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The following acts and parts of acts are hereby repealed in so far as they apply to taxing districts coming within the provisions of and operating under this act.
The act, approved the third day of April, one thousand eight hundred four (Pamphlet Laws 517), entitled “An act directing the mode of selling unseated lands for taxes.”
Section twenty-four of the act, approved the twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand eight hundred fourteen (Pamphlet Laws 352), entitled “An act establishing a fee bill.”
The act, approved the thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred fifteen (Pamphlet Laws 177), entitled “An act to amend the act, entitled ‘An act directing the mode of selling unseated lands for taxes, and for other purposes.’ ”
Sections one, two and five of the act, approved the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred twenty-four (Pamphlet Laws 167), entitled “A further supplement to the act, entitled ‘An act directing the mode of selling unseated lands for taxes, and for other purposes.’ ”
Sections five, six and seven of the act, approved the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred forty (Pamphlet Laws 349), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled an act to incorporate a Turnpike Road company, passed fourteenth February, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and for other purposes.”
Section forty-one of the act, approved the twenty-ninth day of April, one thousand eight hundred forty-four (Pamphlet Laws 486), entitled “An act to reduce the state debt, and to incorporate the Pennsylvania canal and railroad company.”
Section two of the act, approved the ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred forty-seven (Pamphlet Laws, two hundred seventy-eight), entitled “An act in relation to the sales of unseated lands in the several counties of this commonwealth,” and the amendments thereto.
Section thirty-two of the act, approved the twenty-fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred fifty (Pamphlet Laws 569), entitled “An act relating to the bail of executrixes; to partition in the orphans' court and common pleas; to colored convicts in Philadelphia; to the limitation of actions against corporations; to actions enforcing the payment of ground rent; to trustees of married women; to appeals from awards of arbitrators by corporations; to hawkers and peddlers in the counties of Butler and Union; to the payment of costs in actions by informers in certain cases; to taxing lands situate in different townships; and in relation to fees of county treasurers of Lycoming, Clinton and Schuylkill; to provide for recording the accounts of executors, administrators, guardians and auditors’ reports; and to amend and alter existing laws relative to the administration of justice in this commonwealth.”
The act, approved the fifteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred seventy-four (Pamphlet Laws 192), entitled “An act to make the redemption money paid by a lien creditor a prior lien on the title of the debtor in the land that is redeemed.”
The act, approved the thirteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred seventy-nine (Pamphlet Laws 55), entitled “An act regulating the right of redemption of seated lands returned to the county commissioners and sold for non-payment of taxes.”
The act, approved the eleventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred seventy-nine (Pamphlet Laws 151), entitled “A supplement to an act, entitled ‘An act to amend an act directing the mode of selling unseated lands for taxes, and for other purposes,’ approved the thirteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, providing for special sales of such lands, where the same have not been sold by the treasurer at the last regular sales.”
The act, approved the eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred eighty-five (Pamphlet Laws 268), entitled “An act relative to the purchase of lands by county commissioners at sales thereof for arrearages of taxes.”
The act, approved the twenty-ninth day of May, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one (Pamphlet Laws 280), entitled “An act relating to delinquent taxes on seated lands, and prescribing interest charges on nonpayment thereof; requiring the receivers and collectors of county, city, borough, town, township, school district and poor district taxes to make a return to the county commissioners of such unpaid taxes, and providing for the lien thereof; authorizing the county treasurers to collect such taxes, and to sell seated lands at public sale for taxes heretofore or hereafter returned as unpaid; and authorizing the county commissioners to purchase such lands and resell the same under certain circumstances,” and the amendments thereto.
The act, approved the twenty-eighth day of July, one thousand nine hundred forty-one (Pamphlet Laws 535), entitled “An act providing for the redemption of real property purchased by political subdivisions at tax sales upon the payment of the amount charged against the same and costs by installment payments, and prescribing the procedure therefor.”
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Pennsylvania Statutes Title 72 P.S. Taxation and Fiscal Affairs § 5860.801. Acts of assembly repealed - last updated January 01, 2026 | https://codes.findlaw.com/pa/title-72-ps-taxation-and-fiscal-affairs/pa-st-sect-72-5860-801/
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