HCC §19-74

Property tax break for people with Hansen's disease

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This section gives a property tax break to people with Hansen's disease who are in the communicable stage and are in a hospital for isolation treatment. While they are hospitalized or on temporary release, they do not have to pay most real property taxes on property they owned when they were declared affected, up to a taxable value of $50,000. They still must pay the minimum tax.

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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Persons affected with Hansen’s disease

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.

Any person who has been declared by authority of law to be a person affected with Hansen’s disease in the communicable stage and is admitted to a hospital for isolation treatment, shall, so long as that person is so hospitalized, and thereafter for so long as such person has been so declared to be therefrom temporarily released, shall, so long as that person remains or continues under temporary release, be exempted except for the minimum tax from real property taxes on all real property owned by the person on the date when the person was declared to be a person so affected with Hansen’s disease, up to, but not exceeding, a taxable value of $50,000.

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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