(b)(1) At any time after it makes a determination of additional tax, penalty or interest under this article, the department may transmit to the prothonotaries of the respective counties certified copies of all liens for the taxes, penalties and interest under this article or copies of all liens under Article XI-C¹ and this article on a single form.

(2) A prothonotary receiving the lien shall enter and docket the lien of record in the prothonotary's office, which lien shall be indexed as judgments are now indexed.

(3) After the department's determination becomes final, a writ of execution may directly issue upon the lien without the issuance and prosecution to judgment of a writ of scire facias, provided that, not less than ten days before issuance of any execution on the lien, notice shall be sent by certified mail to the taxpayer at the taxpayer's last known post office address. No prothonotary shall require as a condition precedent to the entry of the liens the payment of any costs incident thereto.

(c)(1) The lien imposed under this section shall have priority from the date of its recording and shall be fully paid and satisfied out of the proceeds of any judicial sale of property subject thereto before any other obligation, judgment, claim, lien or estate to which the property may subsequently become subject, except costs of the sale and of the writ upon which the sale was made, and real estate taxes and municipal claims against such property, but shall be subordinate to mortgages and other liens existing and duly recorded or entered of record prior to the recording of the tax lien.

(2) In the case of a judicial sale of property subject to a lien imposed under this section upon a lien or claim over which the lien has priority, the sale shall discharge the lien to the extent only that the proceeds are applied to its payment, and the lien shall continue in full force and effect as to the balance remaining unpaid.