Indiana Code
Chapter 11. Disposal of Real or Personal Property
36-1-11-16. Bid, Purchase, Receipt, or Lease of Property by Ineligible Persons; Effect of Ineligibility

Sec. 16. (a) This section applies to the following:
(1) A person who owes delinquent taxes, special assessments, penalties, interest, or costs directly attributable to a prior tax sale on a tract of real property listed under IC 6-1.1-24-1.
(2) A person who is an agent of the person described in subdivision (1).
(3) A person who has any of the following relationships to a person, partnership, corporation, or legal entity described in subdivision (1):
(A) A partner of a partnership.
(B) A member of a limited liability company.
(C) An officer, director, or majority stockholder of a corporation.
(D) The person who controls or directs the activities or has a majority ownership in a legal entity other than a partnership or corporation.
(b) A person subject to this section may not bid on, purchase, receive, or lease a tract that is offered in a sale, exchange, or lease under this chapter.
(c) If a person purchases, receives, or leases a tract that the person was not eligible to purchase, receive, or lease under this section, the sale, transfer, or lease of the property is void and the county retains the interest in the tract it possessed before the sale, transfer, or lease of the tract.
As added by P.L.60-1988, SEC.36. Amended by P.L.342-1989(ss), SEC.37; P.L.98-2000, SEC.18; P.L.159-2020, SEC.75.

Structure Indiana Code

Indiana Code

Title 36. Local Government

Article 1. General Provisions

Chapter 11. Disposal of Real or Personal Property

36-1-11-1. Application of Chapter

36-1-11-2. Definitions

36-1-11-3. Approval

36-1-11-3.1. Sale of Residential Real Property; Disapproval

36-1-11-3.2. Approval of Sale, Lease, or Transfer of Real Property in Certain Cities

36-1-11-4. Sale or Transfer of Real Property; Procedure

36-1-11-4.1. Sale or Transfer of Real Property, Including Provision for Leaseback; Notice; Bids

36-1-11-4.2. Sale or Transfer of Real Property Not Acquired Through Eminent Domain to Promote an Economic Development Project or Facilitate Compatible Land Use Planning

36-1-11-4.3. Public Easement or Right-of-Way

36-1-11-5. Sale of Property Having Certain Value or Previously Part of Right-of-Way; Rights of Abutting Landowners; Procedures

36-1-11-5.5. School Corporations; Sale or Transfer of Real Property or Tangible or Intangible Personal Property or Licenses

36-1-11-5.6. Sale or Transfer of Property to a Nonprofit Corporation

36-1-11-5.7. Sale or Transfer of Real Property or Tangible or Intangible Personal Property or Licenses to Volunteer Fire Department, Fire Protection District, or Fire Protection Territory

36-1-11-5.9. Sale or Transfer of Real Property Acquired by Tax Default; Rights of Abutting Landowners; Procedures

36-1-11-6. Repealed

36-1-11-7. Exchange of Property With Persons Other Than Governmental Entity; Procedure

36-1-11-8. Exchange of Property With Governmental Entity

36-1-11-9. Trade or Exchange as Part of Purchase Price of New Property

36-1-11-10. Lease of Property; Procedure

36-1-11-10.5. Lease of a Parkway Strip, Sidewalk, Tree Row, or Verge

36-1-11-11. Execution of Deed or Other Instrument

36-1-11-12. Lease of Property; Alternative Procedure

36-1-11-13. Restrictions on Lease of County-Owned Property

36-1-11-14. Gift of Tract; Reconveyance

36-1-11-15. Tract Transferred as Gift by Not-for-Profit Corporation or Organization; Reconveyance

36-1-11-16. Bid, Purchase, Receipt, or Lease of Property by Ineligible Persons; Effect of Ineligibility

36-1-11-17. Terms of Reconveyance or Return

36-1-11-18. School Corporations in Laporte County; Transfer to Governmental Agency