540. A city or town municipality may bid upon and acquire any immovable property hypothecated in its favour under any law authorizing it to make a loan to help those who have suffered disaster, at any sale by the sheriff or at any sale having the effect of a sheriff’s sale.
The municipality’s bid must not however exceed the amount of its claim in capital, interest and costs, together with a sufficient sum to satisfy any prior or hypothecary claim having prior or equal rank to that of such claim.
R. S. 1964, c. 193, s. 576 (part); 1992, c. 57, s. 480.