§ 11-53B-9 — Sale of Property Upon Default

(a) Any property owner, notwithstanding his or her default, may pay the assessment lien with interest and all costs if tendered before a sale of the property.
(b) The cost of any notice and sale resulting from a default on paying an assessment shall constitute a charge against the property to be sold and shall be retained out of the proceeds of the sale.
(c) The officer making the sale shall execute a deed to the purchaser, which shall convey all the rights, title, and interest which the party against whose property the assessment was made had or held in the property at the date of making the assessment or on the date of making the sale. Any surplus arising from the sale shall be paid to the city or municipal treasurer to be kept as a separate fund by the treasurer for the owner upon the responsibility of his or her official bond. The municipality may, by its agents, purchase real estate sold as provided under this chapter and, in the event of the purchase, the deed for the same shall be made to the municipality.
(d) No mistake in the notice of sale in the description of the property or in the name of the owner shall vitiate the assessment or the lien and if for any reason, the sale made by the municipality is ineffectual to pass title, it shall operate as an assignment of the lien, and, upon the request of the purchaser, supplementary proceedings of the same general character as required in this chapter may be had to correct the errors in the proceedings for his or her benefit or the lien so assigned to him or her may be enforced by civil action.

Legislative History

(Act 2002-522, p. 1355, §9.)