HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
H.B. NO.
276
THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025
H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII
A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO CONDOMINIUMS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that homeowners who subdivide their property into as few as two units under a condominium property regime are considered developers under existing law. Developers are required to file an annual report and pay a corresponding annual fee of $50 until all units have been sold. This law has unduly burdened homeowner-developers who permanently reside in one of the units and therefore cannot satisfy the requirement of selling every unit, which would otherwise eliminate the need to file an annual report and pay the annual fee.
The purpose of this Act is to relieve from the burden of filing annual reports and paying the corresponding annual $50 filing fee those individual homeowners whose development consists of no more than two units, one in which the developer resides and one for which the initial sale of the other unit has been completed.
SECTION 2. Section 514B-58, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) The developer, its successor, or assign shall be relieved from filing [Underlined: subsequent] annual reports pursuant to this section [[Struck through: when]] [Underlined: after filing an annual report notifying that] the initial sales of all units have been completed[[Struck through: .]][Underlined: , including any development:]
[Underlined: (1)] [Underlined: That consists of no more than two units;]
[Underlined: (2)] [Underlined: In which one of the units is the principal place of residence of the developer, its successor, or its assign; and]
[Underlined: (3)] [Underlined: For which the initial sale of the other unit has been completed.]"
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 3000.
Report Title:
Condominiums; Homeowner-Developers; Annual Report
Description:
Excludes a homeowner-developer from the annual requirement to file a developer's report and pay a fee if the homeowner's development consists of no more than two units, one in which the developer resides and one for which the initial sale of the other unit has been completed. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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