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  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  589.31  CITY OR COUNTY DEEDS.
  1  2    All deeds and conveyances of land executed by or purporting
  1  3 to be executed by the governing body of a city or county, and
  1  4 placed of record more than ten years earlier, which deeds or
  1  5 conveyances purport to sustain the record title, are legalized
  1  6 and valid, even though the record fails to show that all
  1  7 necessary steps in the sale and deeding of the property were
  1  8 complied with.  The deeds and conveyances are legalized and
  1  9 valid as if the record showed that the law had been complied
  1 10 with, and that the sales had been duly authorized by the
  1 11 governing body of the city or county.  
  1 12                           EXPLANATION
  1 13    This bill legalizes deeds or conveyances of property by
  1 14 cities and counties which were recorded over 10 years earlier
  1 15 even though the record of which does not show that all the
  1 16 required steps in the sale of the property were complied with.
  1 17 This provision is similar to provisions legalizing sheriff's
  1 18 deeds (section 589.12) and sales of real estate by school
  1 19 districts (section 589.25).  
  1 20 LSB 3181HH 76
  1 21 mk/jw/5
     

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