A. By July 1 of each year, the county treasurer shall prepare a property tax delinquency list of all real property for which taxes have been delinquent for more than two years. The tax delinquency list shall contain the information and be in a form prescribed and submitted by the date required by department regulations. The county treasurer shall record the tax delinquency list in the office of the county clerk. There shall be no recording fee for recordation of the tax delinquency list. The updated final property tax sale list shall be recorded with the office of the county clerk the day following the sale of the property. There shall be no recording fee for recordation of the final property tax sale list.
B. The county treasurer shall make a notation on the property tax schedule indicating that the account has been transferred to the department for collection at the time the tax delinquency list is mailed to the department.
History: 1953 Comp., § 72-31-60, enacted by Laws 1973, ch. 258, § 100; 1977, ch. 177, § 1; 1980 ch. 100, § 1; 1978 Comp., § 7-38-60, recompiled as 1978 Comp., § 7-38-61 by Laws 1982, ch. 28, § 22; 1997, ch. 124, § 2.
ANNOTATIONSRecompilations. — Laws 1982, ch. 28, § 21, recompiled former 7-38-61 NMSA 1978, relating to notification to property owner of delinquent taxes, as 7-38-60 NMSA 1978.
The 1997 amendment, effective June 20, 1997, substituted "department" for "division" throughout the section, added "Real" at the beginning of the section heading, and in Subsection A, inserted "real" in the first sentence and added the third sentence.