§11A-3-27 Repealed
§11A-3-27. Deed to purchaser; record.
If the real estate described in the notice is not redeemed within the time specified therein, but in no event prior to the first day of April of the second year following the sheriff's sale, the person entitled thereto shall thereafter, but prior to the expiration of the lien evidenced by a tax certificate of sale issued by a sheriff for such real estate as provided in section eighteen of this article, make and deliver to the clerk of the county commission subject to the provisions of section eighteen of this article, a quitclaim deed for the real estate in form or effect as follows:
This deed made this _________ day of _____________, 19___, by and between _________________, clerk of the county commission of ______________________ County, West Virginia, (or by and between _______________, a commissioner appointed by the Circuit Court of ______________ County, West Virginia) grantor, and _____________, purchaser, (or __________________, heir, devisee or assignee of _______________________, purchaser), grantee, witnesseth, that:
Whereas, In pursuance of the statutes in such case made and provided, _________________, Sheriff of ____________ County, (or ______________, deputy for ______________, Sheriff of ___________ County), (or ______________, collector of ______________ County), did, in the month of ____________, in the year 19_____, sell the tax lien(s) on real estate, hereinafter mentioned and described, for the taxes delinquent thereon for the year (or years) 19_____, and ______________, (here insert name of purchaser) for the sum of $___________, that being the amount of purchase money paid to the sheriff, did become the purchaser of the tax lien(s) on such real estate (or on ________ acres, part of the tract or land, or on an undivided _____________ interest in such real estate) which was returned delinquent in the name of ___________________; and
Whereas, The clerk of the county commission has caused the notice to redeem to be served on all persons required by law to be served therewith; and
Whereas, The tax lien(s) on the real estate so purchased has not been redeemed in the manner provided by law and the time for redemption set in such notice has expired;
Now, therefore, the grantor, for and in consideration of the premises and in pursuance of the statutes, doth grant unto ______________, grantee, his heirs and assigns forever, the real estate on which the tax lien(s) so purchased existed, situate in the county of _____________________, bounded and described as follows: ______________________________
Witness the following signature: __________________________
Clerk of the County Commission of ___________________ County.
Except when ordered to do so, as provided in section twenty-eight of this article, no clerk of the county commission may execute and deliver such a deed more than thirty days after the person entitled to the deed delivers the same and requests the execution thereof. Upon the clerk's determination that the deed presented substantially complies with the requirements of this section, the clerk shall execute the deed and acknowledge the same, record the deed in the clerk's office and deliver the original thereof to the purchaser.
For the execution of the deed and for all the recording required by this section, a fee of seven dollars and fifty cents and the recording expenses shall be charged, to be paid by the grantee upon delivery of the deed. The deed, when duly acknowledged or proven, shall be recorded by the clerk of the county commission in the deed book in the clerk's office, together with assignment from the purchaser, if one was made, the notice to redeem, the return of service of the notice, the affidavit of publication, if the notice was served by publication, and any return receipts for notices sent by certified mail.