Iowa Code 2001: Section 448.15

448.15 Affidavit by tax-title holder.

Immediately after the issuance and recording of a tax deed or an instrument purporting to be a tax deed issued by a county treasurer of this state, the then owner or holder of the title or purported title may file with the county recorder of the county in which the parcel is located an affidavit substantially in the following form:


 State of Iowa,    )                                                                                                            
 . . . . . .  County.) ss.

I, . . . . . . , being first duly sworn, on oath depose and say that on . . . . . . (date) the county treasurer issued a tax deed to . . . . . . (grantee) for the following described parcel: . . . . . . . . .


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that the tax deed was filed for record in the office of the county recorder of . . . . . . county, Iowa, on . . . . . . (date), and appears in the records of the office in . . . . . . county as recorded in Book . . . Page . . . of the . . . . . . Records; and that . . . . . . claims title to an undivided . . . . percent interest in the parcel by virtue of the tax deed, or purported tax title.

Any person claiming any right, title, or interest in or to the parcel adverse to the title or purported title by virtue of the tax deed referred to shall file a claim with the recorder of the county where the parcel is located, within one hundred twenty days after the filing of this affidavit, the claim to set forth the nature of the interest, also the time and manner in which the interest claimed was acquired.


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Subscribed and sworn to before me this . . . . day of . . . . . . (month), . . . (year).


               . . . . . . . . .                                                                                                                         
               Notary Public in and for                                                                                                    
               . . . . . .  County, Iowa.

Section History: Early form

[C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 448.15]

Section History: Recent form

91 Acts, ch 191, §113; 95 Acts, ch 57, §23; 2000 Acts, ch 1058, §56

Internal References

Referred to in § 448.16, 448.17

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