Section 1180. Despoliation of lands subject to delinquent tax liens  


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  • 1.
      Neither the owner, occupant nor any other person shall have the right to
      despoil any lands subject to a delinquent tax lien by removing buildings
      or mobile homes, other than separately  assessed  mobile  homes,  or  by
      cutting,  removing  or  destroying  timber  or  other valuable products,
      growing, existing or being thereon at the time of the filing of the list
      of delinquent taxes pursuant to section  eleven  hundred  twenty-two  of
      this article.
        2. The tax district shall not enter upon or exercise acts of ownership
      on  such  land,  until  the expiration of the redemption period. The tax
      district may at any time before obtaining title, cause to  be  served  a
      notice  on any person despoiling such lands or interested in making such
      despoliation, either personally or by leaving the same at the  residence
      of  such person, or with any member of his or her family of suitable age
      and discretion. The notice shall  describe  the  lands  subject  to  the
      delinquent  tax  lien,  shall  state  that  such  lands are subject to a
      delinquent tax lien and that an action  or  proceeding  to  recover  the
      value  of  the  buildings, timber or other products destroyed or removed
      therefrom after the date  of  filing  will  be  instituted  against  all
      persons concerned in such despoliation.
        3.  If such lands are not redeemed, every person despoiling such lands
      or interested in making such  despoliation  upon  whom  service  of  the
      notice  has  been  made,  shall be liable to pay to the tax district the
      full value of any buildings, timber or other products cut  or  destroyed
      or  removed  therefrom,  from  the  date  of  the  filing of the list of
      delinquent taxes to the termination of such action  or  proceeding,  and
      may be restrained by injunction from committing any waste thereon.