Officers Not to Be Interested in Purchase

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If the assessor, collector, judge of probate or any county tax assessor shall directly or indirectly be concerned or interested in the purchase of any real estate sold for taxes, the sale shall be void, and he and his sureties on his official bond shall be liable to a penalty of not exceeding $500 to be fixed by the jury, which may be recovered in an action in the circuit court, or court of like jurisdiction, brought on the relation of any taxpayer of the county, in the name of the state, one half of the amount recovered to be paid to the relator and the other half to the state.

Last amended: Acts 1935, No. 194, p. 256; Code 1940, T. 51, §271.

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In this chapter (40 sections)

40-10-4 · Notice to Taxpayer - Service Generally
40-10-5 · Notice to Taxpayer - When Assessment Is “Owner Unknown.”
40-10-6 · Notice to Taxpayer - Manner of Publication
40-10-7 · Partial Payment of Taxes Prior to Sale of Property
40-10-8 · Trial of Cases; Issuance of Decree; Continuance
40-10-9 · Attendance of Collector at Trial; Tax Book and Record of Tax…
40-10-10 · When Deputy May Attend in Lieu of Collector
40-10-11 · Decree of Sale
40-10-12 · Notice of Sale
40-10-13 · Confirmation of Sale
40-10-14 · Description of Property in Notices and Entries
40-10-15 · How Sale Made; Duties of Judge of Probate
40-10-16 · Portion Sufficient to Satisfy Decree to Be Sold
40-10-17 · Payment by Purchaser
40-10-18 · When Property to Be Bid in for State
40-10-19 · Certificates of Purchase - Delivery; Contents
40-10-20 · Certificates of Purchase - When Land Bid in for State
40-10-21 · Certificates of Purchase - Assignments
40-10-22 · Costs - When Land Bid in for State
40-10-23 · Costs - Paid by Purchasers
40-10-24 · Officers Not to Be Interested in Purchase
40-10-25 · Appeal from Decree
40-10-26 · Payment of Judgment on Appeal
40-10-27 · Fees
40-10-28 · Disposition of Excess Arising from Sale
40-10-29 · Deeds - Delivered to Purchaser
40-10-30 · Deeds - Signature, Acknowledgment and Effect
40-10-31 · Removal of Cloud Upon Title to Real Estate Erroneously Sold…
40-10-50 · Designation; Appointment of Agents and Assistants;…
40-10-51 · Duties Generally
40-10-52 · Duties of Agents
40-10-53 · Blank Certificates and Deeds
40-10-54 · Lists of Lands Bid in for State Furnished Assessor by…
40-10-70 · Purchaser to Receive Assignment of Liens
40-10-71 · When Lands Are Sold Which Are Not Liable for Taxes
40-10-72 · When Land Sold Is Insufficiently Described
40-10-73 · Right of State or Assignee to Possession When Lands Are Bid…
40-10-74 · Right of Purchaser or Assignee to Possession; Redemption…
40-10-75 · Right Where Sale Proceedings Were Defective
40-10-76 · Action for Possession Defeated on Grounds Other Than That…

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