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§ 214.500 — Cemeteries acquired by a city at tax sales or as nuisances may be sold.

Missouri § 214.500
JurisdictionMissouri
Title XIIPUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Ch. 214Cemeteries

This text of Missouri § 214.500 (Cemeteries acquired by a city at tax sales or as nuisances may be sold.) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Missouri primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 214.500 (2026).

Text

Any cemetery located in a city which has become the property of such city pursuant to section 214.205 or a public tax sale may be sold to another cemetery operator or a not-for-profit corporation which is unrelated to the previous cemetery operator.

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Legislative History

(L. 1997 H.B. 592 § 1 and .S.B. 58 § 1, A.L. 2010 H.B. 1692, et al. merged with H.B. 2226, et al. merged with S.B. 754)

Nearby Sections

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§ 214.010
Local government may acquire and dispose of cemeteries within boundaries — authority to regulate — penalties.
§ 214.020
City may establish perpetual care cemetery fund — receive gifts — limitation on use of income from fund.
§ 214.030
Cemetery lots, conveyed by deed.
§ 214.035
Conveyance of cemetery property to political subdivision, when — notice of transfer.
§ 214.040
Plots and records of cemeteries to be maintained, where — requirements.
§ 214.041
Construction of roads prohibited in cemetery — exceptions.
§ 214.050
Power to vacate streets vested in county commissions.
§ 214.060
Petition to be presented to county commission — remonstrance may be filed.
§ 214.070
Terms defined.
§ 214.080
Proceedings to enlarge.
§ 214.090
Family burying grounds, how secured.
§ 214.120
Costs, who liable for.
§ 214.130
County commission and incorporated cemetery company to receive grants and bequests in trust.
§ 214.131
Tombstones, fences, destroying or mutilating in abandoned family or private cemetery, penalty — abandoned or private burying ground, defined.
§ 214.132
Visiting abandoned family or private burying ground surrounded by private property, right of access, when, enforcement by sheriff — court's power to disinter.
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