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Title 48. REVENUE AND TAXATION · Chapter 3. TAX EXECUTIONS · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

48-3-21. Statute of limitations for tax executions.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. Except for executions issued by the commissioner, all county, municipal, or other tax executions, before or after legal transfer and record, shall be enforced within seven years from:

  2. (1)

    The date of issue; or#

  3. (2)

    The time of the last entry upon the tax execution by the officer authorized to execute and return the execution if the execution and entry are properly entered or reentered upon the execution docket or books in which executions issued on judgments and entries on executions issued on judgments are required to be entered or reentered.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1887, p. 23, § 1; Civil Code 1895, § 890; Civil Code 1910, § 1147; Code 1933, § 92-7701; Ga. L. 1965, p. 316, § 1; Code 1933, § 91A-326, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 309, § 2; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1834, § 7; Ga. L. 2017, p. 723, § 5/HB 337; Ga. L. 2018, p. 1, § 2/HB 661.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2017, p. 723, § 1/HB 337, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘State Tax Execution Modernization Act”

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