§46-80  Improvement by assessment;
financing.  Any county having a charter may enact an ordinance, and may
amend the same from time to time, providing for the making and financing of
improvement districts in the county, and such improvements may be made and
financed under such ordinance.  The county may issue and sell bonds to provide
funds for such improvements.  Bonds issued to provide funds for such
improvements may be either bonds when the only security therefor is the
properties benefited or improved or the assessments thereon or bonds payable
from taxes or secured by the taxing power of the county.  If the bonds are
secured only by the properties benefited or improved or the assessments
thereon, the bonds shall be issued according and subject to the provisions of
the ordinance.  If the bonds are payable from taxes or secured by the taxing
power, the bonds shall be issued according and subject to chapter 47.  Except
as is otherwise provided in section 46-80.1, in assessing land for
improvements a county shall assess the land within an improvement district
according to the special benefits conferred upon the land by the special
improvement; these methods include assessment on a frontage basis or according
to the area of land within an improvement district, or any other assessment
method which assesses the land according to the special benefit conferred, or
any combination thereof. [L 1976, c 105, §1; am L 1978, c 180, §1(2); am L
1992, c 226, §3]



 



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  Improvements by Assessment in Hawaii.  14 HBJ 139.