03-18-2018, 06:51 AM
A bill appears to be moving quickly through the legislators offices (passed Senate, now in house) requiring all houses sold in Hawaii to be upgraded to septic within 180 days with the agent negotiating the upgrade costs between buyers and sellers.
As we know here on the Big Island there's not enough contractors to even make this possible, assuming it goes into law.
http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2018...cesspools/
SB 2567 would, if passed, require sellers of a property that included a cesspool to upgrade the cesspool, at cost, by connecting to a sewer system or install a septic tank. This upgrade would be required to occur within an as-yet-undetermined length of time after the purchase, although an earlier draft of the bill specified 180 days.
According to the bill, upgrading a cesspool costs, on average, $20,000.
As we know here on the Big Island there's not enough contractors to even make this possible, assuming it goes into law.
http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2018...cesspools/
SB 2567 would, if passed, require sellers of a property that included a cesspool to upgrade the cesspool, at cost, by connecting to a sewer system or install a septic tank. This upgrade would be required to occur within an as-yet-undetermined length of time after the purchase, although an earlier draft of the bill specified 180 days.
According to the bill, upgrading a cesspool costs, on average, $20,000.