HB200 creates an exclusive expedited process for quiet title and foreclosure of tax sale properties within Class 2 municipalities, enabling the municipality to obtain clear title with a prescribed notice and redemption process.
The bill applies only to Class 2 municipalities and sets an exclusive procedure for expedited quiet title and foreclosure actions on tax sale parcels purchased from the State Land Commissioner. It requires the municipality to record a notice of its intention and to make a good faith effort to identify interested parties. A municipality may file a single petition with the circuit court to quiet title and foreclose on one or more parcels, with no filing fees. If no one redeems or appears, the court must issue a judgment within 10 days, granting the municipality fee simple title and extinguishing most liens and interests, while preserving certain limited rights and conditions; interested parties may still redeem by paying required amounts, and notice procedures create a presumption that parties were notified.
Forwarded to Executive Department on February 26, 2014
Assigned Act No. 2014-108.
Clerk of the House Certification
Enrolled
Signature Requested
Passed Second House
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 501
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Local Legislation No. 3
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 222
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Mobile County Legislation
Source: Alabama Legislature