Section 20640.4.

(a) Subject to the limitations provided in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 20501), Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 20581), or this chapter, a claimant may file with the Controller, a claim for postponement of a sum equal to, but not exceeding the amount of property taxes, for the fiscal year for which the claim is made.

(b) Upon verification of the eligibility requirements set forth in Section 20640.9 the Controller shall mail the claimant a Notice of Election to Postpone which shall be in the form and contain such information as the Controller may prescribe. Accompanying the notice shall be a statement explaining that in order for the claimant to postpone all or part of the property taxes, the Notice of Election to Postpone must be mailed to the Controller with a copy of the instrument creating the possessory interest, said copy to be certified by the county recorder of the county in which such real property is located. Where a memorandum of lease has been recorded in lieu of such instrument, a certified copy of said memorandum shall accompany the copy of the instrument creating the possessory interest.

(c) (1) Except as provided in this section, any possessory interest or improvement on which property taxes are delinquent at the time the application for postponement under this chapter is made or on which any other property tax or special assessment imposed by a special district or other tax code area are delinquent at the time the application for postponement under this chapter is made shall not be eligible for postponement.

(2) For 1978–79 and thereafter, any taxes or assessments which became delinquent after the claimant was 62 and before a lien is established pursuant to Section 16182 of the Government Code shall not disqualify an otherwise eligible claimant for postponement under this chapter. An application to postpone taxes for 1978–79 or thereafter also constitutes an application for postponement of all such delinquent taxes and assessments, together with any penalties, interest, fees, or other charges resulting from such delinquency and such amounts shall, unless otherwise paid by the claimant, be paid out of the amount appropriated by Section 16100 of the Government Code and shall be added to and become part of the obligation secured by the lien provided by Section 16182 of the Government Code.

(d) The Controller shall mail to claimant for due execution the appropriate security instrument for claimant's form of lease, including the consent to assignment required by Section 20640.5(b).

(Amended by Stats. 1980, Ch. 925, Sec. 12. Effective September 18, 1980.)