2013 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE X TAXATION AND REVENUE
Chapter 140 Collection of Delinquent Taxes Generally
Section 140.420 Deed to purchaser if unredeemed.
Deed to purchaser if unredeemed.
140.420. If no person shall redeem the lands sold for taxes within the applicable redemption period of one year from the date of the sale or within the ninety-day notice as specified in section 140.405 for a third-year tax sale, at the expiration thereof, and on production of the certificate of purchase, the collector of the county in which the sale of such lands took place shall execute to the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, in the name of the state, a conveyance of the real estate so sold, which shall vest in the grantee an absolute estate in fee simple, subject, however, to all claims thereon for unpaid taxes except such unpaid taxes existing at time of the purchase of said lands and the lien for which taxes was inferior to the lien for taxes for which said tract or lot of land was sold.
(RSMo 1939 § 11149, A.L. 2003 S.B. 295, A.L. 2010 H.B. 1316)
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