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Nelson Mullins previously wrote about the Alabama Legislature’s passage of Senate Bill 111, which was intended to resolve issues raised by the Alabama Supreme Court’s June 2020 opinion in
Stiff v. Equivest Financial, LLC. On Thursday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed the bill into law, which has now been enrolled by the Alabama Secretary of State as Alabama Act No. 2021-175.
The Act amends the language of Ala. Code § 40-10-15 to allow for tax sales to be conducted “on the premises of or within the courthouse or courthouse annex.” This expands the language from the prior version of Section 40-10-15, which required tax sales to be held “in front of the door of the courthouse.” It was this language that led the Alabama Supreme Court to conclude in