MCC §3.48.265
When and how a tax sale can be postponed
Read the official text at library.municode.com ↗The county director can delay a property sale if it's in everyone's best interest, for example if no buyers show up. The director must announce the delay publicly at the scheduled sale time and place. The sale can be called off if no bid covers the full amount owed.
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The ordinance, as written (Maui County) — Postponement of sale
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.
If at the time appointed for the sale, the director shall deem it expedient and for
the interest of all persons concerned therein to postpone the sale of any property
or properties for want of purchasers, or for other sufficient cause, he may postpone
it from time to time, until the sale shall be completed, giving notice of every such
adjournment by a public declaration thereof at the time and place last appointed for
the sale; provided, that the sale of any property may be abandoned at the time first
appointed or any adjourned date if no proper bid is received sufficient to satisfy
the lien, together with all interest, penalties, costs, expenses, and charges.
(Ord. 1076 § 3 (part), 1980: prior code § 6-1.41)
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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