FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 450
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE MYERS.
Read 1st time January 18, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 527.180, RSMo 2000, relating to real estate ownership, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 527.180, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 527.180, to read as follows:
527.180. In all cases when, under the provisions of section 516.070, RSMo, the title or claim of any person out of
possession of any real estate shall be barred by limitation, and the title thereto has vested in the party in
possession, or the party under whom he or she claims, under the provisions of [said] section 516.070, RSMo, the
party holding the title which has vested by limitation under [the provisions of said] section 516.070, RSMo, may
bring [his] an action in the circuit court of the county in which the real estate is situated, to have his or her record
title thereto perfected[, and it shall be sufficient for him to]. Such person shall file a bond in an amount
sufficient to pay the collector of the county in which such real estate is situated all delinquent real property
taxes on such real estate. Such person shall also state in his or her petition that he or she holds the title to such
real estate[,] and that [the same] title has vested in him, her or those under whom he or she claims, by limitation
under [the provisions of said,] section [and] 516.070, RSMo. In such action it shall not be necessary to make any
person a party defendant except such persons [as may] who appear to have of record a claim or title adverse to that
of plaintiff[, and]. [Upon the] At trial [of such cause], a presentation of proof of the facts[,] showing title in
plaintiff by limitation by reason of the provisions of [said] section 516.070, RSMo, and a finding by the court
that plaintiff has posted bond in an amount sufficient to pay all delinquent real property taxes owed the
county collector on such real estate, shall entitle [him] the plaintiff to a decree of the court declaring [his]
plaintiff's title by limitation under the provisions of [said] section 516.070, RSMo[, and]. When delinquent real
property taxes are owed on the real estate to which plaintiff is granted title, the amount of such taxes shall
be adjudged against plaintiff, and plaintiff's bond shall be used to satisfy plaintiff's liability to the collector
of the county in which the real estate is situated. A copy of such decree may be entered of record in the office
of the recorder of deeds for said county[, and]. In any such action service of process may be had as provided in
chapter 506, RSMo, in causes affecting real estate, and if in any case the person whose adverse claim appears of
record shall be dead, then the heirs or devisees of such person, or those claiming by, through or under him, her or
them, if known, shall be made defendants, as adverse claimants, and if they be unknown to plaintiff, then [he]
plaintiff shall allege in his or her petition, under oath, that there are, or that he or she verily believes there are,
persons interested in the subject matter of the petition as heirs or devisees of deceased, or as claiming by, through
or under him, her or them, whose names [he] plaintiff cannot insert therein because they are unknown to [him]
plaintiff, and shall describe the interest of such person, and how derived, so far as [his] plaintiff's knowledge
extends, and service of process on such unknown person shall be had as [in said] prescribed by chapter 506,
RSMo, [is provided in case of] for unknown parties, and when such service shall be had, judgment and decree
shall be rendered the same as though personal service had been had.
Missouri House of
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