441.020. Illegal use of premises renders lease void. - Missouri Statutes

Illegal use of premises renders lease void.

441.020. Whenever any lessee of any house, apartment or buildingpermits any prohibited gaming table, bank or device to be set up or be keptor used upon the premises, for the purpose of gaming, or keeping in thesame a bawdyhouse, brothel or common gaming house, or allowing the illegalpossession, sale or distribution of controlled substances upon thepremises, the lease or agreement for letting such house or building shallbecome void, and the lessor may enter on the premises so let, and shallhave the same remedies for the recovery of the premises as in the case of atenant holding over the tenant's term.

(RSMo 1939 § 4689, A.L. 1997 H.B. 361)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 4299; 1919 § 3549; 1909 § 4762

(1956) Evidence held insufficient to support verdict for forfeiture of lease because of gambling on premises. Blair v. Hamilton (A.), 297 S.W.2d 14.