FIRST REGULAR SESSION

[TRULY AGREED TO AND FINALLY PASSED]

HOUSE BILL NO. 745

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY



1896L.02T 2001

AN ACT

To repeal section 58.490, RSMo 2000, relating to unclaimed property, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 58.490, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 58.490, to read as follows:

58.490. The coroner, within thirty days after an inquest upon a dead body, shall deliver to the county or city [treasurer] public administrator any money or other property that may be found upon the body, unless claimed in the meantime by the legal representatives of the deceased. If he [fail] or she fails to do so, the [treasurer] public administrator may proceed against him or her for its recovery by a civil action in the name of the state for the use of the county or city.



Missouri House of Representatives