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OR Rev Stat § 312.120 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 08 - Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 312 - Foreclosure of Property Tax Liens|Section 312.120 - Period during which property held by county; redemption; assessment during redemption period; redemption of part of property.

(1) Except as provided in ORS 312.122, all real properties sold to the county under ORS 312.100, shall be held by the county for the period of two years from and after the date of the judgment of foreclosure, unless sooner redeemed. (2) During the two-year period any person having an interest in the property at the date of the judgment of foreclosure, or any heir or devisee of such person, or any person holding a lien of record on the property, or any municipal corporation having a lien on the property, may redeem the property by payment of the full amount applicable to the property under the judgment, with interest thereon as provided by law, plus a penalty of five percent of the total amount applicable to the property under the judgment and a fee as specified under subsection (5) of this section. The penalty of five percent and fee shall be in lieu of all costs chargeable against the property in connection with the foreclosure proceeding. The fee shall be used to defray the costs, among other costs, incurred by the county to provide the notices of redemption period expiration to lienholders and others required under ORS 312.125. (3) Property so redeemed shall be subject to assessment for taxation during the period of redemption, as though it had continued in private ownership. (4) Any person holding a mortgage or other lien of record covering a part only of a particular parcel of real property included in the judgment of foreclosure may redeem such part by payment of the proportionate amount applicable thereto under the judgment. (5) The fee specified by this subsection is as follows: (a) If the property is redeemed before the date the notice by certified mail required by ORS 312.125 is given, $50. (b) If the property is redeemed on or after the date the notice by certified mail required by ORS 312.125 is given, the greater of $50 or the actual cost to the county for a title search and other expenses related to obtaining a title search. [Amended by 1983 c.472 §2; 1987 c.311 §7; 1989 c.687 §2; 1999 c.22 §1; 2003 c.576 §420]
OR Rev Stat § 312.130 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 08 - Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 312 - Foreclosure of Property Tax Liens|Section 312.130 - Release of claims of county by redemption; entries by tax collector; certificate of redemption.

The receipt of redemption money by the tax collector shall operate to release all claims of the county, under the judgment of foreclosure, to the property so redeemed. The tax collector, on receipt of the redemption money, immediately shall make the proper entries in the records of the office of the tax collector showing that the delinquent taxes, interest and penalty have been paid and that the property has been redeemed from the sale to the county, and the tax collector shall deliver to the person redeeming the property a certificate of redemption. The certificate shall contain a description of the property so redeemed, the total amount of taxes, interest and penalty paid, and the date of entry of the judgment of foreclosure. The certificate shall be signed by the tax collector or deputy and shall be filed by the redemptioner with the clerk of the court that issued the judgment of foreclosure. The clerk then shall enter the filing of the certificate of redemption in the court register and thereafter file the certificate of redemption as part of the case file in the foreclosure proceeding. No fee shall be charged for the issuance of a certificate of redemption. [Amended by 1989 c.411 §3; 1991 c.111 §18; 2003 c.576 §423]
OR Rev Stat § 312.140 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 08 - Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 312 - Foreclosure of Property Tax Liens|Section 312.140 - Notice of foreclosure list to lienholder.

(1) A mortgagee or other holder of a recorded lien on real property may file with the tax collector a request that notice of any foreclosure list including the real property be given to the mortgagee or other lienholder. The request shall contain the name and address of the person filing it, the description of the property and the name of the owner or reputed owner thereof, and the date of expiration of the mortgage or lien. Notice need not be given after expiration of the mortgage or lien, unless a further request therefor is filed. If the mortgagee or lienholder furnishes a duplicate form of request for the notice, the tax collector shall certify thereon to the filing and return the duplicate to the person making the request. (2) Whenever any property described in the request for notice is included in a foreclosure list, the tax collector shall send by registered mail or by certified mail with return receipt written notice thereof to the mortgagee or other lienholder. At the time of mailing the notice the tax collector shall note that fact in the latest tax roll opposite the description of the property. The notation in the tax roll is prima facie evidence that the notice was mailed. Where the same mortgagee or lienholder has filed requests for notices on two or more properties included in a foreclosure list, one general notice may be issued covering all such properties. [Amended by 1991 c.249 §24; 1997 c.170 §50; 2001 c.753 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 312.150 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 08 - Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 312 - Foreclosure of Property Tax Liens|Section 312.150 - Effect of failure to give notice to lienholder when requested.

If a tax collector, after receiving a request for notice of tax foreclosure as provided in ORS 312.140, fails to give the notice, the failure shall not invalidate the foreclosure, but the mortgagee’s or lienholder’s right to redeem the property shall not terminate until the expiration of 30 days after the mailing of the notice.
OR Rev Stat § 312.160 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 08 - Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 312 - Foreclosure of Property Tax Liens|Section 312.160 - Lienholder paying taxes or redeeming gets additional lien for amount paid.

Where any property included in a foreclosure list or proceeding is removed therefrom by payment of taxes or by redemption on the part of a mortgagee or other lienholder of record, the official receipt for payment of such taxes or redemption money shall constitute an additional lien on the property to the amount specified in the receipt. The amount so paid, with interest and other lawful charges thereon, shall be collectible with and in the same manner as the amount secured by the original mortgage or lien.
OR Rev Stat § 312.170 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 08 - Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 312 - Foreclosure of Property Tax Liens|Section 312.170 - Municipal or other public corporation removing property from foreclosure list or proceeding or redeeming; additional lien.

(1) The governing body of any municipal or other public corporation, having a lien on any real property included in a foreclosure list or proceeding, may use its funds to remove the property from the list or proceeding, or to redeem the property after judgment of foreclosure. Such corporation shall have the same right of redemption as the owner of the property. (2) Where any municipal or other public corporation so removes or redeems any real property on which it claims a lien, or pays any taxes thereon, the corporation may add to its lien the amount so disbursed and cause that amount to be noted on its lien docket. The amount so disbursed shall be recoverable as part of the lien of the municipal or other public corporation. In case of foreclosure of the original lien claimed by such corporation, the amount so disbursed may be added to the original lien and recovered as part thereof. (3) Any county and municipal or other public corporation may enter into a cooperative agreement to facilitate foreclosure sales for the collection of delinquent property taxes and municipal liens. [Amended by 1989 c.411 §4; 2003 c.576 §424]
OR Rev Stat § 312.180 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 08 - Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 312 - Foreclosure of Property Tax Liens|Section 312.180 - Possession during redemption period; forfeiture for waste.

The sale of property to the county on foreclosure for delinquent taxes does not affect the former owner’s right to possession of the property during the period of redemption. However, any waste of the property, committed by the former owner or by anyone acting under permission or control of the former owner, shall work a forfeiture to the county of the right to such possession and, in addition, shall be punished as provided in ORS 312.990.
OR Rev Stat § 312.190 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 08 - Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 312 - Foreclosure of Property Tax Liens|Section 312.190 - General notice of expiration of redemption period.

Subject to an exemption from disclosure that applies under ORS 192.345: (1) Not more than 30 days nor less than 10 days prior to the expiration of the period of redemption of any real property ordered sold to the county under a judgment under ORS 312.100, the tax collector shall publish a general notice relative to the expiration of the period of redemption. (2) The notice shall contain the date of the judgment, the date of expiration of the period of redemption, and warning to the effect that all the properties ordered sold under the judgment, unless sooner redeemed, will be deeded to the county immediately on expiration of the period of redemption and that every right or interest of any person in the properties will be forfeited forever to the county. (3) The notice shall be published in two weekly issues of a duly designated newspaper of general circulation in the county within the period of 20 days as specified in this section. Proof of publication shall be attached to and made a part of the deed issued to the county. The published notice may be a general notice and it shall not be necessary to include therein descriptions of the several properties or the names of the respective owners. [Amended by 1975 c.780 §13; 1987 c.311 §8; 2003 c.576 §425; 2007 c.687 §6]
OR Rev Stat § 312.200 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 08 - Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 312 - Foreclosure of Property Tax Liens|Section 312.200 - Deed to county.

The properties not redeemed within the two-year period prescribed by ORS 312.120 shall be deeded to the county by the tax collector. All rights of redemption, with respect to the real properties therein described, shall terminate on the execution of the deed to the county. No return or confirmation of the sale or deed to the county is required or necessary. [Amended by 1987 c.311 §9]
OR Rev Stat § 312.210 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 08 - Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 312 - Foreclosure of Property Tax Liens|Section 312.210 - Appeal.

Appeal from any judgment under ORS 312.010 to 312.120 and 312.130 to 312.240, or from any final order in the proceeding, may be taken to the Court of Appeals by giving notice thereof orally in open court at the time of the judgment or final order, or by giving written notice thereof at any time within 30 days after the date of the judgment or final order. The manner of perfecting appeals to the Court of Appeals and the proceedings thereon, and the determination and disposition thereof, shall be governed by the statutes on appeals in equitable cases. [Amended by 1979 c.562 §12; 2003 c.576 §426]
OR Rev Stat § 312.214 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 08 - Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 312 - Foreclosure of Property Tax Liens|Section 312.214 - Public policy relating to title obtained by county by tax foreclosure.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, for all purposes of ORS 312.214 to 312.230 it is declared to be the public policy of this state that: (1) When a county has acquired or hereafter acquires real property by foreclosure for delinquent taxes, the county’s title to the property shall have the utmost stability; and (2) Once real property has become or hereafter shall become subject to foreclosure for taxes, there has been imposed and there hereafter shall be imposed upon all persons owning or claiming to own, or having or claiming to have, any interest in the real property, by reason of their delinquency, a continuing duty to investigate and ascertain whether the real property did become or hereafter shall become included in tax foreclosure proceedings, regardless of any defects, jurisdictional or otherwise, that may have appeared or shall hereafter appear in the foreclosure proceedings. [Formerly part of 312.220; 1995 c.79 §152; 2005 c.94 §68]
OR Rev Stat § 312.216 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 08 - Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 312 - Foreclosure of Property Tax Liens|Section 312.216 - Conclusive presumptions of notice resulting from tax foreclosure.

In order to accomplish and place into effect the public policy so declared in ORS 312.214, and notwithstanding any other provisions of law excepting those relating to persons under disability as provided in ORS 12.160, all persons owning or claiming to own, or having or claiming to have, any interest in any real property heretofore or hereafter subject to foreclosure for delinquent taxes indisputably and conclusively shall be deemed to have taken notice of the following: (1) That any real property that they owned or claimed to own, or in which they had or claim to have had any interest, and any real property that they hereafter may own or claim to own or in which they hereafter shall have or claim any interest has been assessed and hereafter will be assessed each year; (2) That the tax levied against such real property became and hereafter will become due and delinquent at a fixed time; (3) That the tax became and was and hereafter will become and be a lien upon such real property; (4) That if such tax was not paid or hereafter shall not be paid within the time fixed by law, the lien has been or hereafter will be enforced by foreclosure proceedings at the time and in the manner provided by law; (5) That since the enactment of chapter 408, General Laws of Oregon 1919, and following its effective date (May 29, 1919), such foreclosure proceedings have been and hereafter will be proceedings in rem; and (6) That by reason of their delinquency in the matter of the payment of their taxes, there has been impressed upon and there hereafter shall be impressed upon them a continuing duty to investigate and ascertain whether or not such real property has been or hereafter shall become included in tax foreclosure proceedings, regardless of any defects, jurisdictional or otherwise, that may have appeared or hereafter shall appear in such foreclosure proceedings. [Formerly part of 312.220; 2005 c.94 §69]
OR Rev Stat § 312.218 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 08 - Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 312 - Foreclosure of Property Tax Liens|Section 312.218 - Constructive possession by county; notice; remedy of ejectment.

(1) In relation to or as against the claims of all persons owning or claiming to own, or having or claiming to have, any interest in real property heretofore or hereafter subject to foreclosure for delinquent taxes, excepting only such persons who were or hereafter shall be in the actual and physical possession of any such real property at the time of the execution of a deed thereto to a county pursuant to the provisions of ORS 312.200 that was not and is not void upon its face, the following shall be presumed conclusively: (a) That from and after the date of the execution of any such deed to a county, such county shall be deemed to have constructive possession of the real property therein described to the same extent and legal effect as if the county were in the actual, physical and exclusive possession of such property, and for all purposes such constructive possession shall be deemed the equivalent of actual and physical possession of such property that is hostile, adverse, actual, visible, notorious and exclusive. (b) That from and after the date of the execution of any such deed to a county, such county had, and hereafter shall be deemed to have had constructive possession of the real property therein described to the same extent and legal effect as if the county were in the actual, physical and exclusive possession of such property, and for all purposes such constructive possession shall be deemed the equivalent of actual and physical possession of such property that is hostile, adverse, actual, visible, notorious and exclusive. (c) That the recording of a deed to a county pursuant to ORS 312.200 gave and hereafter shall be deemed to give notice to the world of such county’s constructive possession as provided and defined in ORS 312.214 to 312.220. (2) In addition to all other remedies made available to the person by law, the remedy of ejectment is hereby made available to any person claiming to be the owner of any property as against the county which is in the constructive possession of the county as provided and defined in ORS 312.214 to 312.220. [Formerly part of 312.220]
OR Rev Stat § 312.220 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 08 - Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 312 - Foreclosure of Property Tax Liens|Section 312.220 - Judgment as evidence and estoppel.

Any judgment for the sale of real property to the county, on foreclosure for delinquent taxes, is conclusive evidence of its regularity and validity in all collateral proceedings, except where the taxes have been paid or the property was not liable to assessment and taxation. The judgment is prima facie evidence that the taxes have not been paid and that the property was subject to taxation at the time it was assessed. The judgment shall estop all persons raising objections thereto, or to the title based thereon, which existed at or before the date of the judgment and could have been presented as an objection or defense to the application for the judgment. [Amended by 1961 c.718 §1; part renumbered 312.214, 312.216 and 312.218; 2003 c.576 §427]
OR Rev Stat § 312.230 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 08 - Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 312 - Foreclosure of Property Tax Liens|Section 312.230 - Limitations on proceedings affecting foreclosure sale; payments required with first pleading; effect as statute of prescription.

(1) Every action, suit or proceeding, commenced for the purpose of determining the validity of a sale of real property on foreclosure for delinquent taxes, or to quiet title against such sale, or to remove the cloud thereof, or to recover possession of the property, shall be commenced within two years from the date of the judgment of foreclosure and sale to the county. (2) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, in every such action, suit or proceeding any person claiming to be the owner of the property, as against the county or grantee, shall pay into court with the first pleading the amount charged against the property in the judgment of foreclosure, plus the amount or amounts that would otherwise have been assessed and levied against said property as taxes from the date of the said judgment to the time of the filing of such action, suit or proceeding, together with any penalties and interest that would have accrued thereon as by statute provided. In every such action, suit or proceeding any person claiming to be the owner of the property as against any person holding title from the county, shall pay into court with the first pleading the amount charged against the property in the judgment of foreclosure, together with interest thereon at the rate of six percent per year from the date of the judgment to the date of filing the pleading. (3) For all purposes this section shall be construed as a statute of prescription as well as a statute of limitation. [Amended by 1961 c.718 §2; 2003 c.576 §428; 2005 c.94 §70]
OR Rev Stat § 312.240 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 08 - Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 312 - Foreclosure of Property Tax Liens|Section 312.240 - Vacation of judgment; determining value of improvements by purchaser and rendering judgment therefor.

Whenever the court vacates or sets aside a judgment of foreclosure with respect to any particular property, the court shall determine the value of any improvements placed on the property by the county or by any purchaser from the county, and shall give judgment therefor and collect the same from the claimant before putting the claimant in possession. [Amended by 2003 c.576 §429]
OR Rev Stat § 312.250 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 08 - Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 312 - Foreclosure of Property Tax Liens|Section 312.250 - Certain rights of municipal corporations not affected by ORS 312.010 to 312.120 and 312.130 to 312.240.

No provision of ORS 312.010 to 312.120 and 312.130 to 312.240 shall impair or annul a right conferred upon municipal corporations by ORS 311.520 or 312.270 to 312.300.
OR Rev Stat § 312.260 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 08 - Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 312 - Foreclosure of Property Tax Liens|Section 312.260 - Lands acquired by county by tax foreclosure where title fraudulently concealed from owner.

(1) If the title to lands acquired by any county by tax foreclosure was fraudulently concealed from the rightful owner, devisee, beneficiary, heir, creditor or other person having an interest therein, or was unlawfully obtained, held or controlled by or through fraudulent conveyance or other fraud, without knowledge on the part of such person, such person shall be entitled to a conveyance of the lands by purchase from the county by a purchase agreement provided in ORS 275.190 (1) at a price equivalent to the delinquent taxes thereon, with interest and without personal property taxes charged against the land, including lands of which the wrongdoer is owner of record or assignee of owners of record impressed with a trust for the benefit of such person or deeded or assigned to such person by the wrongdoer pursuant to any suit, action, proceeding or settlement respecting the fraudulent concealment or unlawful holding or control. (2) Such person may cause to be filed with the county clerk of the county at any time while the title to any such lands is held by the county, written notice of intention to purchase the lands or any part thereof under this section, describing the lands. The notice shall be acknowledged and recorded in the deed records and a copy thereof served upon the district attorney of the county. The purchase of the land shall be completed by cash or execution of the agreement within one year from the filing of the notice or the final determination of the suit, action, or proceeding. (3) This section shall not apply to or affect the title to any such lands dedicated to public use or conveyed by the county prior to the filing of the notice, but shall apply to lands sold by the county to an innocent purchaser under contract, in which case such person succeeds to the interest of the county in the contract subject to the rights of the innocent contract purchaser. [Amended by 2005 c.243 §32]
OR Rev Stat § 312.270 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 08 - Revenue and Taxation|Chapter 312 - Foreclosure of Property Tax Liens|Section 312.270 - Title of county purchasing property; title of purchaser on resale.

(1) When a county acquires real property by foreclosure for delinquent taxes, the conveyance vests in the county title to the property, free from all liens and encumbrances except assessments levied by a municipal corporation for local improvements to the property. (2) A private purchaser at resale of such property by the county acquires title free and clear of all assessments for local improvements levied by any municipal corporation. [Amended by 1997 c.805 §6]