Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 214

Cemeteries

←214.180

Section 214.190.1

214.200→

August 28, 2015

Cemetery not subject to execution, dower or partition--exception.

214.190. Lands or property, set apart as burial grounds, either for

public or private use, and so recorded in the recorder's office of the county

where such lands are situated, or any burial ground that may have been used

as such for ten years shall not be subject to sale on execution, to dower,

nor to compulsory partition; provided, that the lands so appropriated and set

apart as a private burial ground shall not exceed one acre in area or one

hundred dollars in value; and provided further, that nothing contained in

this section shall be so construed as to exempt any such burial ground or

cemetery property from being liable for special assessments for street

improvements, when such assessment is levied by an incorporated city in this

state.



(RSMo 1939 § 15266)



Prior revisions: 1929 § 14057; 1919 § 1086; 1909 § 1308







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