02-03-2019, 05:06 AM
HotinHawaii
I don't think we have to use registered mail. From the draft ruling:
Page 7 (5) Proof of service or of good faith efforts to serve notice of the application on the designated property owners. Such proof may consist of certified mail receipts, affidavits, or the like.
The cost of a certificate of mailing is $1.40. Also, the wording "good faith efforts" and "or the like" seems to give us options. How about hand delivering letters and having the home owners print and sign their names proving they did receive your notice? We know several of our neighbors, and for those we don't know, we would mail them notices using the $1.40 certificate. Of course I'm going to be on the phone asking them ALL of my questions after this becomes law.
Also, I assume we are in compliance if we use the address of our neighbors from the hawaiitax site. What if their addresses are incorrect, surely that can't be our problem?
I don't think we have to use registered mail. From the draft ruling:
Page 7 (5) Proof of service or of good faith efforts to serve notice of the application on the designated property owners. Such proof may consist of certified mail receipts, affidavits, or the like.
The cost of a certificate of mailing is $1.40. Also, the wording "good faith efforts" and "or the like" seems to give us options. How about hand delivering letters and having the home owners print and sign their names proving they did receive your notice? We know several of our neighbors, and for those we don't know, we would mail them notices using the $1.40 certificate. Of course I'm going to be on the phone asking them ALL of my questions after this becomes law.
Also, I assume we are in compliance if we use the address of our neighbors from the hawaiitax site. What if their addresses are incorrect, surely that can't be our problem?