HCC §2-178
Buying and selling affected properties
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section lets the planning director buy affected properties by negotiating a price up to 130% of the assessed value, and then sell them at public auction or through another process. It skips the usual need for a council resolution. This applies only to affected properties as defined elsewhere.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Purchase and sale of affected properties
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.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, the planning director is hereby authorized to purchase the affected properties by negotiation for not more than one hundred thirty percent of the assessed value, as determined by the real property tax division of the department of finance and dispose of the affected properties by public auction or pursuant to article 19 of chapter 2, with the exception of the requirement for council resolution found in section 2-111(1). (1996, ord 96-2, sec 1; am 2008, ord 08-37, sec 1.)2-178
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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