Hawaii Revised Statutes

Haw. Rev. Stat. § 515-6 (2025)

  Restrictive covenants and conditions

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     §515-6  Restrictive covenants and conditions.  (a)  Every provision in an oral agreement or a written instrument relating to real property that purports to forbid or restrict the conveyance, encumbrance, occupancy, or lease thereof to individuals because of race, sex, including gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, color, religion, marital status, familial status, ancestry, disability, age, or human immunodeficiency virus infection, is void.

     (b)  Every condition, restriction, or prohibition, including a right of entry or possibility of reverter, that directly or indirectly limits the use or occupancy of real property on the basis of race, sex, including gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, color, religion, marital status, familial status, ancestry, disability, age, or human immunodeficiency virus infection is void, except a limitation, on the basis of religion, on the use of real property held by a religious institution or organization or by a religious or charitable organization operated, supervised, or controlled by a religious institution or organization, and used for religious or charitable purposes.

     (c)  It is a discriminatory practice to insert in a written instrument relating to real property a provision that is void under this section or to honor or attempt to honor such a provision in the chain of title. [L 1967, c 193, §6; HRS §515-6; am L 1971, c 124, §3; am L 1976, c 159, §6; am L 1989, c 391, §4; am L 1990, c 275, §6; am L 1992, c 33, §5 and c 171, §6; am L 2005, c 214, §6]

 

 

Notes of Decisions
Hilo Bay Marina, LLC v. State. Concurring Opinion of the Court by Eddins, J., with Whom McKenna & Devens, JJ., Join. Concurring & Dissenting Opinion by Devens, J., 575 P.3d 568 (Haw. 2025). · cites it 204× “) The original version of HRS § 515-6 was passed in 1967 via Act 193.”
Haw. Rev. Stat. § 515-6(b): 1 case
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