Indiana Code 6-1.1-24-3. Notice of auction sale
(b) When real property is eligible for sale under this chapter, the county auditor shall post a copy of the notice required by section 2 of this chapter at a public place of posting in the county courthouse or in another public county building at least twenty-one (21) days before the earliest date of application for judgment. In addition, the county auditor shall, in accordance with IC 5-3-1-4, publish the notice required in section 2 of this chapter once each week for three (3) consecutive weeks before the earliest date on which the application for judgment may be made. The expenses of this publication shall be paid out of the county general fund without prior appropriation.
Terms Used In Indiana Code 6-1.1-24-3
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Judgment: means all final orders, decrees, and determinations in an action and all orders upon which executions may issue. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
- Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- real property: include lands, tenements, and hereditaments. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
(1) mortgagee;
(2) purchaser under an installment land contract recorded in the office of the county recorder; or
(3) person who claims a substantial property interest of public record;
who annually requests, by certified mail, a copy of the notice.
(d) The notices mailed under this section are considered sufficient notice of the intended application for judgment and of the sale of real property under the order of the court.
(e) For properties not sold at their initial tax sale, the county auditor may omit the descriptions of the tracts or items of real property specified in section 2(b)(1) and 2(b)(5) of this chapter for those properties when they come up for sale at subsequent tax sales if:
(1) the county auditor includes in the notice a statement that descriptions of those tracts or items of real property are available on the website of the county government or the county government’s contractor and the information may be obtained in an alternative form from the county auditor upon request; and
(2) the descriptions of those tracts or items of real property eligible for sale a second or subsequent time are made available on the website of the county government or the county government’s contractor and may be obtained from the county auditor in an alternative form upon request in accordance with section 3.4 of this chapter.
[Pre-1975 Property Tax Recodification Citation: 6-1-56-2 part.]
Formerly: Acts 1975, P.L.47, SEC.1. As amended by Acts 1977, P.L.74, SEC.2; P.L.87-1987, SEC.3; P.L.83-1989, SEC.5; P.L.50-1990, SEC.5; P.L.39-1994, SEC.5; P.L.29-1998, SEC.2; P.L.139-2001, SEC.3; P.L.169-2006, SEC.17; P.L.247-2015, SEC.12; P.L.118-2015, SEC.1; P.L.251-2015, SEC.3; P.L.187-2016, SEC.2; P.L.27-2023, SEC.2.