations in accordance with their terms and their authorizing proceedings, subject to the taking or adoption of acts and proceedings heretofore not had nor taken, but required by and in substantial and due compliance with laws appertaining thereto. Article 2. Procedure.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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