At any time prior to judgment, any parcel of real property may be removed from the foreclosure proceeding by payments such as would have prevented inclusion of the property in the foreclosure list, plus any additional interest or penalty accrued; except that after the first publication of the foreclosure list any person seeking to remove any property from the foreclosure proceeding shall pay, in addition to the particular amounts of taxes and interest otherwise required, a penalty of five percent of the total amount of taxes and interest charged against the property. The penalty and fee shall be in lieu of all publication costs and other charges in connection with the foreclosure proceeding. On receipt of the payments as to a particular property, prior to the filing of the application for judgment, the tax collector shall make the proper entries in the tax roll and shall remove the property from the foreclosure list and proceeding. Subsequent to filing of the application for judgment, no property may be removed from the foreclosure list and proceeding except on order entered by the court. The removal of any property from the foreclosure list and proceeding, as provided in this section, does not release the property from the lien of any unpaid tax thereon, but the unpaid taxes shall remain valid and subsisting liens as though the foreclosure proceeding had not been instituted. [Amended by 1983 c.472 § 1; 1987 c.311 § 6; 2003 c.576 § 419]

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