443.17 - PRESUMPTION OF TWO-YEAR OWNERSHIP.

        443.17  PRESUMPTION OF TWO-YEAR OWNERSHIP.         In any action or proceeding, now pending or hereafter brought, to      recover taxes upon property not listed or assessed for taxation      during the lifetime of any decedent, it shall be presumed that any      property, any evidence of ownership of property, and any evidence of      a promise to pay, owned by a decedent at the date of the decedent's      death, had been acquired and owned by such decedent more than two      years before the date of the decedent's death; and the burden of      proving that any such property had been acquired by such decedent      less than two years before the date of the decedent's death shall be      upon the heirs, legatees, and legal representatives of any such      decedent.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C35, § 7158-f1; C39, § 7158.2; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71,      73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 443.17] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         99 Acts, ch 174, §5, 7