Pennsylvania Act 1927-78 — SHERIFF AUTHORIZED TO COMPLETE OFFICIAL ACTS OF PREDECESSOR

Act text

SHERIFF AUTHORIZED TO COMPLETE OFFICIAL ACTS OF PREDECESSOR
                  Act of Apr. 5, 1927, P.L. 114, No. 78               Cl. 16
                                  AN ACT

     To authorize the incoming sheriff in any county to complete the
        official acts of his predecessor.

        Compiler's Note:  Section 1051 of Act 447 of 1929 provided
            that Act 78 is repealed except insofar as it relates to
            counties of the first class.
        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That it shall be the duty of
     every outgoing sheriff in any county in the Commonwealth to hand
     over to his successor in office all unfinished and unexecuted
     writs and process whatsoever, whose duty it shall be to receive
     and execute the same as if said writs and process had been
     originally issued and directed to him, as well as to carry out
     and complete all other official acts of his predecessor.
        Whenever any real estate shall be sold under any execution by
     a sheriff and the officer who shall make the sale shall die,
     resign, or be removed from office, or if the term of his office
     shall expire before any deed shall be executed and acknowledged
     by him in due form of law for such real estate, his successor in
     office shall have the same power and be under the same duty to
     execute a deed for such real estate to the purchaser thereof as
     the sheriff selling such real estate under execution if he were
     still in office, which deed so executed shall be as effectual in
     law as if the title had been completed by the former sheriff.
        No court order shall be necessary in any event to authorize
     an incoming sheriff to carry out his duties as prescribed by
     this act.