Bill Text: AZ SB1217 | 2015 | Fifty-second Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Quiet titles; quit claim deed

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-19 - Referred to Senate RULES Committee [SB1217 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2015-SB1217-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: quiet titles; quit claim deed

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-second Legislature

First Regular Session

2015

SB 1217

 

Introduced by

Senator Allen

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 12‑1103, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to actions to quiet title.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 12-1103, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE12-1103.  Disclaimer of interest and recovery of costs; request for quit claim deed; disclaimer of interest by state

A.  If a defendant, other than the state, appears and disclaims all right and title adverse to the plaintiff, he shall recover his costs.

B.  If a party, twenty thirty days prior to before bringing the action to quiet title to real property, requests the person, other than the state, holding an apparent adverse interest or right therein to execute a quit claim deed thereto, and also tenders to him five ten dollars for execution and delivery of the deed, and if such person refuses or neglects to comply, the filing of a disclaimer of interest or right shall not avoid the costs and the court may allow the plaintiff, in addition to the ordinary costs, an attorney's fee attorney fees to be fixed by the court.

C.  If, after appropriate investigation, it appears to the attorney general that the state claims no right or title to the property adverse to plaintiff, he the attorney general may file a disclaimer of right and title. END_STATUTE