FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 288
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR DOLAN.
Read 1st time January 16, 2003, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
1051S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 447.040, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to lost and found property.
Section A.Section 447.040, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 447.040, to read as follows:
447.040.If no owner appear and prove the money or property within forty days, and the value exceed twenty dollars, the finder shall, within thirty days thereafter, cause a copy of the description to be inserted in some newspaper in this state, for three weeks; and if no owner prove the property within [one year] ninety days after such publication, the same shall vest in the finder.