MCC §14.50.210
County sale of property bought at a tax-default sale
Read the official text at library.municode.com ↗This section says what happens when the county buys property at a sale for unpaid assessment installments. The finance director must try to resell it, but needs council approval if the price is below a certain total. It also allows a faster sale without council approval under specific conditions.
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The ordinance, as written (Maui County) — Sale of defaulted property by county
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.
A.
Whenever the director of finance is the purchaser of any property at a sale for default
in payment of an unpaid assessment installment, he shall undertake to resell same,
subject to rights of redemption, if any, as soon as possible; provided, that he shall
not sell same without approval of the council for less than the total of:
1.
The amount paid by him in cash therefor at the time of the sale for default;
2.
The amount, if any, of the installment or installments secured by the property which
become due after he purchased the property and before he sells same, whether paid
or delinquent; and
3.
The amount of installments remaining due and not delinquent which are secured by the
property.
B.
The director of finance may sell the property, without authority of the council, for
the total of the amounts specified in subdivisions 1 and 2 of subsection A of this
section payable in cash, with the purchaser assuming and paying the remaining installments
secured by the property as same become due.
(Ord. 801 § 1 (part), 1974: prior code § 25-7.6.7)
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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