HCC §35-34
When property owners can stop a proposed assessment
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section lets property owners in a proposed assessment district stop the ordinance if they file written protests. Protests must come from owners of more than half the assessed value or a majority of owners. If enough protests are filed and not withdrawn, the ordinance cannot be approved, and the same proposal cannot be brought back for 90 days.
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The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Protest by a majority or more
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.
(a) If the landowners owning lands which are assessed or proposed to be assessed within the district that have a real property tax assessed value of more than fifty percent of the total real property tax assessed value of all land assessed or proposed to be assessed in the district or if a majority of the owners of land assessed or proposed to be assessed in the district file written protests with the council before or at the public hearing against the proposed ordinance of consideration and if protests are not withdrawn so as to reduce the amount of the protests to fifty percent or less, the ordinance of consideration shall not be approved. No proceedings to include the provision in another ordinance of consideration shall again be undertaken for a period of ninety days from the close of the hearing. (b) Sections 35-13(c) and (d) shall apply to protests under this section. (2004, ord 04-94, sec 1.)35-34
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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