2011 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE IV EXECUTIVE BRANCH
Chapter 26 Governor and Lieutenant Governor
Section 26.040. Governor may purchase lands at sales under proceedings to which state is party.
Governor may purchase lands at sales under proceedings to which state is party.
26.040. The governor may attend, in person or by his duly authorized agent, all sales of real estate made by any sheriff under any distress warrant issued by the state director of revenue, or sales made pursuant to executions issued on any judgment, wherein the state of Missouri is a party litigant or is in any wise interested, and buy in the property, if he considers it necessary and expedient, in the name of the state, for its use and benefit, and take proper deed therefor. In such cases, he may credit the sheriff or other officer making the sale with the amount of the bid made on the distress warrant or execution.
(RSMo 1939 12699, A.L. 1959 H.B. 121)Prior revisions: 1929 11075; 1919 6939; 1909 7943
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