SECOND REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 932
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR KLARICH.
Read 1st time January 15, 2002, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 24, 2002, and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Reported from the Committee February 4, 2002, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Taken up February 19, 2002. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
3950S.01P
AN ACT
To repeal section 535.081, RSMo, relating to rent recovery by a successor in title, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 535.081, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 535.081, to read as follows:
535.081. The right of a successor in title to recover rents pursuant to section 535.070 requires adequate and timely notice to the tenant. For the purposes of this section, "adequate and timely notice" means that the purchaser shall notify tenants in writing of the fact that title to the property has been transferred, and of the means of the transfer [and the date of the transfer and the notice shall be attached to a copy of the deed which has been recorded]. A copy of the deed by which title was or has been transferred shall be attached to such notice.