Section 29.45.460. Disposition and sale of foreclosed property.

   (a) The municipality shall determine by ordinance whether foreclosed property deeded to the municipality shall be retained for a public purpose.  The ordinance must contain the legal description of the property, the address or a general description of the property sufficient to provide the public with notice of its location, and the name of the last record owner of the property as the name appears on the assessment rolls.
   (b) Tax-foreclosed property conveyed to a municipality by tax foreclosure and not required for a public purpose may be sold.  Before the sale of tax-foreclosed property held for a public purpose, the municipality, by ordinance, shall determine that a public need does not exist.  The ordinance must contain the information required under (a) of this section.
   (c) The clerk or the clerk's designee shall send a copy of the published notice of hearing of an ordinance to consider a determination required under (a) or (b) of this section by certified mail to the former record owner of the property that is the subject of the ordinance.  The notice shall be mailed within five days after its first publication and shall be sufficient if mailed to the last record owner of the property as the name appears on the assessment rolls of the municipality.
   (d) The provisions of (c) of this section do not apply with respect to property that has been held by the municipality for a period of more than 10 years after the close of the redemption period.

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History

(Sec. 12 ch 74 SLA 1985)