Gov. Code, § 53862 · Article 8. Delinquent Assessment Acquisition and Sales Law of 1915
Gov. Code, § 53862
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
To the exclusion of other bidders, a local agency may acquire any accrued lien, or property required to be sold for nonpayment of an assessment or delinquency incurred by the nonpayment of an assessment, if all the following conditions exist:
(a) The local agency has instituted a proceeding for the construction or maintenance of a public improvement or for the acquisition of necessary land or property.
(b) The cost of the construction, acquisition, or maintenance of such improvement or land or property is required by law to be paid for by an assessment levied upon property benefited by the improvement pursuant to the law under which the improvement is constructed, acquired, or maintained.
(c) The law provides for the sale of the property upon which any such assessment is levied for nonpayment.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 1949, Ch. 81.
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