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134.010 Definitions for chapter.
As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Certificate of delinquency" means a tax claim on real property for taxes that:
(a) Remains unpaid on April 15 under the regular collection schedule, or
three (3) full months and fifteen (15) days from the date the taxes were
due under an alternative collection schedule as determined under KRS
134.015; and
(b) Has been filed with the county clerk pursuant to KRS 134.122;
(2) "Chief executive" means the elected head of the executive branch of
government in a city or county;
(3) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the department;
(4) "County" includes counties, urban-county governments, charter county
governments, consolidated local governments, and unified local governments;
(5) "Department" means the Department of Revenue;
(6) "Governing body of a county" means the elected legislative body of a county;
(7) "Omitted property" means property described in KRS 132.290;
(8) "Personal property" includes every species and character of property, tangible
and intangible, other than real property;
(9) "Personal property certificate of delinquency" means a personal property tax
claim that:
(a) Remains unpaid as of April 15 under the regular collection schedule or
three (3) full months and fifteen (15) days from the date the taxes were
due under an alternative collection schedule as determined under KRS
134.015; and
(b) Has been filed with the county clerk pursuant to KRS 134.122;
(10) "Priority certificate of delinquency" means a certificate of delinquency available
for sale that relates to a parcel of property against which a third-party
purchaser already holds a certificate of delinquency from a prior tax year;
(11) "Protected list" means the list submitted to the county clerk by the county
attorney of certificates of delinquency not eligible for sale pursuant to KRS
134.504(10);
(12) (a) "Property taxes" means the ad valorem taxes due the state, a county, a
county school district, or other taxing district;
(b) "Property taxes" also includes any other ad valorem taxes imposed by a
governmental entity that are included on the same property tax bill as the
levies listed in paragraph (a) of this subsection and that the sheriff is
responsible for collecting either through a statutory requirement or
agreement with a taxing district;
(13) "Real property" includes all lands within the state and improvements thereon;
(14) "Taxpayer" means the owner of property on the assessment date, or any
person otherwise made liable by law for ad valorem taxes attributable to that
assessment date;
(15) "Tax claim" includes the taxes due on a tax bill, the penalties, costs, fees,
interest, commissions, the lien provided in KRS 134.420 and any other
expenses that have become or are by reason of the delinquent tax bill proper
legal charges imposed by this chapter against the delinquent taxpayer at any
given time; and
(16) "Third-party purchaser" means a purchaser of a certificate of delinquency.
Effective:April 23, 2012
History: Amended 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 161, sec. 1, effective April 23, 2012. -Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 75, sec. 1, effective April 7, 2010. -- Amended 2009
Ky. Acts ch. 10, sec. 1, effective January 1, 2010. -- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts
ch. 85, sec. 248, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 357,
sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1,
effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. secs. 4022, 4114h-1, 4149b-1.
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