Hawaii · statute · Haw. Rev. Stat. ch. 172 · 13 active provisions
The department of land and natural resources shall prepare a list of all lands on which commutation to extinguish the government's right therein is payable. Upon completion of the list the department shall give public notice thereof throughout the State, at least once each week for four successive weeks, together with…
The department of land and natural resources shall cause to be appraised each piece of property upon which commutation shall then be due. The value of the property for the purposes of this chapter shall be fixed by the appraisers as nearly as may be at the value of the land without improvements as of the date of the aw…
The attorney general shall proceed at any time after the determination of the commutation due as hereinbefore provided, to enforce payment of the same by any proper proceedings brought in the name of the State. The attorney general may foreclose the lien herein provided by suit in equity as hereinafter provided, and ju…
If no person appears and answers within the time allowed, the judge may at once upon motion of the State order a general default to be recorded and the complaint for foreclosure of the government's lien for commutation to be taken as confessed. By the description in the notice "to all whom it may concern", all the worl…
If in any case, an appearance is entered and answer filed, the cause shall be set down for hearing on the motion of either party, but an order of default may first be entered against all persons who do not appear and answer in the manner provided in section 172-4. If on the trial of the cause it appears that commutatio…
The award by the board of commissioners to quiet land titles, together with a certificate by the department of land and natural resources of the date and amount of the appraisement and the amount of the government's commutation determined thereon, and that the same has not been paid, together with the certificate of th…
The comptroller shall prepare a list of all ahupuaas, iliainas, and leles within the State (including those owned by the government), on which there has been no legal description of survey determined by metes and bounds, either by incorporation of same in land commission award, or patent in confirmation of award, or pa…
Upon the completion of a list, the comptroller shall give public notice thereof throughout the State at least once each week for four successive weeks, together with name or names of the last known owner or owners, and with a notice that unless the unsurveyed lands have had their boundaries properly and legally determi…
The comptroller shall list all lands which have not had their boundaries determined in compliance with the requirements of section 172-8, and shall proceed to make the necessary surveys and shall thereupon have the boundaries of the lands adjudicated as provided by law, and the expense of the surveys and of the adjudic…
The attorney general shall proceed, at any time after the determination of the sum due as hereinbefore provided, to enforce payment of the same by any proper proceedings brought in the name of the State in such manner as provided for in sections 172-1 to 172-6, in the foreclosure of lien for commutation.
Every land patent issued upon an award of the board of commissioners to quiet land titles, shall be in the name of the person to whom the original award was made, even though the person is deceased, or the title to the real estate thereby granted has been alienated; and all land patents so issued shall inure to the ben…
Upon presentation to the department of land and natural resources of a certificate of a commissioner of boundaries defining the boundaries of a portion of an ahupuaa, ili, or other denomination of land, the department shall cause an appraisement to be made of the unimproved value of that portion of land; and upon payme…
It shall be unlawful, without the written consent of the state comptroller, for any person to destroy, deface, change, or remove to another place, any trigonometrical survey station, boundary line mark or monument, corner post, or any other government line of survey, or to cut down any witness tree or any tree blazed t…