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Title 48. REVENUE AND TAXATION · Chapter 4. TAX SALES · Article 3. REDEMPTION OF PROPERTY SOLD FOR TAXES

48-4-40. Persons entitled to redeem land sold under tax execution; payment; time.

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

  1. Whenever any real property is sold under or by virtue of an execution issued for the collection of state, county, municipal, or school taxes or for special assessments, the defendant in fi. fa. or any person having any right, title, or interest in or lien upon such property may redeem the property from the sale by the payment of the amount required for redemption, as fixed and provided in Code Section 48-4-42:

  2. (1)

    At any time within 12 months from the date of the sale; and#

  3. (2)

    At any time after the sale until the right to redeem is foreclosed by the giving of the notice provided for in Code Section 48-4-45.#

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

Orig. Code 1863, § 820; Code 1873, § 898; Code 1882, § 898; Civil Code 1895, § 909; Civil Code 1910, § 1169; Code 1933, § 92-8301; Ga. L. 1937, p. 491, § 2; Code 1933, § 91A-430, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 309, § 2; Ga. L. 1980, p. 10, § 9; Ga. L. 2016, p. 758, § 1/SB 379; Ga. L. 2016, p. 793, § 1/HB 51.

Law reviews

For annual survey of real property law, see 57 Mercer L. Rev. 331 (2005). For annual survey of real property law, see 58 Mercer L. Rev. 367 (2006). For annual survey of real property law, see 68 Mercer L. Rev. 231 (2016). For annual survey on real property, see 69 Mercer L. Rev. 251 (2017). For annual survey on bankruptcy law, see 69 Mercer L. Rev. 1033 (2018). For annual survey on real property law, see 70 Mercer L. Rev. 209 (2018). For annual survey on real property, see 71 Mercer L. Rev. 241 (2019).

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

Text read from t48-ch1-6-(v36)-2024-pdf.pdf, Volume V36, 2024 edition, pages 221 to 222; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 bb15f8d0d693.