What happens if you don't pay your assessment

(a) The assessment levied on a parcel of land and the applicable penalty, interest and costs of collection shall be a lien against the land and improvements of the parcel of land. The lien shall attach from the effective date of the ordinance establishing a district and levying the assessment on the parcel of land and shall be extinguished when the assessment and any applicable penalty, interest and costs of collection are fully paid or terminated. (b) The lien of the assessment shall have priority over all other liens, except the lien of general real property taxes and shall be on a parity with the lien of assessments levied under sections 46-80 and 46-80.1, Hawai‘i Revised Statutes, and chapter 32 herein. All liens of assessments made pursuant to this chapter shall be on a parity as to each other without regard to when made or for what purpose. (c) If any assessment is not paid when due, the department of finance may, after not less than two months of delinquency, foreclose the lien of assessment in order to collect the delinquent amount and any penalty, interest, and costs, in the same manner as the foreclosure of the lien of real property taxes. (d) In any event, the department of finance shall foreclose the lien before the end of the sixth year of a delinquency. (2004, ord 04-94, sec 1.)35-24