Hawaii · statute · Haw. Rev. Stat. ch. 502 · 66 active provisions
There shall be a bureau in the department of land and natural resources to be called the bureau of conveyances. A registrar of conveyances shall be appointed by the board of land and natural resources, under chapter 76, and shall be superintendent of the bureau. The registrar shall receive such salary as shall be provi…
The registrar, under the direction of the board of land and natural resources, shall appoint a deputy, for whose official acts the registrar shall be responsible, and whose appointment the registrar shall announce by public notice. The deputy shall act as registrar of conveyances, during the absence of the registrar, o…
The department of land and natural resources may adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 necessary for the purposes of this chapter.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: "Grantee" means a party that acquires interest by way of transfer of real property. "Record", "recorded", or "recording" means the act of entering into the public records the written instruments affecting title to real property. "Signature" means the name…
(a) There is established in the state treasury the bureau of conveyances special fund, into which shall be deposited the revenues remitted pursuant to sections 501-23.5 and 502-25, interest earnings, grants, donations, and appropriations from the legislature that shall be held separate and apart from all other moneys,…
The registrar shall make and keep in a form and manner as is prescribed by the board of land and natural resources a permanent record of the receipt of every: (1) Deed and instrument left for record; (2) Copy left as a caution; (3) Plan filed; and (4) Plan of the parcel or parcels of land deregistered pursuant to secti…
The registrar shall keep indexes for public inspection in such form and manner as is prescribed by the board of land and natural resources.
The registrar shall, within a reasonable time, cause the name of each and every grantor, grantee, or other party thereto to be entered at length and alphabetically in its appropriate index.
When an instrument, by which one person by authority of law transfers or conveys the real estate of another person, is left for record, the registrar shall enter in the registrar's entry book and grantor index both the name of the person making the transfer and conveyance and that of the person whose estate has been so…
The registrar shall within the first six months of each year, or within such further time during the year as the registrar may think proper, cause to be made by competent persons, copies of the indexes to the instruments recorded in the bureau of conveyances during the preceding year, in which copies the grantors and g…
The registrar shall cause a reclassification and consolidation of the yearly indexes to be made at least once in every ten years as the convenience of the registrar may permit, in the same manner as set forth in section 502-15. The registrar may cause copies of the indexes or new indexes to the records existing in the…
(a) The registrar shall accept and file in the registrar's office, upon the payment of the fee as provided in section 502-25, any plan of land prepared in the manner prescribed by this section. Every plan shall contain: (1) A short name of the tract; (2) The name of the ahupuaa or ili, district, and island; (3) Data co…
A metes and bounds description of the exterior boundaries of the parcel or parcels of land sought to be registered as a file plan shall be written upon the plan, or printed or typewritten on unruled good quality white paper 11 inches long by 8 1/2 inches wide and shall be filed in duplicate with the file plan. The mete…
All plans must be on tracing cloth of good quality, and shall be of one of the following sizes, the figures indicating inches: 10 x 15; 15 x 21; 21 x 32; 30 x 36; 36 x 42; or 42, 48, or 54 wide without restriction as to length; which plans shall be prepared and drawn according to some one of the following scales: 10, 2…
The registrar at such times when the original tracings of filed plans and land court maps on file in the bureau of conveyances, are found to be in such condition that satisfactory blueprint copies thereof cannot be made, shall forward any such map or plan to the department of accounting and general services of the Stat…
It shall not be lawful for the registrar to accept for record any plan of land, whether attached to, made a part of, or independent of, any deed, certified copy of judgment of condemnation, or other instrument; to the end and purpose that there shall be no plans recorded in the record books, but in substitution therefo…
The registrar shall furnish, when so requested, copies of any map or plan filed in accordance with sections 502-17 to 502-21, duly certified by the registrar's seal of office, upon payment of the fee hereinafter mentioned. In addition, the registrar may authorize the department of accounting and general services to fur…
Whoever lays out or subdivides a tract of land into lots or blocks and sells by lot number or block number or leases by lot number or block number any lot or block in any subdivision without first having filed in the bureau of conveyances a plan thereof, drawn in accordance with sections 502-17 to 502-22, or whoever se…
Whenever it comes to the knowledge of the registrar that section 502-23 has been violated the registrar shall notify the attorney general and the planning department of the county of the fact.
(a) Except when otherwise provided, fees for services rendered under this chapter shall be established by rules adopted by the department of land and natural resources, pursuant to chapter 91. (b) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, of the fees received at the bureau of conveyances, the registrar of conveyan…
(a) The registrar, when applied to, shall furnish an attested copy of any instrument or document recorded in the registrar's office, or of any fact appearing upon the registrar's records. The registrar may also issue nonattested documents or portions of any instrument or document recorded in the registrar's office in p…
(a) Except when otherwise provided, fees for the use of microfilms of documents recorded in the bureau of conveyances for the purpose of making duplicates shall be established by rules adopted by the department of land and natural resources pursuant to chapter 91. (b) Frame charges for duplicating microfilm shall not b…
(a) The registrar shall make or cause to be made an entire literal copy of all instruments, with their original signatures, required to be recorded in the registrar's office, and the registrar, the registrar's deputy, or clerk shall certify its correspondence with the original, after which the registrar, the registrar'…
Any reference throughout the Hawaii Revised Statutes to book and page after December 31, 1989, shall also refer to book and page or document number.
Every instrument entitled by law to be recorded, shall be recorded in the order and as of the time when the same is delivered to the registrar for that purpose, and shall be considered as recorded from the time of such delivery; provided that it shall not be lawful for the registrar to accept or enter for record and re…