Missouri Revised Statutes Title VI. County, Township and Political Subdivision Government § 59.250. Accounting of fees collected--annual report--moneys collected property of county

1. The recorder of deeds in counties wherein there is a separate circuit clerk and recorder, shall keep a full, true and faithful account of all fees of every kind received. The recorder shall make a report thereof each year to the county commission.

2. It shall be the duty of the recorder of deeds to charge, receive and collect in all cases every fee, charge or money due the recorder's office by law. The recorder of deeds shall also, when he or she makes and files the report required by this section at the end of each year of his or her official term, verify such report by affidavit, and the report shall show the source and amount of every fee or charge collected. All fees, charges and moneys collected by the recorder of deeds shall be the property of the county. Every recorder of deeds shall be liable on his or her official bond for all fees collected and not accounted for by him or her and paid into the county treasury as provided by this section.