Chapter 172 — Chapter 172

§172-1 Department to list lands on which commutation payable; public notice; notice to pay. The department of land and natural resources shall prepare a list of all lands on which commutation to extinguish the government's right therein is payable. Upon completion of the list the…

§172-10 Enforcement of payment of expenses by owners. The attorney general shall proceed, at any time after the determination of the sum due as hereinbefore provided, to enforce payment of the same by any proper proceedings brought in the name of the State in such manner as provi…

§172-11 Land patents on land commission awards; to whom, for whose benefit. Every land patent issued upon an award of the board of commissioners to quiet land titles, shall be in the name of the person to whom the original award was made, even though the person is deceased, or th…

§172-12 Land patents issued after boundary and commutation settled. Upon presentation to the department of land and natural resources of a certificate of a commissioner of boundaries defining the boundaries of a portion of an ahupuaa, ili, or other denomination of land, the depar…

[§172-13 Destruction, defacing or removal of survey monuments; penalty.] It shall be unlawful, without the written consent of the state comptroller, for any person to destroy, deface, change, or remove to another place, any trigonometrical survey station, boundary line mark or mo…

§172-2 Department to appraise lands; determine commutation; interest; lien. The department of land and natural resources shall cause to be appraised each piece of property upon which commutation shall then be due. The value of the property for the purposes of this chapter shall b…

§172-3 Enforcement of payment. The attorney general shall proceed at any time after the determination of the commutation due as hereinbefore provided, to enforce payment of the same by any proper proceedings brought in the name of the State. The attorney general may foreclose the…

§172-4 General default. If no person appears and answers within the time allowed, the judge may at once upon motion of the State order a general default to be recorded and the complaint for foreclosure of the government's lien for commutation to be taken as confessed. By the desc…

§172-5 Hearing, foreclosure. If in any case, an appearance is entered and answer filed, the cause shall be set down for hearing on the motion of either party, but an order of default may first be entered against all persons who do not appear and answer in the manner provided in s…

§172-6 Proof. The award by the board of commissioners to quiet land titles, together with a certificate by the department of land and natural resources of the date and amount of the appraisement and the amount of the government's commutation determined thereon, and that the same …

§172-7 Unsurveyed lands; listing by comptroller. The comptroller shall prepare a list of all ahupuaas, iliainas, and leles within the State (including those owned by the government), on which there has been no legal description of survey determined by metes and bounds, either by …

§172-8 Notice to owners to have boundaries determined. Upon the completion of a list, the comptroller shall give public notice thereof throughout the State at least once each week for four successive weeks, together with name or names of the last known owner or owners, and with a…

§172-9 Upon failure of owners, comptroller to have boundaries determined at owner's expense. The comptroller shall list all lands which have not had their boundaries determined in compliance with the requirements of section 172-8, and shall proceed to make the necessary surveys a…