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Amend the resolve by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘Resolve, Authorizing the State Tax Assessor To Sell a Certain Parcel of Land in the Unorganized Territory’
Amend the resolve by striking out everything after the title and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1 State Tax Assessor authorized to convey real estate. Resolved: That the State Tax Assessor is authorized to convey by sale the interest of the State in a parcel located in Albany Township, Oxford County formerly owned by Mason Griffin. The parcel may not be sold for less than the amount authorized in this resolve.
Employees of the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Revenue Services and spouses, siblings, parents and children of employees of the bureau are barred from acquiring from the State the real property subject to this resolve.
Upon receipt of payment as specified in this resolve, the State Tax Assessor shall record a quitclaim deed in the appropriate registry at no additional charge to the purchaser before sending the deed to the purchaser.
Abbreviations and plan and lot references are identified in the 2004 State Valuation; and be it further
Sec. 2 Description of parcel in Albany Township; sale. Resolved: That the parcel of real estate situated in Albany Township is Map OX016, Plan 2, Lot 160.3, formerly owned by Mason Griffin. The State Tax Assessor is directed to sell the parcel as is to the estate of Mason Griffin for $359.14. The directive to sell to the estate of Mason Griffin expires 90 days after the effective date of this resolve; and be it further
Sec. 3 Sale in the event of nonperformance. Resolved: That, if the parcel identified in section 2 of this resolve is not purchased as provided in that section within the timeframe provided, the State Tax Assessor may sell the parcel to the person with the next highest bid opened pursuant to the process authorized by Resolve 2007, chapter 65.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment removes provisions directing the sale of a certain parcel of real estate in Madrid Township and provides that the sale of the remaining parcel of real estate in the resolve must be to the estate of the former owner and, if sale is not completed within the time provided, the parcel must be sold to the highest bidder pursuant to the bid process that applied to that parcel. The amendment also removes language relating to remediation of environmental hazards.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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