Pennsylvania § 7311 Sale of real property for delinquent taxes and municipal claims

Pennsylvania Statutes

§ 7311 — Sale of real property for delinquent taxes and municipal claims

Pennsylvania § 7311

Title 51MILITARY AFFAIRS

PartPART V

Ch. 73MILITARY LEAVE OF ABSENCE

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51 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 7311 (2026).

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(a)Lien saved on stay of sale.--Whenever, pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 and the amendments thereto, a sale of any real property, owned and occupied for dwelling, professional, business or agricultural purposes by a person in military service, or his dependents, at the commencement of his period of military service and still so occupied by his dependents or employees, to enforce the collection of a delinquent tax or municipal claim, or the commencement of any proceeding or action for such purposes, is stayed by any court of record of this Commonwealth, the lien of the tax or of a tax or municipal claim affected thereby, shall not be lost.

(b)Sale and lien time limitations extended.--In all such cases the time fixed by statute fo

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(a) Lien saved on stay of sale.--Whenever, pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940 and the amendments thereto, a sale of any real property, owned and occupied for dwelling, professional, business or agricultural purposes by a person in military service, or his dependents, at the commencement of his period of military service and still so occupied by his dependents or employees, to enforce the collection of a delinquent tax or municipal claim, or the commencement of any proceeding or action for such purposes, is stayed by any court of record of this Commonwealth, the lien of the tax or of a tax or municipal claim affected thereby, shall not be lost.

(b) Sale and lien time limitations extended.--In all such cases the time fixed by statute for any such sale, or the commencement of any such proceeding or action, and the lien of the tax or the tax or municipal claim, is hereby extended for a period equal to the time during which the stay of the court was effective.

(c) Redemption period extended.--Whenever the real property, owned and occupied for dwelling, professional, business or agricultural purposes by a person in the military service, or his dependents, at the commencement of his military service and still so occupied by his dependents or employees, has been sold to enforce the collection of any tax or municipal claim, and such person in military service has the right to redeem the same, and the period of redemption shall expire at any time before the expiration of six months after the termination of the military service of such person, the period of redemption as to such real property shall be extended, and such person in military service shall have the right to redeem such property at any time not later than six months after the termination of the military service of such person.