Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 — Taxation
36 M.R.S. § 897
Real estate levied on; sold as on execution
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When a treasurer's warrant of distress is levied on the real estate of a delinquent tax collector or against the inhabitants of a municipality, the officer shall proceed as in the sale of such property on execution.
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In this chapter (40 sections)
- 844-J · Evidence
- 844-K · Compensation
- 844-L · Appeal to the Superior Court
- 844-M · County board of assessment review
- 844-N · Primary assessing area board of assessment review
- 845 · Appeals; to Superior Court
- 846 · -- hearing
- 847 · -- Commissioner's hearing and report
- 848 · -- Trial
- 848-A · Assessment ratio evidence
- 849 · -- judgment and execution
- 850 · Assessment of costs
- 891 · Collection of delinquent county taxes
- 891-A · School subsidies withheld from delinquent municipalities
- 892 · Interest on delinquent state taxes
- 892-A · Interest on delinquent county taxes
- 893 · Tax collector liable to inhabitants
- 894 · Delinquent tax collectors; fine
- 895 · Warrant form; for completion of collection by treasurer
- 896 · Personal property distrained; sold as on execution
- 897 · Real estate levied on; sold as on execution
- 898 · Tax collector to account when taken on execution
- 899 · Municipalities may choose another tax collector
- 900 · Payments to former tax collector in dispute; procedure
- 901 · Remedy of owners of property taken for default of others
- 902 · Amendments permitted in actions to collect taxes
- 903 · Defendant estopped to deny title; exceptions
- 904 · Treasurer's receipt as evidence of redemption
- 905 · Municipalities may set off moneys due against taxes
- 906 · Application of payments to unpaid taxes
- 941 · Civil action with special attachments; procedure
- 942 · Tax lien certificate; procedure
- 942-A · Aggregate tax lien certificate for time-share units; procedure
- 943 · Tax lien mortgage; redemption; discharge; foreclosure
- 943-A · Application for abatement
- 943-B · Credit reporting; payment during redemption period
- 943-C · Sale of foreclosed properties
- 944 · Foreclosure for equitable relief, procedure
- 945 · Foreclosure in action for equitable relief; alternative…
- 946 · Action for equitable relief after period of redemption; procedure