§ 9.20. Disposition of Real Property Held by the City.

When the city has acquired any interest in property to protect the city's tax lien thereon, the owner of any interest therein, by fee title, as mortgagee, or as vendor or vendee under a land contract shall have the right to purchase the city's interest therein, upon payment to the city of the amount of money which the city has invested therein in the form of taxes, special assessments, charges, fees, penalties, interest, and costs, paid by the city to perfect its title in such property. After the lapse of ninety days after the date that the city acquired title to any such property, the Council may remove the same from the market by determining that such property is needed for and should be devoted to public purposes, naming such purposes, or may sell the same at a price which shall be not less than its market value, as determined and certified to the Council by the Assessor and qualified appraisers appointed by the Council.