Bill Text: MO HB1544 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires a certificate of value to be filed with the assessor before the recorder of deeds can accept the filing of any document by which any interest in certain real property is conveyed
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-18 - Referred: Financial Institutions (H) [HB1544 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2012-HB1544-Introduced.html
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES KIRKTON (Sponsor), OXFORD AND McNEIL (Co-sponsors).
4118L.01I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 137, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the taxation of property.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 137, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 137.776, to read as follows:
137.776. 1. As used in this section, the following terms mean:
(1) "Assessor", the county assessor as provided for in chapter 53;
(2) "Certificate of value", a form for reporting the following:
(a) Whether the transaction was at arms length; and
(b) In the case of any deed not a gift, the amount of the full actual consideration therefor, paid or to be paid, including the amount of any lien or liens thereon; and
(c) The actual or intended use of the property; or
(d) The form shall report the information required in paragraph (a) of this subdivision and the reason or reasons why any information set out in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this subdivision is not required, as set forth in this section;
(3) "Recorder", the recorder of deeds as provided for in chapter 59;
(4) "Residential, commercial, or industrial real property", property which in the most recent assessment before the property's transfer was assessed as residential property or as utility, industrial, commercial, railroad, and other real property as defined in section 137.016.
2. No recorder shall accept for recording any deed or instrument by which any interest in residential, commercial, or industrial real property within this state shall be granted, assigned, transferred, or otherwise conveyed to, or vested in, any person or persons unless the deed or instrument indicates, in a manner to be determined by the state tax commission, that a completed certificate of value has been delivered to the assessor. The assessor shall file any certificate of value received by such assessor.
3. The following persons are responsible for the delivery of a certificate of value:
(1) The grantee of the deed or instrument, or any responsible officer or agent of a grantee which is a corporation, partnership, or other entity; or
(2) The attorney, real estate agent or broker, or title company representing the grantee in any such transaction, or delivering the deed or other instrument to the recorder, and including each responsible officer and agent of the foregoing.
4. Each certificate of value delivered under this section shall be affirmed by one of the grantees, or the grantee's legal representative, as to the veracity of the declaration of value of the residential, commercial, or industrial real property transferred.
5. The form of the certificate of value shall include the affirmation required by this section and shall be prescribed by the state tax commission, which shall provide an adequate supply of such forms without charge to each recorder in the state.
6. All certificates of value shall be made available by the assessor to the state tax commission or its representatives.
7. The financial data required on the certificate of value under this section need not be provided on a certificate of value for a transfer of title or other interest in residential, commercial, or industrial real property:
(1) When the consideration for the interest or property conveyed is less than one hundred dollars;
(2) Made solely to provide or release security for a debt or obligation;
(3) Which confirms or corrects a deed previously recorded;
(4) Between husband and wife or parent and child with only nominal actual consideration therefor;
(5) Made in settlement of a dissolution of marriage;
(6) Made under a sale for delinquent taxes;
(7) Made in the closing or liquidation of an estate or guardianship estate;
(8) On partition;
(9) Made by a subsidiary corporation to its parent corporation for no consideration, nominal consideration, or in sole consideration of the cancellation or surrender of the subsidiary's stock;
(10) Made in the foreclosure of a deed of trust or other security interest;
(11) If the instrument was executed before January 1, 2012;
(12) When the instrument is a mining or mineral lease;
(13) Of cemetery lots;
(14) When ordered by any court;
(15) When the transfer of title is to or from the United States, the state of Missouri, or any other instrumentality, agency, or political subdivision thereof; or
(16) When such property is located in a political subdivision which has established by ordinance or amendment its own system of requiring certificates of value; except that, in such political subdivisions, all certificates of value shall be made available to the state tax commission or its representatives.
8. Except as provided in subsections 1 to 7 of this section, no current or former assessor or state tax commissioner or any current or former deputy, employee, or agent of such officer shall disclose any information received as a result of the filing of a certificate of value required by this section. Any information received as a result of the filing of a certificate of value as required by this section shall be closed records and shall be exempt from disclosure, examination, and copying under chapter 610.
9. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit:
(1) The use of information contained in a certificate of value by the assessor for statistical purposes in implementing a plan of general reassessment, as defined in section 137.073, or implementing an assessment and equalization maintenance plan approved under section 137.115;
(2) The use of information contained in a certificate of value by the state tax commission in developing ratios as required by chapter 163, or other statistical purposes or public proceedings;
(3) The release of information contained in a certificate of value by the assessor upon receipt of a written request to a party who originally delivered the certificate of value or such party's duly authorized representative;
(4) The publication by the state tax commission of statistics so classified as to prevent the identification of particular certificates of value;
(5) The disclosure of certificates of value, or information related thereto, by the assessor upon receipt of a written request to the state auditor or the auditor's authorized employees or agents who have taken the oath of confidentiality required by section 29.070, or the publication or disclosure by the state auditor of information concerning the certificates of value provided a particular certificate of value is not disclosed.
10. No deed shall be filed without a certificate of value, for which there shall be a filing fee of ten dollars, payable at the time of filing.
11. This section shall become effective January 1, 2013.
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