(c) At least twenty-one (21) days before the application for judgment is made, the county auditor shall mail a copy of the notice required by section 2 of this chapter by certified mail, return receipt requested, to any:

1. (1) mortgagee;
2. (2) purchaser under an installment land contract recorded in the office of the county recorder; or

3. (3) person who claims a substantial property interest of public record;

   who annually requests, by certified mail, a copy of the notice.

(e) For properties not sold at their initial tax sale, the county auditor may omit the descriptions of the tracts or items of real property specified in section 2(b)(1) and 2(b)(5) of this chapter for those properties when they come up for sale at subsequent tax sales if:

1. (1) the county auditor includes in the notice a statement that descriptions of those tracts or items of real property are available on the website of the county government or the county government's contractor and the information may be obtained in an alternative form from the county auditor upon request; and

2. (2) the descriptions of those tracts or items of real property eligible for sale a second or subsequent time are made available on the website of the county government or the county government's contractor and may be obtained from the county auditor in an alternative form upon request in accordance with section 3.4 of this chapter.

   [Pre-1975 Property Tax Recodification Citation: 6-1-56-2 part.]

   Formerly: Acts 1975, P.L.47, SEC.1. As amended by Acts 1977, P.L.74, SEC.2; P.L.87-1987, SEC.3; P.L.83-1989, SEC.5; P.L.50-1990, SEC.5; P.L.39-1994, SEC.5; P.L.29-1998, SEC.2; P.L.139-2001, SEC.3; P.L.169-2006, SEC.17; P.L.247-2015, SEC.12; P.L.118-2015, SEC.1; P.L.251-2015, SEC.3; P.L.187-2016, SEC.2; P.L.27-2023, SEC.2.