Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 13 - DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES › Subtitle 3 - STATE LAND USE COMMISSION › Chapter 16 - RULES RELATING TO CONVEYANCES › Section 13-16-2 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
As used in these rules unless context requires
				  otherwise:
"Approved eRecording Vendor" means those vendors who have
				  agreed to comply with the laws and rules of the state of Hawaii and warrants
				  that any document submitted for eRecording is a true, exact, complete, and
				  unaltered copy of the originating paper document or electronic document.
"Assistant registrar" means the registrar of the bureau of
				  conveyances and the registrar's deputy, authorized by section
				  501-9,
				  HRS, to carry out the duties of recording and registration required under
				  chapter
				  501.
"Board" means the Board of Land and Natural Resources.
"Bureau" means the bureau of conveyances in the department of
				  land and natural resources.
"Document" means information that is inscribed on a tangible
				  medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in
				  perceivable form.
"Electronic" means relating to technology having electric,
				  digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar
				  properties.
"Electronic document" means a document that is stored in an
				  electronic medium.
"Electronic signature" means an electronic sound, symbol, or
				  process, attached to or logically associated with a document and executed or
				  adopted by a person with the intent of affixing a signature on the
				  document.
"eRecording" means electronic recording.
"Flysheet" or "cover sheet" means a page attached to the
				  front of an instrument to conform the instrument to the formatting and content
				  requirements provided by Chapter
				  501 or
				  502 and these rules.
"Grantee" means a party that acquires interest in real
				  property.
"Grantor" means a party that conveys or transfers interest in
				  real property.
"HRS" means Hawaii Revised Statutes, as amended.
"Instrument" means documents and maps presented for
				  recordation or filing or recorded or filed with the bureau or office.
				  Instruments include but are not limited to deeds, mortgages, assignments,
				  modifications, reconveyances, notices of liens, judgments and decrees from
				  courts, federal and state tax liens, satisfactions and releases of liens,
				  agreements of sale, notices of pendency of civil actions, notices of default
				  and intentions to foreclose, condominium property regime declarations, powers
				  of attorney, UCC financing statements, veteran's certificates, and other items
				  as allowed by Chapter
				  501 and
				  502.
"Office" means the office of assistant registrar located at
				  the bureau of conveyances where the duties of recording and registration and
				  related activities authorized by section
				  501-9,
				  HRS, are carried out.
"Paper document" means a document that is inscribed on a
				  tangible medium such as paper.
"Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust,
				  estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint
				  venture, public corporation, government, or governmental subdivision, agency,
				  or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.
"Record," "recorded," "recordation," or "recording" means the
				  act of entering instruments into the public records.
"Registrar" means the registrar of the bureau of conveyances
				  appointed by the board of land and natural resources.
"Signature" means the name of a person as written by the
				  individual, the affixing of a mark or fingerprint or toeprint, or electronic
				  signature.