§ 175

Payment for mobile homes purchased at tax sale; reoffering for sale. Except as otherwise provided below, the person purchasing any mobile home shall be liable to the county for the amount due and shall forthwith pay to the county collector the amount charged on the mobile home. Upon failure to do so, the amount due shall be recoverable in a civil action brought in the name of the People of the State of Illinois in any court of competent jurisdiction. The person so purchasing shall be relieved of liability only by payment of the amount due together with interest and costs thereon, or if the mobile home is reoffered at the sale, purchased, and paid for. Reoffering of the mobile home for sale shall be at the discretion of the collector. The sale shall not be closed until payment is made or the mobile home again offered for sale. The purchaser then shall be entitled to a certificate of purchase. If a purchaser fails to complete his or her purchase as provided in this Section, the purchase shall become void, and be of no effect, but the collector shall not refund the amount paid in cash at the time of the sale, except in cases of sale in error. That amount shall be treated as a payment and distributed to the taxing bodies as other collections are distributed. The lien for taxes for the amount paid shall remain on the mobile home, in favor of the purchaser, his or her heirs or assigns, until paid with 5% interest per year on that amount from the date the purchaser paid it. The amount and fact of such ineffective purchase shall be entered in the tax judgment, sale, redemption and forfeiture record opposite the mobile home upon which the lien remains. No redemption shall be made without payment of this amount for the benefit of the purchaser, and no future sale of the mobile home shall be made except subject to the lien of such purchaser.

Legislative History

(Source: P.A. 92-807, eff. 1-1-03.)