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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 376.1005 — MO Code / Chapter 376 / Section 376.1005
376.1005 Application for certificate of authority, form — fee — policy or other ...
Status: in_force

376.1005. Application for certificate of authority, form — fee — policy or other evidence of coverage provided to employees, form. — 1. Application for a certificate of authority shall be made on forms prescribed by the director of the department of commerce and insurance. No multiple employer self-insured health plan may hold or obtain a certificate of authority unless it had not less than two hundred fifty covered employees during the preceding calendar quarter.

2. Not later than March first of each year, every multiple employer self-insured health plan shall pay to the director a license fee equal to two percent of the Missouri claims paid by the plan during the immediately preceding calendar year. All the funds collected by the director shall be deposited in the Missouri department of commerce and insurance dedicated fund.

3. Within forty-five days from the date coverage commences, the plan shall issue to each covered employee a policy, contract, certificate, summary plan description or other evidence of the benefits and coverages provided. This evidence of the benefits and coverages provided shall contain in boldfaced print in a conspicuous location, the following statement:

"The benefits and coverages described herein are provided through a trust fund established and funded by a group of employers. The benefits and coverages are not fully insured by an insurer licensed to do business in the state of Missouri and are therefore not protected by the Missouri Life and Health Guaranty Association".

(L. 1993 H.B. 709 § 24)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 162.925 — MO Code / Chapter 162 / Section 162.925
162.925 Property subject to tax — special district taxes not to be used in ...
Status: in_force

162.925. Property subject to tax — special district taxes not to be used in determining average school levy. — All real and tangible personal property owned by railroads, street railways, bridge companies, telegraph companies, electric light and power companies, electric transmission line companies, pipeline companies, express companies, airline companies and other companies and public utilities whose property is assessed by the state tax commission shall be taxed at the same rate of taxation levied on other property in the special school district and said property shall be taxed in the same manner and to the same extent as property which is subject to assessment and taxation for general county purposes, and all of the provisions of chapters 151 , 153 , 154 and 155 shall apply to taxation by special school districts to the same extent as if special school districts were specifically included in the provisions contained in chapters 151 , 153 , 154 and 155 , except that the taxes levied by special school districts shall not be included for the purpose of determining the average school levy for the other school districts in the county in which they are situated. The taxes levied against the property by special school districts shall be collected in the same manner as general county taxes.

(L. 1973 H.B. 474 § 56) Effective 7-1-74
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 215.160 — MO Code / Chapter 215 / Section 215.160
215.160 Indebtedness limited, exception.
Status: in_force

215.160. Indebtedness limited, exception. — The commission shall not have outstanding at any one time bonds and notes for any of its purposes in an aggregate principal amount exceeding two hundred million dollars, excluding bonds and notes issued to refund outstanding bonds and notes; provided, however, that the limitation contained in this section shall not apply to any bonds or notes of the commission which are secured, directly or indirectly, by first mortgage loans which have been insured or guaranteed by an agency or instrumentality of the United States, or any bonds or notes of the commission which at the time of issuance are rated not lower than "Aa" by Moody's Investors Service, Inc., in the case of long-term obligations or rated Moody's "Investment Grade I" by Moody's Investors Service, Inc., in the case of short-term obligations; or rated not lower than "AA" by Standard & Poor's Corporation in the case of long-term obligations or rated "SP-1+" by Standard & Poor's Corporation in the case of short-term obligations, or the equivalent ratings by Moody's Investors Service, Inc., or Standard & Poor's Corporation in the event the ratings described in this section are changed.

(L. 1969 H.B. 130 § 24, A.L. 1974 H.B. 1190, A.L. 1985 H.B. 484)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 247.570 — MO Code / Chapter 247 / Section 247.570
247.570 Special revenue obligation bonds — revenues pledged before issue.
Status: in_force

247.570. Special revenue obligation bonds — revenues pledged before issue. — Special revenue obligation bonds, within the meaning of sections 247.230 to 247.670 , shall be bonds payable, both as to principal and interest, wholly and only out of the net income and revenues arising from the operation of the water supply system of the district, after providing for costs of operation, maintenance, depreciation and necessary extensions and enlargements, and such bonds shall not be deemed to be indebtedness of the district within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation upon the incurring of indebtedness. Before or at the time of issuing any special revenue obligation bonds, the board shall pledge such net income and revenues to the payment of such bonds, both principal and interest, and shall covenant to fix, maintain and collect rates for water and water service supplied by such district so as to assure that such net income and revenues will be sufficient for the purpose herein required. The board may make such other covenants as may be appropriate for the purpose of protecting and safeguarding the revenues of the district and the payment of such special revenue obligation bonds.

(L. 1949 p. 350 § 34)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 351.461 — MO Code / Chapter 351 / Section 351.461
351.461 Merger of domestic corporation.
Status: in_force

351.461. Merger of domestic corporation. — A domestic corporation may merge or consolidate with one or more domestic or foreign limited partnerships, general partnerships, limited liability companies, trusts, business trusts, corporations, real estate investment trusts and other associations or business entities at least one of which is not a corporation, as provided in sections 347.700 to 347.735 .

(L. 1993 S.B. 66 & 20) Effective 12-01-93
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 473.037 — MO Code / Chapter 473 / Section 473.037
473.037 Successor need not publish notice, when.
Status: in_force

473.037. Successor need not publish notice, when. — If notice is given of the first letters granted on an estate in accordance with section 473.033 , no notice of letters thereafter granted to a successor executor or administrator is required.

(RSMo 1939 § 79, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 38) Prior revisions: 1929 § 79; 1919 § 78; 1909 § 86
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 374.071 — MO Code / Chapter 374 / Section 374.071
374.071 Insurance records exempt from public disclosure — release permitted, when.
Status: in_force

374.071. Insurance records exempt from public disclosure — release permitted, when. — 1. The following records of the department are not public records and are not available for public examination under section 374.070 :

(1) Any document or other material in any consumer complaint file maintained under section 374.085 , including medical records, repair estimates, adjuster notes, insurance policy provisions, recordings or transcripts of witness interviews, and any other records regarding coverage, settlement, payment, or denial of claim asserted under an insurance policy;

(2) Any document or other material submitted by an insurer or producer under section 374.190 , or any other inquiry, information request, or data call initiated by the department.

2. Any record that is not public under subsections 1 and 2 of this section is confidential and is not subject to disclosure, including discovery or subpoena, unless the subpoena is issued by the prosecuting attorney, attorney general, administrative hearing officer, or under the authority of any court. The director may only produce the documents or other material to another state or federal governmental agency or officer under a lawful request, subpoena, or formal discovery procedure. The documents or material may, in the discretion of the director, be made public once admitted as evidence in any administrative, civil, or criminal enforcement proceeding.

3. The director may release contents of any record that is not public under this section as part of an examination report under section 374.205 , if the release is in the public interest. Notwithstanding any provision of subsections 1 and 2 of this section to the contrary, in all cases, the director may release an incident report record consisting of the date and immediate facts and circumstances surrounding the initial consumer report or complaint.

4. No waiver of any applicable privilege or claim of confidentiality regarding any document shall occur as a result of disclosure to the director or by the director in sharing documents with other state and federal regulatory agencies, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, and its affiliates and subsidiaries, or state or federal law enforcement authorities, and the recipient of such document is bound by the provisions of this section as to the confidentiality of such document.

(L. 2005 H.B. 388)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 138.190 — MO Code / Chapter 138 / Section 138.190
138.190 Creation of state tax commission — term of office.
Status: in_force

138.190. Creation of state tax commission — term of office. — There is hereby created within the state department of revenue a commission to be known and designated as the "State Tax Commission". The director of revenue shall have no supervision, authority or control over such actions or decisions of the state tax commission as relates to its duties prescribed by law. The state tax commission shall be composed of three members, chosen from the two major political parties, who shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, one of whom shall be designated chairman, and to hold office for staggered terms of six years; provided, however, that of members first appointed, one member shall be appointed for a term of two years, one member for a term of four years, and one member for a term of six years. Each commissioner shall hold office until his successor shall qualify.

(RSMo 1939 §§ 11009, 11013, 11017, A.L. 1945 p. 1805 § 2) Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 9819, 9823, 9828; 1919 §§ 12828, 12832, 12837 (1958) Order of the state tax commission equalizing tax assessments as between counties did not affect individual rights and is not subject to review under Sec. 536.100. May Department Stores v. State Tax Comm. (Mo.), 308 S.W.2d 748.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 577.073 — MO Code / Chapter 577 / Section 577.073
577.073 Damaging state park property — penalties.
Status: in_force

577.073. Damaging state park property — penalties. — 1. A person commits the offense of damaging state park property if he or she:

(1) Knowingly places or deposits waste paper, tin cans, bottles, or rubbish of any kind within a state park;

(2) Contaminates, in any manner, any spring, pool, or stream within a state park;

(3) Cuts, prunes, picks, defaces, or injures, in any manner, the flowers, trees, shrubs, or any other flora growing on the land or in the water of any state park except as performed or directed by authorized personnel of the department of natural resources; or

(4) Removes, injures, disfigures, defaces, or destroys an object of archaeological or historical value or interest within a state park except as performed or directed by authorized personnel of the department of natural resources.

2. The offense of damaging state park property is a class C misdemeanor, unless:

(1) Such damage creates a substantial risk of physical injury or property damage to another; or

(2) The defendant has previously been found guilty of a violation of this section or an offense committed in another jurisdiction which, if committed in this state, would be a violation under this section, in which case it is a class A misdemeanor.

(L. 1961 p. 332 §§ 1, 2, A.L. 2012 H.B. 1251 merged with S.B. 719, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491) Effective 1-01-17
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 67.281 — MO Code / Chapter 67 / Section 67.281
67.281 Installation of fire sprinklers to be offered to purchaser by builder of ...
Status: in_force

67.281. Installation of fire sprinklers to be offered to purchaser by builder of certain dwellings — purchaser may decline. — 1. A builder of one- or two-family dwellings or townhouses shall offer to any purchaser on or before the time of entering into the purchase contract the option, at the purchaser's cost, to install or equip fire sprinklers in the dwelling or townhouse. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no purchaser of such a one- or two-family dwelling or townhouse shall be denied the right to choose or decline to install a fire sprinkler system in such dwelling or townhouse being purchased by any code, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, or resolution by any county or other political subdivision. Any county or other political subdivision shall provide in any such code, ordinance, rule, regulation, order, or resolution the mandatory option for purchasers to have the right to choose and the requirement that builders offer to purchasers the option to purchase fire sprinklers in connection with the purchase of any one- or two-family dwelling or townhouse.

2. Any governing body of any political subdivision that adopts the 2009 International Residential Code for One- and Two-Family Dwellings or a subsequent edition of such code without mandated automatic fire sprinkler systems in Section R313 of such code shall retain the language in section R317 of the 2006 International Residential Code for two-family dwellings (R317.1) and townhouses (R317.2).

(L. 2009 H.B. 103 and L. 2009 S.B. 513, A.L. 2011 H.B. 315 merged with S.B. 108, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1410 merged with S.B. 655 merged with S.B. 672, A.L. 2016 S.B. 732)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 231.110 — MO Code / Chapter 231 / Section 231.110
231.110 County commission in counties of second class to set aside land for shade ...
Status: in_force

231.110. County commission in counties of second class to set aside land for shade trees. — The county commissions of class two counties shall have the power and it is hereby made their duty, upon the petition of a majority of the resident property owners adjoining such road or roads, by order of record, to set aside a strip of land not less than six feet in width, along and from each side of every public road or highway of fifty feet or more in width now or hereafter laid out as a public road, within a distance of two miles of the corporate limits of any city, for the purpose of having planted and cared for shade and ornamental trees and providing for and maintaining footpaths on said strip of land.

(RSMo 1939 § 8574, A.L. 1945 p. 1500) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7925; 1919 § 10713; 1909 § 10516
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 491.210 — MO Code / Chapter 491 / Section 491.210
491.210 Witness not excused from testifying, when.
Status: in_force

491.210. Witness not excused from testifying, when. — No competent witness in a case shall be excused from answering a question relevant to the matter in issue, on the ground that the answer to such question may tend to establish the fact that such witness owes a debt or is otherwise subject to a civil suit.

(RSMo 1939 § 1896) Prior revisions: 1929 § 1732; 1919 § 5419; 1909 § 6363
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 407.664 — MO Code / Chapter 407 / Section 407.664
407.664 Reinstatement of agreement, when, conditions.
Status: in_force

407.664. Reinstatement of agreement, when, conditions. — 1. A consumer who fails to make timely rental payments has the right to reinstate the original rental-purchase agreement without losing any rights or options previously acquired under the rental-purchase agreement within three rental terms after the expiration of the last rental term for which the consumer made a timely payment if the consumer surrenders the rental property to the merchant when the merchant or its agent requests him to surrender the rental property.

2. Before reinstating a rental-purchase agreement, a merchant may require a consumer to pay any unpaid rental payments, delinquency charges, a reasonable reinstatement fee of not more than five dollars, and a delivery charge if redelivery of the rental property is necessary.

3. If reinstatement occurs pursuant to this section, the merchant shall provide the consumer with either the same property leased by the consumer prior to reinstatement or substitute property that is of comparable quality and condition.

(L. 1988 H.B. 988)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 378.638 — MO Code / Chapter 378 / Section 378.638
378.638 Fraudulent acts, penalties.
Status: in_force

378.638. Fraudulent acts, penalties. — 1. A person who shall knowingly make any false or fraudulent statement or representation in or relating to any application for membership, or for the purpose of obtaining money from or a benefit in any society, shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

2. Any person who willfully makes a false or fraudulent statement in any verified report or declaration under oath required or authorized by this chapter, or of any material fact or thing contained in a sworn statement concerning the death or disability of an insured for the purpose of procuring payment of a benefit named in the certificate, shall be guilty of perjury and shall be subject to the penalties therefor prescribed by law.

3. Any person who knowingly solicits membership for, or in any manner assists in procuring membership in, any society not licensed to do business in this state, or who shall solicit membership for, or in any manner assist in procuring membership in any such society not authorized as provided in this chapter, shall be guilty of an infraction.

4. Any person guilty of a knowing violation of, or neglect or refusal to comply with, the provisions of this chapter for which a penalty is not otherwise prescribed shall be guilty of an infraction.

(L. 1992 S.B. 831 § 378.636) Effective 1-01-93
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 166.526 — MO Code / Chapter 166 / Section 166.526
Section 166.526
Status: in_force

166.526. Program moneys not part of total state revenues. — Money accruing to and deposited in individual deposit accounts shall not be part of total state revenues as defined in Sections 17 and 18, Article X, Constitution of Missouri, and the expenditure of such revenues shall not be an expense of state government under Section 20, Article X, Constitution of Missouri.

(L. 2004 H.B. 959 § 166.555)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 506.130 — MO Code / Chapter 506 / Section 506.130
506.130 Summons shall be signed by clerk — contents.
Status: in_force

506.130. Summons shall be signed by clerk — contents. — The summons shall be signed by the clerk and dated the day it is issued, be under the seal of the court, contain the name of the court and the names of the parties, be directed to the defendant, state the name and address of the plaintiff's attorney, if any, otherwise the plaintiff's address, and the time within which the place where the defendant is required to appear and defend as provided by law, and shall notify him that in case of his failure to do so judgment by default will be rendered against him for the relief demanded in the petition.

(L. 1943 p. 353 § 25)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 359.491 — MO Code / Chapter 359 / Section 359.491
359.491 Foreign limited partnerships, law governing.
Status: in_force

359.491. Foreign limited partnerships, law governing. — Subject to the constitution of this state:

(1) The laws of the state under which a foreign limited partnership is organized govern its organization and internal affairs and the liability of its limited partners; and

(2) A foreign limited partnership may not be denied registration by reason of any difference between those laws and the laws of this state.

(L. 1985 H.B. 512 & 650) Effective 1-01-87
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 88.707 — MO Code / Chapter 88 / Section 88.707
88.707 Certain street improvements — protest, how heard and determined.
Status: in_force

88.707. Certain street improvements — protest, how heard and determined. — When the board of aldermen of any city of the fourth class shall deem it necessary to pave, macadamize, gutter, curb, grade or otherwise improve the roadway of any street or avenue for a distance not more than twelve hundred feet in length so as to connect at both ends with paving, macadamizing, guttering, curbing, grading or other improvements either on the same street or avenue or other streets or avenues, or on the same street or avenue and another street or avenue, the board of aldermen shall declare such work to be necessary to be done and shall cause the same proceedings to be had as are provided in section 88.700 , except no protest may be filed. The resolution passed and published shall state the fact that anyone desiring to do so may appear before the board of aldermen at a time stated therein and be heard on the question of the necessity of the work sought to be done, and if anyone does so appear he shall be heard, and the board of aldermen shall, by resolution, state the result of such hearing to be a reaffirmance of the necessity for the doing of such work or the contrary, as the board of aldermen may then decide. If no one appears, or if the board of aldermen reaffirm the necessity of the doing of such work and improvement, then it shall proceed with such work and improvement in the manner in this chapter provided for such work and improvement when no sufficient protest against such improvement is filed within the time limited therefor.

(RSMo 1939 § 7211) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7061; 1919 § 8511
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 337.515 — MO Code / Chapter 337 / Section 337.515
337.515 License expiration, renewal, fees.
Status: in_force

337.515. License expiration, renewal, fees. — Each license issued pursuant to the provisions of sections 337.500 to 337.540 shall expire on the renewal date. The division shall renew any license upon application for renewal and upon payment of the fee established by the committee pursuant to the provisions of section 337.507 .

(L. 1985 S.B. 37 § 5, A.L. 1989 H.B. 738 & 720)