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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.160 - Office hours, cities of 300,000 or more population.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1990
59.160. Office hours, cities of 300,000 or more population. —
It shall hereafter be the duty of recorders of deeds, in cities which now have, or may hereafter have, a population of three hundred thousand inhabitants or over to keep their offices open for the transaction of business between the hours of nine o'clock in the morning and five o'clock in the afternoon Monday through Friday, except on days which are now or which may be hereafter declared public holidays by the laws of this state.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7745, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1716)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7597; 1909 § 9007
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.163 - Instruments where recorded or filed in counties of first class having two recording offices.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 2003
59.163. Instruments where recorded or filed in counties of first class having two recording offices. —
In any county of the first class in which the recorder of deeds is required by law to keep offices both at the county seat and at another place within the county, all deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages, and other instruments affecting real property situated in that range in the county where the office outside of the county seat is located shall be recorded in such office and not at the county seat; and the proper place to file, or to file for record if goods are or are to become fixtures, is as follows:
(1) When the collateral is goods which at the time the security interest attaches are or are to become fixtures, and the land to which the fixtures are or are to be attached is located in that range where the office outside the county seat is located, then in such office outside the county seat, and any such filing shall be for record;
(2) In all other cases where the proper place, or one of the proper places, to file or to file for record is in the office of the recorder of deeds of such county, then only in such office at the county seat and not in such office outside the county seat;
(3) All financing statements or other instruments or statements incidental thereto, such as continuation statements, termination statements, statements of assignment, in order to perfect, continue, terminate, assign, release, or affect a security interest in accordance with article 9, chapter 400, the uniform commercial code, shall have priority over liens filed under this section for the time period after June 30, 2001, and before August 28, 2003.
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(L. 1957 p. 347 § 1, A.L. 1965 pp. 114, 170, A.L. 1969 H.B. 677, A.L. 2003 H.B. 221 merged with S.B. 346)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.167 - Abstract of instruments in branch offices not required to be kept (first class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1957
59.167. Abstract of instruments in branch offices not required to be kept (first class counties). —
Any recorder of deeds of a county of the first class who is required by law to keep an office at the county seat and also at another place within his county is not required to make or keep at his office at the county seat any abstract or index of instruments or papers recorded or filed in the office outside of the county seat and no such abstract or index of instruments recorded at the county seat is required to be made or kept at the office outside of the county seat, any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding.
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(L. 1957 p. 347 § 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.170 - Branch of Jackson County recorder's office in Kansas City — recording of documents at county seat of Jackson County permitted.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 2006
59.170. Branch of Jackson County recorder's office in Kansas City — recording of documents at county seat of Jackson County permitted. —
The recorder of deeds for Jackson County, Missouri, shall open an office at Kansas City, in which may be recorded deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages and other instruments affecting real property situated in that county, and in which may be filed or filed for record all financing statements and other instruments or statements incidental thereto affecting personal property, fixtures, or other collateral. Deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages, and other instruments affecting real property, and financing statements and other instruments incidental thereto affecting personal property, fixtures, or other collateral may also be recorded or filed for record at the recorder's office located at the county seat of any county with a charter form of government and with more than six hundred thousand but fewer than seven hundred thousand inhabitants.
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(RSMo 1939 § 15662, A.L. 1965 p. 170, A.L. 1969 H.B. 677, A.L. 2006 H.B. 1707)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.180 - County commission to provide office and supplies.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1969
59.180. County commission to provide office and supplies. —
It shall be the duty of the county commission to furnish a suitable room in which the office shall be kept, and to furnish all fuel, books, stationery, and supplies required in and about the office, and all deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages, and other instruments affecting real property situated in range thirty-three, or fixtures attached or to be attached thereto, shall be recorded in a well-bound book or books, to be kept at the office in Kansas City.
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(RSMo 1939 § 15663, A.L. 1965 p. 170, A.L. 1969 H.B. 677)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.200 - Recorder or deputy prohibited from making abstracts of title — penalty.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.200. Recorder or deputy prohibited from making abstracts of title — penalty. —
Every recorder of deeds or the deputy of any such officer, who shall engage in the business of making abstracts of instruments of record in his office affecting the title to lands, for profit or hire, or who shall furnish to any person or persons any written extract, excerpt, memoranda or copy of any such instrument of record, for profit or hire, otherwise than under and in pursuance of the statutes defining his duties as such officer and in his official capacity, duly authenticating each extract, excerpt, memoranda or copy of every such instrument so furnished under the seal of his office, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13189)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11570; 1919 § 10593
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.210 - Accounts audited and settled by county commission.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.210. Accounts audited and settled by county commission. —
It shall be the duty of the county commission to audit and settle the accounts of recorders for books purchased for the use of their offices, and allow, in their discretion, such sums as shall be reasonable, to be paid out of the county treasury.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13186)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11567; 1919 § 10590; 1909 § 10403
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.220 - Compensation of recorder of deeds (St. Louis City).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1998
59.220. Compensation of recorder of deeds (St. Louis City). —
Beginning January 1, 1998, in the City of St. Louis, the recorder of deeds shall receive as total compensation an annual salary of fifty-eight thousand three hundred dollars and beginning January 1, 1999, in the City of St. Louis, the recorder of deeds shall receive as total compensation an annual salary of sixty-four thousand one hundred thirty dollars. Thereafter, the compensation of the recorder of deeds of the City of St. Louis may be annually increased by an amount equal to the annual salary adjustment for employees of the City of St. Louis as approved by the board of alderman of said city.
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(L. 1945 p. 574 §§ 2, 3, A. 1949 H.B. 2017, A.L. 1957 p. 322, A.L. 1973 H.B. 685, A.L. 1978 S.B. 775, A.L. 1987 S.B. 65, et al., A.L. 1997 S.B. 11, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1480)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.227 - Fees, record of and disposition of (certain first class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
• Effective - 28 Aug 1973
59.227. Fees, record of and disposition of (certain first class counties). —
The recorder of deeds in counties of the first class not having a charter form of government shall keep a full, true and faithful account of all fees of every kind received and shall make a report thereof at the end of each year to the county commission. All fees, charges and moneys collected or received by the recorder of deeds shall be paid by him into the county treasury.
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(L. 1973 H.B. 685)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.230 - Fees received — reports — deposited where (second class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
• Effective - 28 Aug 1967
59.230. Fees received — reports — deposited where (second class counties). —
The recorder of deeds in counties of the second class shall keep a full, true and faithful account of all fees of every kind received and shall make a report thereof every year to the county commission. All fees received by him each year of his official term shall be paid by him into the county treasury, to form a part of the jury fund of the county, except that whenever there is in the county treasury to the credit of the jury fund six thousand dollars or more, the aforementioned fees received by the recorder of deeds shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund.
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(L. 1945 p. 1560 § 1, A.L. 1951 p. 381, A.L. 1959 S.B. 196, A.L. 1967 p. 137)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.240 - Fees to be collected — affidavit required — report, contents of (second class and certain first class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1973
59.240. Fees to be collected — affidavit required — report, contents of (second class and certain first class counties). —
The recorder of deeds of each county of the first class not having a charter form of government and of each county of the second class shall charge, receive and collect in all cases every fee, charge, or money due his office by law. He shall also, when he makes and files the report required by section 59.227 or by section 59.230 at the end of each year of his official term, verify the same by affidavit, and the report shall show the source and amount of every fee or charge collected. All fees, charges and moneys collected by the recorder of deeds shall be the property of the county.
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(L. 1945 p. 1560 § 2, A.L. 1967 p. 137, A.L. 1973 H.B. 685)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.245 - Record of conveyances to county assessor (second class and certain first class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1990
59.245. Record of conveyances to county assessor (second class and certain first class counties). —
In all counties of the first class not having a charter form of government and in all counties of the second class, the recorder of deeds shall furnish the county assessor, upon the recording of conveyances of real estate, the legal descriptions and the names and addresses of the grantees of the property conveyed for the purpose of maintaining current tax lists and for properly sending out annual tax statements.
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(L. 1951 p. 381 § 59.241, A.L. 1967 p. 137, A.L. 1973 H.B. 685, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1327)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.250 - Accounting of fees collected — annual report — moneys collected property of county.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 01 Jul 2001, see footnote
59.250. Accounting of fees collected — annual report — moneys collected property of county. —
1. The recorder of deeds in counties wherein there is a separate circuit clerk and recorder, shall keep a full, true and faithful account of all fees of every kind received. The recorder shall make a report thereof each year to the county commission.
2. It shall be the duty of the recorder of deeds to charge, receive and collect in all cases every fee, charge or money due the recorder's office by law. The recorder of deeds shall also, when he or she makes and files the report required by this section at the end of each year of his or her official term, verify such report by affidavit, and the report shall show the source and amount of every fee or charge collected. All fees, charges and moneys collected by the recorder of deeds shall be the property of the county. Every recorder of deeds shall be liable on his or her official bond for all fees collected and not accounted for by him or her and paid into the county treasury as provided by this section.
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(L. 1945 p. 1526 § 1, A.L. 1953 p. 372, A.L. 1965 p. 172, A.L. 1969 H.B. 119, A.L. 2001 S.B. 288)
Effective 7-01-01
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.255 - Marginal release of deeds of trust book kept, certain counties.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 01 Jul 2001, see footnote
59.255. Marginal release of deeds of trust book kept, certain counties. —
The recorder of deeds in each county wherein the offices of circuit clerk and recorder of deeds are separate and the circuit clerk and ex officio recorder of deeds in each county wherein the offices are combined shall keep in his or her office a record known as the "Marginal Release of Deeds of Trust" in which was recorded, at the time of the execution of a marginal release of a deed of trust, executed prior to August 28, 1991, the names of the grantors and grantees, the book and page of release, the date of release and to whom delivered.
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(L. 1959 S.B. 171 § 1, A.L. 1965 p. 172, A.L. 2001 S.B. 288)
Effective 7-01-01
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.257 - Deputy recorders — appointment — qualifications — certain counties.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 01 Jul 2001, 2 histories, see footnote
59.257. Deputy recorders — appointment — qualifications — certain counties. —
The recorder of deeds in counties wherein there is a separate circuit clerk and recorder is entitled to appoint the deputies that the recorder of deeds, with the approval of the county commission, deems necessary for the prompt and proper discharge of the duties of his office. The deputies shall possess the same qualifications as the recorder and may, in the name of their principal, perform the duties of the recorder of deeds, but all recorders of deeds and their sureties are responsible for the official conduct of their deputies. The deputies appointed pursuant to this section shall receive the salaries that are fixed by the recorder of deeds, with the approval of the county commission, from the general revenue of the county. The appointment of every deputy shall be in writing, endorsed with an oath of office similar to that taken by the recorder of deeds and subscribed to by the deputy appointed, and filed by the recorder with the county commission.
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(L. 1969 H.B. 119, A.L. 2001 S.B. 288)
Effective 7-01-01
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.260 - Circuit clerk to collect and report fees as recorder, when.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 01 Jul 2001, see footnote
59.260. Circuit clerk to collect and report fees as recorder, when. —
It shall be the duty of the circuit clerk and recorder of counties wherein the offices are combined to charge and collect for the county in all cases every fee accruing to his or her office as recorder of the county to which he or she may be entitled under the law, and shall at the end of each month, file with the county clerk a report of all fees charged and accruing to his office during such month, together with the names of persons paying such fees. It shall be the duty of the circuit clerk and recorder, upon the filing of said report, to forthwith pay over to the county treasurer all moneys that shall have been collected by him or her as recorder during the month and required to be shown in such monthly report as herein provided, taking duplicate receipts therefor, one of which shall be filed with the county clerk; and every such circuit clerk and recorder shall be liable on his or her official bond for all fees collected and not accounted for by him or her, and paid into the county treasury as herein provided.
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(L. 1945 p. 1529 § 3, L. 1945 p. 1532 § 3, A.L. 1949 H.B. 2017, A.L. 2001 S.B. 288)
Effective 7-01-01
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.270 - Deputies — compensation (certain first class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1973
59.270. Deputies — compensation (certain first class counties). —
The recorder of deeds of all counties of the first class not having a charter form of government shall appoint such assistants and deputies as he deems necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of his office, and may set their compensation within the limits of the allocations made for that purpose by the county commission. The compensation for the assistants and deputies shall be paid in equal installments out of the county treasury in the same manner as other county employees are paid.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13466, A.L. 1945 p. 1566 § 13135, A.L. 1947 V. I p. 520, A. 1949 H.B. 2017, A.L. 1951 p. 388, A.L. 1955 p. 354, A.L. 1959 S.B. 70, A.L. 1961 p. 267, A.L. 1971 H.B. 484, A.L. 1973 H.B. 685)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11834; 1919 § 11042; 1909 § 10738
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.290 - Deputies — appointment — qualifications — compensation (second class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1959
59.290. Deputies — appointment — qualifications — compensation (second class counties). —
The recorder of deeds, in counties of the second class, is entitled to appoint the deputies that the recorder of deeds, with the approval of the county commission, deems necessary for the prompt and proper discharge of the duties of his office. The deputies shall possess the qualifications of clerks of courts of record, and may, in the name of their principal, perform the duties of the recorder of deeds, but all recorders of deeds and their sureties are responsible for the official conduct of their deputies. The deputies, appointed as herein provided, shall receive the salaries that are fixed by the recorder of deeds, with the approval of the county commission. The appointment of every deputy shall be in writing, endorsed with an oath of office, similar to that taken by the recorder and subscribed to by the deputy appointed, and filed by the recorder of deeds with the county commission.
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(L. 1945 p. 1560 § 3, A.L. 1959 S.B. 70)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.300 - Deputies, counties wherein clerk is ex officio recorder — appointment — qualifications.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 01 Jul 2001, see footnote
59.300. Deputies, counties wherein clerk is ex officio recorder — appointment — qualifications. —
The circuit clerk and recorder in counties wherein the offices are combined, as recorder of the county, may appoint in writing one or more deputies, to be approved by the circuit judge of the circuit court, which appointment with the like oath of office as their principals, to be taken by them and endorsed thereon shall be filed in the office of the county clerk. Such deputy recorders shall possess the qualifications of clerks of courts of record, and may, in the name of their principals, perform the duties of recorders of deeds, but all circuit clerks and recorders and their sureties shall be responsible for the official conduct of their deputies.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13160, A.L. 1945 p. 1529 § 6, A.L. 1945 p. 1532 § 6, A. 1949 H.B. 2017, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 2001 S.B. 288)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11542; 1919 § 10567; 1909 § 10380
Effective 7-01-01
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.318 - Donation for homeless, recording of certain instruments (Jackson County).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 2010
59.318. Donation for homeless, recording of certain instruments (Jackson County). —
A donation of one dollar may be collected by the recorder of deeds for any county with a charter form of government and with more than six hundred thousand but fewer than seven hundred thousand inhabitants, over and above any fees required by law, when any instruments specified in subdivisions (3) and (5) of section 59.330 are recorded. The donations collected for the recorded instrument shall be forwarded monthly by the recorder of deeds to the county treasurer, and the donations so forwarded shall be deposited by the county treasurer into the housing resource commission fund to assist homeless families and provide financial assistance to organizations addressing homelessness in the county. The recorder shall provide a check-off box for such donation on the application form.
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(L. 2010 H.B. 1643)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.320 - Fee to be paid before record made, exceptions.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1986
59.320. Fee to be paid before record made, exceptions. —
The recorder shall not be bound to make any record for which a fee may be allowed by law other than records made for a political subdivision of this state, unless such fee shall have been paid or tendered by the party requiring the record to be made. The recorder may make records for political subdivisions of this state or any officer thereof without payment or tender of payment prior to the making of the record and may bill the political subdivision on a monthly basis for fees due for the making of such records.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13185, A.L. 1986 H.B. 931)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11566; 1919 § 10589; 1909 § 10402
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.321 - One dollar filing fee required, used for county employees' retirement system or general revenue account.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 01 Sep 2003, see footnote
59.321. One dollar filing fee required, used for county employees' retirement system or general revenue account. —
In addition to any other fee, the recorder of deeds in all counties and any city not within a county shall collect one dollar on all documents or instruments that are recorded. The recorder of deeds in all counties, except in counties with a charter form of government and any city not within a county, shall forward the fee to the county employees' retirement system pursuant to section 50.1190, provided, however, that the recorder of deeds in any county with a charter form of government and any city not within a county whose employees are not members of the county employees' retirement system shall deposit the fee to the general revenue of that county or city not within a county. The provisions of this section shall become effective September 1, 2003.
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(L. 2003 H.B. 221 merged with S.B. 346)
Effective 9-01-03
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.330 - What shall be recorded — legal description required, when — validity.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
• Effective - 28 Aug 2003
59.330. What shall be recorded — legal description required, when — validity. —
1. It shall be the duty of recorders to record:
(1) All deeds, mortgages, conveyances, deeds of trust, assignments, bonds, covenants, defeasances, or other instruments of writing, of or concerning any lands and tenements, or goods and chattels, which shall be proved or acknowledged, and authorized to be recorded in their offices;
(2) All papers and documents found in their respective offices, of and concerning lands and tenements, or goods and chattels, and which were received from the Spanish and French authorities at the change of government;
(3) All marriage contracts and certificates of marriage;
(4) All commissions and official bonds required by law to be recorded in their offices;
(5) All written statements furnished to him for record, showing the sex and date of birth of any child or children, the name, business and residence of the father and maiden name of the mother of such child or children.
2. All deeds, mortgages, conveyances, deeds of trust, assignments, bonds, covenants or defeasances, except supplemental indentures of utility companies and rural electric cooperatives, must contain a legal description of the lands affected. All deeds, except deeds of easement or right-of-way conveying any lands or tenements must contain a mailing address of one of the grantees named in the instrument. The recorder of deeds shall not record such instrument absent such address or legal description; provided, however, that the statutory constructive notice or the validity of the instrument shall not be affected by the absence of the address or the absence of the legal description.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13161, A.L. 1963 p. 115, A.L. 1985 H.B. 210, A.L. 1989 H.B. 786, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1190, A.L. 1997 S.B. 164, A.L. 2003 S.B. 383)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11543; 1919 § 10568; 1909 § 10381
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.331 - Certain personal identifying information not to be included in certain documents for recording, exceptions.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
• Effective - 28 Aug 2006, 2 histories
59.331. Certain personal identifying information not to be included in certain documents for recording, exceptions. —
The preparer of a document shall not include an individual's sensitive personal identifying information in a document that is prepared and presented for recording in the office of the recorder of deeds.
"Sensitive personal identifying information"
includes federal Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, and credit card account numbers. This section does not apply to state or federal tax liens, military separation or discharge papers, and other documents required by law to contain such information that are filed or recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds. Should any person's sensitive personal identifying information appear on any document prepared or submitted for recording, the preparer, submitter, or anyone in an agency relationship with the person may redact, remove, or delete the sensitive personal identifying information before submission to the recorder of deeds. Any such redaction, removal, or deletion shall not in any way affect the legal status of the transaction described in the document. The recorder of deeds shall not alter or modify any document in the official record except as otherwise provided by law.
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(L. 2004 H.B. 795, et al., A.L. 2006 S.B. 932)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.332 - Redaction or removal of sensitive personal identifying information permitted, when, procedure (Jackson County)

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 2006
59.332. Redaction or removal of sensitive personal identifying information permitted, when, procedure (Jackson County) —
1. Should any sensitive personal identifying information, as defined in section 59.331, appear in any record or image viewable on any publicly available internet website maintained or sponsored by a recorder of deeds, any person may apply to the recorder of deeds for redaction or removal of that sensitive personal identifying information. Any such application shall be made in writing, signed by the applicant, his or her attorney, or legal guardian, and shall specifically identify the document or documents containing the sensitive personal identifying information. The application shall be accompanied by a legible copy of each recorded document affected by the application, upon which the sensitive personal identifying information that is to be redacted is highlighted or otherwise indicated. Upon receipt of an application submitted in compliance with this section, the recorder of deeds may redact or remove the affected document from the records viewable on the publicly available internet website.
2. The provisions of this section shall only apply to any county with a charter form of government and with more than six hundred thousand but fewer than seven hundred thousand inhabitants.
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(L. 2006 S.B. 932)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.335 - Bankruptcy, certified copies of papers to be recorded — fees.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1951
59.335. Bankruptcy, certified copies of papers to be recorded — fees. —
Any recorder of deeds shall receive for record and record any certified copy of any matter in reference to bankruptcy which any act of Congress of the United States may provide for as being necessary to be filed in the county or counties wherein lands of a bankrupt are situated in order to be notice of said bankruptcy. Such certified copy shall be recorded in the record of deeds and indexed in the general index of deeds in the name of the bankrupt, as grantor, and in the name of the trustee in bankruptcy or receiver, if any, as grantee. The recorder of deeds shall charge and collect the same fee for recording such certified copy as is provided by law for recording a deed of the same length.
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(L. 1951 p. 367)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.340 - Records to be recorded in separate books by classes.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.340. Records to be recorded in separate books by classes. —
The several classes of instruments of writing mentioned in the several subdivisions of section 59.330 shall be recorded in separate books, according to their classification therein.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13162)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11544; 1919 § 10569; 1909 § 10382
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.350 - Conveyances of personal property recorded, how.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.350. Conveyances of personal property recorded, how. —
Instruments in writing, conveying chattels or personal property alone, which by any law of this state are required to be recorded or admitted of record in any recorder's office in this state, shall be recorded in a series of volumes separate from those used for recording conveyances of real estate.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13163)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11545; 1919 § 10570; 1909 § 10383
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.380 - Land patents recorded.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.380. Land patents recorded. —
All patents for lands lying within the state of Missouri, granted to any person or persons by the President of the United States or the governor of this state, may be recorded in the office of the recorder of the county in which the lands are situated; and the recorder shall be allowed the same fees for recording such patents as are allowed by law for recording deeds or other instruments of writing.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13171)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11552; 1919 § 10577; 1909 § 10390
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.390 - Copies of land patents received in evidence.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.390. Copies of land patents received in evidence. —
All copies of patents so recorded, or which may have been heretofore recorded, duly certified by the recorder, under his official seal, shall be received in all courts in this state as prima facie evidence of the contents of such patents.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13172)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11553; 1919 § 10578; 1909 § 10391
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.400 - Manner of recording.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1994
59.400. Manner of recording. —
The recorder shall record, without delay, every deed, mortgage, conveyance, deed of trust, bond, commission or other writing delivered to him for record, with the acknowledgment, proofs and certificates written on or under the same, with the plats, surveys, schedules and other papers therein referred to, and thereto annexed, in the order of time when the same shall have been delivered for record, by writing them word for word, in a fair hand, noting all interlineations and erasures and words visibly written on erasures, and noting the day and time of the day, month and year, when the instrument so recorded was delivered to him, or brought to his office for record; and the same shall be considered as recorded from the time it was so delivered.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13165, A.L. 1994 H.B. 1528)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11547; 1919 § 10572; 1909 § 10385
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.410 - Photographic copies deemed recording — to be bound.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.410. Photographic copies deemed recording — to be bound. —
Wherever the statutes require deeds, mortgages, conveyances, deeds of trust, bonds, covenants, documents, marriage contracts, certificates of marriage, commissions, official bonds, statements, records, plats, surveys, schedules, papers, patents, or other instruments of writing to be recorded, the making of photographic copies of such deeds or other instruments of writing shall be deemed recording within the meaning of this chapter. Such photographic copies shall be bound, paged and indexed wherever it is so provided for deeds or other instruments recorded by hand, and such photographic copies when bound together shall be deemed record books within the meaning of this chapter.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13188)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11569; 1919 § 10592
CROSS REFERENCE:
Photographic copies of records, deemed transcribing, 109.100
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.420 - Manner of recording (first class counties and certain cities).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1945
59.420. Manner of recording (first class counties and certain cities). —
In all cities in this state which now have or which may hereafter have or contain six hundred thousand inhabitants or more and in all counties in class one, the recorder shall record, without delay, every deed, mortgage, conveyance, deed of trust, bond, commission or other writing delivered to him for record, with the acknowledgment, proofs and certificates written on or under the same, by writing them, word for word, in a fair hand, or by typewriting them or by photostating them, noting at the foot of such record all interlineations and erasures, and the words visibly written on erasures, and noting, at the foot of the record, the day and time of the day, month and year when the instrument so recorded was delivered to him, or brought to his office for record; and the same shall be considered as recorded from the time it was so delivered. Except when otherwise provided by law it shall be the duty of the recorder to deliver to the person holding his receipt therefor every instrument so recorded within sixty days from the date upon which it was presented for recording.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13166, A.L. 1945 p. 1426)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.430 - Certificate on instrument recorded.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.430. Certificate on instrument recorded. —
The recorder shall certify, on or under such deed, mortgage, conveyance, deed of trust, bond, commission or other instrument, so recorded, the day and time of the day, month and year, when he received it, and the book and page or pages of the book in which it is recorded, and, when recorded, deliver it to the party or his order.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13167)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11548; 1919 § 10573; 1909 § 10386
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.440 - Abstract and index of deeds.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.440. Abstract and index of deeds. —
The recorder of each county in this state shall keep in his office a well-bound book or books, to be known as "The Abstract and Index of Deeds", which shall have appropriate columns properly ruled and headed for each of the following items, namely: Names of grantors and grantees, date of instrument, date of filing instrument for record, nature of instrument, book and page where recorded, description of land conveyed or affected; said books shall be divided into two equal parts, the front part to be alphabetically arranged for the names of grantors, and the back part to be alphabetically arranged for the names of grantees.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13164)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11546; 1919 § 10571; 1909 § 10384
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.450 - Index to marriage contracts and certificates.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.450. Index to marriage contracts and certificates. —
The recorder shall, in like manner, make, keep and preserve a similar index to all the books of record in his office wherein marriage contracts and certificates of marriages are recorded.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13169)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11550; 1919 § 10575; 1909 § 10388
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.460 - Index to officers' commissions and bonds.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.460. Index to officers' commissions and bonds. —
He shall, in like manner, make, keep and preserve a similar index to all the books of record wherein commissions and office bonds are recorded, containing the names of the officers appointed, and of the obligee and obligators in any bond recorded.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13170)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11551; 1919 § 10576; 1909 § 10389
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.470 - Index to instruments on file.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.470. Index to instruments on file. —
When any instrument of writing conveying or affecting real estate authorized by law to be recorded shall be filed in the recorder's office for record, the recorder shall enter the same in the names of the grantors and grantees in both parts of the abstract and index of deeds, filling each appropriate column with the several items contained in such instrument in alphabetical order, in the names of the grantors and grantees; and if the instrument be made by the sheriff, in the name of the sheriff, and the defendant in the execution, or of the person whose land is sold, and of the grantee; and if made by an executor or administrator, in the name of the executor or administrator, and of the testator or intestate, and of the grantee; and if by attorney, in the name of such attorney and of his constituent and of the grantee; and if by a commissioner, in the name of such commissioner, and of the person whose land is sold, and of the grantee.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13168)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11549; 1919 § 10574; 1909 § 10387
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.510 - Certified copy of deeds for land in different counties to be recorded, when.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.510. Certified copy of deeds for land in different counties to be recorded, when. —
Whenever any deed or other instrument of writing, conveying or affecting real estate situate in two or more counties in this state, has been or shall be duly recorded in any one of said counties, or where any new county heretofore has been or may hereafter be erected and organized, and such real estate or any part thereof shall be situate within such newly organized county, and the deed or other instrument of writing conveying or affecting such real estate has been or may be duly recorded in the county or counties from which such newly organized county has been or shall be taken, any person interested therein may procure from the recorder of deeds of such county a duly certified copy of such record, with his seal of office thereto affixed, and cause such certified copy, together with the certificate thereof, to be recorded in any other county where such real estate may be situated, in the same manner as the original instrument is or may be by law required to be recorded.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13175)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11556; 1919 § 10579; 1909 § 10392
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.520 - Certified copy of record notice to purchasers.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.520. Certified copy of record notice to purchasers. —
The record of such copy and certificate shall, after the same has been duly made, thereafter impart notice to all persons of the contents of such record and of the original instrument from which such record has been made, and all subsequent purchasers and mortgagees shall be deemed to purchase with notice thereof; but this section shall not be so construed as to affect or impair in any wise the notice which the original record of such deed or other instrument of writing may have imparted or may hereafter impart of the contents of such original record.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13176)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11557; 1919 § 10580; 1909 § 10393
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.530 - Force and effect of certified copy.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.530. Force and effect of certified copy. —
After such certified copy of such record, together with the certificate thereof, shall have been duly recorded as aforesaid, copies thereof, duly certified by the recorder of the proper county, with his seal of office thereto affixed, shall be received in evidence in the same manner and shall have the same force and effect as by law is or may be given to copies of the record of other deeds and instruments of writing affecting real estate which have been or may be hereafter duly recorded in the county in which such real estate is situated.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13177)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11558; 1919 § 10581; 1909 § 10394
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 59 - County Recorders of Deeds › Section 59.540 - United States land patents.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 59
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
59.540. United States land patents. —
It shall be the duty of the register of the United States land office of the state of Missouri, and he is hereby required, immediately after this section shall take effect, to forward by some convenient and safe means to the recorder of deeds in the various counties, and in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, all government land patents now on file or which may hereafter be filed in said office, affecting the title to any real estate in said counties or city, noting on the records of said office the disposition of such patents and the date when the same was forwarded.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13173)
Prior revision: 1929 § 11554