Pennsylvania Act 1941-221 — AUTHORIZE MUNICIPALITIES TO EXECUTE SPECIAL WARRANTY DEEDS

Act text

AUTHORIZE MUNICIPALITIES TO EXECUTE SPECIAL WARRANTY DEEDS
                      Act of 1941, P.L. 541, No. 221                  Cl. 53
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing county commissioners to sell seated and unseated
        lands purchased at tax sales upon which the period of
        redemption has expired, and validating certain sales
        heretofore made.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  The county commissioners of each county are
     hereby authorized to sell at public or private sale, in the
     manner provided by law, for the best price obtainable, all
     seated and unseated lands heretofore purchased by them at tax
     sales and upon which the period of redemption provided by law
     has expired.
        (1 amended May 26, 1943, P.L.639, No.282)
        Section 2.  All sales of any such lands heretofore made by
     any county commissioners shall be valid and binding on the
     county, and all deeds and conveyances given by the county for
     any such lands are hereby ratified, confirmed and validated, and
     the purchasers thereof and their respective heirs, successors
     and assigns shall hold and may convey such titles and estates
     indefeasibly as to any rights of the county therein,
     notwithstanding the fact that the time within which such sales
     were by law required to be made had expired when such sales were
     made.
        Section 3.  The provisions of section seventeen of the act,
     approved the twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand nine hundred
     and thirty-one (Pamphlet Laws, two hundred eighty), entitled,
     "An act relating to delinquent taxes on seated lands, and
     prescribing interest charges on nonpayment thereof; requiring
     the receivers and collectors of county, city, borough, town,
     township, school district and poor district taxes to make a
     return to the county commissioners of such unpaid taxes, and
     providing for the lien thereof; authorizing the county
     treasurers to collect such taxes, and to sell seated lands at
     public sale for taxes heretofore or hereafter returned as
     unpaid; and authorizing the county commissioners to purchase
     such lands and resell the same under certain circumstances", as
     amended, is hereby repealed in so far as the same is
     inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
        All other acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are
     hereby repealed.
        Section 4.  The provisions of this act shall become effective
     immediately upon final enactment.