HCC §25-4-33

Tax sale does not make land a legal building site

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This section says that buying land at a delinquent tax sale or recording it with the state does not automatically make it a legal building site. If the land was not already a legal building site, it stays that way.

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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Effect of delinquent tax sale; recordation of land

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 parcel of land that is not otherwise a legal building site does not become a legal building site by virtue of being sold at a delinquent tax sale, or by reason of recordation of the parcel of land at the State bureau of conveyances. (1996, ord 96-160, sec 2; ratified April 6, 1999.)25-4-33

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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