2014 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XXIX OWNERSHIP AND CONVEYANCE OF PROPERTY (441-448)
Chapter 445 Plats
Section 445.010 Plats of cities, towns, villages--shall show what.

445.010. 1. Whenever any city, town or village, or any addition to any city, town or village, shall be laid out, the proprietor of such city, town or village, or addition, shall cause to be made out an accurate map or plat thereof, particularly setting forth and describing:

(1) All parcels of ground within such town, village or addition reserved for public purposes by their boundaries, course and extent, whether they be intended for avenues, streets, lanes, alleys, commons or other public uses; and

(2) All lots for sale, by numbers, and their precise length and width.

2. And the streets of all such additions to cities, towns or villages, or of plats of ground, except plats for cemetery purposes, shall conform to the streets of such city, town or village, so that the streets and avenues of such additions or plats shall, as near as may be, run parallel with or be continuations on a straight line of the streets of said city, town or village, and all taxes against the property proposed to be platted shall be paid.

(RSMo 1939 § 12804)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 11180; 1919 § 9283; 1909 § 10290

CROSS REFERENCES:

Commissioners in partition suit to divide land into lots, when, map shall be filed, 528.270, 528.330, 528.550, 528.560

Estate may be divided into town lots and platted, when, 473.533