Mo. Rev. Stat. § 141.540

Current with changes from the 2024 Legislative Session

Section 141.540 - Place of sale - form of advertisement, publication of

1. In any county at a certain front door of whose courthouse sales of real estate are customarily made by the sheriff under execution, the sheriff shall advertise for sale and sell the respective parcels of real estate ordered sold by the sheriff pursuant to any judgment of foreclosure by any court pursuant to sections 141.210 to 141.810 and 141.980 to 141.1015 at any of such courthouses, but the sale of such parcels of real estate shall be held at the same front door as sales of real estate are customarily made by the sheriff under execution.

2. Such advertisements may include more than one parcel of real estate, and shall be in substantially the following form:

NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S
SALE UNDER JUDGMENT OF
FORECLOSURE OF LIENS FOR
DELINQUENT LAND TAXES
	No. ______
In the Circuit Court of ______ County, Missouri.
In the Matter of Foreclosure of Liens for Delinquent Land Taxes
Collector of Revenue of ______ County, Missouri, Plaintiff,
vs.
Parcels of Land encumbered with Delinquent Tax Liens, Defendants.
WHEREAS, judgment has been rendered against parcels of real estate for taxes, interest, penalties, attorney's fees and costs with the serial numbers of each parcel of real estate, the description thereof, the name of the person appearing in the petition in the suit, and the total amount of the judgment against each such parcel for taxes, interest, penalties, attorney's fees and costs, all as set out in said judgment and described in each case, respectively, as follows: (Here set out the respective serial numbers, descriptions, names and total amounts of each judgment, next above referred to.) and,
WHEREAS, such judgment orders such real estate sold by the undersigned sheriff, to satisfy the total amount of such judgment, including interest, penalties, attorney's fees and costs,
NOW, THEREFORE,
Public Notice is hereby given that I ______, Sheriff of ______ County, Missouri, will sell such real estate, parcel by parcel, at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, between the hours of nine o'clock A.M. and five o'clock P.M., at the ______ front door of the ______ County Courthouse in ______, Missouri, on ______, the ______ day of ______, 20______, and continuing from day to day thereafter, to satisfy the judgment as to each respective parcel of real estate sold. If no acceptable bids are received as to any parcel of real estate, said parcel shall be sold to the Land Trust of ______ (insert name of County), Missouri or Land Bank of the City of ______ (insert name of municipality), Missouri.
Any bid received shall be subject to confirmation by the court.
	__________________
	Sheriff of _____ County, Missouri
__________________
Delinquent Land Tax Attorney
Address: ______
First Publication ______, 20______

3. Such advertisement shall be published four times, once a week, upon the same day of each week during successive weeks prior to the date of such sale, in a daily newspaper of general circulation regularly published in the county, qualified according to law for the publication of public notices and advertisements.

§ 141.540, RSMo

Amended by 2024 Mo. Laws, HB 2062,s A, eff. 8/28/2024.

L. 1943 p. 1029 § 26, A.L. 1945 p. 1761, A.L. 1982 H.B. 1351, et al., A.L. 2000 H.B. 1238 merged with S.B. 894, A.L. 2012H.B. 1659 & A.1116