2022 Georgia Code
Title 48 - Revenue and Taxation
Chapter 4 - Tax Sales
Article 3 - Redemption of Property Sold for Taxes
§ 48-4-45. Notice of Foreclosure of Right to Redeem; Time; Persons Entitled to Notice

1. After 12 months from the date of a tax sale, the purchaser at the sale or his heirs, successors, or assigns may terminate, foreclose, divest, and forever bar the right to redeem the property from the sale by causing a notice or notices of the foreclosure, as provided for in this article:
   1. To be served upon all of the following persons who reside in the county in which the property is located:
      1. The defendant in the execution under or by virtue of which the sale was held;
      2. The occupant, if any, of the property; and
      3. All persons having of record in the county in which the land is located any right, title, or interest in, or lien upon the property;
   2. To be sent by registered or certified mail or statutory overnight delivery to each of the persons specified in subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of paragraph (1) of this subsection who resides outside the county in which the property is located, if the address of that person is reasonably ascertainable; and
   3. To be published, if that tax sale occurs on or after July 1, 1989, in the newspaper in which the sheriff’s advertisements for the county are published in each county in which that property is located, which publication shall occur once a week for four consecutive weeks in the six-month period immediately prior to the week of the redemption deadline date specified in the notice.
2. Nothing contained in this Code section shall be construed to require that any notice be sent to or served upon any person whose right, title, interest in, or lien upon the property does not appear of record in the county in which the land is located.
3. The heirs of any deceased owner of any land entitled to notice pursuant to this Code section shall be served by the sheriff or notified as provided in this article.

History. Ga. L. 1937, p. 491, § 2; Code 1933, § 91A-434, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 309, § 2; Ga. L. 1989, p. 1391, § 1; Ga. L. 2000, p. 1589, § 3.

Editor’s notes.

Ga. L. 2000, p. 1589, § 16, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that the amendment to this Code section is applicable with respect to notices delivered on or after July 1, 2000.

Law reviews.

For annual survey of law of real property, see 38 Mercer L. Rev. 319 (1986).

For annual survey of real property law, see 57 Mercer L. Rev. 331 (2005).

For annual survey on real property law, see 61 Mercer L. Rev. 301 (2009).

For annual survey on real property, see 69 Mercer L. Rev. 251 (2017).