Notwithstanding section 501-262(a)(3), the following documents, instruments, and papers need not be registered pursuant to this chapter to be effective and shall be recorded in the bureau of conveyances pursuant to chapter 502:

(1) Any document, instrument, or paper assigning, extending, continuing, dissolving, discharging, releasing in whole or in part, reducing, canceling, extinguishing, or otherwise modifying or amending any of the following documents, instruments, or papers that have been registered pursuant to this chapter and that pertain to deregistered land:

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-263

  • action: includes an administrative enforcement action by any state or county agency, board, or commission against a landowner for a land use violation or a currently unauthorized structure encroaching on public lands, including but not limited to submerged lands or lands within the shoreline, that falls, slides, or comes onto public land, or arises from or benefits an adjoining or abutting private land. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-151
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Date and time of deregistration: means :

    (1) The date and time that a certificate of title for land, other than a fee time share interest, is recorded in the bureau of conveyances pursuant to chapter 502 and part II of this chapter;

    (2) The date and time, if prior to July 1, 2012, when a certificate of title for a fee time share interest was recorded in the bureau of conveyances pursuant to chapter 502 and part II of this chapter, whether such certificate of title was or is certified by the assistant registrar prior to, subsequent to, or on July 1, 2012;

    (3) July 1, 2012, at 12:01 a. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Deregistered land: means :

    (1) Land, other than a fee time share interest, that is the subject of a certificate of title recorded in the bureau of conveyances pursuant to chapter 502 and part II of this chapter;

    (2) A fee time share interest that is the subject of a certificate of title recorded in the bureau of conveyances pursuant to chapter 502 and part II of this chapter prior to July 1, 2012, whether the certificate of title is certified by the assistant registrar on, before, or after July 1, 2012; and

    (3) All other fee time share interests. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20

  • Fee time share interest: means a time share interest, other than a leasehold time share interest, that, at any time on or after July 1, 2011, consists or consisted of, or includes or included an undivided interest in registered land, including but not limited to an undivided interest in one or more fee simple condominium apartments or units established in whole or in part on registered land. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Notice of time share plan: means a notice of time share plan as that term is defined in chapter 514E. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • Time share interest: means a time share interest as that term is defined in chapter 514E. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20
  • Time share plan: means a time share plan as that term is defined in chapter 514E. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 501-20
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
(A) A mortgage;
(B) An agreement of sale for the sale of a fee time share interest or interest in other deregistered land. After the date and time of deregistration of a fee time share interest or interest in other deregistered land, the interest in any deregistered land covered by the agreement of sale shall be subject to section 502-85 and shall not be subject to section 501-101.5;
(C) A correction deed, correction mortgage, or other document, instrument, or paper correcting a document, instrument, or paper registered pursuant to this chapter;
(D) A lien or claim of lien on a fee time share interest held or claimed by a time share owners association, an association of apartment owners, or other homeowners’ association or a lien or claim on an interest in other deregistered land held by a lienor or person claiming a lien;
(E) A lease that demises a fee time share interest or interest in other deregistered land;
(F) An order of court, attachment, writ, or other process against a fee time share interest or interest in other deregistered land;
(G) A mechanic’s or materialman’s lien or other lien upon a fee time share interest or interest in other deregistered land;
(H) A lis pendens or notice of pendency of action, notice, affidavit, demand, certificate, execution, copy of execution, officer’s return, or other instrument relating to a fee time share interest or interest in other deregistered land and otherwise required or permitted to be recorded or registered in connection with the enforcement or foreclosure of any lien, whether by way of power of sale pursuant to chapter 667 or otherwise; or
(I) A power of attorney given by the owner of a fee time share interest or interest in other deregistered land or the vendor or vendee under an agreement of sale for the sale of a fee time share interest or interest in other deregistered land, a mortgagee or other lienor having a mortgage or lien upon a fee time share interest or interest in other deregistered land, or another party holding a claim or encumbrance against or an interest in a fee time share interest or interest in other deregistered land;
(2) A lis pendens or notice of pendency of action, notice, affidavit, demand, certificate, execution, copy of execution, officer’s return, or other instrument relating to a fee time share interest or interest in other deregistered land and otherwise required or permitted to be recorded or registered in connection with the enforcement or foreclosure of any lien, whether by way of power of sale pursuant to chapter 667 or otherwise; and
(3) Any declaration annexing property to, any declaration deannexing property from, any amendment or supplement to, correction of, or release or termination of, any of the following documents, instruments, or papers that have been registered pursuant to this chapter and that pertain to deregistered land:

(A) A declaration of covenants, conditions, restrictions, or similar instrument, by whatever name denominated, establishing or governing a time share plan, or the bylaws of a time share owners association, notice of time share plan, or other time share instrument;
(B) A declaration of condominium property regime or similar declaration by whatever name denominated, the bylaws of the association of apartment owners, the condominium map, any declaration of merger and any instrument effecting a merger; provided that if only some of the condominium apartments are included in the time share plan, then it shall be necessary to register, and to note on the certificate of title for any apartment not included in the time share plan:

(i) Any declaration annexing property to the condominium property regime;
(ii) Any declaration deannexing property from the condominium property regime;
(iii) Any instrument effecting a merger of two or more condominium projects or two or more phases of a condominium project; and
(iv) Any document, instrument, or paper amending, supplementing, correcting, releasing, or terminating any of the documents listed in clauses (i) to (iii), the declaration of condominium property regime, the bylaws of the association of apartment owners, the condominium map, or any declaration of merger; and
(C) A declaration of covenants, conditions, restrictions, or similar instrument, by whatever name denominated, the bylaws of any homeowners association, any declaration of annexation or deannexation, any amendments and supplements thereto, and any cancellation or extinguishment thereof, any declaration of merger and any instrument effecting a merger; provided that if only some of the parcels of land covered by the declaration constitutes deregistered land, and if one or more of the remaining parcels constitute registered land, then it shall be necessary to register, and to note on the certificate of title for any registered land:

(i) Any declaration annexing property to the declaration;
(ii) Any declaration deannexing property from the operation of the declaration; and
(iii) Any document, instrument, or paper amending, supplementing, correcting, releasing, or terminating any of the documents listed in clause (i) or (ii), the declaration of covenants, conditions, restrictions, or the bylaws of the homeowners association.