ROH §8-5.7
Tax sale costs added to property lien
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗The tax director can set a list of costs and fees for selling property for unpaid taxes. These costs get added to the property's tax lien. The director can also pay for record searches to help with the sale, but is not required to do them.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Tax liens - Costs
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.
The director by rules or regulations may prescribe a schedule of costs, expenses, and charges and the manner in which they shall be apportioned between the various properties offered for sale and the time at which each cost, expense, or charge shall be deemed to accrue; and such costs, expenses, and charges shall be added to and become a part of the lien on the property for the last year involved in the sale or proposed sale, the tax for which is delinquent. Such costs, expenses, and charges may include provision for the making of and the securing of certificates of searches of any records to furnish information to be used in or in connection with the notice of sale or tax deed, or in any case where the director shall deem such advisable; provided that the director shall not be required to make such searches or to cause them to be made except as provided by § 8-5.3 with respect to mortgages or other liens registered in the office of the assistant registrar of the land court.
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