Terms Used In Missouri Laws 205.070

  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020

Any person, firm, organization, society or corporation desiring to make donations of money, personal property or real estate for the benefit of such health center, shall have the right to vest title of such property so donated, in the county or counties, to be controlled when so accepted by the board of health center trustees according to the terms of deed, gift, devise or bequest of such property.