Effective - 28 Aug 2005
89.450. Use of unapproved plat in sale of land — penalty — vacation or injunction of transfer. — No owner, or agent of the owner, of any land located within the platting jurisdiction of any municipality, knowingly or with intent to defraud, may transfer, sell, agree to sell, or negotiate to sell that land by reference to or by other use of a plat of any purported subdivision of the land before the plat has been approved by the council or planning commission and recorded in the office of the appropriate county recorder unless the owner or agent shall disclose in writing that such plat has not been approved by such council or planning commission and the sale is contingent upon the approval of such plat by such council or planning commission. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay to the municipality a penalty not to exceed three hundred dollars for each lot transferred or sold or agreed or negotiated to be sold; and the description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the transaction from this penalty. A municipality may enjoin or vacate the transfer or sale or agreement by legal action, and may recover the penalty in such action.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 16, A.L. 2005 S.B. 210)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages
Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning
Section 89.030 - Zoning districts.
Section 89.040 - Purpose of regulations.
Section 89.050 - Powers and limitations of legislative body in city — hearings, notice.
Section 89.060 - Change in regulations, restrictions and boundaries — procedure.
Section 89.070 - Zoning commission — appointment — duties.
Section 89.080 - Board of adjustment — appointment — term — vacancies — organization.
Section 89.090 - Board of adjustment — powers, exception for Kansas City.
Section 89.100 - Board of adjustment — appeals, procedure.
Section 89.110 - Board of adjustment — decisions subject to review — procedure.
Section 89.120 - Violations — penalties.
Section 89.130 - Provisions of this law to govern, when.
Section 89.140 - Previous ordinances to remain in force.
Section 89.143 - Zoning law to allow certain facilities.
Section 89.144 - Peripheral zoning (third class cities over 25,000 inhabitants).
Section 89.210 - Street defined.
Section 89.220 - Establishment of building lines.
Section 89.230 - Structures shall be required to conform to new line, when.
Section 89.240 - Assessment and payment of damages.
Section 89.250 - Law does not abridge or limit power of eminent domain.
Section 89.310 - Municipality may adopt city plan and appoint commission.
Section 89.320 - Planning commission — membership — terms — vacancy — removal.
Section 89.340 - City plan, contents — zoning plan.
Section 89.350 - Plan, prepared how — purposes.
Section 89.360 - Adoption of plan, procedure.
Section 89.370 - Powers of commission — recommendations.
Section 89.390 - Functions of commission.
Section 89.420 - Commission to approve plats, when.
Section 89.430 - Commission approval of plats — effects.
Section 89.440 - Approval of plats required for recording.
Section 89.460 - Public improvements, how approved after adoption of major street plan.
Section 89.470 - No building permitted on streets not conforming to major street plan.
Section 89.480 - Establishment of building lines — board of adjustment.
Section 89.490 - Violation — penalty.
Section 89.500 - Home-based work — limitation on zoning restrictions.