Missouri Laws 59.250 – Accounting of fees collected — annual report — moneys collected property of ..
1. The recorder of deeds in counties wherein there is a separate circuit clerk and recorder, shall keep a full, true and faithful account of all fees of every kind received. The recorder shall make a report thereof each year to the county commission.
2. It shall be the duty of the recorder of deeds to charge, receive and collect in all cases every fee, charge or money due the recorder’s office by law. The recorder of deeds shall also, when he or she makes and files the report required by this section at the end of each year of his or her official term, verify such report by affidavit, and the report shall show the source and amount of every fee or charge collected. All fees, charges and moneys collected by the recorder of deeds shall be the property of the county. Every recorder of deeds shall be liable on his or her official bond for all fees collected and not accounted for by him or her and paid into the county treasury as provided by this section.
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 59.250
- Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
- Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Recorder of deeds: the separate recorder of deeds in those counties where separate from the circuit clerk and the circuit clerk and ex officio recorder of deeds in those counties where the offices are combined. See Missouri Laws 59.005