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Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 — Taxation

36 M.R.S. § 1082

Municipal officers may bid at sale

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The municipal officers may employ one of their own number, or some other person, to attend the sale for taxes of any real estate in which their municipality is interested, and bid therefor a sum sufficient to pay the amount due and charges, in behalf of the municipality, and the deed shall be made to it.
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In this chapter (40 sections)
  1. 992 · Disposition of surplus
  2. 993 · Arrest; notice; procedure; fees
  3. 994 · Tax collector may issue warrant of distress to sheriff, deputy…
  4. 995 · Warrant of distress; service; notice; fees
  5. 996 · Distraint before tax due to prevent loss
  6. 997 · Arrest and commitment; procedure
  7. 998 · Tax collector liable unless taxpayer imprisoned within one year
  8. 1031 · Tax collector may bring action in own name
  9. 1032 · Action may be brought in name of municipality
  10. 1071 · Tax collector's tax auction sale; notice; procedure
  11. 1072 · -- form
  12. 1073 · Notice to owners or occupants of time and place of sale
  13. 1074 · Sale; procedure; costs
  14. 1075 · Tax collector's return of sale; form
  15. 1076 · Purchaser to notify mortgagee of sale; right of redemption
  16. 1077 · Purchaser's failure to pay in 20 days voids sale
  17. 1078 · Owner's right to redeem
  18. 1079 · Refund of taxes paid by purchaser
  19. 1080 · Delivery of deed to purchaser after 2 years
  20. 1081 · Nonresident owner's action; time limit
  21. 1082 · Municipal officers may bid at sale
  22. 1083 · Collector's deed; prima facie evidence of validity of sale
  23. 1084 · Posting notices; evidence of
  24. 1101 · Purpose
  25. 1102 · Definitions
  26. 1103 · Owner's application
  27. 1104 · Administration; regulations
  28. 1105 · Valuation of farmland
  29. 1106 · Powers and duties; State Tax Assessor
  30. 1106-A · Valuation of open space land
  31. 1107 · Orders
  32. 1108 · Assessment of tax
  33. 1109 · Schedule; investigation
  34. 1110 · Reclassification
  35. 1111 · Scenic easements and development rights
  36. 1112 · Recapture penalty
  37. 1112-A · Mineral lands
  38. 1112-B · Mineral lands subject to an excise tax
  39. 1112-C · Recapture penalty
  40. 1113 · Enforcement provision
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