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Title X TAXATION AND REVENUE

Chapter 141

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  141.570.  What title vests on sale. — 1.  The title to any real estate which shall vest in the land trust under the provisions of sections 141.210 to 141.810 and sections 141.980 to 141.1015 shall be held by the land trust of such county in trust for the tax bill owners and taxing authorities having an interest in any tax liens which were foreclosed, as their interests may appear in the judgment of foreclosure.  The title to any real estate acquired by a land bank agency pursuant to a deemed sale under subsection 3 of section 141.560, by deed from a land trust under subsection 1 of section 141.984, or pursuant to a sale under subdivision (2) of subsection 2 of section 141.550 shall be held in trust for the tax bill owners and taxing authorities having an interest in any tax liens which were foreclosed, as their interests may appear in the judgment of foreclosure.

  2.  The title to any real estate which shall vest in any purchaser, upon confirmation of such sale by the court, 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, including the state of Missouri, 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 to such parcel of real estate prior to the time of the filing of the petition affecting such parcel of real estate not then delinquent, or which may have attached after the filing of the petition and prior to sheriff's sale and not included in any answer to such petition, 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 such title shall not be subject to the lien of special tax bills which have attached to the parcel of real estate prior to November 22, 1943, but the lien of such special tax bills shall attach to the proceeds of the sheriff's sale or to the proceeds of the ultimate sale of such parcel by the land trust or land bank agency.

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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)

(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.).


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