County's right to approve or protest improvement costs and get reimbursed

Where any part of the cost is to be paid by the county pursuant to section 14.38.020 , the council shall have the same right of approval, including the right to join in petitions filed pursuant to section 14.40.020 , or protest as though the county were the private owner of the public or exempted lands so involved. As to such expenditure for public and exempt lands, the county shall be entitled to be reimbursed out of state revenues as provided by section 67-8 of the Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes, as follows: by appropriations to be made from time to time by the Legislature to the extent of 50 percent of all assessments regularly apportioned against property owned by persons, corporations, or entities which are part of any improvement district and are exempted by law from the payment of such assessments; and the full amount of assessments regularly apportioned against public lands which are a part of any improvement district, which public lands are owned in fee simple by the United States, or by the state, and which are not set aside for schools maintained by the county, or for county parks, or for other county purposes or for street areas or frontages; provided, that in case any land exempted by law from assessments as herein provided, other than public land, or any part thereof, is sold or leased after the establishment of an improvement district, the grantee in the one case, and the lessor in the other, shall assume the payment of assessments from the date of such sale or lease in the same manner as if the property had not been exempted from assessments and as if assessments apportionable against the property had been paid in installments to such date of sale or lease; and all payments received from such grantee or lessor, as the case may be, shall be paid into the permanent improvement fund. Nothing in this section shall be taken to prejudice any rights of the state to reimbursement from the United States for assessments assumed in this chapter by the state, but the latter shall be subrogated to the rights of the county on such assessments so assumed. (Ord. 801 § 1 (part), 1974: prior code § 25-1.5.1)