Pennsylvania Act 1939-206 — TAX LIENS, VALIDATION

Act text

TAX LIENS, VALIDATION
                 Act of Jun. 15, 1939, P.L. 349, No. 206              Cl. 53
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for the validation and amendment of defective tax
        liens and municipal claims heretofore or hereafter entered of
        record; and repealing inconsistent legislation.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  Whenever, heretofore or hereafter, any tax lien
     or municipal claim is or shall be defective, by reason of error
     in the name or names of the registered owner or owners thereof
     or by reason of the fact that the description of the property
     and the street address set forth in the claim as filed do not
     conform with each other, the claimant entering or filing such
     tax lien or municipal claim shall have the right, at any stage
     in the proceedings, to file an amended tax or municipal claim so
     that the correct name or names of the registered owner or owners
     and the correct description of the property shall appear
     therein; and, upon the filing of the amended tax or municipal
     claim, such lien or claim is hereby declared to be valid to all
     intents and purposes, and such liens or claims may be enforced
     as in the case of liens or claims entered or filed in the name
     or names of the proper registered owner or owners and with a
     correct description of the property: Provided, however, That no
     further proceedings shall be had upon such tax lien or municipal
     claim, whether or not judgment has theretofore been entered upon
     any writ of scire facias theretofore issued, until after a writ
     of scire facias has been issued upon the lien or claim as
     amended and has been served in the manner provided for the
     service of such writs in the acts of Assembly relating to tax
     liens and municipal claims, and has been duly reduced to
     judgment: Provided further, however, That this act shall not
     apply to any property where change of ownership has occurred
     previous to the filing of the amended tax or municipal lien, and
     such amended tax or lien shall not take priority over any
     mortgage or judgment recorded or entered subsequent to the
     filing of the original tax or municipal lien but previous to the
     filing of the amended tax or municipal lien.