§ 10-136. Limitations for tax sales.  


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  • All actions at any time brought for any lands sold for any taxes or special assessments, whether the same are levied by the Council or by any other municipal or governmental agency having authority to levy taxes or assessments for any territory within the limits of the County wherein any person now has any title or cause to have or pursue such action, shall be taken within three (3) years after June 1, 1937, provided such right of action is not now, or will not then be barred by the now existing statute of limitations. Three (3) years after June 1, 1937, no person or any of his heirs, devisees, or assignees shall have or maintain any action for any land so sold. All actions of any land hereafter so sold shall be taken within seven (7) years after the date of sale to the purchaser and at no time after seven (7) years. No person now having any title or right of entry into any lands heretofore so sold shall enter therein after the expiration of three (3) years after June 1, 1937. No person shall at any time hereafter make any entry into any lands hereafter so sold except within seven (7) years after the date of sale, provided, however, that if any person entitled to any of the rights of action mentioned herein shall be at the time such cause of action accrues within the age of twenty-one (21) years of non compos mentis, he shall be at liberty to bring the action within the respective time so limited after the disability is removed.

(Laws 1937, ch. 275, Sec. 359A; 1943 Code, Sec. 459; 1953 Code, Sec. 497; PLL 1963, Sec. 20-19)