§ 66. Executions.

All executions in favor of the City of Riverdale for the enforcement and collections of any fine, forfeiture, assessment, taxes or other claim, demand, or debt, shall be issued by the clerk and bear teste in the name of the mayor (except when otherwise provided by this Charter), and shall be directed to the chief of police of said city and shall state for what issued and be made returnable to the mayor and councilmen of the City of Riverdale at least within ninety (90) days after the issuing of the same; and it shall be the duty of the chief of police or collecting officers to advertise the sale of such real or personal property as may be levied on by him to satisfy said execution, in the same manner respectively as sheriffs' sales of real property or constables' sales of real property are required to be made by law. All of said sales shall be made at the place within the usual hours of sale of sheriffs' sales and shall be made under the same rules and regulations as govern sheriffs' sales of similar property; and the time, place and manner of sale of property, both real and personal, for taxes due, shall be the same as provided by law for sale under the executions for state and county taxes.

Whenever any land is sold for taxes, redemption may be made by paying the purchaser the amount paid for said property at said tax as shown by the recitals in the tax deed, plus a premium of ten percent (10%) of said amount for each year, or fraction of a year, which shall have elapsed between the date of sale and the date of which the redemption payment is made, said payment to be made to the purchaser at any time within twelve (12) months from the date of said tax sale, and at any time thereafter until right to redeem shall be foreclosed. All redemptions of land which has been sold for taxes due the City of Riverdale and the foreclosure of the right of redemption of land sold for taxes shall be governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, as embodied in O.C.G.A. §§ 48-4-40 through 48-4-48, and all acts amendatory thereof.

Whenever at any such sale for taxes due, no person present shall bid for the property put up for sale as much as the amount of such execution for taxes and all costs and after such property shall have been cried for a reasonable time, then any duly appointed or authorized agent of said city may bid off said property for said city, and the chief of police, or such other officer making the sale, shall make to the City of Riverdale a deed to the property so sold and deliver the same; and the title thus acquired by the city shall be perfect and complete after the period provided for the redemption of the owner shall expire; and after the foreclosure of the right to redeem, as above provided, the chief of police or other officer making the sale shall put the city in possession, and the mayor and councilmen of said city shall have no right to divert or alienate the title of the city to any property as purchased, except at a public sale to the highest bidder in such manner as may be prescribed by the ordinance of the City of Riverdale.

The city clerk shall keep an execution docket and shall enter thereon all executions, giving the date, amount of each, and to whom delivered and all proceedings hereunder; said execution shall also be returned to the office of said clerk after being satisfied.

All sales and conveyances made under executions as provided in this section shall have all the force and effect of sales and conveyances made by sheriffs of this state, and the officer making the sales shall have the same power as sheriffs to put purchasers in possession of property sold by them under the laws of this state.

(1989 Ga. Laws, page 5250)