Title XXIX — OWNERSHIP AND CONVEYANCE OF PROPERTY

445.010. Plats of cities, towns, villages — shall show what. — 1. Whenever any city, town or village, or any addition to any city, town or village, shall be laid out, the proprietor of such city, town or village, or addition, shall cause to be made out an accurate map or plat the…

445.020. Plat, how drawn — shall show what. — Every plat hereafter constructed, which is authorized or required by law to be recorded, or intended to form part of any proceedings for the partition of real estate, shall be drawn to a scale, the scale to be noted on the plat, have …

445.030. Plat to be acknowledged and recorded — acceptance by city. — Such map or plat shall be acknowledged by the proprietor before some official authorized by law to take acknowledgments of conveyances of real estate, and recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds of the …

445.040. Duty of recorder when plat delivered — certified copies to be evidence. — 1. It shall also be the duty of the recorder to record all plats delivered to him for record, in a book to be called a "plat book", and, when necessary to preserve uniformity, he shall reduce the s…

445.050. When new county established or county lines changed, plat to be recorded, where. — When any such maps or plats shall be recorded, and by reason of the establishment of any new county, or the alteration of any new county lines, the city, town or village shall fall within …

445.060. Legalizing any plat of city or town, or addition or subdivision, after having been recorded for ten years — to be received in all courts of state. — Any recorded plat or plan of any town or city, and of any addition thereto or subdivision thereof, or/and any recorded sur…

445.070. Penalty for selling lots before plat recorded — plat shall vest fee, when. — 1. If any person shall sell or offer for sale any lot within any city, town or village, or any addition thereto, before the plat thereof be made out, acknowledged and recorded, as aforesaid, suc…

445.080. Penalty for recording an imperfect plat. — If any person, his agent or attorney, shall cause a map or plat of any such city, town, village or addition thereto to be recorded, which does not set forth and describe all parcels of ground which have been or shall be promised…

445.090. Persons incurring penalty may be proceeded against, how. — The property and effects of the person incurring such forfeiture may be proceeded against, by attachment or otherwise, in like manner and for the like causes as in ordinary cases. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 12811) P…

445.100. Plans, plats or replats — unlawful to receive or record such plan unless approved (cities of 400,000). — 1. In all cities that now have or hereafter may have four hundred thousand inhabitants or over, all plans, plats or replats of land laid out in building lots and stre…

445.110. Unlawful to sell, trade or otherwise convey unless plan, plat or replat shall have been recorded (cities of 400,000). — In all cities that now have or hereafter may have four hundred thousand inhabitants or over, it shall be unlawful to sell, trade or otherwise convey or…

445.120. Penalty for violation of certain provisions. — Any person violating the provisions of sections 445.100 to 445.120 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or to imprisonment n…