Turn a tax-sale statute into a calendar

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Delinquent-tax work runs on a clock - notice, sale, redemption, deed - and the clock lives in state statute plus county practice. This is the most dangerous place to let a model count. It reads 'two years from the date of sale' and hands you a date, and the date can be wrong four quiet ways: which event starts the count, whether the start day counts, what happens when the last day lands on a weekend or holiday, and whether the county's practice differs from the text. The template fixes the shape so the counting cannot hide. Every row is an event; the trigger and the period are quoted from the text you pasted; the DATE column reads [NEEDS: computed and confirmed by counsel] unless a pasted document prints the date itself. What you get is a calendar skeleton to take to an attorney licensed in the state and to the county collector. It is not a calendar to rely on.

Build a table from the statute text and sale notice below. Columns: EVENT | TRIGGER (quoted) | PERIOD (quoted) | DATE | SOURCE | CONFIRM WITH. Never compute a date. DATE reads [NEEDS: computed and confirmed by counsel] unless a pasted document states the date outright. Then list every ambiguity in how a period is counted. [statute text] [county sale notice]