ROH §14-6.4
Failure to construct improvements
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗If a property owner or long-term renter does not start required construction within one year after getting a building permit, the city can build it themselves. The city's costs become a lien on the property, and the owner must pay the city back.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Failure to construct improvements
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.
If any owner or lessee neglects or refuses to begin the construction of the improvements within one year after the granting of a building permit as in this article provided, the director or the chief engineer is authorized to cause such improvements to be constructed. The costs thereby incurred by the city shall be a lien upon the property abutting such improvements from the date of certification by the director or chief engineer of completion of such construction, and the same shall be collected from the owner of such property in the name of the city.
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