Local entity payments to avoid a default in local entity obligations -- Reimbursement of payments when property sold at tax or foreclosure sale.

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  • (1) To avoid a default in the payment of outstanding local entity obligations, a local entity may pay:
    • (a) the delinquent amount due, plus interest, penalties, and costs;
    • (b) the amounts described in Subsection (1)(a) and the full balance of an assessment, if accelerated; or
    • (c) any part of an assessment or an installment of an assessment that becomes due during the redemption period.
  • (2) A local entity may:
    • (a) pay the amounts under Subsection (1) from a guaranty fund or a reserve fund, or from any money legally available to the local entity; and
    • (b) charge the amounts paid against the delinquent property.
  • (3)
    • (a) Upon the tax sale or foreclosure of the property charged as provided in Subsection (2):
      • (i) all amounts that the local entity paid shall be included in the sale price of the property recovered in the sale; and
      • (ii) the local entity's guaranty fund, reserve fund, or other source of money paid under Subsection (2)(a), as the case may be, shall be reimbursed for those amounts.
    • (b) If the property charged as provided in Subsection (2) is sold to the local entity at the tax sale or foreclosure and additional assessment installments become due, the local entity:
      • (i) may pay the additional installments from the guaranty fund or reserve fund, as the case may be, or from any legally available money;
      • (ii) shall recover, in a sale of the property, the amount of the installments paid; and
      • (iii) shall reimburse the guaranty fund or reserve fund when the property is sold.




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