CHAPTER 4.6. Actions Concerning Real Property Titles Affected by Public Improvement Assessments

Heading of Chapter 4.6 renumbered from Chapter 4A by Stats. 1980, Ch. 44, Sec. 17.

§§ 801.1–801.15 · 15 sections

• § 801.1 An action may be brought to determine adverse interests in, liens or clouds upon title to real property arising out of any public improvement assessment or any…
• § 801.2 The action may be brought as a separate action or joined as a cause with other causes of action to determine adverse claims to and clouds upon title to real…
• § 801.3 The complaint shall include as defendants to the action (a) all persons known to the plaintiff owning or claiming an interest under such public improvement…
• § 801.4 The complaint shall also include, as defendants, unknown persons owning or claiming an interest in such bond, special assessment or certificate of sale and…
• § 801.5 Within ten days after the filing of the complaint, plaintiff shall file or cause to be filed in the office of the recorder of the county where the property is…
• § 801.6 Within three years after the filing of the complaint, a summons shall be issued which shall contain the matters required by Section 412.20, designating the…
• § 801.7 Within thirty days after the issuance of the summons, the plaintiff shall post, or cause to be posted, a copy thereof in a conspicuous place on the property.
• § 801.8 All known defendants shall be served in the manner provided by law for the service of a summons in a civil action. All unknown defendants shall be served by…
• § 801.9 In addition to the matters required to be set forth in the affidavit by the plaintiff for publication of summons, it shall appear by the affidavit that the…
• § 801.10 All unknown defendants, including the heirs and devisees designated in the complaint, shall have the same rights as are provided by law for other defendants…
• § 801.11 On the trial of the action, the court shall determine the rights of all the parties thereto and shall require proof of the facts alleged. Any certificate…
• § 801.12 If the court determines that none of the defendants have any right, title, interest, lien or estate in the property, it shall render its final decree quieting…
• § 801.13 If the court orders a sale of the property or a partition thereof, the same shall be made in accordance with the provisions of Title 10.5 (commencing with…
• § 801.14 The decree, after it has become final, is conclusive against all persons named in the complaint who have been served and all unknown persons and the heirs and…
• § 801.15 After the judgment has become final, a certified copy thereof shall be delivered to the public officer having the record of the assessment, bond or certificate…