As used in this article:
“City” shall mean the City of Los Angeles.
“Clerk” or “City Clerk” shall mean the City Clerk of the City of Los Angeles.
“Board” or “Board of Public Works” shall mean the Board of Public Works of the City of Los Angeles.
“Other public agency” shall mean any governmental body, taxing agency, Special Assessment District, or other public corporation created by State or Federal law, or a department thereof, other than the City of Los Angeles, or a department of such City.
“Special assessment property” shall mean and include any property that is or shall be deeded to the City of Los Angeles for delinquent assessments pursuant to statutes of the State of California or ordinances of the City of Los Angeles which provide for the assessment of costs or acquisition for any construction or maintenance of public improvements upon property benefited thereby, the sale of such property for delinquent assessments, and the execution of deeds thereto, if not redeemed.
“Classification” shall include reclassification and shall mean the determination of the suitability or adaptability of property for public use purpose or for private ownership.
“Former owner” shall mean the person or the legal representative of the person, who, at the time of the deed of special assessment property by or through which the title was first conveyed to the City, was:
(a) The person owning the fee, or any portion of or undivided interest in the fee;
(b) The person in whom legal title appeared by deeds duly recorded in the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County.
“Lawful successor in interest” shall mean, as it relates to such former owner:
(a) The grantee of or purchaser from such former owner under a deed or written agreement;
(b) The heirs or devisees, or any of them, of such former owner if the former owner is deceased, or the executor or administrator of the former owner’s estate if it is in probate;
(c) The grantee or any person claiming through such grantee named in either of the following:
(1) A tax deed from the State of California;
(2) A deed of any public official, or of any person appointed or designated by the Court therefor, executed pursuant to legal proceedings authorizing the sale of such property;
(3) A deed of the City Treasurer or other public official, board, or body, executed pursuant to special assessment laws.
It shall be presumed that persons applying for reconveyance qualify as “former ownership” or “lawful successor in interest” under the said definitions thereof if such persons appear by records of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County as purporting to have acquired interests by or through the deeds or other instruments of title specified in the said definitions.
“Reconveyance” shall mean the transfer of special assessment property back to a former owner or the former owner’s lawful successor in interest by quitclaim deed as provided herein.
“Resale” shall mean the restoration of special assessment property to private ownership by public auction or by sealed bids as provided herein.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 96,847.
Amended by: Ord. No. 101,605.
Added by Ord. No. 140,475, Eff. 6-17-70.