Connecticut General Statutes 12-159a – Court orders in actions to contest validity of collector’s deed or to enjoin tax sale
(a) In any action brought to prove the invalidity of a collector’s deed or enjoin tax sale proceedings, other than an action based on fraud, the court shall, if the complaining party is successful, order the complaining party to pay to the tax collector or to the person or persons claiming an interest pursuant to such deed, (1) amounts representing taxes, interest and other charges lawfully due from the complaining party at the time of such tax sale with interest from the date of such tax sale at the rate provided in § 12-157, and (2) the reasonable costs of payment of taxes, insurance premiums, repairs, maintenance and demolition of any structures constituting a nuisance, and the fair market value of any capital improvements made to the property by such persons, with interest at the rate provided in § 37-3a computed from the time of such expenditure or improvement.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 12-159a
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- person: means any individual, partnership, company, limited liability company, public or private corporation, society, association, trustee, executor, administrator or other fiduciary or custodian. See Connecticut General Statutes 12-1
(b) Any person entitled to payments pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall, upon the recording of a certificate of judgment lien, be entitled to a lien on such property. The priority of such lien shall be, in the case of the amounts described in subdivision (1) of said subsection (a), prior to all other interests except taxes, and, in the case of the amounts described in subdivision (2) of said subsection (a), such priority as rules of law and principles of equity provide.
(c) Nothing in subsection (a) of this section shall prohibit the court from awarding the complaining party any damages which may be proven. Any damages awarded shall be reduced by the amounts described in said subsection (a).