Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 — Taxation
36 M.R.S. § 1078
Owner's right to redeem
Any person to whom the right by law belongs may, at any time within 2 years from the day of sale, redeem any real estate sold for taxes on paying into the municipal treasury for the purchaser the full amount certified to be due, including taxes, costs and charges, with interest on the whole at the rate of 8% a year from the date of the sale, which must be received and held by the treasurer as the property of such purchaser. The treasurer shall pay it to that purchaser, or the purchaser's heirs or assigns, on demand. If not paid when demanded, the purchaser may recover it in any court of competent jurisdiction, with costs and interest at the rate of 8%, after such demand. The sureties of the treasurer shall pay the same on failure of that treasurer. In default of payment by either, the municipality shall pay the same with costs and interest as provided.
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In this chapter (40 sections)
- 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
- 1112 · Recapture penalty