Massachusetts General Laws (Tax)
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 60, § 80
Lack of or inadequate bids; sales without foreclosure
Section 80. If no person bids at such a sale or if no bid deemed adequate by the treasurer is made thereat and if the sale has been adjourned one or more times, the treasurer shall then and there make public declaration of the fact, and if no bid or no bid deemed adequate as aforesaid is then made he shall give public notice that he purchases for the town by which the tax is assessed; or if the person to whom the land is sold does not within ten days pay to the treasurer the sum bid by him the sale shall be void and the town shall be deemed to be the purchaser of the land. If the town becomes the purchaser hereunder, the treasurer shall execute to it a deed which shall set forth the fact that no bid or no bid deemed adequate as aforesaid was made at the sale or that the purchaser failed to pay the amount bid, as the case may be. Such deed shall not be valid unless recorded within sixty days after the sale under this section; and the title of the town to land conveyed thereby shall be absolute upon the recording of said deed in the proper registry of deeds within such sixty days.
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In this chapter (40 sections)
- 60-67 · Default
- 60-68 · Answer; offer of redemption; hearing
- 60-69 · Decree barring redemption; vacating decree; petition
- 60-69A · Vacating, reversing or modifying decree of foreclosure
- 60-70 · Validity of title; questioning; decree of court
- 60-71 · Jury trials; waiver; framing issues
- 60-72 · Questions of law reported
- 60-73 · Costs and fees; deposit by petitioner
- 60-74 · Repealed, 1973, 515, Sec. 1
- 60-75 · Practice and procedure
- 60-76 · Jurisdiction of land court; petition for redemption
- 60-76A · Partial redemption; divided lands
- 60-76B · Errors or irregularities in water, sewer use or municipal…
- 60-76C · Tax titles held by towns; notice of assignments, redemptions…
- 60-77 · Foreclosure by municipalities; tax titles; covenants calling…
- 60-77A · Sale by municipalities; land acquired through foreclosure;…
- 60-77B · Management, sale, or lease by municipalities; land acquired…
- 60-77C · Deeds accepted by municipalities in lieu of foreclosure; taxes
- 60-78 · Repealed, 1936, 194
- 60-79 · Sale without foreclosure; inquiries
- 60-80 · Lack of or inadequate bids; sales without foreclosure
- 60-80A · Title to land conveyed under Sec. 79 or Sec. 80; questioning…
- 60-80B · Title acquired under Sec. 79 or Sec. 80; petition to…
- 60-80C · Title to land conveyed under Sec. 79 or Sec. 80; curing defects
- 60-81 · Repealed, 1925, 241, Sec. 8
- 60-81A · Land with unoccupied buildings; inspection; abandonment;…
- 60-81B · Purchase of land or taking of land for nonpayment of taxes…
- 60-82 · Notice to holder of invalid tax title; release of interest
- 60-83 · Failure to release interest; recording affidavit of notice by…
- 60-84 · Reassessment or collection of taxes where title invalid;…
- 60-84A · Certificates of invalidity; refunds to tax holders
- 60-85 · Taxes paid by co-tenants; lien on co-tenants' interest
- 60-86 · Enforcement of lien of co-tenant
- 60-87 · Directions to collectors; ordinances or by-laws
- 60-88 · Tax lists and warrants; posting by sheriff or deputies
- 60-89 · Fees of sheriff for collecting taxes
- 60-90 · Treasurer as collector; warrants
- 60-91 · Foreign corporation; non-resident; failure to pay taxes;…
- 60-92 · Deputy collectors; appointment and removal; bookkeeping;…
- 60-93 · Money due taxpayer from municipalities; withholding for…