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HCC §19-27

How property owners get their assessment notices

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The county must tell each property owner about their property tax assessment by a certain date, either in person or by mail. It must also publish a public notice so anyone can inspect the records and talk to the director about mistakes before the final list is filed.

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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Notice of assessments; addresses of persons entitled to

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.

notice. On or before March 15 preceding the tax year, the director shall give notice of the assessment for the tax year against each known owner, by personal delivery to the owner of or by mailing to the owner on or before such date postage prepaid and addressed to the owner at the owner’s last known place of residence or address a written notice identifying the property involved by the tax key and the general class established in accordance with section 19-53(e) and setting forth separately the valuation placed upon buildings, and the valuation placed upon all other real property, exclusive of buildings, determined pursuant to section 19-53, the exemption, if any, allowed or denied, as the case may be, and the amount of the exemption applied to the buildings and the amount applied to all other real property, exclusive of buildings, and the net taxable value of the buildings and the net taxable value of all other real property, exclusive of the buildings. In addition to the foregoing, the director shall in each year give notice of the assessments for the year by public notice (by publication thereof at least three times on different days during the month of March of such year in a newspaper of general circulation, published in the English language) of a time when (which shall not be less than a period of ten days prior to March 31 preceding the tax year) and of a place where the records of taxable properties maintained for the district may be inspected by any person for the purpose of enabling that person to ascertain what assessments have been made against that person or that person’s property and to confer with the director so that any errors may be corrected before the filing of the assessment list. 19-27
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗as published Jul 16, 2026our copy taken Aug 21, 2026

Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.

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