§ 14-120-230 — Filing complaint - Notice

(a) The board of directors of the district shall file its complaint, setting out the list of delinquent lands, town lots, blocks, railroads and tramroads, telegraph and telephone lines, electric power lines, and other real property, each being set opposite the name of the supposed owner and followed by the total amount of taxes and penalty due upon each separate tract thereof. (b) Thereupon, the clerk of the court shall cause to be published a notice containing the list of lands, town lots, blocks, railroads and tramroads, telegraph and telephone lines, electric power lines, and other real property, with the names of the supposed owners and amounts due, in a weekly newspaper published in the county for four (4) weekly insertions prior to any day of the next term of the chancery court. The notice shall call upon the supposed owners named in the complaint, and all other persons claiming any interest whatever in the lands, town lots, blocks, railroads and tramroads, telegraph and telephone lines, electric power lines, and other real property, to appear and show cause why a decree should not be rendered condemning the lands, town lots, blocks, railroads and tramroads, telegraph and telephone lines, electric power lines, and other real property for sale for the delinquent taxes, interest, penalty, and costs. (c) The notice may be in the following form: Click here to view form. Then shall follow a descriptive list of said lands, town lots, blocks, railroads or tramroads, telegraph and telephone lines, electric power lines, and other real property and amounts thereon respectively as aforesaid. (d) The published notice may conclude in the following form: Click here to view form.

Legislative History

Acts 1937, No. 67, § 14, as added by Acts 1949, No. 249, § 8; A.S.A. 1947, § 21-809.7.