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<section article="gtp" article_name="Tax - Property" number="14-876" title_number="14" title_name="Procedure" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Collection">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A circuit court may not set a hearing for an in rem foreclosure until 30 days after the complaint for an in rem foreclosure is filed.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>At the hearing, any interested party shall have the right to be heard and to contest the delinquency of the taxes and the adequacy of the proceedings.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If the circuit court finds that the county or municipal corporation sent notice and a copy of the complaint to each interested party in accordance with § 14–875(d) of this subtitle and that the information set forth in the complaint is accurate, the court shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>enter a judgment that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>proper notice has been provided to all interested parties; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the real property is a vacant lot or an improved property cited as vacant and unsafe or unfit for habitation or other authorized use on a housing or building violation notice; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>order that ownership of the real property be transferred to the county or municipal corporation on behalf of which the complaint was filed.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The county or municipal corporation shall record a judgment under subsection (c) of this section in the land records of the county.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The title acquired in an in rem foreclosure proceeding shall be an absolute or fee simple title including the right, title, and interest of each of the defendants in the proceeding whose property has been foreclosed unless a different title is specified in the judgment entered.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A judgment in an action under this part is binding and conclusive, regardless of legal disability, on:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>all persons, known and unknown, who were parties to the action and who had a claim to the property, whether present or future, vested or contingent, legal or equitable, or several or undivided; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>all persons who were not parties to the action and had a claim to the property that was not recorded at the time that the action was commenced.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
