§ 7-66-108 — Conveyance or leasing of real property

(a) The administering agency shall convey or lease the real property acquired for purposes of this chapter to those persons who have been designated as homesteaders, subject to such terms and conditions as shall be established by the agency. (b) (1) Upon compliance with such terms and conditions, that property that is designated as conveyance property shall be conveyed to the homesteader by fee simple title. (2) Prior to the vesting of a fee simple title in the homesteader, any material failure by the applicant to carry out the homesteader's homestead agreement entered into pursuant to the terms of this chapter nullifies such agreement; the use and enjoyment of the property terminates; and all rights, title and interest in and to the property shall revert to the agency, except that the agency may grant the homesteader a specified period of time, not to exceed two (2) years, to come into compliance with the terms of the homestead agreement. (c) (1) Any taxes, penalties, interest, and other fees assessed any property designated as homestead property under this chapter, and conveyed in accordance with the chapter, and title transferred in accordance with the terms and conditions as set forth by the local administering agency, shall be forgiven upon such transfer, if such forgiveness has been authorized by the legislative body of the affected municipality, or county, or both. (2) Upon transfer, the property shall no longer be deemed homestead property and shall be subject to any and all taxes and assessments as prescribed by all other sections of the code.

Legislative History

Acts 1985, ch. 281, § 8; 1986, ch. 914, § 1.