Section 141.570

Title X TAXATION AND REVENUE

Chapter 141

Effective - 28 Aug 2024, 2 histories   

  141.570.  Title vests on sale. — The title to any real estate which shall vest in any purchaser, upon confirmation of such sale by the court, or in any land bank agency or land trust, shall be an absolute estate in fee simple, subject to rights-of-way thereon of public utilities on which tax has been otherwise paid, and subject to any lien thereon of the United States of America, if any, and all persons and interested parties, including the state of Missouri, any taxing authority or tax district, as defined herein, judgment creditors, lienholders, infants, incapacitated and disabled persons as defined in chapter 475, and nonresidents who may have had any right, title, interest, claim, or equity of redemption in or to, or lien upon, such lands, shall be barred and forever foreclosed of all such right, title, interest, claim, lien or equity of redemption, and the court shall order immediate possession of such real estate be given to such purchaser; provided, however, that such title shall also be subject to the liens of any tax bills which may have attached after the sheriff's sale, but if such parcel of real estate is deemed sold to the land trust pursuant to subsection 2 of section 141.560, or deemed sold to a land bank agency pursuant to subsection 3 of section 141.560, or sold to a land bank agency pursuant to subdivision (2) of subsection 2 of section 141.550, the title thereto shall be free of any such liens to the extent of the interest of any taxing authority in such real estate; provided further, that the lien of  special tax bills shall attach to the proceeds of the sheriff's sale, if any, or shall otherwise be forever barred and foreclosed.

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(L. 1943 p. 1029 § 27, A.L. 1945 p. 1761, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45, A.L. 2012 H.B. 1659 & 1116, A.L. 2024 H.B. 2062)

(2002) City's right to proceed against property for satisfaction of city's demolition debt was extinguished upon confirmation of tax sale, and thus lien securing that right after sale was effectively barred.  Dean Realty Co. v. City of Kansas City, 85 S.W.3d 83 (Mo.App.W.D.).