2023 Hawaii Revised Statutes › Title 28. Property › 501. Land Court Registration › 501-263 Effect of deregistration in specific cases.

§501-263 Effect of deregistration in specific cases.
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:
(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. [L 2009, c 120, pt of §2, §21; am L 2012, c 182, §8; am L 2013, c 119, §11; am L 2016, c 215, §5]