Jim Thorpe Area School District v. Carbon County Tax Claim Bureau

AMENDED OPINION AND ORDER*

LAVELLE, P.J.

Pursuant tó section 613 of the Real Estate Tax Sale Law, Act of July 7, 1947, P.L. 1368, as amended, 72 P.S. §5860.613, the Jim Thorpe Area School District and Penn Forest Township ask this court to disapprove a proposed private sale of 134 tax delinquent properties by the Carbon County Tax Claim Bureau to Lawrence Marra.

PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Prior to 1983, all 134 of the properties were unsuccessfully subjected to public Tax Claim Bureau *665sales. The bureau then offered the properties for private sale. Mr. Marra submitted a private bid for all 134 properties…