5979970 Resolution 21-464, Tax Sale Resource Center Clarifying Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

21-464

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

April 5, 2016        

 

                                                                                                                                             

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to amend Chapter 13A of Title 47 of the District of Columbia Official Code to remove references to the discontinued Tax Sale Resource Center and to clarify the amounts required to be paid to receive a tax deed.

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Tax Sale Resource Center Clarifying Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016”.

 

Sec. 2. (a) The emergency legislation will remove references to the discontinued Tax Sale Resource Center and clarify the amounts required to be paid to receive a tax deed.

(b) Emergency legislation is necessary to update and clarify current law immediately and to give proper legal notice as required for due process.

(c) The emergency will also make a conforming amendment that was inadvertently omitted from previous legislation, which removes an obsolete cross reference.

 

Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Tax Sale Resource Center Clarifying Emergency Amendment Act of 2016 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.