Bill Text: WV HB2952 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the right of municipalities and counties to buy real estate for delinquent taxes
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-10 - To House Political Subdivisions [HB2952 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2018-HB2952-Introduced.html
WEST virginia Legislature
2017 regular session
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to the Committee on Political Subdivisions then Finance.
A BILL to amend the Code
of West Virginia,1931, as amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §11A-3-2a,
relating to the right of municipalities and counties to buy real estate for
delinquent taxes.
Be it enacted by the
Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West
Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section,
designated §11A-3-2a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE
3. SALE OF TAX LIENS AND NONENTERED, ESCHEATED AND WASTE AND UNAPPROPRIATED
LANDS.
§11A-3-2a. Purchase
by municipalities and counties of delinquent lands.
(a) The sheriff shall
give specific notice to municipalities and the county commission of any real
property in their jurisdictions with delinquent taxes for which a tax sale is
eminent. Within thirty days of such
notice, the respective municipality or county may purchase the real property
for the taxes, interest and charges due thereon only subject to the property
owner’s rights of redemption.
(b) If a sale is made to
a private purchaser notwithstanding a lack of response to the notice of sale to
the municipality or county, the municipality or county may purchase the
property within thirty days of the sale to the private purchaser if they
reimburse the private purchaser all payments made for his or her purchase
within ten days of the date the municipality or county purchases the property.
(c) The provisions of
this section do not affect the right of the original property owner to redeem
his or her property.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is
to create the right of municipalities
and counties to buy real estate for delinquent taxes.
Strike-throughs indicate language
that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring
indicates new language that would be added.