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Bob Ferguson

AGO 1949 NO. 147 >

(1) Jeopardy distraint is appropriate for enforcement of a personal property tax lien where the property is about to be acquired by a P.U.D.

(2) Acquisition of property by the state or a political subdivision thereof should extinguish tax liens, regardless of the manner in which title is acquired.