Cadastral Clearance Act Article 15

Where the land for public auction sale, according to the provisions of Article 11, is not sold after auctioning twice, the municipal or county (city) authority concerned shall request the registry to register it as state-owned.The rights holders may apply, with proving documents, to the municipal or county (city) authorities concerned for return of the land with the total scope of the rights of the original registering party, within ten years from the date when the registration of the “registered as state-owned land” in the preceding paragraph is completed. Whereupon reviewed as correct, after the three months’ notice deadline if no objection is filed, the authority shall request the registry to register the rights of right holders.Unless the land rights of Articles 19 and 26, if the rights holders who should be returned the land in the preceding paragraph are dead, any of the heirs may apply for return, and register as owned by all inheritors.The national property management agency may request the rights holders to return the necessary costs for managing the returned land, according to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs.The rights holders, as referred to in the Paragraph 2, shall be the original owner under Paragraph 2 of Article 17, the juridical person under Subparagraph 1, Paragraph 1 of Article 24, or the current members or believers under Subparagraph 2; and the registering party or the legitimate heirs regulated by Article 32.