PRINTER'S NO. 439
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
482
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY BREWSTER, ARGALL, TEPLITZ, WILLIAMS, MCGARRIGLE,
STEFANO, GORDNER, SCHWANK, WARD, VULAKOVICH, COSTA, WOZNIAK
AND RAFFERTY, FEBRUARY 13, 2015
REFERRED TO URBAN AFFAIRS AND HOUSING, FEBRUARY 13, 2015
AN ACT
Amending the act of July 7, 1947 (P.L.1368, No.542), entitled,
as amended, "An act amending, revising and consolidating the
laws relating to delinquent county, city, except of the first
and second class and second class A, borough, town, township,
school district, except of the first class and school
districts within cities of the second class A, and
institution district taxes, providing when, how and upon what
property, and to what extent liens shall be allowed for such
taxes, the return and entering of claims therefor; the
collection and adjudication of such claims, sales of real
property, including seated and unseated lands, subject to the
lien of such tax claims; the disposition of the proceeds
thereof, including State taxes and municipal claims recovered
and the redemption of property; providing for the discharge
and divestiture by certain tax sales of all estates in
property and of mortgages and liens on such property, and the
proceedings therefor; creating a Tax Claim Bureau in each
county, except counties of the first and second class, to act
as agent for taxing districts; defining its powers and
duties, including sales of property, the management of
property taken in sequestration, and the management, sale and
disposition of property heretofore sold to the county
commissioners, taxing districts and trustees at tax sales;
providing a method for the service of process and notices;
imposing duties on taxing districts and their officers and on
tax collectors, and certain expenses on counties and for
their reimbursement by taxing districts; and repealing
existing laws," in sale of property, providing for Optional
County Demolition and Rehabilitation Fund.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
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Section 1. The act of July 7, 1947 (P.L.1368, No.542), known
as the Real Estate Tax Sale Law, is amended by adding a section
to read:
Section 631. Optional County Demolition and Rehabilitation
Fund.--(a) Each county of the first, second, second class A,
third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class and home
rule charter county of these classes that imposes the fee
authorized under subsection (b) shall establish a county
demolition and rehabilitation fund.
(b) The governing body of the county may, by resolution or
ordinance, authorize the tax claim bureau of that county to
charge and collect a fee not to exceed ten per centum (10%) for
each property sold at tax sale. The fee raised shall be
deposited into the Optional County Demolition and Rehabilitation
Fund to be used exclusively for the demolition or
rehabilitation, or both, of dilapidated buildings on blighted
property situate in the county.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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