HCC §19-81

Water tanks exempt from property tax

Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗

This section says that certain water tanks are not counted when figuring out the value of your property for tax purposes. This applies to tanks that the government requires you to build before getting water, and to tanks you own and use only for your own home water. If you have such a tank, it won't increase your property tax.

homeownerslandowners

The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Water tanks

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 provision to the contrary notwithstanding, any tank or other storage receptacle required by any government agency to be constructed or installed on any taxable real property before water for home and farm use is supplied, and any other water tank, owned and used by a real property taxpayer for storing water solely for said taxpayer’s own domestic use, shall be exempted in determining and assessing the value of such taxable real property. (2005, ord 05-165, sec 3.)19-81 REAL PROPERTY TAXES § 19-82

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.

LawTrove is not legal advice. The summary above is a computer-generated restatement — the authoritative text is the official version linked above.