§667-5 Foreclosure under power of sale; notice; affidavit after sale. When a power of sale is contained in a mortgage, the mortgagee, or the mortgagee's successor in interest, or any person authorized by the power to act in the premises, may, upon a breach of the condition, give notice of the mortgagee's, successor's, or person's intention to foreclose the mortgage and of the sale of the mortgaged property, by publication of the notice once in each of three successive weeks (three publications), the last publication to be not less than fourteen days before the day of sale, in a newspaper having a general circulation in the county in which the mortgaged property lies; and also give such notices and do all such acts as are authorized or required by the power contained in the mortgage. Copies of the notice shall be filed with the state director of taxation and shall be posted on the premises not less than twenty-one days before the day of sale.

Any sale, of which notice has been given as aforesaid, may be postponed from time to time by public announcement made by the mortgagee or by some person acting on the mortgagee's behalf. The mortgagee shall, within thirty days after selling the property in pursuance of the power, file a copy of the notice of sale and the mortgagee's affidavit, setting forth the mortgagee's acts in the premises fully and particularly, in the bureau of conveyances.

The affidavit and copy of the notice shall be recorded and indexed by the registrar, in the manner provided in chapter 501 or 502, as the case may be.

This section is inapplicable if the mortgagee is foreclosing as to personal property only. [L 1874, c 33, §1; am L 1907, c 59, §1; am L 1911, c 108, §1; am L 1915, c 121, §1; RL 1925, §2879; RL 1935, §4724; am L 1937, c 138, §1; RL 1945, §12424; RL 1955, §336-5; am L 1967, c 256, §1; HRS §667-5; am L 1972, c 90, §9(e); gen ch 1985; am L 1989, c 20, §5]