Title 68, REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY

(a) Membership.--A board shall consist of an odd number of members and be not less than five members nor more than 11 members. Unless restricted by the actions or agreements specified in section 2104 (relating to creation and existence) and subject to the limits stated in this se…

(a) Employees.--A land bank may employ or enter into a contract for an executive director, counsel and legal staff, technical experts and other individuals and may determine the qualifications and fix the compensation and benefits of those employees. (b) Contracts.--A land bank m…

A land bank constitutes a public body, corporate and politic, exercising public powers of the Commonwealth necessary or appropriate to carry out this chapter, including the following powers: (1) To adopt, amend and repeal bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct o…

A land bank does not possess the power of eminent domain.

(a) Title to be held in its name.--A land bank shall hold in its own name all real property it acquires. (b) Tax exemption.-- (1) Except as set forth in paragraph (2), the real property of a land bank and its income and operations are exempt from State and local tax. (2) Paragrap…

(a) Public access to inventory.--A land bank shall maintain and make available for public review and inspection an inventory of real property held by the land bank. (b) Power.--A land bank may convey, exchange, sell, transfer, lease, grant or mortgage interests in real property o…

(a) General rule.--A land bank may receive funding through grants and loans from: (1) the Federal Government; (2) the Commonwealth; (3) a municipality; (4) the land bank jurisdiction which created the land bank; and (5) private sources. (b) Funding.--A land bank may receive and r…

(a) Authority.-- (1) A land bank may issue a bond for any of its corporate purposes. (2) The principal and interest of a bond shall be payable from the land bank's general revenue. (3) The bond may be secured by any of the following: (i) A pledge of revenue. This subparagraph inc…

(a) Public records.--A board shall keep minutes and a record of its proceedings. (b) Public access.--A land bank is subject to: (1) 65 Pa.C.S. Ch. 7 (relating to open meetings); and (2) the act of February 14, 2008 (P.L.6, No.3), known as the Right-to-Know Law.

(a) General rule.--A land bank may be dissolved as a public body corporate and politic upon compliance with all of the following: (1) Sixty calendar days' advance written notice of consideration of a resolution to request dissolution must: (i) be given to the land bank jurisdicti…

(a) State Adverse Interest Act.--The acts and decisions of members of a board and of employees of a land bank shall be subject to the act of July 19, 1957 (P.L.1017, No.451), known as the State Adverse Interest Act. (b) Ethical standards.--Board members and land bank employees ar…

This chapter shall be construed liberally to effectuate the legislative intent and the purposes as complete and independent authorization for the implementation of this chapter, and all powers granted shall be broadly interpreted to effectuate the intent and purposes and not as a…

(a) Power to discharge liens and claims.-- (1) Except as set forth in paragraph (2), a land bank may, by resolution of the board, discharge a lien or claim to its real property for tax owed to the members of the land bank. (2) For a land bank to discharge a lien or claim to its r…

(a) Authorization.-- (1) A land bank may file an action to quiet title to real property in which the land bank has an interest. (2) A land bank may join in a single complaint to quiet title to one or more parcels of real property. (3) For purposes of an action under this section,…

The following shall apply: (1) The land bank shall annually, within 120 days after the end of the fiscal year, submit an audit of income and expenditures, together with a report of its activities for the preceding year, to the department. (2) A duplicate of the audit and the repo…

If the department determines that comprehensive reform legislation on property-tax foreclosure has been enacted revising procedure under the statutory provisions referred to in section 2117 (relating to delinquent property tax enforcement), the department shall transmit notice of…

A transfer of real property to or from a land bank shall be exempt from both the State and local realty transfer tax under Articles XI-C and XI-D of the act of March 4, 1971 (P.L.6, No.2), known as the Tax Reform Code of 1971, and section 301.1 of the act of December 31, 1965 (P.…

This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the Vacant and Abandoned Real Estate Foreclosure Act.

The General Assembly finds and declares that: (1) Vacant and abandoned real estate, coupled with a default in the obligation to make mortgage payments secured by that real estate, presents a danger to the health, safety and welfare of a community. (2) Vacant and abandoned real es…

The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Action for possession." An action in ejectment initiated by a purchaser to take control of mortgaged property. "Action …

(a) General rule.--After a creditor gives notice to an obligor of a delinquency or other default with respect to an obligation secured by a mortgage or initiates a foreclosure action or action for possession or to quiet title, a mortgaged property for which the notice is given or…

(a) General rule.--A mortgaged property may be certified as vacant and abandoned by a municipal code enforcement officer under section 2304(b) (relating to certification of vacant and abandoned mortgaged property) or in a judicial proceeding under section 2304(c) if the mortgaged…

(a) Foreclosure action.--In a foreclosure action, a mortgaged property certified as vacant and abandoned shall not be subject to mediation, conciliation, diversion or other program established by a local court to encourage resolution of owner-occupied residential mortgage foreclo…

(a) Removal of personal property by former owner.-- (1) When a former owner relinquishes possession of mortgaged property certified as vacant and abandoned, the former owner shall remove from the mortgaged property all items of personal property. (2) For the purposes of this sect…

Nothing is this subchapter shall be construed to limit or restrict in any manner remedies available at law or in equity to a creditor or purchaser in a proceeding.

(a) Timing of payment.--With respect to a mortgaged property, the commission payable to the sheriff provided under section 4(b) of the act of July 6, 1984 (P.L.614, No.127), known as the Sheriff Fee Act, shall not be due unless the mortgaged property is sold at the execution sale…

(a) After commencement of proceedings.-- (1) After the commencement of foreclosure or other legal action with respect to a residential mortgage that is subject to the limits on attorney fees provided under section 406 of the act of January 30, 1974 (P.L.13, No.6), referred to as …

This subchapter shall apply to the extent provided under sections 2310 (relating to sheriff's commission) and 2311 (relating to limitation on creditor's attorney fees) and shall not be limited to mortgaged properties certified as vacant and abandoned under Subchapter A (relating …

The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Business." An association as defined in 15 Pa.C.S. § 102 (relating to definitions), not including a limited liability c…

A chief assessor shall establish and maintain a list for the real properties located within the county. Cross References. Section 2502 is referred to in section 2501 of this title.

Contact information for a real property shall be added to the list as follows: (1) within 30 days of purchase of a real property within the county, a real property owner shall submit contact information to the chief assessor in the manner and form prescribed by the chief assessor…

This chapter shall not apply to an owner-occupant real property.

(a) Contact information.--The following contact information shall be provided to the chief assessor when required or permitted: (1) If the buyer or owner of a real property is an individual, the individual's name, residential address, telephone number and email address. (2) If th…

A municipality may request contact information for a real property from the chief assessor. The chief assessor shall share the information with the requester if the municipality demonstrates a reasonable need and use for the contact information, which shall include a discussion w…

A county may levy a fine of up to $500 against a real property owner or the owner's representative that intentionally or knowingly provides false or incorrect contact information or intentionally or knowingly fails to update contact information with the chief assessor as required…

A program participant under 23 Pa.C.S. § 6703 (relating to address confidentiality program) may not be required to provide their actual address or have it disclosed under this chapter.

This subpart shall be known and may be cited as the "Uniform Condominium Act."

(a) General rule.--This subpart applies to all condominiums created within this Commonwealth after the effective date of this subpart. Subsection (b) and sections 3105 (relating to separate titles and taxation), 3106 (relating to applicability of local ordinances, regulations and…

The following words and phrases when used in this subpart and in the declaration and bylaws shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless specifically provided otherwise or unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Additional real estate." Real estate that m…

Except as expressly provided in this subpart, provisions of this subpart may not be varied by agreement and rights conferred by this subpart may not be waived. A declarant may not act under a power of attorney or use any other device to evade the limitations or prohibitions of th…

(a) Title.--Except as provided in subsection (b), each unit together with its common element interest constitutes for all purposes a separate parcel of real estate. (b) Taxation and assessment.--If there is a unit owner other than a declarant, each unit together with its common e…

(a) General rule.--A zoning, subdivision, building code or other real estate use law, ordinance or regulation may not prohibit the condominium form of ownership or impose any requirement upon a condominium which it would not impose upon a physically identical development under a …

(a) General rule.--If a unit is acquired by eminent domain, or if part of a unit is acquired by eminent domain leaving the unit owner with a remnant which may not practically or lawfully be used for any purpose permitted by the declaration, the award must compensate the unit owne…

The principles of law and equity, including the law of corporations and unincorporated associations, the law of real property and the law relative to capacity to contract, principal and agent, eminent domain, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, receiver…

This subpart being a general statute intended as a unified coverage of its subject matter, no part of it shall be construed to be impliedly repealed by subsequent legislation if that construction can reasonably be avoided.

This subpart shall be applied and construed so as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this subpart among states enacting it.