HCC §19-43
Who pays the costs of a property tax sale
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section lets the county director set rules for who pays the costs of selling a property for unpaid taxes. These costs become part of the tax lien on the property. The director can also arrange for record searches, but is not required to do so except as allowed by another section.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Same; costs
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 by rules or regulation may prescribe a schedule of costs, expenses, and charges and the manner in which they shall be apportioned between the various properties offered for sale and the time at which each cost, expense, or charge shall be deemed to accrue; and such costs, expenses, and charges shall be added to and become a part of the lien on the property for the last year involved in the sale or proposed sale, the tax for which is delinquent. Such costs, expenses, and charges may include provision for the making of and the securing of certificates of searches of any records to furnish information to be used in or in connection with the notice of sale or tax deed, or in any case where the director shall deem such advisable; provided, that the director shall not be required to make such searches or to cause them to be made except as provided by section 19-39 with respect to mortgages or other liens registered in the office of the assistant registrar of the land court.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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