CT SB00491

Requires tax collectors for municipalities, water/sewer authorities, and similar entities to issue lien certificates within five business days of written request, documenting all taxes, assessments, and charges constituting a lien on specified real property as of the certificate date.

Municipalities charge $25 per certificate with funds going to the general fund; all other tax collectors charge $15 per certificate with funds going to their respective entity's treasury.

Recording a lien certificate in land records discharges the property from any liens for taxes, assessments, or charges that should have appeared on the certificate but did not.

The issuing entity is estopped from pursuing payment of listed taxes, assessments, or charges from any person other than the property owner liable when the tax became effective.

Takes effect October 1, 2010.