(a) To reimburse the county for the costs of a personal contact, there shall be distributed to the tax collector a sum equal to the total amount of the actual and reasonable costs incurred by the tax collector in conducting the personal contact pursuant to Section 3704.7, for all or any portion of each separately valued parcel of real property subject to a power of sale and sold to private parties or a taxing agency.

(b) The amount of the costs shall be paid from the total amount to be distributed from the sold property, after satisfaction of the amount specified in Section 4672. If, after satisfaction of the amount specified in Section 4672, there is insufficient funds to pay the costs specified in subdivision (a), the costs shall be reduced accordingly.

(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 208, Sec. 4. (AB 902) Effective January 1, 2012.)