2019 Indiana Code
Title 9. Motor Vehicles
Article 22. Abandoned, Salvaged, and Scrap Vehicles
Chapter 1.7. Abandoned Manufactured Homes in Mobile Home Communities
9-22-1.7-6. Results of auction
Sec. 6. (a) Upon payment of the bid price by the purchaser, the landowner shall provide the purchaser with the affidavit of sale or disposal described in this chapter.
(b) If the manufactured home is not purchased by a bidder at the auction, the manufactured home becomes the property of the landowner, and the landowner shall note that fact on the affidavit of sale or disposal.
(c) If the landowner wishes to donate the manufactured home to any willing donee, a landowner who has obtained ownership of a manufactured home under this section may transfer ownership to a willing donee by listing the donee as the purchaser on the affidavit of sale or disposal.
(d) If the manufactured home is not purchased by a bidder at the auction and the landowner does not intend to sell or transfer the manufactured home to another person, the landowner may, upon submitting an affidavit of sale or disposal to the bureau, dismantle the manufactured home for salvage or disposal, or transport the manufactured home to a licensed solid waste landfill.
(e) A landowner or willing donee who obtains ownership of a manufactured home under this section has the same right of ownership as a purchaser who was the highest bidder at auction.
(f) If the manufactured home is purchased by a bidder at the auction under this chapter, the landowner shall distribute the amount of the bid price received from the purchaser in the following order of priority:
(1) Reasonable attorney's fees incurred by the landowner for the sale of the manufactured home.
(2) Amounts owed to persons known to have a lien or security interest on the manufactured home, including any lien or secured amounts due the landowner under IC 16-41-27-29, and according to the priority of the creditor's secured interest in the manufactured home.
(3) Delinquent property taxes that were assessed on the manufactured home and that were due and payable at the time of the sale of the manufactured home at auction, including any special assessments, interest, penalties, judgments, and costs that are attributable to the delinquent property taxes.
If the amount of the bid price received from the purchaser exceeds the sum of the items described in subdivisions (1) through (3), the landowner may retain the remaining amount.
As added by P.L.198-2016, SEC.377.
