141.410. Suit for foreclosure--petition--caption--contents--notice, filing (first class charter counties).

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

141.410. Suit for foreclosure--petition--caption--contents--notice, filing (first class charter counties).

Suit for foreclosure--petition--caption--contents--notice, filing(first class charter counties).

141.410. 1. A suit for the foreclosure of the tax liensherein provided for shall be instituted by filing in theappropriate office of the circuit clerk a petition, whichpetition shall contain a caption, a copy of the list so furnishedto the delinquent land tax attorney by the collector, and aprayer. Such petition without further allegation shall be deemedto be sufficient.

2. The caption shall be in the following form:

In the Circuit Court of ........ County, Missouri,

In the Matter of

Foreclosure of Liens for Delinquent Land Taxes

By Action in Rem.

Collector of Revenue of .... County, Missouri,

Plaintiff

-vs.-

Parcels of Land Encumbered with Delinquent Tax Liens

Defendants.

3. The petition shall conclude with a prayer that all taxliens upon such real estate be foreclosed; that the courtdetermine the amounts and priorities of all tax bills, togetherwith interest, penalties, costs, and attorney's fees; that thecourt order such real estate to be sold by the sheriff at publicsale as provided by sections 141.210 to 141.810 and thatthereafter a report of such sale be made by the sheriff to thecourt for further proceedings under sections 141.210 to 141.810.

4. The delinquent land tax attorney within ten days afterthe filing of any such petition, shall forward by United Statesregistered mail to each person or taxing authority having filed alist of delinquent tax bills with the collector as provided bysections 141.210 to 141.810 a notice of the time and place of thefiling of such petition and of the newspaper in which the noticeof publication has been or will be published.

5. The petition when so filed shall have the same force andeffect with respect to each parcel of real estate thereindescribed, as a separate suit instituted to foreclose the taxlien or liens against any one of said parcels of real estate.