24.33 Resale may be canceled.
(1) The board, within 3 months after a resale under s. 24.32, may by a written recorded order, a copy of which shall be immediately served on the purchaser of the resold land, avoid and cancel the resale and restore and revive the certificate issued to the original purchaser of the land under s. 24.17, after all of the following occur:
(a) Proof is made that there are valuable improvements on the resold land.
(b) Proof is made that the forfeiture was occasioned by the death of the holder of the first certificate, or the neglect of the first certificate holder's personal representative.
(c) Payment is made to the secretary of administration in the amount actually due on the first certificate at the time of the resale, with interest, costs, and charges, and with interest on the amount for which the land was sold at the rate of 10 percent per year.
(2) Upon the surrender of the certificate, receipt, or patent given upon the resale, the purchaser of the resold land shall be paid out of the state treasury the amount paid by the purchaser at resale, together with the interest collected from the person redeeming the land.
History: 1979 c. 110 s. 60 (13); 1991 a. 316; 2001 a. 102; 2003 a. 33.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 24 - Public domain and the trust funds.
24.01 - Definitions and classification.
24.02 - Addition to the public lands.
24.04 - Administrative receipts and disbursements.
24.07 - Sale of land with water power.
24.09 - Procedure before sale or exchange; withdrawal; resale.
24.12 - Forfeit for failure to pay.
24.14 - Rights of swampland purchasers.
24.145 - State-owned swamplands; proceeds; disposition.
24.16 - Applications for private sale.
24.17 - Receipt and certificate.
24.18 - Entry of sale and patent.
24.20 - Payments and accounts.
24.21 - Accounts with purchasers.
24.22 - Excessive payments to be refunded.
24.24 - Effect of certificate.
24.25 - Issuance and record of patent.
24.251 - Patents, issuance; county may record.
24.27 - Purchase money a loan.
24.30 - Liability of former purchaser.
24.31 - Advertisement and resale of forfeited lands.
24.32 - Resale and redemption.
24.33 - Resale may be canceled.
24.341 - Offset to refund on void sales.
24.35 - Annulment of certificates and patents.
24.355 - Limitation of actions.
24.36 - Lost certificates and patents.
24.39 - Leases of public lands.
24.40 - Easements; annexation.
24.53 - Investigate land claims; deduct expenses.
24.54 - Records; copies as evidence.
24.55 - Executive secretary; deputy; staff; appointments; duties; oath.
24.59 - Sale of public lands to state under Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson stewardship 2000 program.
24.605 - Accounts in trust funds for deposit of proceeds from sale of certain lands.
24.61 - Authorized investments and loans.
24.63 - Term, amount, interest rate.
24.64 - Reimbursements for certain administrative services.
24.65 - Date when interest and principal become due.
24.67 - Certificates of indebtedness.
24.68 - Payment of state trust fund loans.
24.69 - Sale of state trust fund loans.
24.70 - Collection from borrowers other than school districts.
24.71 - Collections from school districts.
24.715 - Collections from federated public library systems.
24.716 - Collections from drainage districts.
24.717 - Collections from local professional baseball park districts.
24.718 - Collections from local exposition districts.
24.74 - Duty of attorney general and revenue department.
24.75 - Interest, how accounted for.
24.77 - Common school fund income.