§502-121 Definitions. As used in this part:
"Document" means information affecting title to real property that is eligible to be entered into the public records, including any plan of land prepared pursuant to section 502-17.
"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.
"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.
"State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. [L 2009, c 102, pt of §2(1)]
Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes
502. Bureau of Conveyances; Recording
502-1 Registrar; appointment; tenure; salary.
502-3 Deputy registrar, appointment, duties.
502-8 Bureau of conveyances special fund.
502-13 Names of parties indexed.
502-14 Entries where one transfers another's real estate; in partition cases.
502-17 Filing of; data on plans; monuments; metes and bounds descriptions.
502-18 Description; lot subdivisions.
502-19 Plans on tracing cloth; size; scale.
502-21 Recording of plans unlawful.
502-22 Copies of plans furnished by registrar.
502-23 Sale or lease by reference to lots or blocks without filing of plans; penalty.
502-26 Copies of instruments, certificates.
502-31.5 Reference in other sections.
502-32 Instrument recorded as of time of delivery; office hours.
502-33 Identification of reference to registration of original.
502-34 Grantee's address in deed.
502-41 Certificate of acknowledgment; natural persons, corporations.
502-43 Form when person unknown.
502-45 Acknowledgments without the State.
502-46 Same; certificate of authority of officer.
502-48 Identification of person making.
502-49 Certificate of officer, or judge, necessary.
502-50 How made; proof if not made.
502-51 Exemption of instruments offered on behalf of United States.
502-52 Signatures of certain state officers, acknowledgments not required.
502-54 Penalty for false certificate.
502-61 Changes noted in instrument.
502-62 Penalty for not noting changes.
502-63 Not recorded unless initialed.
502-71 Record of acknowledgments to be kept.
502-72 Disposition of records.
502-73 Same, open to inspection.
502-74 Penalty for not keeping.
502-81 Instruments may be recorded; as evidence.
502-82 Record or copy as evidence.
502-83 Effect of not recording deeds, leases, etc.
502-84 Powers of attorney, etc.
502-85 Agreements of sale; priority.
502-93 Retyping judgment registers.
502-94 Translation of Hawaiian documents, recording.
502-95 Validation of defective certificates.
502-101 Veterans certificates.
502-111 Family child care homes; permitted uses in residential areas.
502-112 Prohibition of transfer fees.
502-122 Electronic document and electronic signature; validity.
502-123 Recording of documents.
502-124 Uniformity of application and construction.
502-125 Relation to federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.