Missouri Laws 59.260 – Circuit clerk to collect and report fees as recorder, when
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 59.260
- Duplicate: copies, copies requested concurrently with, but in excess of one reproduction in any medium of a recorded instrument or document or collection thereof. See Missouri Laws 59.005
- File: "filed" or "filing", the act of delivering or transmitting a document to the recorder of deeds for recording into the official public record. See Missouri Laws 59.005
- Month: means a calendar month, and "year" means a calendar year unless otherwise expressed, and is equivalent to the words year of our Lord. See Missouri Laws 1.020
It shall be the duty of the circuit clerk and recorder of counties wherein the offices are combined to charge and collect for the county in all cases every fee accruing to his or her office as recorder of the county to which he or she may be entitled under the law, and shall at the end of each month, file with the county clerk a report of all fees charged and accruing to his office during such month, together with the names of persons paying such fees. It shall be the duty of the circuit clerk and recorder, upon the filing of said report, to forthwith pay over to the county treasurer all moneys that shall have been collected by him or her as recorder during the month and required to be shown in such monthly report as herein provided, taking duplicate receipts therefor, one of which shall be filed with the county clerk; and every such circuit clerk and recorder 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 herein provided.