MCC §3.48.485
Property tax break for blind, deaf, or totally disabled people
Read the official text at library.municode.com ↗If you are blind, deaf, or totally disabled, you may not have to pay real property taxes on your home up to a certain value. You must get a doctor or the Health Department to confirm your condition. This section explains who qualifies and what you need to do.
homeowners
The ordinance, as written (Maui County) — Persons with impaired sight or hearing and persons totally disabled
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.
Any person who is blind or deaf, as defined in section 235-1 of the Hawaiʻi Revised
Statutes, shall, so long as his sight or hearing is so impaired, be exempt from real
property taxes on all real property owned by him up to, but not exceeding a taxable
value of $25,000. The impairment of sight or hearing shall be certified to by the
State Department of Health or by any state or county medical officer duly authorized
by the State Department of Health for this purpose.
B.
Any person who is totally disabled, as defined in section 235-1 of the Hawaiʻi Revised
Statutes, shall, as long as he is totally disabled, be exempt from real property taxes
on all real property owned by him up to, but not exceeding a taxable value of twenty-five
thousand dollars. The disability shall be certified to by the State Department of
Health or by any state or county medical officer duly authorized by the State Department
of Health for this purpose.
(Ord. 1210 § 5, 1982: Ord. 1076 § 3 (part), 1980: prior code § 6-1.75)
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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