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Section 501-A. Duty to Register.
(a) General Rule. A person that intends to bid at a scheduled upset sale or judicial sale must appear and
register at the Bureau not less than 10 days before the scheduled upset sale or judicial sale.
(REGISTRATION BEGINS APRIL 21, 2025 THRU MAY 5, 2025. NO EXCEPTIONS)
(b) Bids on multiple properties. Except if a person intends to bid on more than one property at scheduled sales
conducted on the same day in the same county, each time that a person intends to bid at a scheduled sale,
the person must comply with subsection (a).
(c) Fee. A county may establish a fee for filing an application to register under this article.
Section 501-A. Application.
In order to register for a scheduled upset sale or judicial sale, the person must submit an application that
includes the following information:
(1) If the applicant is an individual, the individual’s name, residential address and phone number.
(2) If the applicant is not an individual, the applicant’s name, including the name of all officers, business
address and phone number.
(3) If the applicant is a limited liability company, the names, business addresses and phone numbers of all
members, managers and any other persons with any ownership interest or right in the limited liability
company.
(4) An affidavit stating that the applicant:
(i) Is not delinquent in paying real estate taxes to any taxing district in this Commonwealth and that the
applicant has no municipal utility bills, as defined in section 619.1 (b), that are not more than one
year outstanding anywhere in this Commonwealth;
(ii)
Is not bidding for or acting as an agent for a person who is barred from participating in the sale
under section 601 (d);
(iii) has not, within the three years preceding the filing of the application, engaged in a course of conduct or
permitted an uncorrected housing code violation, as defined in section 619 (e), and has not either:
(A) failed to maintain property owned by the applicant in a reasonable manner such that
the property posed a threat to health, safety or property; or
(B) permitted the use of property in an unsafe, illegal or unsanitary manner such that the
property posed a threat to health, safety or property; and
(iv) Understands that an applicant who signs a bidder registration application knowing that it contains a
false statement and who causes it to be filed with the bureau shall be subject to prosecution for the
commission of a misdemeanor of the second degree in violation of 18 pa.C.S. Section 4904 (a)
(relating to unsworn falsification to authorities).
(5) If the applicant is not an individual, documentation that the signer has the authority to act on behalf of the
applicant, and the individual appearing in person to register, as required under section 501-A (a) is the signer of the
application or otherwise authorized to act on behalf of the applicant.
Section 601(d) No individual whose landlord license has been revoked in a municipality pursuant to its ordinance
may purchase property in the county in which the local municipality is located at a tax sale under this act. (Every
person bidding for property to be sold at a tax sale under this act must certify that they are not bidding for or acting
as an agent for a person who is barred from participating in a sale under this subsection.) Pursuant to this subsection,
a municipality shall furnish to the county in which such municipality is located, within forty-eight (48) hours in
advance of a tax sale, documentation relating to landlord license revocations pursuant to municipal ordinance.