Pennsylvania Act 1939-240 — VALIDATING TITLE TO REAL ESTATE

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VALIDATING TITLE TO REAL ESTATE
                 Act of Jun. 19, 1939, P.L. 427, No. 240              Cl. 68
                                  AN ACT

     Validating the title to real estate purchased at a judicial sale
        for unpaid taxes or municipal assessments, pursuant to the
        provisions of an act, approved the sixteenth day of May, one
        thousand nine hundred and twenty-three (Pamphlet Laws, two
        hundred seven), entitled "An act providing when, how, upon
        what property, and to what extent, liens shall be allowed for
        taxes and for municipal improvements, for the removal of
        nuisances and for water rents or rates, sewer rates, and
        lighting rates; for the procedure upon claims filed therefor;
        the methods for preserving such liens and enforcing payment
        of such claims; the effect of judicial sales of the
        properties liened; the distribution of the proceeds of such
        sales, and the redemption of the property therefrom; for the
        lien and collection of certain taxes heretofore assessed, and
        of claims for municipal improvements made and nuisances
        removed, within six months before the passage of this act;
        and for the procedure on tax and municipal claims filed under
        other and prior acts of Assembly."

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

        Section 1.  Whenever heretofore any purchaser has purchased
     real estate at a judicial sale had on a judgment obtained for
     unpaid municipal assessments or taxes, and said purchaser has
     paid to the sheriff the amount of his bid, which bid was less
     than the upset price required to pay all municipal assessments
     and taxes assessed and levied against the premises sold at the
     judicial sale, and no petition was presented to the court and no
     rule granted to show cause why the premises sold should not be
     sold free and clear of all claims, now by this act such sale is
     made valid and binding in the same manner as if all of the
     provisions of said act of Assembly regulating said sale had been
     strictly followed and a decree of court made directing that the
     premises be sold for the amount of the bid and free of all
     claims, taxes and assessments.
        Section 2.  The provisions of this act shall not apply in any
     instance where the rights of third persons have intervened or
     the validity of any such sale or the title to the premises
     purchased thereat has been made the subject of litigation in any
     court of the Commonwealth prior to the approval of this act.