(a) In addition to any amount authorized in this chapter, the state agency involved in acquiring any real property shall make a payment to the owner of real property improved by a single-family, two-family, or three-family dwelling actually owned and occupied by the owner for not less than one year prior to the first written offer by the state agency for the acquisition of such property. Such payment, not to exceed $15,000, shall be the amount, if any, which when added to the acquisition payment, equals the average price required for a comparable dwelling determined, in accordance with standards established by the state agency to be a decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling adequate to accommodate the displaced owner, reasonably accessible to public services and places of employment, and available on the private market. Such payment shall be made only to a displaced owner who purchases and occupies a dwelling within one year subsequent to the date on which the owner is required to move from the dwelling on the real property acquired for public purposes.
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 111-4

  • Family: means two or more individuals living together in the same dwelling unit who are related to each other by blood, marriage, adoption, or legal guardianship. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 111-2
  • 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
  • Person: means

    (1) any individual, partnership, or corporation or association which is the owner of a business;

    (2) any owner, part-owner, tenant, or sharecropper operating a farm;

    (3) the head of a family;

    (4) an individual not a member of a family;

    (5) a nonprofit organization exempted from taxation under section 235-9. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 111-2

  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • State agency: means an agency or instrumentality created by the State and includes, for purposes of this chapter, county governmental agencies. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 111-2
(b) In addition to any amount authorized in this chapter, the state agency shall make a payment to any individual or family displaced from any dwelling not eligible to receive a payment under subsection (a) which dwelling was actually and lawfully occupied by such individual or family for not less than ninety days prior to the first written offer by the state agency for acquisition of such property. Such payment, not to exceed $4,000, shall be the amount which is necessary to enable such person to lease or rent for a period not to exceed two years or to make the downpayment on the purchase of a decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling of standards adequate to accommodate such individual or family in areas not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities and public and commercial facilities.

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