Time limits on lawsuits do not apply to land set aside for public use, religious use, or charity, or land owned by the state of Missouri. Also, a court cannot give someone ownership of land through adverse possession if the other party is a public utility company or a rural electric cooperative that has their ownership recorded in a deed.
516.090. not to extend to certain lands. — Nothing contained in any shall extend to any lands given, granted, , or to any public, pious, or charitable use, or to any lands belonging to this state. This section shall be to prohibit any granting to a where the possesses an interest in land described in a and is a as defined in section 386.020, or is a as defined in chapter 394, or is an organization operating under section 394.200.
(RSMo 1939 § 1011, A.L. 2006 S.B. 1045, A.L. 2007 S.B. 416)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 859; 1919 § 1314; 1909 § 1886
(2004) Section does not school from asserting period in section 516.010 as to quiet in land previously used for a school. Basye v. Fayette R-III School District of Education, 150 S.W.3d 111 (Mo.App.W.D.).
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