(35 ILCS 516/175)
Sec. 175.
Payment for mobile homes purchased at tax sale; reoffering for
sale. Except as otherwise provided below, the person purchasing any mobile
home shall be liable to the county for the amount due and shall forthwith pay
to the county collector the amount charged on the mobile home. Upon failure to
do so, the amount due shall be recoverable in a civil action brought in the
name of the People of the State of Illinois in any court of competent
jurisdiction. The person so purchasing shall be relieved of liability only by
payment of the amount due together with interest and costs thereon, or if the
mobile home is reoffered at the sale, purchased, and paid for. Reoffering of
the mobile home for sale shall be at the discretion of the collector. The sale
shall not be closed until payment is made or the mobile home again offered for
sale. The purchaser then shall be entitled to a certificate of purchase. If a
purchaser
fails to complete his or her purchase as provided in this Section, the purchase
shall become void, and be of no effect, but the collector shall not refund the
amount paid in cash at the time of the sale, except in cases of sale in error.
That amount shall be treated as a payment and distributed to the taxing bodies
as other collections are distributed. The lien for taxes for the amount paid
shall remain on the mobile home, in favor of the purchaser, his or her heirs or
assigns, until paid with 5% interest per year on that amount from the date the
purchaser paid it. The amount and fact of such ineffective purchase shall be
entered in the tax judgment, sale, redemption and forfeiture record opposite
the mobile home upon which the lien remains. No redemption shall be made
without payment of this amount for the benefit of the purchaser, and no future
sale of the mobile home shall be made except subject to the lien of such
purchaser.
(Source: P.A. 92-807, eff. 1-1-03.)
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