FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[TRULY AGREED TO AND FINALLY PASSED]
SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 288
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
2003
1051S.03T
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Section A. Section 447.040, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 447.040, to read as follows: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,] of general circulation, qualified pursuant to chapter 493, RSMo, and located in the county where the money or property was found, once per week for three consecutive weeks; and if no owner prove the property within [one year] one hundred eighty days after such publication, the same shall vest in the finder.