Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF2082

Modifying certain property tax forfeiture and delinquency procedures;
eliminating certain state lands delinquent tax sale redemption provisions;
prohibiting the composition into one item or amount by confession of judgment of
certain reclassified residential rental property in the cities of Minneapolis or
St. Paul; requiring the payment of current year taxes and penalty on certain
commercial industrial property due at the time of entry of confession of
judgment; modifying and specifying certain content and service requirements for
notice of expiration of redemption; modifying the time limits for city or town
objections to county board classification or reclassification and sale of
tax-forfeited lands and reducing the time limit for county board withholding of
the land from public sale, requiring the local unit to pay maintenance costs
incurred by the county during the withholding period; authorizing installment
payments for tax-forfeited lands according to county board policy, restrictions;
authorizing county auditors to provide for the maintenance of tax-forfeited
lands until sale; eliminating a certain provision providing for expenditures
from forfeited tax sale funds for the eradication of noxious weeds; requiring
persons repurchasing land after tax- forfeiture to pay maintenance costs
incurred by the county auditor during the time of tax-forfeiture; authorizing
county auditors with county board approval to impose limits on the use of
parcels subject to repurchase; eliminating the requirement for county board
referral of tax reductions or abatements to the commissioner of revenue for
consideration upon school board or city objection and the requirement for the
St. Louis county auditor to reveal the name of tax sale purchasers in certain
records searches; repealing certain provisions relating to refunds of tax
certificates on reform school lands, applications for state tax deeds,
redemption, tax judgment or sale set asides and right to purchase and to quiet
titles and the dismissal of certain actions involving minors, wards or the
mentally ill (rla)