2021 Hawaii Revised Statutes
Title 28. Property
502. Bureau of Conveyances; Recording

PART I. REGISTRAR, DEPUTY

• 502-1 Registrar; appointment; tenure; salary.
• 502-2 REPEALED.
• 502-3 Deputy registrar, appointment, duties.
• 502-4 Rules.

PART II. GENERAL PROVISIONS

• 502-7 Definitions.
• 502-8 Bureau of conveyances special fund.

PART III. INDEXING OF RECORDS

• 502-11 Entry record.
• 502-12 Indexes.
• 502-13 Names of parties indexed.
• 502-14 Entries where one transfers another's real estate; in partition cases.
• 502-15 Annual indexes.
• 502-16 Decennial indexes.
• 502-17 Filing of; data on plans; monuments; metes and bounds descriptions.
• 502-18 Description; lot subdivisions.
• 502-19 Plans on tracing cloth; size; scale.
• 502-20 New maps for old.
• 502-21 Recording of plans unlawful.
• 502-22 Copies of plans furnished by registrar.
• 502-23 Sale or lease by reference to lots or blocks without filing of plans; penalty.
• 502-24 Report of violations.
• 502-25 Fees.
• 502-26 Copies of instruments, certificates.
• 502-27 Charges.

PART IV. RECORDING

• 502-31 Recording, method.
• 502-31.5 Reference in other sections.
• 502-32 Instrument recorded as of time of delivery; office hours.
• 502-33 Identification of reference to registration of original.
• 502-34 Grantee's address in deed.

PART V. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PROOF OF INSTRUMENTS

• 502-41 Certificate of acknowledgment; natural persons, corporations.
• 502-42 Certificate, contents.
• 502-43 Form when person unknown.
• 502-44 Married women.
• 502-45 Acknowledgments without the State.
• 502-46 Same; certificate of authority of officer.
• 502-47 Acknowledgment without the United States; by members of the armed forces; recordation where no official authorized to take proof.
• 502-48 Identification of person making.
• 502-49 Certificate of officer, or judge, necessary.
• 502-50 How made; proof if not made.
• 502-51 Exemption of instruments offered on behalf of United States.
• 502-52 Signatures of certain state officers, acknowledgments not required.
• 502-53 No certificate of acknowledgment contrary hereto valid in court or entitled to be recorded; exception.
• 502-54 Penalty for false certificate.

PART VI. INTERLINEATIONS, ERASURES, ETC.

• 502-61 Changes noted in instrument.
• 502-62 Penalty for not noting changes.
• 502-63 Not recorded unless initialed.
• 502-64 REPEALED.

PART VII. RECORDS OF ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

• 502-71 Record of acknowledgments to be kept.
• 502-72 Disposition of records.
• 502-73 Same, open to inspection.
• 502-74 Penalty for not keeping.

PART VIII. REQUIREMENT AND EFFECT OF
ACKNOWLEDGING, RECORDING, NOT RECORDING

• 502-81 Instruments may be recorded; as evidence.
• 502-82 Record or copy as evidence.
• 502-83 Effect of not recording deeds, leases, etc.
• 502-84 Powers of attorney, etc.
• 502-85 Agreements of sale; priority.

PART IX. PRIOR RECORDS

• 502-91 Old records.
• 502-92 Copies of old records.
• 502-93 Retyping judgment registers.
• 502-94 Translation of Hawaiian documents, recording.
• 502-95 Validation of defective certificates.

PART X. VETERANS CERTIFICATES

• 502-101 Veterans certificates.

PART XI. OTHER PROVISIONS

• 502-111 Family child care homes; permitted uses in residential areas.
• 502-112 Prohibition of transfer fees.

PART XII. UNIFORM REAL PROPERTY ELECTRONIC RECORDING ACT

• 502-121 Definitions.
• 502-122 Electronic document and electronic signature; validity.
• 502-123 Recording of documents.
• 502-124 Uniformity of application and construction.
• 502-125 Relation to federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.