Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 1082 – Municipal officers may bid at sale
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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 1082
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Municipal officers: means the mayor, councillors and aldermen of cities, the members of the select board of towns and the assessors of plantations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 501
- Municipality: shall include cities, towns and plantations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 501
- Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, association, society, club, corporation, financial institution, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, assignee or any other group or combination acting as a unit, the State or Federal Government or any political subdivision or agency of either government. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
- Real estate: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
The municipal officers may employ one of their own number, or some other person, to attend the sale for taxes of any real estate in which their municipality is interested, and bid therefor a sum sufficient to pay the amount due and charges, in behalf of the municipality, and the deed shall be made to it.