ROH §8-10.6
Property tax break for people hospitalized with leprosy
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗If you are officially declared to have leprosy in the communicable stage and are admitted to a hospital for isolation, you don't have to pay property taxes on your own property, up to a certain value, while you're in the hospital and during any temporary release.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Exemption - Persons affected with leprosy
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.
Any person who has been declared by authority of law to be a person affected with leprosy in the communicable stage and is admitted to a hospital for isolation treatment shall, so long as such person is so hospitalized, and thereafter for so long as such person has been so declared to be therefrom temporarily released, and so long as such person remains or continues under temporary release, be exempted from real property taxes on all real property owned by such person on the date when such person was declared to be a person so affected with leprosy, up to, but not exceeding, a taxable value of $25,000.
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Published by the City and County of Honolulu through American Legal Publishing.
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