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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.550 - United States land patents — duties of recorders.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.550. United States land patents — duties of recorders. —
It shall be the duty of the various recorders of this state to receive and receipt for such patents as may be forwarded to them by the register of the United States land office, and to list and preserve the same in their office until such time as they may be withdrawn on application of the owner of the property described in such patent; provided, that nothing in sections 59.540 and 59.550 shall prevent any person from having any patent withdrawn and recorded in such office upon payment to the recorder of the necessary recording fee.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13174)
Prior revision: 1929 § 11555
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.560 - New abstract and index of deeds, when made — fee.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.560. New abstract and index of deeds, when made — fee. —
When the county commission of any county in this state shall consider it necessary to provide a new abstract and index of deeds for the recorder's office of such county, in conformity to the provisions of this chapter, such commission may, by an order duly entered of record, direct the same to be done by the recorder or some other competent person, and when any such abstract and index shall become so worn and defaced as to be illegible, such commission shall, by order as aforesaid, direct the recorder or some other competent person to copy the same in a suitable book; the person making the new abstract and index shall be entitled to a fee of eight cents for each instrument entered in both parts of such abstract and index, and the person copying such abstract and index shall be allowed a fee of ten cents for every hundred words and figures, all of said fees to be paid out of the county treasury.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13182)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11563; 1919 § 10586; 1909 § 10399
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.563 - Electronic format for documents may be established.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1999
59.563. Electronic format for documents may be established. —
The recorder of deeds in any municipality or county of this state may establish an electronic format for the recording or filing of documents which such recorder has a constitutional or statutory duty to maintain. Such documents may be recorded, filed, transmitted, stored and maintained in an electronic format as prescribed by the recorder of deeds of any municipality or county. No document presented pursuant to this section shall be required to be submitted in duplicate. Nothing in this section shall require any recorder of deeds to establish, accept or transmit any document in an electronic format.
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(L. 1999 H.B. 795 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.565 - Electronically transmitted signature valid, when.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1999
59.565. Electronically transmitted signature valid, when. —
1. Any statutory requirement that a document be signed by any person shall be satisfied by an electronically transmitted signature that is:
(1) Unique to the person signing;
(2) Capable of verification;
(3) Under the sole control of the person signing;
(4) Linked to the document in such a manner that if data is changed, the signature is invalidated; and
(5) Intended by the person signing to have the same force and effect as a manual signature;
­­provided that, the recorder of deeds has a security procedure in place so that the electronically transmitted signature is verified to detect forgeries and errors in transmissions, and a procedure to ensure that such signature was intended to be placed on such document by the authorized signer. A security procedure may require the use of algorithms or other codes, identifying words or numbers, encryption, call back procedures, or similar security devices. Comparison of a signature on a document with an authorized specimen signature shall not by itself be security procedure.
2. The execution of any document with a properly authenticated digital signature and acknowledgment pursuant to this section constitutes an affirmation, under penalty of perjury, that the facts stated in such document are true and that such person or persons are duly authorized to execute such document.
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(L. 1999 H.B. 795 § 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.567 - Fees, collection procedure.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1999
59.567. Fees, collection procedure. —
The recorder of deeds in any municipality or county may establish a new revenue collection procedure of prepaid accounts for the payment of required recording or filing fees, including but not limited to the acceptance of credit or debit cards for such purpose. No person establishing an account pursuant to this section shall be entitled to payment of any interest on such account. Funds in prepayment accounts shall be refundable upon written order of the authorized party designated to transfer moneys from such account.
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(L. 1999 H.B. 795 § 3)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.568 - Electronic records, requirements for certain documents.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 2020
59.568. Electronic records, requirements for certain documents. —
1. If a statute, regulation, or ordinance requires, as a condition for recording, that a document be an original, be on paper or another tangible medium, or be in writing, the requirement is satisfied by an electronic record that otherwise complies with the requirements of this chapter.
2. A requirement that a document or a signature associated with a document be notarized, acknowledged, verified, witnessed, or made under oath is satisfied if the electronic signature of the person authorized to perform that act, and all other information required to be included, is attached to or logically associated with the document or signature. A physical or electronic image of a stamp, impression, or seal need not accompany an electronic signature if the notary public has attached an electronic notarial certificate that meets the requirements of this chapter.
3. This section shall only apply to documents presented to a recorder of deeds for recordings pursuant to chapter 442 or 443.
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(L. 2020 H.B. 1655)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.570 - Records rebound, when.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.570. Records rebound, when. —
When the county commission of any county in this state shall deem it necessary, it shall have power to order any of the books or records in or belonging to the office of recorder of deeds of such county to be rebound, and to allow a reasonable compensation therefor, to be paid out of the county treasury.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3635)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 3245; 1919 § 10607; 1909 § 10418
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.580 - Records transcribed, when.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.580. Records transcribed, when. —
When any of the books or records in or belonging to the office of recorder of deeds in any county are obliterated, torn, or in a ruinous condition, or when the writing in any such book or record is from any cause becoming so obscured, defaced or faded as to endanger its legibility, the county commission of any such county shall, by its proper order duly entered of record, direct the recorder of deeds to transcribe any such book or record in a new and suitable book, or in new and suitable books, to be provided by the county commission.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3636)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 3246; 1919 § 10608; 1909 § 10419
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.590 - New record books — designation — certification — validity.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.590. New record books — designation — certification — validity. —
Such new book or books shall be designated by the same letter or letters or the same figure or figures as that from which the transcript is to be made; and the recorder shall, at the end of every such new book containing such transcript, certify, under his hand and seal of office, that the same has been truly copied from the book or record of the corresponding letter or letters or figure or figures of his office, after which any book or record containing any such transcript, or copy therefrom duly certified, shall be entitled to the same faith and credit to which the book or record transcribed was entitled.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3637)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 3247; 1919 § 10609; 1909 § 10420
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.605 - Recorder to furnish assessor with list of mortgages and deeds of trust (second and certain third class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1975
59.605. Recorder to furnish assessor with list of mortgages and deeds of trust (second and certain third class counties). —
It shall be the duty of the recorder of deeds in each county of the second class and the recorder of deeds in each county of the third class wherein the office is separate from the office of circuit clerk to furnish the assessor, on or before the fifteenth day of each month, a list of all real estate mortgages or deeds of trust recorded during the preceding month. The list shall contain the name of the grantor, a brief description of the real estate and the amount of the mortgage or deed of trust.
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(L. 1975 S.B. 70 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.610 - Rerecording of conveyances — when — by whom.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.610. Rerecording of conveyances — when — by whom. —
In all counties of this state in which the records of deeds have been or shall hereafter be destroyed by fire or otherwise, it shall be lawful for the recorder of deeds to employ a suitable person to rerecord all conveyances that have been recorded, together with the certificate of record thereof.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3646)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 3256; 1919 § 10618; 1909 § 10429
CROSS REFERENCE:
Rerecording destroyed marriage records, 451.210
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.620 - Rerecording — free of charge, when.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.620. Rerecording — free of charge, when. —
Such conveyances as have been spread of record, together with the certificate of record thereof, shall be rerecorded free of charge to the holders thereof, provided the same be offered for record within five years after the destruction of the record.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3647)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 3257; 1919 § 10619; 1909 § 10430
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.630 - Compensation for rerecording copyist.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.630. Compensation for rerecording copyist. —
The person employed as provided by section 59.610 shall receive such compensation as the county commission shall deem reasonable, not to exceed eight hundred dollars per annum, to be paid out of the county treasury, so long as his services may be required.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3648)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 3258; 1919 § 10620; 1909 § 10431
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.640 - Rerecorded conveyances admissible in evidence.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.640. Rerecorded conveyances admissible in evidence. —
The record of such rerecorded conveyances shall impart notice to the same extent and shall be admissible in evidence with like effect as the original record.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3649)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 3259; 1919 § 10621; 1909 § 10432
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.650 - Neglect of duty — liability.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1957
59.650. Neglect of duty — liability. —
If any recorder to whom any deed or other writing, proved or acknowledged according to law, is delivered for record
(1) Neglects or refuses to make an entry thereof as required by section 59.470, or
(2) Neglects or refuses to record the deed or other writing within a reasonable time after receiving the same, or
(3) Records any deed or other instrument in writing before another first brought into his office and entitled to be recorded, or
(4) Records any deed or other instrument of writing untimely or in any manner other than as herein directed, or
(5) Neglects or refuses to provide and keep in his office such an index as required by this chapter, he shall pay to the party aggrieved double the damages which may be occasioned thereby, to be recovered by civil action on the official bond of the recorder.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13183, A.L. 1957 p. 322)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11564; 1919 § 10587; 1909 § 10400
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.660 - Neglect of duty — penalty.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.660. Neglect of duty — penalty. —
If any recorder shall willfully neglect or refuse to perform any of the duties required of him by this chapter, or shall willfully perform them in any other manner than is required by law, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in office, and proceeded against accordingly; and shall, moreover, forfeit and pay to the use of the county a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars, to be recovered by civil action.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13184)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11565; 1919 § 10588; 1909 § 10401
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.700 - Waiver of state's rights of reverter in certain property (Scott County).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 2001
59.700. Waiver of state's rights of reverter in certain property (Scott County). —
The state of Missouri hereby waives all rights to its possibility of reverter in the real property particularly described in the quitclaim deed in book 279 at pages 76-77 of the office of the recorder of deeds of Scott County.
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(L. 2001 S.B. 86 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.010 - Surveyor to be elected in certain counties — qualifications — term.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 2009, 2 histories
60.010. Surveyor to be elected in certain counties — qualifications — term. —
1. At the regular general election in the year 1948, and every four years thereafter, the voters of each county of this state in counties of the second, third, and fourth classification shall elect a registered land surveyor as county surveyor, who shall hold office for four years and until a successor is duly elected, commissioned and qualified. The person elected shall be commissioned by the governor.
2. No person shall be elected or appointed surveyor unless such person is a citizen of the United States, over the age of twenty-one years, a registered land surveyor, and shall have resided within the state one whole year. An elected surveyor shall have resided within the county for which the person is elected six months immediately prior to election and shall after election continue to reside within the county for which the person is surveyor. An appointed surveyor need not reside within the county for which the person is surveyor.
3. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1 of this section, or any other law to the contrary, the county commission of any county of the third or fourth classification may appoint a surveyor following the deadline for filing for the office of surveyor, if no qualified candidate files for the office in the general election in which the office would have been on the ballot, provided that the notice required by section 115.345 has been published in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the county. The appointed surveyor shall serve at the pleasure of the county commission, however, an appointed surveyor shall forfeit said office once a qualified individual, who has been duly elected at a regularly scheduled general election where the office of surveyor is on the ballot and who has been commissioned by the governor, takes office. The county commission shall fix appropriate compensation, which need not be equal to that of an elected surveyor.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13190, A.L. 1945 p. 1759, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1983 H.B. 133, A.L. 2003 H.B. 267, A.L. 2009 H.B. 481)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11571; 1919 § 12709; 1909 § 11291
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.030 - Oath — bond — receipt of records.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
• Effective - 28 Aug 1989
60.030. Oath — bond — receipt of records. —
Every county surveyor shall, within sixty days after receiving his commission, and before entering upon the duties of his office, take the oath prescribed by the constitution, and enter into bond to the state of Missouri, in a sum not less than one thousand nor more than five thousand dollars, to be determined by the county commission, conditioned that he will faithfully perform all the duties of the office of county surveyor, and that at the expiration of his term of office he, or in case of his death, his executors or administrators, will immediately deliver to the recorder of deeds of the county all county survey plat books.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13192, A.L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al.)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11573; 1919 § 12711; 1909 § 11293
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.040 - Failure to give bond, office to become vacant.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
60.040. Failure to give bond, office to become vacant. —
If any county surveyor fail to give such bond in the time prescribed in section 60.030, his office shall be vacant.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13193)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11574; 1919 § 12712; 1909 § 11294
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.050 - Bond, approval.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
60.050. Bond, approval. —
Such bond may be taken by the clerk of the county commission in vacation; and, if so taken, shall be approved or rejected by the county commission at the next term thereof.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13194)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11575; 1919 § 12713; 1909 § 11295
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.060 - Bond valid until rejected.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
60.060. Bond valid until rejected. —
Such bond shall be valid until it is rejected, and its rejection shall not release the principal and sureties from any liabilities incurred previous to its rejection.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13195)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11576; 1919 § 12714; 1909 § 11296
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.070 - Rejection of bond.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
60.070. Rejection of bond. —
If such bond be rejected, the county commission shall order the county surveyor to enter into a new bond, within such time as they may think reasonable, not exceeding twenty days; and in default of giving such new bond, the office shall be vacant.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13196)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11577; 1919 § 12715; 1909 § 11297
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.090 - Deputies — oaths — qualifications.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1989
60.090. Deputies — oaths — qualifications. —
Deputies may be appointed by any county surveyor who, before they proceed to discharge their duties, shall take an oath to discharge faithfully, truly and well the duties of deputy surveyors. All deputy county surveyors shall be registered land surveyors.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13208, A.L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al.)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11589; 1919 § 12727; 1909 § 11309
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.100 - May charge for services (second, third, and fourth class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1983
60.100. May charge for services (second, third, and fourth class counties). —
In counties of the second, third or fourth class, the county surveyor may charge for his services such a sum as may be agreed upon by such surveyor and the person employing him. For that sum, the surveyor shall employ and pay for the services of the necessary chainmen, rodmen and markers. For that sum, the surveyor shall furnish to the person employing him a plat of the survey made by him, and shall also record the plat as provided by law.
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(L. 1945 p. 1575 § 2, A.L. 1983 H.B. 133)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.120 - Survey, duty to make, fee.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1989
60.120. Survey, duty to make, fee. —
The county surveyor shall, within thirty days, when called upon, survey any tract of land or town lot lying in his county, at the expense of the person demanding the same; provided, that his agreed upon fees are first tendered, or that he and his deputies are not engaged in executing previous orders of survey.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13199, A.L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al.)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11580; 1919 § 12718; 1909 § 11300
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.130 - Survey, how made when surveyor interested.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1989
60.130. Survey, how made when surveyor interested. —
When it shall appear that the county surveyor is interested in any tract of land the title of which is in dispute before the court, the court shall direct the survey or resurvey to be made by some registered land surveyor, who is a noninterested party, who shall be authorized to administer oaths in the same manner as the county surveyor is directed to do, and shall return such survey or resurvey, on oath or affirmation; and shall receive for his services such reasonable fee as determined by the court.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13201, A.L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al.)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11582; 1919 § 12720; 1909 § 11302
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.140 - Lands divided by county lines, by whom surveyed.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
60.140. Lands divided by county lines, by whom surveyed. —
In case any person own or claim lands where the same are divided by a county line, the person owning or claiming such lands, and wishing to have the same surveyed, may apply to the surveyor of any county in which any part of such land is situate; and, on such application being made, the surveyor is authorized and required to make such survey, which shall be as valid as though such lands were situate entirely in one county.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13203)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11584; 1919 § 12722; 1909 § 11304
CROSS REFERENCE:
County boundaries, by whom surveyed, when, 46.010 to 46.030
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.150 - Survey may be legal evidence, standards for survey.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
• Effective - 28 Aug 1993
60.150. Survey may be legal evidence, standards for survey. —
No survey or resurvey shall be admitted into evidence in any court in this state unless it is made by a registered land surveyor, and it can be shown that the survey is located by measurements to monuments of the section, United States survey, subdivision, or other unit in which the property is legally described. A survey may not be rejected, after August 28, 1991, solely on the grounds that it did not commence at a government corner.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13200, A.L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al., A.L. 1991 H.B. 403, A.L. 1993 H.B. 621)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11581; 1919 § 12719; 1909 § 11301
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.160 - Survey, land in dispute.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
60.160. Survey, land in dispute. —
When lands, the title of which is in dispute before any court, shall be divided by a county line, the court making an order of survey may direct such order to the surveyor of any county in which any part of such land is situate.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13204)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11585; 1919 § 12723; 1909 § 11305
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.170 - Surveyor to execute orders of court.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1989
60.170. Surveyor to execute orders of court. —
The county surveyor shall execute all orders given to him directly by any court of record, for surveying or resurveying any tract of land, the title of which is in dispute before such court, and all orders of survey for the partition of real estate.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13198, A.L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al.)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11579; 1919 § 12717; 1909 § 11299
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.185 - County surveyors, duties.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 2013
*60.185. County surveyors, duties. —
The county surveyor of every county or city shall:
(1) Keep a fair and correct record of all surveys made by himself and his deputies, in a well-bound book, with a convenient index, to be procured at the expense of the county or city for that purpose, which books and indexes shall be the property of such county or city, and shall be known as the county surveyor's plat book, and every such surveyor shall record in such book a plat of all surveys executed by him or his deputies, within two weeks after the plat of survey has been certified to, and such books shall be kept at the county seat or city hall and subject to inspection by any person interested therein, under the supervision of the county surveyor for such county or city;
(2) Number his surveys progressively;
(3) Deliver a copy of any plat of survey to any person requiring such a copy, on payment of an amount equal to the fees allowed to the recorder of deeds for such a document, so long as such records shall remain in his possession, and after such record shall have been deposited in the office of the recorder of deeds, the recorder shall, on the request of anyone and on payment of his fees for such service, deliver to such person a duly certified copy of such records under the seal of his office, which shall be accepted as evidence, to all intents and purposes, as the originals themselves;
(4) Maintain a copy of corner restoration documents as required in section 60.321 when provided by the Missouri department of agriculture, and subject to inspection and copying by any person interested therein during the normal office hours of the county on payment of the fees allowed to the recorder for similar documents.
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(L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al., A.L. 2013 H.B. 28 merged with H.B. 650)
Effective 8-28-13 (H.B. 28); 10-11-13 (H.B. 650)
*H.B. 650 effective 10-11-13, see § 21.250. H.B. 650 was vetoed July 12, 2013. The veto was overridden on September 11, 2013.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.195 - United States field notes on survey of counties, how obtained and filed in office of county surveyor.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
• Effective - 28 Aug 2013
*60.195. United States field notes on survey of counties, how obtained and filed in office of county surveyor. —
The several county commissions in this state are hereby authorized, in all cases wherein they shall consider it to be the interest of their counties, to obtain from the Missouri department of agriculture a certified copy of so much of the field notes of all surveys lying within their counties, respectively, which have been and may be made by the United States, as relates to the description of the township, section, fractional section, quarter section and legal subdivisional corners, the variation of the needle at which the east and west boundaries of township or range lines were run, the length of the north and south, as well as east and west sectional lines; also, the fallings of all east and west township and sectional lines the same to be filed in the office of the county surveyor of their counties, respectively.
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(L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al., A.L. 2013 H.B. 28 merged with H.B. 650)
Effective 8-28-13 (H.B. 28); 10-11-13 (H.B. 650)
*H.B. 650 effective 10-11-13, see § 21.250. H.B. 650 was vetoed July 12, 2013. The veto was overridden on September 11, 2013.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.205 - Failure to perform duties, civil action to obtain fine, amount.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1989
60.205. Failure to perform duties, civil action to obtain fine, amount. —
Any county surveyor who shall fail to perform the duties required of him by this chapter shall be fined in a sum not exceeding ninety dollars, to be recovered by civil action, at the suit of the injured party.
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(L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.305 - Resurvey of United States land survey — rules.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1989
60.305. Resurvey of United States land survey — rules. —
In the resurvey of the lands of the United States public land survey, the surveyor shall observe the following rules:
(1) The boundaries of the United States public land survey in Missouri are unchangeable;
(2) The original township, section, quarter-section and other corners established by the original government survey must stand as the true corners which they were intended to represent, regardless of the location indicated by the field notes and plat;
(3) These corners must be restored at the identical spot where the original corner was located by the government survey, when this can be determined;
(4) When this cannot be done, the corner is said to be lost and it must be reestablished in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
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(L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.311 - Corners original position to be determined.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1989
60.311. Corners original position to be determined. —
The restoration and utilization of the existent corners of the United States public land survey is a prime objective of every survey. Every means shall be undertaken to determine the position of the original corner before deciding that the corner is lost.
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(L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.315 - Lost corners reestablishment — rules.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 02 Jan 2023, 2 histories, see footnote
60.315. Lost corners reestablishment — rules. —
The following rules for the reestablishment of lost corners shall be applied only when it is determined that the corner is lost: (The rules utilize proportional measurement which harmonizes surveying practice with legal and equitable considerations. This plan of relocating a lost corner is always employed unless it can be shown that the corner so located is in substantial disagreement with the general scheme of the original government survey as monumented. In such cases the surveyor shall use procedures that produce results consistent with the original survey of that township.)
(1) Existent original corners shall not be disturbed. Consequently, discrepancies between the new and record measurements shall not in any manner affect the measurements beyond the existent corners; but the differences shall be distributed proportionately within the several intervals along the line between the corners;
(2) Standard parallels shall be given precedence over other township exteriors, and, ordinarily, the latter shall be given precedence over subdivisional lines; section corners shall be located or reestablished before the position of lost quarter-section corners can be determined;
(3) Lost township corners common to four townships shall be reestablished by double proportionate measurement between the nearest existent corners on opposite sides of the lost township corner;
(4) Lost township corners located on standard parallels and common only to two townships shall be reestablished by single proportionate measurement between the nearest existent corners on opposite sides of the lost township corner on the standard parallel;
(5) Lost corners on township exteriors, excluding corners referenced in subdivision (3) of this section, whether they are standard or closing corners, shall be reestablished by single proportionate measurement on the line connecting the next nearest existent standard or closing corner on opposite sides of the lost corner;
(6) A lost interior corner of four sections shall be reestablished by double proportionate measurement;
(7) All lost quarter-section corners on the section boundaries within the township shall be reestablished by single proportionate measurement between the adjoining section corners, after the section corners have been identified or reestablished; and
(8) Where a line has been terminated with a measurement in one direction only, a lost corner shall be reestablished by record bearing and distance, counting from the nearest regular corner, the latter having been duly identified or reestablished.
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(L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al., A.L. 1999 H.B. 776, A.L. 2022 1st Ex. Sess. H.B. 3)
Effective 1-02-23
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.321 - Lost corners, monumentation, procedure — violation deemed misconduct.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
• Effective - 28 Aug 2013
*60.321. Lost corners, monumentation, procedure — violation deemed misconduct. —
For the purpose of perpetuating the corners of the United States public land survey, every surveyor who reestablishes a lost corner or restores an existent corner shall monument the corner and shall file an instrument showing such reestablishment or restoration with the Missouri department of agriculture, in accordance with the specifications and procedures adopted by the Missouri department of agriculture. Any surveyor who willfully and knowingly fails to perpetuate corners in accordance with this section is guilty of misconduct in the practice of land surveying.
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(L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al., A.L. 2013 H.B. 28 merged with H.B. 650)
Effective 8-28-13 (H.B. 28); 10-11-13 (H.B. 650)
*H.B. 650 effective 10-11-13, see § 21.250. H.B. 650 was vetoed July 12, 2013. The veto was overridden on September 11, 2013.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.326 - Law not to affect previous surveys.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1989
60.326. Law not to affect previous surveys. —
This chapter shall in no way be construed either to affect the legality of surveys legally made and recorded prior to September 28, 1979, or to prevent surveyors from taking advantage of any corners legally established prior to September 28, 1979.
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(L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.331 - Quarter-sections, how established.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1989
60.331. Quarter-sections, how established. —
In subdividing a section into quarter-sections, the land surveyor shall run straight lines from the established quarter-section corners to the opposite quarter-section corners. The point of intersection of the lines thus run will be the corner common to the several quarter-sections, or the legal center of the section.
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(L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.335 - Quarter-quarter sections, how established.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1989
60.335. Quarter-quarter sections, how established. —
In subdividing a quarter-section into quarters, the land surveyor shall:
(1) First, establish the quarter-quarter, or sixteenth-section corners at points midway between the quarter-section and section corners or the center of the section, except on the last half mile of the lines closing on township boundaries, where they should be placed by proportionate measurement, as shown on the official government plat;
(2) Second, the center lines of the quarter-section will be run straight between opposite corresponding quarter-quarter, or sixteenth-section corners on the quarter-section boundaries. The intersection of the lines thus run will determine the legal center of the quarter-section.
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(L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.341 - Fractional sections, how established.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1989
60.341. Fractional sections, how established. —
In subdividing a fractional section or quarter-section, the land surveyor will run his lines from properly established quarter-section or quarter-quarter-section corners, as the case may be, with courses governed by the conditions represented upon the official government plat, to the lake, watercourse, grant boundary, state line or other irregular boundary which renders such land fractional.
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(L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.345 - Corners of quarter-sections south of township line, east of range line, how established.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 02 Jan 2023, 2 histories, see footnote
60.345. Corners of quarter-sections south of township line, east of range line, how established. —
The quarter-section corners of sections south of the township line and east of the range line, and not established by the original government survey will be established according to the conditions represented upon the official government plat using single proportionate measurement between the section corners belonging to the same section as the quarter-section corner being established, the section corners having first been identified or reestablished. The proportional position shall be offset, if necessary, in a cardinal direction to the true line defined by the nearest adjacent corners on opposite sides of the quarter-section corner to be established.
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(L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al., A.L. 2022 1st Ex. Sess. H.B. 3)
Effective 1-02-23
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.351 - Destruction of landmarks, duty of county surveyor to report.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1989
60.351. Destruction of landmarks, duty of county surveyor to report. —
It shall be the duty of every county surveyor and every deputy county surveyor to report as soon as practicable all violations of law relative to the destruction of landmarks that come under their observation, or of which they have knowledge, to the grand jury or to the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the violation occurs.
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(L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.355 - Prohibits removal or destroying of property markers — penalty — damages.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1998
60.355. Prohibits removal or destroying of property markers — penalty — damages. —
1. No person, other than a registered land surveyor registered pursuant to chapter 327, shall knowingly move, remove, deface or destroy any corner of the United States Public Land Survey System, property boundary marker, bench mark or horizontal control monument.
2. Any person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.
3. Any person who violates the provisions of this section is liable for the cost of reestablishment of permanent monuments or markers by a registered land surveyor. This section shall establish a civil cause of action in favor of any owner of real estate the boundaries of which are affected by a violation of subsection 1 of this section. Venue for such cause of action shall be in the county in which the violation occurs. Damages shall be limited to reasonable surveying costs and reasonable attorneys' fees.
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(L. 1998 H.B. 1862)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.360 - United States field notes on county surveys obtained by county surveyor — cost, how paid.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
Effective - 28 Aug 1989
60.360. United States field notes on county surveys obtained by county surveyor — cost, how paid. —
In all cases where the county surveyor shall have, at his own expense, obtained a certified copy, as provided for in section 60.195, the county commission shall make a reasonable allowance to such surveyor for such copy, which shall thereafter become the property of the county, and be filed; except that no county surveyor thus furnished with the field notes shall, when called upon to execute any survey, make any additional charge therefor.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13210, A.L. 1989 H.B. 190, et al.)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11591; 1919 § 12729; 1909 § 11311
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 60 - County Surveyors and Land Surveys › Section 60.401 - Missouri state plane coordinate system established.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 60
• Effective - 28 Aug 2023, 2 histories
60.401. Missouri state plane coordinate system established. —
The most recent system of state plane coordinates established by the National Geodetic Survey, or its successor, based on the National Spatial Reference System, or its successor
*
, and known as the State Plane Coordinate System, for defining and stating the positions or locations of points on the surface of the earth within the state of Missouri shall be known as the "Missouri State Plane Coordinate System".
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(L. 1984 S.B. 479, A.L. 2023 H.B. 202 merged with S.B. 138)
*Word "successors" appears in original rolls of H.B. 202, 2023.