Effective - 28 Aug 1939
431.070. Contracts with counties, effect. — All notes, bonds, bills, contracts, covenants, agreements or writings made whereby any person shall be bound to any county, or to the inhabitants thereof, or to the governor, or to any other person, in whatever form, for the payment of money or any debt or duty, or the performance of any matter or thing, for the use of any county, shall be valid and effectual to vest in such county all the rights, interests and actions which would be vested in any individual, in any such contract made directly to him.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13764)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12105; 1919 § 9503; 1909 § 3724
CROSS REFERENCES:
Contracts of political subdivisions, requirements for validity, 432.070
County budget law, 50.660
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXVIII - Contracts and Contractual Relations
Chapter 431 - General Provisions as to Contracts
Section 431.010 - Private seals abolished.
Section 431.020 - Instrument of writing to import consideration — due and payable as specified.
Section 431.030 - Provisions limiting time for bringing suits prohibited.
Section 431.040 - Fraud in sale of nursery stock — damages recoverable.
Section 431.050 - Failure of nurserymen to deliver at proper time and season, contract voidable.
Section 431.055 - Persons competent to contract when eighteen years of age.
Section 431.061 - Consent to surgical or medical treatment, who may give, when.
Section 431.063 - Implied consent, when valid — lack of consent, when excused — emergency defined.
Section 431.065 - Minor spouse or parent may give consent, when.
Section 431.067 - Contracts of minors to borrow money for higher education — validity.
Section 431.070 - Contracts with counties, effect.
Section 431.080 - Suit may be instituted thereon.
Section 431.090 - County commission may appoint agent to contract for county.
Section 431.100 - Claims against county for work and labor.
Section 431.110 - Joint contracts to be construed as joint and several.
Section 431.120 - Joint debt shall survive, against whom.
Section 431.130 - Survival of debt, against whom.
Section 431.140 - Joint obligations — suit brought against whom.
Section 431.150 - Creditor may compound with one of several debtors — release — what sums.
Section 431.160 - Assignor shall not release demand, when — title of assignee.
Section 431.170 - Action against assignor by assignee, when.
Section 431.202 - Employment covenants enforceable, when — reasonability presumption.