ACT NO. 1470 - AN ACT AMENDING ACT
NUMBERED TWELVE HUNDRED AND NINETY-EIGHT SO AS TO AUTHORIZE PROVINCIAL
BOARDS OF TAX REVISION TO REVISE AND CORRECT ASSESSMENT LISTS OF
MUNICIPALITIES FOR THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIVE, AND EXTENDING TO
DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SIX, THE TIME WITHIN WHICH
REAL ESTATE WHICH HAS BEEN FORFEITED TO MUNICIPALITIES FOR NON-PAYMENT
OF TAXES MAY BE REDEEMED |
Section 1. Act Numbered
Twelve hundred and ninety-eight, entitled "An Act to authorize
provincial boards, until the completion of the next general assessment,
to revise and correct, with the approval of the Insular Treasurer, the
assessment lists of municipalities where it is made clear that the
assessment or valuation stated upon the assessment lists is erroneous
and unjust, and to provide for the redemption of real estate which has
been forfeited to municipalities for nonpayment of taxes under the
provisions of existing law," is amended (a) By striking out the words "In all cases in which the land has been assessed for the years nineteen hundred and two, nineteen hundred and three, or nineteen hundred and four" at the beginning of Paragraph (b) of section one, and inserting in lieu thereof the following words: "In all cases in which the land has been assessed for the years nineteen hundred and two, nineteen hundred and three, nineteen hundred and four, or nineteen hundred and five." (b) By making section two of said Act read as follows: "Sec. 2. All real property which has heretofore been
forfeited and deeded, or which shall during the years nineteen hundred
and five and nineteen hundred and six be forfeited and deeded, to
municipalities in accordance with the provisions of sections eighty-one
and eighty-two of Act Numbered Eighty-two, entitled 'The Municipal
Code,' shall be redeemable by the owners thereof at any time during the
calendar years nineteen hundred and five and nineteen hundred and six,
upon the payment to the provincial treasurer or his deputy of the
amount of taxes due thereon, together with six per centum, interest
from the date on which the taxes became delinquent to the date of
payment, and of all penalties and costs due thereon. In case the owners
shall redeem land forfeited to municipalities as herein provided, the
provincial treasurer or his deputy in the name of such treasurer is
hereby empowered to execute as grantor and shall execute a deed in form
and effect sufficient under the laws of the Philippine Islands to
reconvey the land to the original owners. "The fact that property was forfeited to a municipality for non-payment of taxes shall not, if the same be redeemed as by this section provided, deprive the owners of any of the benefits provided by section one of this Act." Sec. 2. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred. Sec. 3. This Act shall take effect on its passage. |