§516-25 Interest acquired. (a) Upon acquisition of the leased fee interest in residential houselots within all or a portion of a development tract as provided in this part, the property interest acquired by the Hawaii housing finance and development corporation is all of the right, title, and interest of the fee owner, and of the lessor and all legal and equitable owners, if any, in and to the residential houselots acquired; subject to existing leases of residential houselots within the development tract, and to all covenants, conditions, easements, reservations, and restrictions of record running with the land or contained in the agreement of sale, deed, or other conveyance held by the fee owner, lessor, and legal and equitable owners or permitted or suffered by lessees of existing residential houselot leases, which are not inconsistent with the intent of this part. The acquisition terminates all the right, title, and interest of the fee owner, lessor, and all legal and equitable owners, whether the interest be a remainder, vested or contingent, a reversion, or other beneficial interest in the property, present or prospective.
(b) If the leasehold is subject to any mortgage, lien, or encumbrance suffered or permitted by the lessee, including, but not limited to, rights arising through divorce, marriage, or assignment, the purchase of the leased fee by the lessee shall in no manner affect or impair the mortgage, lien, or encumbrance or the security afforded thereby to the holder thereof, and the leasehold shall continue, notwithstanding the purchase of the leased fee by the lessee, for the purpose and to extent necessary to avoid any impairment of such leasehold security, unless the holder of the leasehold mortgage, lien, or encumbrance shall in writing consent to the transfer thereof to the fee as herein provided. Upon the written consent by the holder thereof, each such mortgage, lien, or encumbrance to which the leasehold is subject and to which such consent refers shall be transferred to and shall bind the fee acquired by the lessee, and shall thereafter continue in full force and effect as a mortgage, lien, or encumbrance of the fee acquired by the lessee, in the same order and priority among such mortgages, liens, and encumbrances so transferred to the fee as the same applied to and bound the lessee's immediate, previous leasehold interest. [L 1967, c 307, §14; HRS §516-25; am L 1975, c 184, §2(9); am L 1987, c 337, §16; am L 1988, c 104, §2; am L 1997, c 350, §14; am L 2005, c 196, §26(b); am L 2006, c 180, §16]