59-2-1352 - Purchaser of invalid tax title -- Purchaser's lien -- Extent of lien -- Priority of lien -- Foreclosure of lien. - Utah Statutes

59-2-1352. Purchaser of invalid tax title -- Purchaser's lien -- Extent of lien --Priority of lien -- Foreclosure of lien.
Every person who has purchased or purchases any invalid tax title to any real property inthis state shall, from the effective date of this part, have a lien against the property for therecovery of the amount of the purchase price paid to the county to the extent that the countywould have a lien prior to the sale by the county, but in no event may the lien be greater than theamount of taxes, interest, and penalties, or the amount actually paid, whichever is smaller. Taxespaid by the purchaser for subsequent years after the purchase from the county shall be included inthe amount secured by the lien which has not already been recovered. The lien shall have thesame priority against the property as the lien for the delinquent taxes which were liquidated by thepurchase except that it may not have preference over any right, title, interest in, or lien against, theproperty acquired since the purchase of the tax title for value and without notice, and the lien shallbear interest at the legal rate for a period of not to exceed four years. The lien shall be foreclosedin any action in which the invalidity of the tax title is determined. If the lien is not foreclosed atthe time of the determination of the invalidity of the tax title, any later action to foreclose the lienshall be barred.

Repealed and Re-enacted by Chapter 3, 1988 General Session