Fee Schedule - Tax Claim

RESOLUTION – 2023-______

BE IT RESOLVED, the Blair County Board of Commissioners has approved the following fees for the Blair County Tax Claim Bureau, effective immediately, and all prior Resolutions regarding such fees are hereby rescinded, effective immediately:

Filling Fee $15. 00 per tax piece delinquent (max per property $45. 00)(Fee added when taxes are returned to the Tax Claim Bureau as delinquent)

Installment Plan Default Letters $4. 00 per letter(Fee added to cover printing & mailing of letters for defaulted payment plans)

First Class Reminder Notice Fee $4. 00 per letter(Fee added to cover printing & mailing of a tax reminder letter after new taxes have been returned delinquent and in November to remind owners they still have back taxes)

Return & Claim Notices Mailer Fee $15. 00 per notice / per property(Fee added to cover printing & mailing of a CM, RRR notice of a new tax with the Tax Claim Bureau)

Upset Sale Notice Mailer Fee $16. 00 per owner / per property(Fee added to cover printing & mailing of CM, RRR, RD warning notice of pending Upset Sale)

10 Day Notice of Sale Fee $5. 00 per letter(Fee added to cover printing & mailing 1st Class Mail, PM additional notices warning of Upset Sale)

Upset Sale – Preparation of Sale Fee $25. 00 per property(Fee added to prepare properties eligible for Upset Sale)

Electronic Database Search Fee $15. 00 per property

Posting Fee $27. 50 per posting, per notice type for 2023$30. 00 per posting, per notice type for 2024(Return & Claim Notices & Upset Sale Notice) (Fee added to cover the creation & deployment of tax notice posting per property)

Personal Service Fee for Upset Sale $30. 00 per attempt/per property impacted (max per property $60. 00)(Fee to cover the cost of creating & deploying a personal service on all owner-occupied properties scheduled for Upset Sale)

Upset Sale Advertising Fee $150. 00 per property(Fee added to cover the cost of publishing Upset Sale Notice)

Judicial Sale Ad Fee $150. 00 per property(Fee added to cover the cost of required Judicial Sale Ad)

Overbid Lien Search/Bringdown Fee $150. 00

Judicial Sale Title Search Fee $400. 00 Standard; $250. 00 Trailers(fee added to properties for a Judicial Sale that need a title search)

Judicial Sale Personal Service Fee(s) -US Postal Service Charge for CM, RRRper service Out-of-State -$ 50. 00 per service within Blair County -Amount charged by out of county Sheriff per service upon Out-of-County party (within PA)(Fee added to cover cost of the serving all owners, lien holders and judgment holders on properties in the Judicial Sale done by the Sheriff’s Office or acting agent)

Bidder Registration Fee under 501-A $25. 00 per application(Fee collected from anyone one wishing to bid at any tax sale as per section 502-A of (RETSL))

Judicial Sale Writs of Scire Facias Advertising Fee – Calculated by dividing advertising cost by #
of properties affected by ad.
(Fee added to advertise 3 weeks in a row in the Altoona Mirror and Blair County Legal Bulletin any owners or lien holders not able to be located during Judicial Sale Personal Service)

Deed Preparation Fee $25. 00 per Deed/Bill of Sale(Fee added to Sale Price to cover the cost of creating a Tax Claim Bureau Deed to Trailer Bill of Sale on properties sold at a tax sale or from the County’s Repository)

DULY, adopted by the Commissioners of the County of Blair, Pennsylvania this ____ Day
of _____________, 2023

BLAIR COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS:

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Bruce R. Erb, Chairman
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Laura O. Burke, Vice-Chairman
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Attest: Amy E. Webster, Secretary

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Nicole M. Hemminger, Chief Clerk