Title XXXVI — STATUTORY ACTIONS AND TORTS

535.010. If rent be not paid as agreed, landlord may recover possession, how. — In all cases in which lands and tenements are or shall be rented or leased, and default shall be made in the payment of the rents at the time or times agreed upon by the parties, it shall be lawful fo…

535.012. Eviction proceedings, moratorium prohibited, when. — No county, municipality, or other political subdivision shall impose or enforce a moratorium on eviction proceedings unless specifically authorized by state law. ­­-------- (L. 2024 H.B. 2062 merged with S.B. 895 § 67.…

535.020. Procedure to recover possession — filing of statement — issuance of summons — procedure. — Whenever any rent has become due and payable, and payment has been demanded by the landlord or the landlord's agent from the lessee or person occupying the premises, and payment th…

535.030. Service of summons — court date included in summons. — 1. Such summons shall be served as in other civil cases at least four days before the court date in the summons. The summons shall include a court date which shall not be more than twenty-one business days from the d…

535.040. Upon return of summons, cause to be heard — landlord not liable, when — landlord notification of property left by tenant. — 1. Upon the return of the summons executed, the judge shall set the case on the first available court date and shall proceed to hear the cause, and…

535.050. Process shall not issue until expiration of lease, when. — When the property is held by a written lease containing a clause declaring the lease forfeited for the nonpayment of rent for a specified time, no process shall issue against the lessee or other person occupying …

535.060. Demand of rent good, when. — Any demand of rent, or rent and possession, by a landlord or the landlord's agent shall be deemed good within the meaning of this or any other statute of this state, when made at any time after the right to rent and possession accrues or the …

535.070. Purchaser of leased lands may recover possession. — If any person purchases lands or tenements occupied at the time of such purchase by any tenant, lessee or sublessee, who shall, at any time thereafter, fail to pay rent to such purchaser, the person purchasing such prop…

535.081. Rent recovery, successor in title, notice required — notice may be attached to notarized affidavit (counties of the first classification). — The right of a successor in title to recover rents pursuant to section 535.070 requires adequate and timely notice to the tenant. …

535.090. Complaint, contents — proof of trial. — It shall be sufficient for such person purchasing lands or tenements to file a complaint, pursuant to section 535.070, verified by affidavit, stating by whom the premises were leased or rented, and the terms of such lease or rentin…

535.100. Change of judge and venue same as under chapter 517. — The rights to a change of venue and disqualification of a judge in proceedings under this chapter shall be the same and shall be exercised in the same manner as in proceedings under chapter 517. ­­-------- (L. 1978 H…

535.110. Appeals, defendant to furnish bond to stay execution — additional conditions. — Applications for trials de novo and appeals shall be allowed and conducted in the manner provided in chapter 512; but no application for a trial de novo or an appeal shall stay execution unle…

535.120. Action brought, when. — Whenever one month's rent or more is in arrear from a tenant, the landlord, if he has a subsisting right by law to reenter for the nonpayment of such rent, may bring an action to recover the possession of the demised premises. ­­-------- (RSMo 193…

535.130. Summons in such action, how served. — If the summons in such action cannot be served in the ordinary mode provided by law, it may be served by affixing a copy of the petition and summons on a conspicuous part of the demised premises, where it may be conveniently read. ­­…

535.140. Service shall stand instead of demand. — Service of the complaint and summons in such action shall be a sufficient demand of the rent in arrear, and of a reentry on the demised premises. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2981, A.L. 1997 H.B. 361) Prior revisions: 1929 § 2594; 1919…

535.150. Judgment for recovery of demised premises. — If, upon the trial of such action, it is proved, or, upon judgment by default, it appear to the court, by affidavit, that the plaintiff had a right to commence such action according to the provisions of this chapter, he shall …

535.160. Tender of rent and costs on judgment date, effect — not bar to landlord's appeal — no stay of execution if no money judgment, exceptions. — If the defendant, on the date any money judgment is given in any action pursuant to this chapter, either tenders to the landlord, o…

535.170. Lessee barred from relief, when — appeal permitted, when. — After the execution of any judgment for possession pursuant to this chapter, the lessee and the lessee's assignees, and all other persons deriving title under the lease from such lessee, shall be barred from ree…

535.180. Reservation in favor of mortgagee of lease in such case. — A mortgagee of such lease, not in possession of such demised premises, who within three months after execution of any such judgment shall pay all rent in arrear, and all costs, and the charges incurred by the lan…

535.185. Tenant to be furnished address of person managing property and address to receive notices and service of process — post office box address, procedure — violation, effect. — 1. The landlord of residential property or any person authorized to enter into a rental agreement …

535.200. Landlord-tenant court authorized in City of St. Louis, jurisdiction — landlord-tenant commissioners, powers and qualifications — landlord-tenant court procedures. — 1. In the twenty-second judicial circuit, upon adoption of an ordinance by the City of St. Louis providing…

535.210. Landlord-tenant court authorized in Jackson County, jurisdiction — landlord-tenant commissioners, powers and qualifications — landlord-tenant court procedures. — 1. In the sixteenth judicial circuit, upon adoption of an ordinance by Jackson County providing for expenditu…

535.300. Security deposits, limitation — holding of security deposits, requirements — return of deposit or notice of damages, when — withholding deposit, when — tenant's right to damages — security deposit defined. — 1. A landlord may not demand or receive a security deposit in e…