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SENATE BILL NO. 1311 – Real property, recover, actions

SENATE BILL NO. 1311

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S1311................................................by JUDICIARY AND RULES
REAL PROPERTY - Amends existing law relating to limitations of actions to
revise conditions under which actions to recover real property or
possession of real property can be maintained; to revise conditions under
which actions or defense to actions arising out of claims to title or rents
or profits can be effectual; to revise exception provisions relating to
constructive possession; to revise conditions relating to adverse
possession of property under written claims of title; to revise conditions
relating to adverse possession of property under oral claims to title; to
revise conditions relating to presumptions regarding possession as between
tenants and landlords; and to revise conditions relating to the tolling of
statutes of limitations involving persons under certain disabilities.
                                                                        
01/26    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
01/27    Rpt prt - to Jud
02/02    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
02/03    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
02/06    3rd rdg - PASSED - 34-1-0
      AYES -- Andreason, Brandt, Broadsword, Bunderson, Burkett,
      Burtenshaw, Cameron, Coiner, Compton, Corder, Darrington, Davis,
      Fulcher, Gannon, Geddes, Goedde, Hill, Jorgenson, Kelly, Keough,
      Langhorst, Lodge, Malepeai, Marley, McGee, McKenzie, Pearce,
      Richardson, Schroeder, Stegner, Stennett, Sweet, Werk, Williams
      NAYS -- Little
      Absent and excused -- None
    Floor Sponsors - Keough & Bunderson
    Title apvd - to House
02/07    House intro - 1st rdg - to Jud
03/02    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/03    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/16    3rd rdg - PASSED - 61-2-7
      AYES -- Anderson, Andrus, Barraclough, Barrett, Bayer, Bedke, Bell,
      Bilbao, Block, Boe, Bolz, Brackett, Bradford, Cannon, Chadderdon,
      Clark, Collins, Denney, Edmunson, Ellsworth, Eskridge, Field(18),
      Field(23), Garrett, Hart, Harwood, Henbest, Henderson, Kemp,
      LeFavour, Loertscher, Martinez, Mathews, McGeachin, McKague, Miller,
      Mitchell, Nielsen, Nonini, Pasley-Stuart, Pence, Raybould, Ring,
      Ringo, Roberts, Rusche, Rydalch, Sali, Sayler, Schaefer, Shepherd(2),
      Shepherd(8), Shirley, Skippen, Smith(30), Smith(24), Smylie,
      Stevenson, Trail, Wills, Mr. Speaker
      NAYS -- Lake, Moyle
      Absent and excused -- Bastian, Black, Crow, Deal, Jaquet, Snodgrass,
      Wood
    Floor Sponsors - Clark & Edmunson
    Title apvd - to Senate
03/17    To enrol
03/20    Rpt enrol - Pres signed - Sp signed
03/21    To Governor
03/22    Governor signed
         Session Law Chapter 158
         Effective: 07/01/06

Bill Text


                                                                        
                                                                        
  ]]]]              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ]]]]
 Fifty-eighth Legislature                   Second Regular Session - 2006
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                       IN THE SENATE
                                                                        
                                    SENATE BILL NO. 1311
                                                                        
                              BY JUDICIARY AND RULES COMMITTEE
                                                                        
  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO LIMITATIONS OF ACTIONS; AMENDING SECTION  5-203,  IDAHO  CODE,  TO
  3        REVISE  CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH ACTIONS TO RECOVER REAL PROPERTY OR POSSES-
  4        SION OF REAL PROPERTY CAN BE MAINTAINED AND TO MAKE  A  TECHNICAL  CORREC-
  5        TION; AMENDING SECTION 5-204, IDAHO CODE, TO REVISE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH
  6        ACTIONS  OR  DEFENSE TO ACTIONS ARISING OUT OF CLAIMS TO TITLE OR RENTS OR
  7        PROFITS CAN BE EFFECTUAL; AMENDING SECTION 5-206, IDAHO  CODE,  TO  REVISE
  8        EXCEPTION  PROVISIONS  RELATING  TO  CONSTRUCTIVE POSSESSION AND TO MAKE A
  9        TECHNICAL CORRECTION; AMENDING SECTION 5-207, IDAHO CODE, TO REVISE CONDI-
 10        TIONS RELATING TO ADVERSE POSSESSION OF PROPERTY UNDER WRITTEN  CLAIMS  OF
 11        TITLE  AND  TO  MAKE A TECHNICAL CORRECTION; AMENDING SECTION 5-210, IDAHO
 12        CODE, TO REVISE CONDITIONS RELATING  TO  ADVERSE  POSSESSION  OF  PROPERTY
 13        UNDER  ORAL CLAIMS TO TITLE; AMENDING SECTION 5-211, IDAHO CODE, TO REVISE
 14        CONDITIONS RELATING TO PRESUMPTION REGARDING POSSESSION AS BETWEEN TENANTS
 15        AND LANDLORDS AND TO MAKE A TECHNICAL  CORRECTION;  AND  AMENDING  SECTION
 16        5-213,  IDAHO  CODE, TO REVISE CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE TOLLING OF STAT-
 17        UTES OF LIMITATION INVOLVING PERSONS UNDER  CERTAIN  DISABILITIES  AND  TO
 18        MAKE A TECHNICAL CORRECTION.
                                                                        
 19    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
                                                                        
 20        SECTION  1.  That  Section  5-203,  Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 21    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 22        5-203.  ACTION TO RECOVER REALTY. No action for the recovery of real prop-
 23    erty, or for the recovery of the possession thereof, can be maintained, unless
 24    it appears that the plaintiff,  his  ancestor,  predecessor  or  grantor,  was
 25    seized or possessed of the property in question within five twenty (20)  years
 26    before  the  commencement  of the action; and this section includes possessory
 27    rights to lands and mining claims.
                                                                        
 28        SECTION 2.  That Section 5-204, Idaho Code, be, and  the  same  is  hereby
 29    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 30        5-204.  ACTION ARISING OUT OF CLAIM TO TITLE OR RENTS OR PROFITS. No cause
 31    of action, or defense to an action, arising out of the title to real property,
 32    or  to  rents  or  profits out of the same, can be effectual unless it appears
 33    that the person prosecuting the action, or making the defense, or under  whose
 34    title the action is prosecuted or the defense is made, or the ancestor, prede-
 35    cessor  or grantor, of such person, was seized or possessed of the premises in
 36    question within five twenty (520) years before the commencement of the act  in
 37    respect to which such action is prosecuted or defense made.
                                                                        
 38        SECTION  3.  That  Section  5-206,  Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 39    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
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  1        5-206.  CONSTRUCTIVE POSSESSION. In every action for the recovery of  real
  2    property,  or  the  possession thereof, a person establishing a legal title to
  3    the property is presumed to  have  been  possessed  thereof  within  the  time
  4    required  by  law,  and  the  occupation  of the property by another person is
  5    deemed to have been under and in subordination to the legal title,  unless  it
  6    appears  that the property has been held and possessed adversely to such legal
  7    title, for five twenty (520) years before the commencement of the action.
                                                                        
  8        SECTION 4.  That Section 5-207, Idaho Code, be, and  the  same  is  hereby
  9    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 10        5-207.  POSSESSION  UNDER WRITTEN CLAIM OF TITLE. When it appears that the
 11    occupant, or those under whom he claims, entered into the  possession  of  the
 12    property  under  claim of title, exclusive of other right, founding such claim
 13    upon a written instrument, as being a conveyance of the property in  question,
 14    or upon the decree or judgment of a competent court, and that there has been a
 15    continued  occupation  and possession of the property included in such instru-
 16    ment, decree or judgment, or of some part of the property  under  such  claim,
 17    for  five  twenty (520) years, the property so included is deemed to have been
 18    held adversely except that when it consists of a tract divided into lots,  the
 19    possession  of  one (1) lot is not deemed a possession of any other lot of the
 20    same tract.
                                                                        
 21        SECTION 5.  That Section 5-210, Idaho Code, be, and  the  same  is  hereby
 22    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 23        5-210.  ORAL CLAIM -- POSSESSION DEFINED -- PAYMENT OF TAXES. For the pur-
 24    pose  of  constituting  an  adverse possession, by a person claiming title not
 25    founded upon a written instrument, judgment or decree, land is deemed to  have
 26    been possessed and occupied in the following cases only:
 27        (1)  Where it has been protected by a substantial enclosure.
 28        (2)  Where it has been usually cultivated or improved.
 29        Provided,  however, that in no case shall adverse possession be considered
 30    established under the provisions of any sections of this code unless it  shall
 31    be  shown  that  the land has been occupied and claimed for the period of five
 32    twenty (520) years continuously, and the party or persons, their  predecessors
 33    and  grantors, have paid all the taxes, state, county or municipal, which have
 34    been levied and assessed upon such land according to  law.  Provided  further,
 35    that  adverse  possession shall not be considered established under the provi-
 36    sions of any sections of this code if a written instrument has  been  recorded
 37    in  the real estate records kept by the county recorder of the county in which
 38    the property is located and such written instrument declares that it  was  not
 39    the  intent of a party to such instrument, by permitting possession or occupa-
 40    tion of real property, to thereby define  property  boundaries  or  ownership.
 41    Provided  further, that for purposes of establishing adverse possession pursu-
 42    ant to this section, a person claiming adverse possession must  present  clear
 43    and convincing evidence that the requirements of subsection (1) or (2) of this
 44    section have been met.
                                                                        
 45        SECTION  6.  That  Section  5-211,  Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 46    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 47        5-211.  POSSESSION OF TENANT -- PRESUMPTIONS. When the relation  of  land-
 48    lord  and tenant has existed between any persons, the possession of the tenant
 49    is deemed the possession of the landlord until the expiration of  five  twenty
                                                                        
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  1    (520)   years from the termination of the tenancy, or, where there has been no
  2    written lease, until the expiration of five twenty (520) years from  the  time
  3    of  the  last  payment  of  rent,  notwithstanding  that  such tenant may have
  4    acquired another title, or may have claimed to hold adversely to his landlord.
  5    But such presumptions can not cannot be made after the periods herein limited.
                                                                        
  6        SECTION 7.  That Section 5-213, Idaho Code, be, and  the  same  is  hereby
  7    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
  8        5-213.  PERSONS UNDER DISABILITIES -- RECOVERY OF REAL PROPERTY. If a per-
  9    son  entitled  to commence an action for the recovery of real property, or for
 10    the recovery of the possession thereof,  or  to  make  any  entry  or  defense
 11    founded  on  the  title  to  real property, or to rents or services out of the
 12    same, be at the time such title first descends or accrues, either:
 13        1.  Within the age of majority; or,
 14        2.  Insane; or,
 15        3.  Imprisoned on a criminal charge, or in execution, upon conviction of a
 16    criminal offense, for a term less than for life; or,
 17        4.  A married woman, and her husband be a necessary party with her in com-
 18    mencing such action or making such entry or defense;.
 19        The term during which such disability continues is not deemed any  portion
 20    of  the  time in this title limited for the commencement of such action or the
 21    making of such entry or defense, but such action may be commenced, or entry or
 22    defense made, within the period of five twenty (20) years after such  disabil-
 23    ity shall cease, or after the death of the person entitled who shall die under
 24    such  disability;  but  such action shall not be commenced or entry or defense
 25    made after that period.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact



                       STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

                             RS 15696

This amendment to existing code extends the time required to
adversely possess real property from five (5) years to twenty
(20) years.


                           FISCAL NOTE

There is no fiscal impact.







Contact
Name: Senator Shawn Keough 
Phone: 332-1000
Senator Hal Bunderson
Representative Jim Clark
Representative Clete Edmunson

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE             S 1311