137.220. Assessor to prepare plats to all tracts and lots.
Assessor to prepare plats to all tracts and lots.
137.220. The assessor of St. Louis City shall cause to be prepared platscovering all tracts and lots of land in said city, and the county assessor inevery county where the county commission shall have passed an order requiringan alphabetical arrangement of the land list, shall cause to be prepared platscovering all tracts and lots of lands in such county, showing upon therespective pieces of property, as marked down on said plats, the names of thepersons to whom each tract or lot was assessed for each year; he shall causethe changes for the assessment of the following years to be marked indifferent inks, stating on the first leaf of each plat book for what years thedifferent inks were used, and such plats shall not be used to record thechanges for a longer period than seven assessment years on each set of plats;and in every such county where an alphabetical arrangement of the land listshall be adopted by order of the county commission, such commission shallallow to the assessor a reasonable compensation for preparing such plat andprocuring the books therefor.
(RSMo 1939 § 10972, A.L. 1945 p. 1782 § 35)Prior revisions: 1929 § 9781; 1919 § 12791; 1909 § 11373