Current with legislation from 2024 Fiscal and Special Sessions.
Section 14-86-1208 - Suit for collection of taxes(a)(1) When the board of improvement or anyone authorized by law to file suit for the collection of these delinquent taxes desires to commence a suit, they shall obtain a certified copy of the remaining delinquent property on the list from the county tax collector, which shall be filed with the complaint, within ten (10) days thereafter, and taken as part thereof.(2) The collector making the list shall be entitled to ten cents (10¢) per tract payable in advance, which shall be taxed as costs in the suit.(b)(1) The chancery court of the county, by proper order entered in the case, may permit the collector to furnish the list to the board or may permit anyone authorized by law to file suit for the collection of the delinquent taxes, without requiring payment in advance.(2) In this event, the collector's fees for making and certifying the list shall be taxed as costs in the case and become payable out of any fund collected from the delinquent property.(c) No suit for the collection of the delinquent taxes shall be brought after three (3) years from the date the taxes become delinquent.Acts 1925, No. 85, § 6; A.S.A. 1947, § 20-1140.