Budget Amendment ID: FY2020-S3-13

OTH 13

Tax Lien

Messrs. DiDomenico, Fattman, Brady and O'Connor moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 3, by inserting after section ____ the following sections:-

SECTION _____. Section 52 of Chapter 60 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting the following sentence at the end of the Section:

If the whole or any portion of a subsequent fiscal year’s tax remains unpaid after it is due at the end of the fiscal year, the assignee shall, if required by the treasurer or collector and prior to a taking or sale for the subsequent taxes, pay to the collector such amount for subsequent taxes and interest as is due and unpaid, and the amount so paid shall be added, with such interest and intervening costs as have accrued, to the amount to be paid by a person redeeming under section 62.

SECTION _____. Section 62 of Chapter 60 of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking the first sentence of second paragraph, and inserting in its place the following sentence:

Any such person may so redeem by paying or tendering to a purchaser, other than the city or town, his legal representatives or assigns, or to the person to whom an assignment of a tax title has been made by the city or town under section fifty-two, at any time prior to the filing of such petition for foreclosure the original sum and intervening taxes and costs paid by him and interest on the whole at said rate, from the date of purchase or the date of said assignment as the case may be.