(1) If any tax imposed by this chapter, or any portion of such tax, is not paid within 30 days after the date that the written notice and demand for payment required under ORS 305.895 is mailed, the Department of Revenue shall issue a warrant, directed to the sheriff of any county of the state, commanding the sheriff to levy upon and sell the real and personal property of the person owing the tax, found within that county, for the payment in the amount thereof, with the added penalties, interest and cost of executing the warrant, and to return the warrant to the department and to pay to it the money collected by virtue thereof, within 60 days after receipt of the warrant. A copy of the warrant shall be mailed or delivered to the taxpayer by the department at the taxpayer’s last-known address.
(2) The sheriff shall, within five days after the receipt of the warrant, record a copy with the county clerk, and thereupon the clerk shall enter in the County Clerk Lien Record the name of the person mentioned in the warrant, and the amount of the tax or portion thereof and penalties for which the warrant is issued and the date when the copy is recorded. Thereupon the amount of the warrant so recorded shall become a lien upon the title to and interest in real property of the person against which it is issued, in the same manner as a judgment that creates a judgment lien under ORS chapter 18. The sheriff thereupon shall proceed upon the warrant in all respects, with like effect, and in the same manner prescribed by law in respect to executions issued against property upon judgments of a court of records, and shall be entitled to the same fees for services in executing the warrant, to be added to and collected as a part of the warrant liability.
(3) In the discretion of the department a warrant of like terms, force and effect may be issued and directed to any agent of the department authorized by it to collect this tax. In the execution of the warrant, such agent has the powers conferred by law upon sheriffs, but is entitled to no fee or compensation in excess of actual expenses paid in the performance of such duty.
(4) If a warrant is returned not satisfied in full, the department shall have the same remedies to enforce the claim for taxes against the owner as if the state had a recorded judgment against the owner for the amount of the tax. [1981 c.889 §12; 1983 c.696 §18; 1985 c.761 §22; 1989 c.625 §79; 2003 c.576 §206]
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