1-17-329. Certificate or deed by successor officer.
If the term of the officer who makes a sale of any lands and tenements expires, or he is unable from any cause to make a certificate of sale or a deed of conveyance of the property sold, any successor of the officer on receiving a certificate from the court from which execution issued setting forth that sufficient proof has been made that the sale was fairly and legally made, and on tender or proof of payment of the purchase money, may execute to the purchaser or his legal representatives a certificate of sale or a deed of conveyance of the lands and tenements sold. The certificate or deed shall be as valid in law as if the officer who made the sale had executed it.