2 deadlines NoticeGuard models for Hawaii: what each one counts from, the statute it was read from, and the statute text.
Information, not legal advice. This app reports what the statute says and cites the section it read. It is not legal advice, it does not file anything for you, and it does not tell you what to do.
Verify with the statute or an attorney. Statutes change, and courts reinterpret them. Every deadline in this app comes from a statute read on the date shown next to its citation - that snapshot can go out of date. Missing a mechanics lien deadline can extinguish your claim permanently, so confirm any deadline you are relying on with an attorney licensed in that state before you act on it.
Data verified: statute text retrieved 2026-09-21 (each citation below carries its own date). Rule data from the NoticeGuard app, source commit 22f9300.
File Application For A Lien and Notice Of Lien (no notice of completion published)
Filed with the circuit court where the property is located, counted from one year after actual completion of the improvement - the "date of completion" this statute deems when no notice of completion or abandonment was validly published and filed within that year.
What it counts from. 410 days after final completion of the original contract.
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service (when no date is entered for notice of completion filed).
Hawaii Revised Statutes § 507-43 (b), (g) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“The Application and Notice shall be filed not later than forty-five days after the date of completion of the improvement against which it is filed. ... If a valid notice of completion is not published and filed within one year after the actual completion or abandonment of the improvement the "date of completion" shall be deemed to be one year after actual completion or abandonment.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). Case law confirms this filing period is treated as mandatory: "Filing 'not later than forty-five days after the date of completion' construed." (50 H. 540); defects in the notice "cannot be cured by amendment after expiration of the period named in the statute" (21 H. 585, 588).
Also stated next to this deadline.
410 days approximates 45 days plus the one-year (365-day) deeming period, the same 30-day/365-day approximation style this app uses throughout.
A notice of completion cannot be published by the contractor until the contractor first makes written demand on the owner to publish it, and the owner fails to do so within 5 days - a real precondition this app does not separately track.
File Application For A Lien and Notice Of Lien (notice of completion published)
Filed with the circuit court where the property is located, counted from the date a valid notice of completion or abandonment was published and filed.
What it counts from. 45 days after notice of completion filed.
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service (when a date is entered for notice of completion filed).
Hawaii Revised Statutes § 507-43 (b), (f) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“The Application and Notice shall be filed not later than forty-five days after the date of completion of the improvement against which it is filed. ... The term "date of completion" as used in this section means the time when the owner or the general contractor for the improvement completes the publication of a notice that the improvement has been completed or has been abandoned and an affidavit of the publication, together with a copy of the notice has been filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court where the property involved is situated.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). Case law confirms this filing period is treated as mandatory: "Filing 'not later than forty-five days after the date of completion' construed." (50 H. 540); defects in the notice "cannot be cured by amendment after expiration of the period named in the statute" (21 H. 585, 588).
Also stated next to this deadline.
The notice must be published twice, seven days apart, in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the property sits, and publication does not itself admit the improvement was satisfactorily completed.
Notice of completion is only effective if there has actually been substantial completion or actual abandonment before it is published - a fact this app assumes true when this anchor is entered.
Weekend and holiday rollover
NoticeGuard does not model a weekend or holiday extension for Hawaii. The dates above are the plain count from the date you enter. Check whether a Saturday, Sunday or holiday changes your date.
What this rule set does not cover
This app models only the deadline to file the Application For A Lien and Notice Of Lien - not the service requirements (on the owner, any interested party, the contracting party, and the general contractor, by a method valid for service of summons), the probable-cause hearing that follows, or the fact that the lien does not actually attach to the property until the court so orders.
The lien's duration/enforcement deadline (§ 507-43(e): 3 months after entry of the court's Order Directing Lien to Attach) is NOT modeled - its anchor is a court-set order date, not a claimant-controlled or otherwise-collected fact, unlike every other state's enforcement deadline in this app.
The land-court registration step (§ 507-43(b): filing a certified copy of the Order Directing Lien To Attach with the assistant registrar of the land court within 7 days of its entry, for registered-title property) is not modeled - it depends on the same court-set order date as the duration deadline above.
No preliminary/pre-lien notice exists separately from the Application and Notice themselves - confirmed by reading the whole section, not merely unresearched.
Weekend/holiday rollover is NOT modeled - no general Hawaii computation-of-time statute was researched this pass.
Sourcing gap, stated plainly: the statute text quoted here was read from Justia's Hawaii Revised Statutes mirror - a commercial legal publisher - and not from the State of Hawaii's own site, because capitol.hawaii.gov did not serve this section at the URL pattern tried on the retrieval date. Justia's mirror is reputable and labels itself current to 2025, but it is not the primary source and has not been re-verified word-for-word against the state's own page. Named for the same reason Arkansas's, Georgia's, New Mexico's and Tennessee's equivalent gaps are named.
Only § 507-43 has been read. The rest of Chapter 507 - including lien priority and the surety-bond substitution mechanism, if any - has not been incorporated.
NoticeGuard is an app that turns a job's dates into a countdown for each statutory step, shows the statute text each date was read from, exports a calendar file (.ics) and sends reminders 14, 7 and 1 day before each deadline. It tracks and reminds; it does not file anything for you.