Current with legislation from 2024 Fiscal and Special Sessions.
Section 14-120-231 - Trial date - Continuance or dismissal(a) The suit shall stand for trial on any day of the first term of court held after the filing of the complaint, provided that four (4) weeks' publication shall have been made as hereinbefore directed before such day of trial unless a continuance is granted for good cause shown, within the discretion of the court.(b) Continuance may be granted as to part of the delinquent lands, town lots, blocks, railroads and tramroads, telegraph and telephone lines, electric power lines, and other real property, without affecting the disposition finally of other tracts as to which no such continuances are granted.(c) After the complaint is filed and before a decree is rendered, any person may have the complaint dismissed as to tracts of land, town lots, blocks, railroads and tramroads, telegraph and telephone lines, electric power lines, and other real property, by paying to the clerk of the court the taxes with interest at six percent (6%) per annum thereon from the date they were due and payable, a penalty of twenty-five percent (25%) of the amount of taxes due upon the tract, and all costs of the proceeding attributable to the tract.Acts 1937, No. 67, § 14, as added by Acts 1949, No. 249, § 8; A.S.A. 1947, § 21-809.7.