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MO Rev Stat § 445.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 445 - Plats|Section 445.030 - Plat to be acknowledged and recorded — acceptance by city.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   445.030. Plat to be acknowledged and recorded — acceptance by city. — Such map or plat shall be acknowledged by the proprietor before some official authorized by law to take acknowledgments of conveyances of real estate, and recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county in which the land platted is situated; provided, however, that if such map or plat be of land situated within the corporate limits of any incorporated city, town or village, it shall not be placed of record until it shall have been submitted to and approved by the common council of such city, town or village, by ordinance, duly passed and approved by the mayor, and such approval endorsed upon such map or plat under the hand of the clerk and the seal of such city, town, or village; nor until all taxes against the same shall have been paid; and before approving such plat, the common council may, in its discretion, require such changes or alterations thereon as may be found necessary to make such map or plat conform to any zoning or street development plan which may have been adopted or appear desirable, and to the requirements of the duly enacted ordinances of such city, town or village, appertaining to the laying out and platting of subdivisions of land within their corporate limits. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12805, A.L. 1943 p. 830)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 11181; 1919 § 9284; 1909 § 10291
MO Rev Stat § 445.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 445 - Plats|Section 445.040 - Duty of recorder when plat delivered — certified copies to be evidence.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   445.040. Duty of recorder when plat delivered — certified copies to be evidence. — 1. It shall also be the duty of the recorder to record all plats delivered to him for record, in a book to be called a "plat book", and, when necessary to preserve uniformity, he shall reduce the scale of the original plat, and on each copy so made he shall endorse the following certificate under his hand: "This plat is truly copied from the original. (Signed)______, recorder."  2. Copies of the record of plats from said plat book, properly certified under the hand and official seal of the recorder, shall be evidence in all courts of justice. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12807)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 11183; 1919 § 9285; 1909 § 10292
MO Rev Stat § 445.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 445 - Plats|Section 445.050 - When new county established or county lines changed, plat to be recorded, where.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   445.050. When new county established or county lines changed, plat to be recorded, where. — When any such maps or plats shall be recorded, and by reason of the establishment of any new county, or the alteration of any new county lines, the city, town or village shall fall within a different county, such recorder shall transmit a certified copy of such plat or map to the recorder of the county, within which such city, town or village may be situated. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12812)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 11188; 1919 § 9290; 1909 § 10297
MO Rev Stat § 445.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 445 - Plats|Section 445.060 - Legalizing any plat of city or town, or addition or subdivision, after having been recorded for ten years — to be received in all courts of state.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   445.060. Legalizing any plat of city or town, or addition or subdivision, after having been recorded for ten years — to be received in all courts of state. — Any recorded plat or plan of any town or city, and of any addition thereto or subdivision thereof, or/and any recorded survey or plat or plan of any town or city and of any addition thereto or subdivision thereof or part of same made by the county surveyor of the county in which said town, city, addition or subdivision is located, which was not properly or fully made, certified or executed or was not properly or fully acknowledged, according to law, at the time of the making, certifying, executing or acknowledgment of same, according to law, but which shows or describes the real estate correctly or in such a manner that the lines of same may or can be laid or located from such plat, plan or survey upon the ground, and has been recorded in the recorder's office or in the records of the surveyor's office of the county in which the law directs it shall be recorded, for ten years, shall have the same force and effect as though properly and fully made, certified, executed or acknowledged, according to law, and shall be received in evidence in all courts of the state, in any cause, and shall be prima facie evidence of the correctness of same and of the showing thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12806)  Prior revision: 1929 § 11182
MO Rev Stat § 445.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 445 - Plats|Section 445.070 - Penalty for selling lots before plat recorded — plat shall vest fee, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   445.070. Penalty for selling lots before plat recorded — plat shall vest fee, when. — 1. If any person shall sell or offer for sale any lot within any city, town or village, or any addition thereto, before the plat thereof be made out, acknowledged and recorded, as aforesaid, such person shall forfeit a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars for every lot which he shall sell or offer to sell.  2. Such maps or plats of such cities, towns, villages and additions made, acknowledged, certified and recorded, shall be a sufficient conveyance to vest the fee of such parcels of land as are therein named, described or intended for public uses in such city, town or village, when incorporated, in trust and for the uses therein named, expressed or intended, and for no other use or purpose.  3. If such city, town or village shall not be incorporated, then the fee of such lands conveyed as aforesaid shall be vested in the proper county in like trust, and for the uses and purposes aforesaid, and none other. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12809)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 11185; 1919 § 9287; 1909 § 10294  (1961) Street in unincorporated area dedicated under this section would not be deemed abandoned under section 228.190 by nonuser but could only be vacated in accordance with proceedings set out in section 71.270. Winschel v. County of St. Louis (Mo.), 352 S.W.2d 652. (1963) The filing of a properly executed plat of a subdivision which dedicated certain lands not within an incorporated municipality to the public use does not constitute a statutory dedication under this section where there was no showing that the plat was accepted by the governing body of the county. However, there is a common law dedication and in this case an acceptance by subsequent annexation by the Village of Hazelwood thereby converted the dedicated ways into public streets of the village. Weakley v. State Highway Commission (Mo.), 364 S.W.2d 608. (1967) Fact that there was a nonuser by the public of a platted public alley does not work an abandonment of it. Bates v. Mueller (A.), 413 S.W.2d 853.
MO Rev Stat § 445.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 445 - Plats|Section 445.080 - Penalty for recording an imperfect plat.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   445.080. Penalty for recording an imperfect plat. — If any person, his agent or attorney, shall cause a map or plat of any such city, town, village or addition thereto to be recorded, which does not set forth and describe all parcels of ground which have been or shall be promised or set apart for public uses, such persons shall forfeit double the value of the ground so promised or pretended to have been set apart for public uses, and not set forth on the plat. The forfeitures arising under this chapter may be recovered by civil action, with costs, in the name of the county to the use of the school fund of the incorporated city, town or village in which the land lies, or the county, as the case may be. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12810)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 11186; 1919 § 9288; 1909 § 10295
MO Rev Stat § 445.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 445 - Plats|Section 445.090 - Persons incurring penalty may be proceeded against, how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   445.090. Persons incurring penalty may be proceeded against, how. — The property and effects of the person incurring such forfeiture may be proceeded against, by attachment or otherwise, in like manner and for the like causes as in ordinary cases. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12811)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 11187; 1919 § 9289; 1909 § 10296
MO Rev Stat § 445.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 445 - Plats|Section 445.100 - Plans, plats or replats — unlawful to receive or record such plan unless approved (cities of 400,000).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   445.100. Plans, plats or replats — unlawful to receive or record such plan unless approved (cities of 400,000). — 1. In all cities that now have or hereafter may have four hundred thousand inhabitants or over, all plans, plats or replats of land laid out in building lots and streets, alleys, or other portions of the same intended to be dedicated to public or private use, or for the use of purchasers or owners of lots fronting thereon or adjacent thereto, and located within the city limits, shall be submitted to the board or body having charge of the design, construction and maintenance of city streets and approved by it before they shall be recorded.  2. And it shall be unlawful to receive or record such plan in any public office unless the same shall bear thereon, by endorsement or otherwise, the approval of the board or body having charge of the design, construction and maintenance of city streets.  3. The approval of the board or body having charge of the design, construction and maintenance of city streets shall be deemed an acceptance of the proposed dedication for public or private use as the case may be; but shall not impose any duty upon the city concerning the maintenance or improvement of any such dedicated parts, until the proper authorities of the city shall have made actual appropriation of the same by entry, use or improvement; and owners and purchasers shall be deemed to have notice of the published plans, maps and reports of the board or body having charge of the design, construction and maintenance of city streets affecting such property within its jurisdiction. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12817)  Prior revision: 1929 § 11193
MO Rev Stat § 445.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 445 - Plats|Section 445.110 - Unlawful to sell, trade or otherwise convey unless plan, plat or replat shall have been recorded (cities of 400,000).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   445.110. Unlawful to sell, trade or otherwise convey unless plan, plat or replat shall have been recorded (cities of 400,000). — In all cities that now have or hereafter may have four hundred thousand inhabitants or over, it shall be unlawful to sell, trade or otherwise convey or to offer to sell, trade or otherwise convey any lot or parcel of land as a part of or in conformity with any plan, plat or replat of any subdivision or portion of the city unless said plan, plat or replat shall have first been recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds of said city. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12818)  Prior revision: 1929 § 11194
MO Rev Stat § 445.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 445 - Plats|Section 445.120 - Penalty for violation of certain provisions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   445.120. Penalty for violation of certain provisions. — Any person violating the provisions of sections 445.100 to 445.120 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or to imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12819)  Prior revision: 1929 § 11195
MO Rev Stat § 446.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.010 - Decayed corners — surveyed when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.010. Decayed corners — surveyed when. — Any person, his agent or attorney, owning or being interested in any tract of land within this state, any corner or corners of which shall be in a decayed or perishable condition, may require the surveyor of the county to make a survey thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1971)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1807; 1919 § 5494; 1909 § 6437
MO Rev Stat § 446.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.020 - Surveyor's notes — contents.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.020. Surveyor's notes — contents. — Such surveyor shall note particularly in his field notes the corner from which he starts the survey and to which he traces the lines, noting the condition of the corner trees, if any, marking particularly every object of note, over or by which the lines may pass; also the falling off distance, and the variation at which side lines shall have been surveyed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1972)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1808; 1919 § 5495; 1909 § 6438
MO Rev Stat § 446.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.030 - Surveyor — duties — fees.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.030. Surveyor — duties — fees. — He shall cause to be planted, by the person requiring such survey, at each corner desired to be established, a stone or post, and shall mark and describe witness trees, if within a reasonable distance, noting in his field notes the course and distance to them; he shall note also the names of his chainmen, flagmen and other persons present at the planting of any corner stone or post; and he shall record a copy of his field notes in a book to be kept by him for that purpose, and certify the same, and shall deliver a certified copy of such field notes to any person requiring it, for which copy he shall receive at the rate of fifteen cents for every hundred words. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1973)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1809; 1919 § 5496; 1909 § 6439
MO Rev Stat § 446.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.040 - Destroyed corners, how established.

Effective - 28 Aug 1981   446.040. Destroyed corners, how established. — When the corner or corners of any survey shall have been destroyed or obliterated by time or accident, the owner of such survey, or of any other lands, the title of which may be affected by the loss of any such corner, or if the corner is a corner of the United States Public Land Survey, the state land surveyor may call on a judge of the circuit court, other than a municipal judge, of the county in which the land shall be situate, for the purpose of establishing such corners by testimony. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1974, A. 1949 S.B. 1126, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1981 H.B. 414)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1810; 1919 § 5497; 1909 § 6440  CROSS REFERENCE:  Corners lost, reestablished, rules, 60.315
MO Rev Stat § 446.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.050 - Attendance of surveyor and witnesses — judge's duty.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   446.050. Attendance of surveyor and witnesses — judge's duty. — Such judge shall, upon application, issue his warrant to the sheriff of the county to cause to come before him, at a place on the land and on a day to be designated in the warrant, the county surveyor and such witnesses, as well without as within the county, as the person demanding such warrant, or other persons interested, may require. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1975, A. 1949 S.B. 1126, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1811; 1919 § 5498; 1909 § 6441  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 446.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.060 - Examination of witnesses.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   446.060. Examination of witnesses. — Such judge shall, on the day appointed, proceed to the place designated, and there, in the presence of the county surveyor, examine the witnesses summoned, and others attending, touching the existence or situation of such destroyed or obliterated corners, or any other matter in relation to the entry or survey of such lands, or of the corners or boundaries of any adjoining lands, when the same may be necessary or conducive to the accomplishment of the object of the application. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1976, A. 1949 S.B. 1126, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1812; 1919 § 5499; 1909 § 6442  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 446.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.070 - Adjournment.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   446.070. Adjournment. — Such judge shall have power to adjourn from day to day, when the same may be necessary to the accomplishment of the examination. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1977, A. 1949 S.B. 1126, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1813; 1919 § 5500; 1909 § 6443  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 446.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.080 - Examination reduced to writing.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   446.080. Examination reduced to writing. — Such judge shall reduce the examination of the witnesses to writing, which shall be signed and sworn to by the deponents, and, being certified and signed by the judge, shall be by him delivered to the county surveyor. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1978, A. 1949 S.B. 1126, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1814; 1919 § 5501; 1909 § 6444  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 446.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.090 - Notice to take depositions, how given.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   446.090. Notice to take depositions, how given. — The party applying for the establishment of any corner or corners shall give notice, in writing, of the time and place of taking such depositions, to every person or persons who may be the owner of any interest in the lands adjoining such corner or corners, his or their agent or attorney, at least thirty days before the taking of the same. In case the person interested be a minor or disabled as defined in chapter 475, the notice shall be served on the conservator of such minor or disabled person. The publication of such notice in some newspaper printed in the county, at least three weeks consecutively, the last insertion to be twenty days before the day of taking depositions, shall be sufficient notice to nonresidents of the state and all other persons. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1979, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1815; 1919 § 5502; 1909 § 6445
MO Rev Stat § 446.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.100 - Evidence of notice.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   446.100. Evidence of notice. — Satisfactory evidence of such notice shall be required by the judge before he proceeds to take such depositions, which shall appear in his certificate annexed to the depositions. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1980, A. 1949 S.B. 1126, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1816; 1919 § 5503; 1909 § 6446  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 446.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.110 - Surveyors to re-mark decayed corners, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.110. Surveyors to re-mark decayed corners, when. — The county surveyor shall, if required by the party owning or being interested in such survey make a survey thereof, and cause to be planted a stone or post at each of the decayed or obliterated corners, and shall be governed in his survey, and in planting such stone or post at the corners, by the depositions which shall have been taken and delivered to him in relation thereto. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1981)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1817; 1919 § 5504; 1909 § 6447  CROSS REFERENCE:  Corners lost, reestablishment, rules, 60.315
MO Rev Stat § 446.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.120 - Plat and certificate of survey.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.120. Plat and certificate of survey. — Such surveyor shall make out a plat and certificate of such survey, noting therein the corners at which he shall have planted stones or posts, the names of the chainmen, markers and others present at the planting of the same, and that the same was done in accordance with the testimony contained in the depositions. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1982)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1818; 1919 § 5505; 1909 § 6448
MO Rev Stat § 446.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.130 - Plat and certificate recorded.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.130. Plat and certificate recorded. — He shall record such plat and certificate in a book to be by him kept and provided for that purpose, and shall deliver the original, with any depositions delivered to him, duly certified, to the recorder of the county. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1983)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1819; 1919 § 5506; 1909 § 6449
MO Rev Stat § 446.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.140 - Duty of recorder.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.140. Duty of recorder. — The recorder to whom such plats and certificates and depositions shall be delivered shall record the same in a book to be by him provided and kept for that purpose, and shall deliver the original to him at whose instance the survey was made. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1984)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1820; 1919 § 5507; 1909 § 6450
MO Rev Stat § 446.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXIX - Ownership and Conveyance of Property|Chapter 446 - Establishment and Evidence of Boundaries and Titles to Land|Section 446.150 - Plats, certificates and depositions in evidence.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   446.150. Plats, certificates and depositions in evidence. — Plats and certificates of surveys and depositions to establish corners, or certified copies of the record thereof, when the same shall have been made or taken in conformity to the provisions of sections 446.010 to 446.180, may be used and received in evidence in all cases to which they may relate, subject to exceptions for irrelevancy or incompetency. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1985)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1821; 1919 § 5508; 1909 § 6451  CROSS REFERENCE:  Surveys as legal evidence, 60.150