When any municipal corporation desires to set up and put in operation a commission for the purpose of buying lands sold under tax executions for taxes or assessments due such corporation, its town council may designate one or more, not exceeding three, of the officers of such municipal corporation, by resolution duly passed and entered upon the minutes of any regular meeting of such body, as the forfeited land commission of the municipality. The person or persons so designated and their respective successors in office shall ex officio constitute the forfeited land commission of such municipality. The commission shall receive such compensation for its services as may be fixed by the municipality. Every forfeited land commission set up and established under the terms of this section shall bid in lands sold under tax execution for delinquent taxes or assessments due to the municipality unless such lands bring the amount of taxes and costs thereon, take title thereto, look after the preservation thereof, rent them and collect the rents and sell them and make and execute good and sufficient deeds of conveyance therefor.
Wherever applicable, even by analogy, the law governing the duties conferred upon forfeited land commissions of the several counties of the State shall govern and are devolved upon forfeited land commissions created under the provisions of this section.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 65-2905; 1952 Code Section 65-2905; 1942 Code Section 7267; 1932 (37) 1300; 1933 (38) 164.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Section 12-59-10. Creation and membership of county forfeited land commissions.
Section 12-59-20. Organization of Commission; compensation of secretary; quorum.
Section 12-59-40. Sale of forfeited lands; method and terms of sale.
Section 12-59-70. Sale by former owner of forfeited land; commission may convey such property.
Section 12-59-80. Commission may assign its bids.
Section 12-59-85. Forfeited land commission.
Section 12-59-90. Execution of deeds and validation of certain deeds.
Section 12-59-100. Deposit of funds from sale of forfeited land commission.
Section 12-59-120. Commission shall have access to tax records.
Section 12-59-130. Municipal forfeited land commissions.
Section 12-59-140. Emergency procedures for county forfeited land commission.
Section 12-59-150. Certain purchasers prohibited from buying forfeited land.
Section 12-59-310. Title of State by forfeiture prior to 1887 renounced.
Section 12-59-320. State Fiscal Accountability Authority shall hear petition for relief.
Section 12-59-330. Lien against such formerly forfeited lands.