ROH §14-10.9
Small mistakes won't cancel your property assessment
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗This section says that minor errors in the assessment process won't cancel the assessment or the improvement district. It covers mistakes in names on notices, informal errors, and timing issues with public hearings. The assessment stays valid despite these problems.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Informalities or mistakes in names or notices not to invalidate assessment or improvement district
A copy, taken August 22, 2026. The version published by Honolulu is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
No assessment against properties in an improvement district, as fixed by ordinance in accordance with Article 11 , nor the validity of any improvement district shall be invalidated:
(1) On account of a mere informality;
(2) If the notice of publication or notice that is mailed, pursuant to §§ 14-10.4 and 14-11.1 , is in error because of a mistake in the name of an owner or lessee, or supposed owner or lessee, of the property assessed; or
(3) If the public hearing required by §§ 14-10.4 and 14-11.1 is not scheduled at the same council meeting that the resolution to create, define and establish the improvement district is first scheduled for adoption, or is not scheduled at the same council meeting that the bill to impose the assessment is first scheduled for second reading.
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