HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                   Bill No. HB 737

    Amendment No. 3 (for drafter's use only)

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11  The Committee on Real Property & Probate offered the

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17  insert:  Section 2.  Subsection (1) of section 197.482,

18  Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

19         197.482 Limitation upon lien of tax certificate.--

20         (1)  After the expiration of 7 years from the date of

21  issuance, which shall be the date of the first day of the tax

22  certificate sale as advertised under s. 197.432, Florida

23  Statutes, of a tax certificate, if a tax deed has not been

24  applied for on the property covered by the certificate, and no

25  other administrative or legal proceeding has existed of

26  record, the tax certificate is null and void, and the tax

27  collector shall cancel the tax certificate, noting the date of

28  the cancellation of the tax certificate upon all appropriate

29  records in his or her office.  The tax collector shall

30  complete the cancellation by entering opposite the record of

31  the 7-year-old tax certificate a notation in substantially the

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                   Bill No. HB 737

    Amendment No. 3 (for drafter's use only)





 1  following form: "Canceled by Act of 1973 Florida Legislature."

 2  All certificates outstanding July 1, 1973, shall have a life

 3  of 20 years from the date of issue.  This subsection does not

 4  apply to deferred payment tax certificates.

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