Terms Used In Missouri Laws 140.987

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

A land bank agency shall ensure that any contract for the sale of residential property owned by the land bank agency shall have a clause that the buyer shall own the property for three years following the buyer’s purchase of the property from the land bank. The clause shall state that a violation of those terms makes the buyer civilly liable to the land bank agency for an amount equal to twice the sale price of the property.