53 P.S. § 7275 Sequestrator; Supersedeas

• Library: Pennsylvania Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.A. Acts 2023-27
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 53 P.S. § 7275

After the expiration of twenty days from the recovery of judgment, whether on the original scire or any scire facias to revive, except in cases where the property named is essential to the business of a quasi public corporation, the court shall, upon the petition of the plaintiff, appoint a sequestrator of the rents, issues, and profits of the property bound by the judgment, unless in the meantime an appeal be taken, and approved security given to operate as supersedeas. If the owner against whom the judgment is entered be in possession of the property sequestered, or the party in possession refuse to pay a fair rent, the court shall, upon petition filed and served, grant a rule, and, if it be made absolute, award a writ in the nature of a writ of habere facias possessionem, directed to the owner and/or the party in possession commanding him, or them, to deliver such possession to the sequestrator within fifteen days thereafter, unless such property be occupied by the owner and his family for a home, in which case he shall be entitled to retain possession for a period of one month from the time the petition was served upon him. A sequestrator, once appointed, shall have power to retain possession as sequestrator until all the taxes owing at the time of his appointment shall have been collected or paid. He shall have power to lease the property for a period not exceeding one year with the usual privilege of renewal or termination thereof upon three months notice. He may make such repairs to the property...