HCC §35-42
When property owners can stop an annexation
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗This section lets certain property owners stop a proposed annexation by filing written protests. If enough owners protest and do not withdraw them, the annexation process stops. After it stops, no one can try to annex the same land for 90 days.
landowners
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 either: (1) The landowners owning lands which are assessed in the existing district that have a real property tax assessed value of fifty percent plus one of the total real property tax assessed value of land specially assessed in the existing district, or (2) The landowners owning lands which are proposed to be annexed and assessed that have a real property tax assessed value of fifty percent plus one of the total real property tax assessed value of land proposed to be annexed and assessed, or (3) More than fifty percent of the owners of lands which are specially assessed in the existing district, or (4) More than fifty percent of the owners of land which are proposed to be annexed and assessed, file written protests with the council before or at the public hearing against the proposed annexation and if protests are not withdrawn so as to reduce the amount of the protests to fifty percent or less, the annexation proceedings shall cease. Sections 35-13(c) and (d) shall apply to protests under this section. (b) If the annexation proceedings cease pursuant to section 35-42(a) above, no proceedings to annex the land shall be undertaken for a period of ninety days from the close of the hearing. (2004, ord 04-94, sec 1.)35-42 BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS § 35-43
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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