Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 — Taxation
36 M.R.S. § 1077
Purchaser's failure to pay in 20 days voids sale
If the purchaser of real estate sold for taxes under section 1074 fails to pay the tax collector within 20 days after the sale of the amount bid by the purchaser, the sale is void, and the municipality in which such sale was made is deemed to be the purchaser of the real estate sold, the same as if purchased by someone in behalf of the municipality under section 1082 . If a municipality becomes a purchaser of real estate under this section, the deed to it must set forth the fact that a sale was duly made, the amount bid for the real estate included in the deed and that the purchaser failed to pay the amount bid within 20 days after the sale. The deed must confer upon that municipality the same rights and duties as if it had been the purchaser under section 1082 .
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In this chapter (40 sections)
- 946-C · Abandoned tax-acquired property
- 947 · Presumption of validity
- 948 · Supplemental assessments; enforcement of lien
- 949 · Disbursement of excess funds
- 991 · Distraint for taxes; procedure; sale
- 992 · Disposition of surplus
- 993 · Arrest; notice; procedure; fees
- 994 · Tax collector may issue warrant of distress to sheriff, deputy…
- 995 · Warrant of distress; service; notice; fees
- 996 · Distraint before tax due to prevent loss
- 997 · Arrest and commitment; procedure
- 998 · Tax collector liable unless taxpayer imprisoned within one year
- 1031 · Tax collector may bring action in own name
- 1032 · Action may be brought in name of municipality
- 1071 · Tax collector's tax auction sale; notice; procedure
- 1072 · -- form
- 1073 · Notice to owners or occupants of time and place of sale
- 1074 · Sale; procedure; costs
- 1075 · Tax collector's return of sale; form
- 1076 · Purchaser to notify mortgagee of sale; right of redemption
- 1077 · Purchaser's failure to pay in 20 days voids sale
- 1078 · Owner's right to redeem
- 1079 · Refund of taxes paid by purchaser
- 1080 · Delivery of deed to purchaser after 2 years
- 1081 · Nonresident owner's action; time limit
- 1082 · Municipal officers may bid at sale
- 1083 · Collector's deed; prima facie evidence of validity of sale
- 1084 · Posting notices; evidence of
- 1101 · Purpose
- 1102 · Definitions
- 1103 · Owner's application
- 1104 · Administration; regulations
- 1105 · Valuation of farmland
- 1106 · Powers and duties; State Tax Assessor
- 1106-A · Valuation of open space land
- 1107 · Orders
- 1108 · Assessment of tax
- 1109 · Schedule; investigation
- 1110 · Reclassification
- 1111 · Scenic easements and development rights