407.900. Definitions.
Definitions.
407.900. As used in sections 407.900 to 407.910:
(1) The term "art dealer" means a person engaged in thebusiness of selling fine arts. The term "art dealer" does notinclude any person engaged exclusively in the business of sellinggoods at public auction;
(2) The term "artist" means a person who creates fine artor, if such person is deceased, such person's heir, legatee, orpersonal representative;
(3) The term "consignment" means a transfer of the physicalpossession of fine art by the artist creating the fine art asconsignor in which no title to, estate in, or right to possessionof the fine art superior to that of the artist who is theconsignor shall vest in the consignee, notwithstanding theconsignee's power or authority to transfer and convey the title,and all of the rights and interests of the artist who is theconsignor in and to such fine art to a third person;
(4) The term "creditors" includes, but is not limited to,those persons included in the definition of "creditor" in section400.1-201, RSMo;
(5) The term "fine arts" includes:
(a) Visual art such as paintings, sculptures, drawings,mosaics, or photographs;
(b) Calligraphy;
(c) Graphic art such as etchings, lithographs, offsetprints, silk screens, and other works of a similar nature;
(d) Crafts, including any item made by an artist orcraftsman through the use of clay, textiles, fibers, wood, metal,plastic, glass, ceramics, or similar materials;
(e) Works in mixed media such as collages or any combinationof the art forms or media listed in paragraph (a), (b), (c), or(d) of this subdivision.
(L. 1984 S.B. 688 § 1)