Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 26

Governor and Lieutenant Governor

←26.030

Section 26.040.1

26.050→

August 28, 2015

Governor may purchase lands at sales under proceedings to which state is party.

26.040. The governor may attend, in person or by his duly authorized

agent, all sales of real estate made by any sheriff under any distress

warrant issued by the state director of revenue, or sales made pursuant to

executions issued on any judgment, wherein the state of Missouri is a party

litigant or is in any wise interested, and buy in the property, if he

considers it necessary and expedient, in the name of the state, for its use

and benefit, and take proper deed therefor. In such cases, he may credit the

sheriff or other officer making the sale with the amount of the bid made on

the distress warrant or execution.



(RSMo 1939 § 12699, A.L. 1959 H.B. 121)



Prior revisions: 1929 § 11075; 1919 § 6939; 1909 § 7943







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