MCC §14.50.030
Recording a certificate when an assessment is paid off
Read the official text at library.municode.com ↗When a property owner or lessee pays off a special assessment in full and pays the recording fee, the county finance director must record a certificate with the state land records office. This certificate officially releases the lien on the property.
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The ordinance, as written (Maui County) — Assessment lien—Certificate of payment
A copy, taken August 21, 2026. The version published by Maui County is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
Upon payment in full of any assessment and payment by the owner or lessee of the property
upon which such assessment was a lien of the amount of the fee for recording same,
the director of finance shall record with the Bureau of Conveyances of the state a
certificate of payment of such assessment. The certificate shall conform to the requirements
for documents to be recorded with the Bureau of Conveyances and shall be in substantially
the following form:
RELEASE OF ASSESSMENT LIEN
The undersigned Director of Finance of the County of Maui, State of Hawaii, does hereby
certify that payment in full has been received upon the special assessment levied
on the following described real property, to wit:
By reason of such payment the lien of said assessment on said property, notice of
which was recorded in Book ___ at page ___, Bureau of Conveyances, State of Hawaii,
has been discharged.
Dated:________
___________
Director of Finance
County of Maui, State of Hawaii
(Ord. 801 § 1 (part), 1974: prior code § 25-7.1.2)
Read the official text at library.municode.com ↗as published Nov 21, 2025our copy taken Aug 21, 2026
Published by the County of Maui through Municode.
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