Georgia General Assembly
Unannotated Code
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48-4-45.
(a) After 12 months from the date of a tax sale, the
purchaser at the sale or his heirs, successors, or assigns may terminate,
foreclose, divest, and forever bar the right to redeem the property from the
sale by causing a notice or notices of the foreclosure, as provided for in this
article:
(1) To be served upon all of the following
persons who reside in the county in which the property is located:
(A) The defendant in the execution under or by virtue
of which the sale was held;
(B) The occupant, if any,
of the property; and
(C) All persons having of record
in the county in which the land is located any right, title, or interest in, or
lien upon the property;
(2) To be sent by registered
or certified mail or statutory overnight delivery to each of the persons
specified in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of paragraph (1) of this subsection
who resides outside the county in which the property is located, if the address
of that person is reasonably ascertainable; and
(3) To
be published, if that tax sale occurs on or after July 1, 1989, in the newspaper
in which the sheriff´s advertisements for the county are published in each
county in which that property is located, which publication shall occur once a
week for four consecutive weeks in the six-month period immediately prior to the
week of the redemption deadline date specified in the notice.
(b) Nothing contained in this Code section shall be
construed to require that any notice be sent to or served upon any person whose
right, title, interest in, or lien upon the property does not appear of record
in the county in which the land is located.
(c) The
heirs of any deceased owner of any land entitled to notice pursuant to this Code
section shall be served by the sheriff or notified as provided in this article.