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New Missouri law mandates removal of discriminatory covenants from property
deeds

Gov. Mike Parson signed legislation requiring the removal of discriminatory
language that still exists -- though is unenforceable -- in deeds of older
homes

By: [31]Rebecca Rivas - June 30, 2022 9:00 am

Legislation passed earlier this year would require the removal of
restrictions relating to a person's race, color, religion or national
origin from newly recorded deeds (Douglas Sacha/Getty Images).

Gov. Mike Parson signed a [32]bill into law Thursday that requires
antiquated housing restrictions based on race, national origin or
religion to be removed in all newly-recorded deeds.

Beginning [33]in 1935, the federal government required housing
developers to sign agreements, or racial deed covenants, that they
would not sell these homes to "non-Caucasians," in order to be eligible
for federal construction loans.

Local governments across the country put forth similar "restrictive
covenants," with some also listing nationalities, religions and
individuals with disabilities.

While it's been illegal since 1968, the discriminatory language still
exists in deeds of older homes and is hurtful and offensive to
potential buyers.

[34]One restrictive covenant in a southwestern Missouri home stated:
"No persons of any race other than white shall own this property and
are not allowed to use or occupy any structure on the property unless
they were there in the capacity as domestic servants."

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling struck down states' ability to enforce
[35]discriminatory covenants nationwide in 1948, and the Federal Fair
Housing Act of 1968 made the practice of writing racial covenants into
deeds illegal. Missouri passed its own law in 1993, but the state
legislators never set up a road map for how to take the language out of
existing deeds.

So they keep getting passed on from owner to owner.

St. Louis and Kansas City were among the cities that led the nation in
restrictive covenants. According to a recent study, [36]St. Louis
still had 30,000 properties with restrictive covenants.

Missouri joins a [37]handful of states that have recently enacted laws
to remove such covenants from property records, following Maryland,
California, Illinois, Connecticut and Virginia.

The enforcement of the bill falls on the recorder of deeds office in
each Missouri county.

Under the legislation, the people who prepare or submit a deed for
recording - typically a title company - would remove the language
before sending it into the recorder of deeds. If the language is not
removed, then the recorder of deeds office can refuse to accept the
deed and send it back to the title company to make the changes.

For homeowners who aren't intending on selling their home but would
still like to remove the language from their deeds, Petrie said it
would involve submitting a one-page document to the recorder's office,
which would cost $24. Most of that revenue would go to the county
employer retirement fund and county general revenue, she said, but
$5.50 of it would stay with the recorder's office.

This is the second year the bill was introduced.

"We think this is a really important good-government cleanup to start
getting some of these restrictive covenants - that are not enforceable
anyway - but get them off the books," said Jessica Petrie, a lobbyist
for the Recorders' Association of Missouri, during a legislative
hearing this spring. "It's already 2022."

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