Chap. 275.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 2482 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, in relation to notice to be given, of application to the court for a deed
for real estate purchased at a delinquent tax sale. [S B 250]

Approved March 24, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
twenty-four hundred and eighty-two of the Code of Virginia, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 2482. After the expiration of the said two years the pur-
chaser of any real estate so sold and not redeemed, his heirs or assigns,
shall obtain from the clerk of the circuit court of the county or cor-
poration court of the city whose officer has sold such real estate, a
deed conveying the same, in which shall be set forth all the circum-
stances appearing in the clerk’s office in relation to the sale; but in no
case shall a deed be made to any such purchaser of any such real
estate until after such purchaser has given to the person in whose name
the real estate so sold stood at the time of said sale, and the person or
persons to whom said real estate so sold has been conveyed of record
subsequently to the time of said sale, or, if any of said persons be
dead, then to his or their personal representatives, heirs and devisees,
and to the trustees, mortgagees and beneficiaries as shown by the
records in any deed of trust or mortgage on said real estate, or their
personal representatives, four months’ notice of his said purchase and
his intention to apply to the clerk for a deed to the real estate so pur-
chased, which notice shall state the day on which such application for a
deed will be made and the fact that such real estate may be redeemed
at any time before the execution of such deed, by payment of the
necessary amount to said clerk, and no clerk shall deliver any such deed
unless and until it be shown to his satisfaction that such notice has
been given; provided, that notice may be given to any trustee, mort-
gagee or beneficiary, in any deed of trust or mortgage which has been
recorded, or the lien thereof renewed, more than twenty years prior
to the date of such sale, and the person entitled to redeem said real
estate shall have the right to redeem the same at any time before
the expiration of the said four months, although such time extended
beyond the two years first mentioned herein: provided, further, that
where said real estate has been purchased at a tax sale, and no deed
has been made to the purchaser thereof, and the same has not been
redeemed by the former owner, the circuit or corporation court of the
county or city in which said land or any part thereof is situated, may,
upon the application of the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, unless it
appear by satisfactory proof that the purchaser, his heirs or assigns,
have been deprived of their right to a deed for said land, direct the
clerk of the said court to convey to said purchaser, his heirs or assigns,
the said real estate by deed with special warranty, upon satisfactory
evidence that a period of twenty years has elapsed since said tax sale,
and that at the time of making said application for a deed the pur-
chaser has been in adverse possession of the said land for at least fif-
teen years, east of the Alleghany mountains, or ten years west of the
Alleghany mountains, and the taxes due thereon have been paid by
said purchaser, his heirs or assigns.

Said application shall be by motion in writing, and the court may
award any process or summon any party to answer said motion it may
deem proper, before making said order, and the clerk upon making
said deed shall report the same to the court, which shall confirm the
same. If the sale be of part of a tract of land, the deed shall refer
particularly to the plat and certificate of survey returned according to
section twenty-four hundred and eighty, and to the order of the court
thereupon; and if the sale be of an entire tract of land, it shall refer
to the report made according to the preceding section and the order
thereupon. If the sale be of a city or town lot, or of an undivided
interest in such lot, and a report be made describing the same, and
such report be ordered by the court to be recorded, the deed shall refer
to such report.

But when in the case of the sale of a city or town lot, or of any
undivided interest in such lot, there is no such report, the clerk shall,
nevertheless, execute a deed therefor to the purchaser if he desires
the same.

For every deed executed under this section, the clerk shall be
entitled to one dollar, which the purchaser shall pay him on delivery
of the deed. This section shall apply as well to real estate heretofore
sold as to such real estate as may be hereafter sold for taxes or levies.