The Superior Express -

Publishing rules change for county’s

delinquent taxes

This week’s issue of the Nuckolls County Locomotive-Gazette contains the second of a three-week state mandated publication of delinquent property taxes.

State law provides the tax list must be published in an official newspaper once in each of the first three weeks of February, And this year for the first time, the publication also includes the name of the registered owner.

The three publication rule has long been the rule but some folks who didn’t know the legal description of their property had over the years failed to realize they had not paid their taxes as required or the person they thought was paying the taxes had not done so. In some instances the owners lost the possession of their property.

The notice published this week is for the sale of the taxes, not the properties. State law provides investors, often