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have been deeded to the State of California· mad are at present completely off the assessment rolls of the City of Santa Aha and the County of Orange, and will produce NO TAX REVENUE until some effective plan is worked out to get the taxes and assessments brought up to date and the property back into the hands of private owners who will pay the current taxes ~ad assessments as they become due. The group of lots included in this plan are scattered throughout the City and are all encumbered with 1915 Act Bonds, for Paving, Street Lights, Sewers· etc. It has been necessary to levy annually a rate of ten cents per hundred, assessed value, on ALL .property within the City Limits· to pay the amounts due under the various 1915 Act Bonds of the City of Santa Ana, now in default. The successful working of this plan will place these lots back on the assessment rolls of both the City and the County and will help, elim~inate the ten cent levy now required to service the delinquent 1915 Act Bonds. This plan, in general, is as follows: (a) The City of Santa Aha will purchase from the County of Orange, under Section 389V-d of the Political Code, and amendments thereto, the tax title now held by the State of California, subject however, to the approval of the State Controller. At this point the State Tax Title and the City Tax Lien will both be vested in the City of Santa Ana. (b) The City of Santa Aha will the~ offer to the record o~er of each lot sc purchased from the County· a small sum of money in cash for a Quitclaim deed to such lots. At this ppint the City will have a good and marketable title to any such lots for which it holds Quitclaim deeds, thereupon the City will cancel all City Taxes and Penalties, to d ate, against such lots. (c) Where Quitclaim deeds to the lots involved in this sale are not quickly and at a very small cost· the City will immediately institute action to quiet its title to such lots as are secured under tax deed. secured a court (d) Upon the C~urt~s decree,~anting title to the City, (it is expected that most parties wiI1 default by failure to answer the City's Complaint), the City will then hold good title and will then cancel all taxes and penalties outstand- ing against such lots and will then sell such lots to the best advantage of the City. (e) If it is found that some of these lots cannot be sold for the full amount of the improvement bonds outstandingsgainst them, then it is the intention of the City of Santa Ana to make such sales at the best price obtainable on the present market, so as to get this property back on the assessment rolls. 60 Section 4 of the Assembly Bill 1129, being Chapter No. 396 of the Statutes of 1935, is pertinent to this plan and reads as follows: "The facts constituting such necessity are as follows: Due to the depression which has existed in the past several years, many lahd-owners have been unable to me&t the takes and assessments levied by the State, political subdivisions, agencies, reclamations, drainage and levee districts, wlth the result that their lands have been sold to the State and such tax- ing and assessing agencies. The heavy penalties assessed by law have made it impossible for the land- owners to redeem their lands, hence, thousands of acres of land (together with thousands of lots)· have been sold for the non-payment of such taxes and assessments~ and deeds have been executed thereon to the State of such taxing and assessing agencies. That as long as such lands (or lots) remain State lauds, the same are non- assessable for tax or assessment purposes, and the tax and assessment burden becomes heavy upon the paying lands~ causing more delinquencies and losses * * * * * The legislature hereby~ declares that the wel~re of the State requires that such lands (or lots) be placed in private ownership as promptly as possible so that such land (or lots) henceforth bear its Just proportion of current taxation and assessments." Plan Dated August, 1st, 1940. AGREEMENT, OF SALE AND PURCHASE, THIS AGP~EEMENT made and entered into as of this 5th day of August · 1940· by and BETWEEN: