Report Title:

Bureau of Conveyances; Counties; Recorded Instruments

 

Description:

Requires the registrar of the bureau of conveyances to provide, within 10 days after the end of each week and free of charge, the administrator of the real property assessment division of the City and County of Honolulu an image and index of all instruments and documents that have been recorded in the registrar's office that week relating to land in all the counties.  Requires the real property assessment administrator of the City and County of Honolulu to provide copies of the images, without charge, to the real property assessment administrators of the other counties.  (HB269 HD1)

 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

269

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT


 

 

RELATING TO REAL PROPERTY.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 


     SECTION 1.  The purpose of this Act is to enable the counties to promptly track property ownership, encumbrances, restrictions, uses, and sales prices of real property to accurately determine real property tax assessments by requiring the registrar of the bureau of conveyances to provide, within ten days after each week and free of charge, the administrator of the real property assessment division of the city and county of Honolulu an image and index of all instruments and documents that have been recorded in the registrar's office that week relating to regular system land in all the counties.  The real property assessment division administrator of the city and county of Honolulu shall serve as a central clearinghouse and provide copies of the images to the real property assessment administrators of the other counties.

     SECTION 2.  Section 502-26, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "§502-26  Copies of instruments, certificates.  (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 portions of any instrument or document recorded in the registrar's office.  The registrar may issue certificates of search or incumbrance when personnel is available for the making of the certificate.

(b)  Within ten days after the end of each week, the registrar shall deliver or forward by mail, and without charge, to the real property assessment administrator of the city and county of Honolulu an image and index of all instruments or documents that have been recorded in the registrar's office during each week relating to land in all the counties.  The index shall include the following for each instrument:

(1)  Document number;

(2)  Certificate number;

(3)  Date of the filing;

(4)  Type of document;

(5)  Names of the grantor and grantee;

(6)  Current tax map key number; and

(7)  Location of the real property by island.

The real property assessment administrator of the city and county of Honolulu shall provide copies of the images, without charge, to the real property assessment administrators of the other counties."

     SECTION 3.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on January 1, 2046.