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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 295.120 — MO Code / Chapter 295 / Section 295.120
295.120 Public hearing panel — members — powers — hearings.
Status: in_force

295.120. Public hearing panel — members — powers — hearings. — 1. In the event that management of a utility and the representatives for collective bargaining purposes of any craft or group of employees of such utility shall not have reached and executed a final agreement in writing as to all conditions of employment affecting such employees on or before the termination date of any existing contract, agreement or understanding or any renewal thereof, or unless the parties shall have, before said date, agreed to submit any and all disputes between them to arbitration, the management of such utility and the representatives of such employees shall, within five days after such termination date, each designate, in writing, a person as a public hearing panel member and file such designation with the state board of mediation; the two persons so designated shall choose a third disinterested and impartial person and these three shall compose and act as a panel.

2. The panel shall promptly proceed and within fifteen days following their designation hold and complete public hearings on the specific changes so requested, to the contract, agreement or understanding. Said period of fifteen days may be extended by the mutual written consent of the parties. The panel shall give to each party full notice and opportunity to be heard, but the failure of either party to appear before the panel at the time and place fixed by it shall not deprive the panel of jurisdiction to proceed to a hearing and to make report thereon as herein provided.

(L. 1947 V. I p. 358 § 14)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 513.305 — MO Code / Chapter 513 / Section 513.305
513.305 Executions issued from circuit court of Marion County — either division — ...
Status: in_force

513.305. Executions issued from circuit court of Marion County — either division — effect. — All executions issued in pursuance of judgments rendered by either district number 1 or district number 2 of the circuit court of Marion County may be levied in any part of Marion County, or elsewhere.

(RSMo 1939 § 2430, A. 1949 H.B. 2121, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634) Prior revisions: 1929 § 14558; 1919 § 13737; 1909 § 4286 Effective 1-02-79
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 21.615 — MO Code / Chapter 21 / Section 21.615
21.615 Automatic introduction of filed bills.
Status: in_force

21.615. Automatic introduction of filed bills. — Bills filed during the filing period with the secretary of the senate or clerk of the house shall be automatically introduced on the opening day of that session of the general assembly which next succeeds the last day of the filing period in which the bills were filed.

(L. 1971 H.B. 156 § 4)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 294.131 — MO Code / Chapter 294 / Section 294.131
294.131 Child labor enforcement fund.
Status: in_force

294.131. Child labor enforcement fund. — 1. There is hereby created in the state treasury a fund to be known as the "Child Labor Enforcement Fund". All moneys awarded by any court for civil damages for violations of this chapter and all moneys collected in settlements from persons who violate the provisions of this chapter shall be transmitted to the department of revenue for deposit in the child labor enforcement fund. Subject to appropriations, the money in this fund shall be used by the division of labor standards for investigations and enforcement of the provisions of this chapter.

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080 to the contrary, money in this fund shall not be transferred and placed to the credit of general revenue until the amount in the fund at the end of the biennium exceeds two times the amount of the appropriations from the fund for the preceding fiscal year. The amount, if any, in the fund which shall lapse is that amount in the fund which exceeds the appropriate multiple of the appropriations from the fund for the preceding fiscal years.

(L. 1995 H.B. 300 & 95 § 294.130 merged with H.B. 414 § 294.130)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 429.320 — MO Code / Chapter 429 / Section 429.320
429.320 Appointment of referee by court, when — jury trials.
Status: in_force

429.320. Appointment of referee by court, when — jury trials. — At the instance of any party to said action the court may appoint a referee to hear and report the evidence and to make conclusions and findings of fact and law therein and to report the same to the court for its further action thereon, and the court may confirm and approve said report in full or in parts and may modify the same and make other findings from the evidence reported as may be just and proper and render judgment accordingly. The court shall not appoint in any such equitable action any referee of its own motion. And in any such action the court may, if it deem the parties entitled thereto, or in its discretion submit any issue upon any separate claim or demand to a jury, and any two or more of such issues may in the discretion of the court be submitted to one jury or the court may submit separately such issues to a jury and shall be bound by the findings of the jury thereon in the further proceedings in said cause, subject to the power of the court to grant new trial of such issues.

(RSMo 1939 § 3575) Prior revisions: 1929 § 3185; 1919 § 7245
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 272.240 — MO Code / Chapter 272 / Section 272.240
272.240 Partition fences — owner may demand payment, when.
Status: in_force

272.240. Partition fences — owner may demand payment, when. — Whenever the owner of real estate desires to erect or construct a lawful fence which wholly or partially borders the land of another, he shall notify the other owner that he desires a division fence. If within ninety days after receiving the notice, the other landowner has not erected or constructed one-half of the division fence, the owner desiring the fence may apply to the associate division of the circuit court for an order to proceed with the construction and ordering the other landowner to pay one-half the value of so much thereof, as borders his land, and upon the payment shall own an undivided one-half of the fence; except that no owner shall be required to pay more than one-half the value of a lawful fence of four barbed wires, regardless of the type fence constructed. The associate division of the circuit court costs shall be taxed against the other landowner.

(L. 1963 p. 401 § 4, A.L. 1965 p. 395)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 242.490 — MO Code / Chapter 242 / Section 242.490
242.490 Levy of maintenance tax — procedure.
Status: in_force

242.490. Levy of maintenance tax — procedure. — 1. To maintain and preserve the ditches, drains, levees or other improvements made pursuant to sections 242.010 to 242.690 and to strengthen, repair and restore the same, when needed, and for the purpose of defraying the current expenses of the district, the board of supervisors may, upon the completion of such improvements and on or before the first day of September in each year thereafter, levy a tax upon each tract or parcel of land and upon corporate property within the district to be known as a "maintenance tax". The maintenance tax shall be apportioned upon the basis of the net assessments of benefits accruing for original construction or subsequently adjusted reassessments, shall not exceed twenty percent thereof in any one year and shall be certified to the collector of the revenue of each county in which lands of the district are situated in the same book in like manner and at the same time as the annual installment tax is certified, but in a separate column, under the heading "maintenance tax".

2. The collector shall demand and collect the maintenance tax and make return thereof and shall receive the same compensation therefor and be liable for the same penalties for failure or neglect so to do as is provided in this section for the annual installment tax, except that after all annual installments of the total tax have become due, and thereafter it is only desired and necessary to levy and collect such maintenance tax, the board of supervisors of such drainage districts may, by resolution, provide that in the tax books containing the maintenance tax, it shall be sufficient if the several governmental lots, forty-acre tracts or other subdivisions of land as they appear in the decree of the circuit court organizing the district, be conveniently combined and described together, if contiguous, according to each ownership, and the names of the owners thereof as they may appear in the deed records, may be used in such tax book, and the certificate thereof, as provided by section 242.460 may conform thereto. The amount of the maintenance tax levied against such combined tracts shall be the same as the aggregate of the tax if levied against each separate tract and errors in the combined descriptions of such lands or in the names of the owners thereof, or in the amount of such maintenance tax as they appear in such book, shall not affect the validity of such tax or the lien thereof, and any such errors may at any time be corrected by resolution of the board of supervisors of such drainage district.

(RSMo 1939 § 12370, A.L. 1990 S.B. 777) Prior revisions: 1929 § 10789; 1919 § 4419
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 142.944 — MO Code / Chapter 142 / Section 142.944
142.944 Audits.
Status: in_force

142.944. Audits. — 1. The director and his agents or appointees are authorized to audit and examine the records, books, papers, and equipment of any licensee or other person selling, transporting, storing or using motor fuel in order to verify the completeness, truth and accuracy of any statement or report and ascertain whether or not the tax imposed by this chapter has been paid. Except in the case of a fraudulent report or neglect or failure to file a report, additional tax shall be assessed on the licensee within three years after the alleged erroneous report was filed.

2. Records shall be made available to the director during normal business hours at the physical location of the person in this state, or at the offices of the director within three business days after request if the location at which records are located is outside of this state.

3. The director, his agents or appointees, including federal government employees and persons contracting with this state, may, upon showing credentials, inspect and each fuel vendor, motor fuel transporter or bulk purchaser shall disclose, immediately upon request, any shipping paper required by this chapter to be maintained at the physical location where the request is made which may include any place motor fuel is stored or held for sale or transportation.

4. Any person who shall refuse to permit any inspection or audit authorized by this chapter shall be subject to a civil penalty of five thousand dollars in addition to any penalty imposed by any other provision of this chapter.

5. Any person who refuses, for the purpose of evading tax, to allow an inspection shall, in addition to being liable for any other penalties imposed by this chapter, be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

(L. 1998 S.B. 619) Effective 1-1-99
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 285.543 — MO Code / Chapter 285 / Section 285.543
285.543 Database to be maintained.
Status: in_force

285.543. Database to be maintained. — The attorney general shall maintain a database that documents any business entity whose permit, license, or exemption has been suspended or state contract has been terminated.

(L. 2008 H.B. 1549, et al.) Effective 1-01-09
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 105.967 — MO Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105.967
105.967 Lobbyists not to serve on certain commissions.
Status: in_force

105.967. Lobbyists not to serve on certain commissions. — After January 1, 1992, no person shall be appointed to or serve on any of the commissions created under Section 2 or Section 7 of Article III of the State Constitution while acting as a lobbyist, as defined by section 105.470 .

(L. 1991 S.B. 262 § 7)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 556.041 — MO Code / Chapter 556 / Section 556.041
556.041 Limitation on conviction for multiple offenses.
Status: in_force

556.041. Limitation on conviction for multiple offenses. — When the same conduct of a person may establish the commission of more than one offense he or she may be prosecuted for each such offense. Such person may not, however, be convicted of more than one offense if:

(1) One offense is included in the other, as defined in section 556.046 ; or

(2) Inconsistent findings of fact are required to establish the commission of the offenses; or

(3) The offenses differ only in that one is defined to prohibit a designated kind of conduct generally and the other to prohibit a specific instance of such conduct; or

(4) The offense is defined as a continuing course of conduct and the person's course of conduct was uninterrupted, unless the law provides that specific periods of such conduct constitute separate offenses.

(L. 1977 S.B. 60, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491) Effective 1-01-17 (1981) Kidnapping and rape were separate offenses and defendant thus was not punished twice for same offense because confinement and movement of victim were not incidental to commission of rape but increased risk of harm and danger to victim. State v. Stewart (A.), 615 S.W.2d 600. (1997) Conviction for both rape and child abuse did not subject defendant to double jeopardy. Bass v. State, 950 S.W.2d 940 (Mo.App.W.D.).
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 472.455 — MO Code / Chapter 472 / Section 472.455
472.455 Content of electronic communication, disclosure to trustee, when.
Status: in_force

472.455. Content of electronic communication, disclosure to trustee, when. — Unless otherwise ordered by the court, directed by the user, or provided in a trust, a custodian shall disclose to a trustee that is not an original user of an account the content of an electronic communication sent or received by an original or successor user and carried, maintained, processed, received, or stored by the custodian in the account of the trust if the trustee gives the custodian:

(1) A written request for disclosure in physical or electronic form;

(2) A certified copy of the trust instrument or a certification of the trust under section 456.10-1013 that includes consent to disclosure of the content of electronic communications to the trustee;

(3) A certification by the trustee, under penalty of perjury, that the trust exists and the trustee is a currently acting trustee of the trust; and

(4) If requested by the custodian for the purpose of identifying the correct account of the correct user:

(a) A number, username, address, or other unique subscriber or account identifier assigned by the custodian to identify the trust's account; or

(b) Evidence linking the account to the trust.

(L. 2018 H.B. 1250)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 516.500 — MO Code / Chapter 516 / Section 516.500
516.500 Legislative bills, actions on procedural defect in enactment, time ...
Status: in_force

516.500. Legislative bills, actions on procedural defect in enactment, time limitations, exceptions. — No action alleging a procedural defect in the enactment of a bill into law shall be commenced, had or maintained by any party later than the adjournment of the next full regular legislative session following the effective date of the bill as law, unless it can be shown that there was no party aggrieved who could have raised the claim within that time. In the latter circumstance, the complaining party must establish that he or she was the first person aggrieved or in the class of first persons aggrieved, and that the claim was raised not later than the adjournment of the next full regular legislative session following any person being aggrieved. In no event shall an action alleging a procedural defect in the enactment of a bill into law be allowed later than five years after the bill or the pertinent section of the bill which is challenged becomes effective.

(L. 1994 S.B. 558) Effective 6-03-94
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 477.241 — MO Code / Chapter 477 / Section 477.241
477.241 Old official reports, custody, sale, reprinting, disposition.
Status: in_force

477.241. Old official reports, custody, sale, reprinting, disposition. — All books, both bound and unbound, and matrices covering the reports of the supreme court and the court of appeals heretofore published and which are in the custody of the supreme court, shall remain in the custody of the supreme court for the purpose of sale or replacement, and the supreme court may fix the price at which the prior official reports of the supreme court and the court of appeals are to be sold to the public and may replace any lost or destroyed books free of cost where such books were originally distributed free of cost. The supreme court may authorize the reprinting of any prior volumes, the replacement supply of which has become exhausted or insufficient. The supreme court may also contract for the storage of such books and to sell, give away, destroy or otherwise dispose of any excess books, bound or unbound, which it deems not needed to provide a reasonable replacement supply.

(L. 1957 p. 371 § 477.240, A.L. 1973 S.B. 263)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 247.540 — MO Code / Chapter 247 / Section 247.540
247.540 Certain property subject to taxes.
Status: in_force

247.540. Certain property subject to taxes. — All real property included within, or excluded from, a district shall thereafter be subject to the levy of taxes for the payment of any indebtedness of the district outstanding at the time of inclusion or exclusion; provided, however, that after any real property shall have been excluded from a district, as provided in section 247.530 , any buildings and improvements thereafter erected or constructed on said excluded real property, and all machinery and equipment thereafter installed or placed therein or thereon, and all tangible personal property not in said district at the time of the exclusion of said real property from said district which shall thereafter be situate on or used in connection with said real property, shall not be subject to any taxes levied by said district.

(L. 1949 p. 350 § 31)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 9.368 — MO Code / Chapter 9 / Section 9.368
9.368 State legislature remembrance month designated for January.
Status: in_force

9.368. State legislature remembrance month designated for January. — The month of January each year shall be known as "State Legislator Remembrance Month" in memory of all state legislators who died while in office. Citizens of this state are encouraged to participate in appropriate events and activities to recognize those who lost their life while serving in the general assembly.

(L. 2023 S.B. 139)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 144.613 — MO Code / Chapter 144 / Section 144.613
144.613 Boats and boat motors — tax to be paid before registration issued.
Status: in_force

144.613. Boats and boat motors — tax to be paid before registration issued. — Notwithstanding the provisions of section 144.655 , at the time the owner of any new or used boat or boat motor which was acquired after December 31, 1979, in a transaction subject to tax under this chapter makes application to the director of revenue for the registration of the boat or boat motor, he shall present to the director of revenue evidence satisfactory to the director of revenue showing the purchase price, exclusive of any charge incident to the extension of credit, paid by or charged to the applicant in the acquisition of the boat or boat motor, or that no sales or use tax was incurred in its acquisition, and, if tax was incurred in its acquisition, that the same has been paid, or the applicant shall pay or cause to be paid to the director of revenue the tax provided by this chapter in addition to the registration fees now or hereafter required according to law, and the director of revenue shall not issue a registration for any new or used boat or boat motor subject to tax in this chapter until the tax levied for the use of the same under this chapter has been paid.

(L. 1979 H.B. 59, A.L. 1994 H.B. 1578, A.L. 2013 H.B. 184 merged with S.B. 23 merged with S.B. 99) Effective 7-05-13 (S.B. 23); 7-05-13 (S.B. 99); 8-28-13 (H.B. 184) CROSS REFERENCES: Nonseverability clause, 144.008 Registration of boats, 306.030
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 149.041 — MO Code / Chapter 149 / Section 149.041
149.041 Records to be kept — reports to be filed by wholesaler.
Status: in_force

149.041. Records to be kept — reports to be filed by wholesaler. — 1. Every manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer subject to the provisions of the tax levied hereunder shall keep in Missouri accurate records covering the business carried on and shall for three years, and more if so required by the director, keep and preserve all invoices, showing all purchases and sales of cigarettes; and such invoices and stock of cigarettes shall at all times be subject to the examination and inspection of any legally authorized agent or representative of the director. Every wholesaler operating in the state of Missouri, whose main warehouse or headquarters is in another state shall keep all records of all cigarette transactions made by him at his place of business in Missouri, or at a designated place in the state of Missouri. Every manufacturer located or doing business in this state shall keep written records of all shipments of cigarettes, whether or not they are made from his plants in this state, to consignees * located or doing business in this state, regardless of the fact that the cigarettes may have been sold by the shipper to a person other than the consignee ** or may have been shipped for the account of some other vendor.

2. Every wholesaler receiving unstamped cigarettes shall file a report with the director on or before the twentieth day of each month covering the previous calendar month, on forms prescribed and furnished by the director, disclosing the beginning and closing inventory of unstamped cigarettes, the beginning and closing inventory of stamped cigarettes, the beginning and closing inventory of cigarette stamps, the number and denomination of cigarette stamps affixed to packages of cigarettes, the beginning and closing inventory of meter machine units, the number of meter units purchased and affixed during the month, and all purchases of cigarettes by showing the invoice number, name and address of the consignee ** or seller, the date, and the number of cigarettes purchased, and such other information as may be required by the director.

3. Any wholesaler who refuses any shipment or part of a shipment of unstamped cigarettes or has a shortage in the shipment of cigarettes consigned to him shall, in the monthly report next following the refusal or shortage, report to the director the number of packages or cartons of cigarettes refused or short and the name of the carrier from whom the cigarettes were refused or shortage occurred.

(L. 1974 H.B. 1612 § 7) *Word "cosignees" appears in original rolls. **Word "cosignee" appears in original rolls.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 441.800 — MO Code / Chapter 441 / Section 441.800
441.800 Criminal prosecution unnecessary for certain eviction proceedings to begin ...
Status: in_force

441.800. Criminal prosecution unnecessary for certain eviction proceedings to begin — drug-related criminal conviction, effect on certain eviction proceedings. — 1. A civil action brought pursuant to sections 441.710 to 441.880 shall not be precluded even though a criminal prosecution involving the drug-related activity has not been commenced, will not be commenced, has not been concluded or has been concluded without a judgment of conviction.

2. If a criminal prosecution involving the drug-related criminal activity results in a criminal conviction the conviction shall collaterally estop the convicted defendant from challenging the essential allegations of the criminal offense in any subsequent civil proceeding brought pursuant to sections 441.710 to 441.880 .

(L. 1997 H.B. 361)