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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 249.290 — MO Code / Chapter 249 / Section 249.290
249.290 Board may construct and maintain system — not limited to plan on estimates ...
Status: in_force

249.290. Board may construct and maintain system — not limited to plan on estimates of engineer. — In order to provide a sewer system for the lands and other property and improvements in the district, the board of trustees is hereby authorized and empowered to construct and maintain trunk lines, mains, submains, and lateral sewers, outlets for sewerage and any and all other structures, systems, works and things, and to contract with other districts, municipalities, other public agencies, individuals, copartnerships and corporations for the construction, use or maintenance of common or joint sewers, drains, outlets and disposal plants, and for the use of existing sewer facilities, and to do all things deemed necessary or advisable to make an effective and complete sewer system and to preserve and maintain the same in the district, to construct any and all said works and improvements across, through or over any public highway, railroad, right-of-way, tract, grade, fill or cut, and any other right-of-way or easement in the district; to remove any fence, building or other improvement in the district, and shall have the right to hold, control and acquire by donation or purchase, and if need be, shall have full power to condemn any and all rights or property, either public or private, of every kind and character necessary for the purposes aforesaid, and in so doing, shall follow the procedure taken for telegraph, telephone or railroad rights-of-way. The district shall not be limited to the plan of and the location of the system of sewers set out in the report of the engineer provided in section 249.040 , but may include such other and additional work as the board of trustees may deem to be advisable; nor shall the cost of such work be limited to the probable cost of the improvement set out in the engineer's report provided by section 249.040 but may be in excess thereof.

(RSMo 1939 § 12658, A.L. 1951 p. 627, A.L. 1953 p. 543) CROSS REFERENCE: Contractual agreements among political subdivisions for common facilities and services, proceedings, 70.210 to 70.325
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 217.160 — MO Code / Chapter 217 / Section 217.160
217.160 Division director, power of appointment of certain personnel — ...
Status: in_force

217.160. Division director, power of appointment of certain personnel — qualifications — to be full-time employee. — 1. Any division director, subject to the supervision of the director, shall exercise for the division the powers and duties of an appointing authority under chapter 36 to employ personnel, for the performance of the duties and responsibilities of the division.

2. The division director shall be a person of recognized character and integrity and shall have education, training and experience appropriate to the responsibilities of the division of which he is the director. He shall be a citizen of the United States but need not be a citizen of the state of Missouri at the time of his appointment.

3. The director shall be a full-time employee of the division and shall hold no other regular, compensated position while serving as a director of the division.

(L. 1982 H.B. 1196 § 32, A.L. 1989 H.B. 408)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 332.113 — MO Code / Chapter 332 / Section 332.113
332.113 Volunteer dental hygienist license, requirements — renewal — limitation on ...
Status: in_force

332.113. Volunteer dental hygienist license, requirements — renewal — limitation on practice — no application fee. — 1. A person desiring to obtain a volunteer license to practice as a dental hygienist shall:

(1) Submit to the board a verified affidavit stating that he or she has been licensed to practice as a dental hygienist in Missouri or in any state or territory of the United States or the District of Columbia for at least ten years, and has not allowed that license to lapse or expire for a period of time greater than four years immediately preceding the date of application for a volunteer license is retired from practicing as a dental hygienist, and that his or her license was in good standing at retirement; and

(2) Meet the requirements in sections 332.251 or 332.281 and 332.231 .

2. Effective with the licensing period beginning on December 1, 2010, a volunteer license to practice dental hygiene shall be renewed every two years. To renew a license, each dental hygienist shall submit satisfactory evidence of current certification in the American Heart Association's Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), or certification equivalent to BLS or ACLS and completion of twenty-five hours of board-approved continuing education during the two-year period immediately preceding the renewal period. Continuing education hours earned towards certification in BLS or ACLS may be applied towards the twenty-five hours of continuing education required for renewal. Each dental hygienist shall maintain documentation of completion of the required continuing education hours for a minimum of six years after the reporting period in which the continuing education was completed. The board, solely in its discretion, may allow a dental hygienist working at a facility outlined in subsection 3 of this section to credit time spent working in that facility towards the twenty-five hour continuing education requirement for renewal. The board, solely in its discretion, may waive or extend the time requirements for completion of continuing education for reasons related to health, military service, foreign residency, or for other good cause. All requests for credit for continuing education hours and requests for waivers or extensions of time shall be made in writing and submitted to the board before the renewal date.

3. A dental hygienist with a volunteer license may only provide without compensation dental hygiene care and preventative care services to family members or at facilities operated by city or county health departments organized under chapter 192 or 205 , city health departments operating under city charters, combined city-county health centers, public elementary or secondary schools, federally funded community health centers, or nonprofit community health centers.

4. The board shall not charge a fee for any application for a volunteer license to practice dental hygiene nor to renew a volunteer license to practice dental hygiene.

(L. 2009 S.B. 296)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 81.130 — MO Code / Chapter 81 / Section 81.130
81.130 Farming lands, exclusion — procedure (cities of 20,000 or less).
Status: in_force

81.130. Farming lands, exclusion — procedure (cities of 20,000 or less). — In all cases where farming lands, or lands not laid out in town or city lots, or used for town or city purposes, are included within the corporate limits of any town, city or municipality of this state now containing, or which may hereafter contain, twenty thousand inhabitants or less, existing or operating under a special charter, and where ten of the taxable inhabitants of said town, city or municipality shall petition the council of said town, city or municipality to become disincorporated or detached from the said municipal corporation, it shall be the duty of said council, by ordinance, to submit the question to the voters of the city, town or municipality; and if at said election a majority of the voters voting at said election, vote in favor of disincorporating or detaching said lands, then the council of said town, city or municipality shall declare the said land disincorporated or detached from the said municipality, and the same shall not thereafter be included in or be a part thereof; provided, however, that in all cases where the said town, city or municipality has any outstanding debts, liabilities or obligations, said lands shall not be disincorporated or detached until the owner or owners thereof shall have paid into the town, city or municipal treasury their just and proper proportion of such debts, liabilities or obligations.

(RSMo 1939 § 7441, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7288; 1919 § 8703; 1909 § 9581
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 10.225 — MO Code / Chapter 10 / Section 10.225
10.225 St. Louis Blues, official state hockey team.
Status: in_force

10.225. St. Louis Blues, official state hockey team. — The St. Louis Blues is selected for and shall be known as the official state hockey team of Missouri.

(L. 2019 S.B. 210 § 1) Revisor's Note: The St. Louis Blues won the first Stanley Cup championship in the team's history by defeating the Boston Bruins 4-1 in Game 7 of the Cup Final on Wednesday, June 12, 2019.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 150.400 — MO Code / Chapter 150 / Section 150.400
150.400 Application for license — records to be kept — open to public.
Status: in_force

150.400. Application for license — records to be kept — open to public. — Applications for licenses shall be sworn to, shall disclose the names and residences of the owners, or persons in whose interest such business is conducted, to be kept on file by the state director of revenue, and a record shall be kept by him of all licenses issued upon such applications. All files and records of the state director of revenue shall be in convenient form and open for public inspection.

(RSMo 1939 § 11334, A.L. 1947 V. I p. 525) Prior revisions: 1929 § 10106; 1919 § 13097
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 79.550 — MO Code / Chapter 79 / Section 79.550
79.550 Municipal redevelopment authority, governing body may establish (certain ...
Status: in_force

79.550. Municipal redevelopment authority, governing body may establish (certain municipalities). — Any fourth class city with a population of at least one thousand which is located within a first class county with a charter form of government adjoining a city not within a county and which has had, during four years prior to June 24, 1988, at least fifteen percent of the lands within the city limits of such city purchased under a federal noise abatement program designed to purchase residential property due to the high level of noise from a nearby airport, any municipality which adjoins a city not within a county and which contains an enterprise zone, and any municipality which has a population of less than seven thousand inhabitants which adjoins a city not within a county and also adjoins either a municipality containing an enterprise zone or a municipality which adjoins a municipality containing an enterprise zone may, upon the motion of the governing body of such municipality, establish a municipal redevelopment authority pursuant to sections 79.550 to 79.565 .

(L. 1988 H.B. 1738 § 1, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1564) Effective 7-12-90
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.435 — MO Code / Chapter 233 / Section 233.435
233.435 Appointment of trustee.
Status: in_force

233.435. Appointment of trustee. — Whenever the county commission shall dissolve any such road district, the said county commission shall appoint some competent person to act as trustee for the road district so dissolved, and such trustee, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall take and subscribe an oath that he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office, and shall give bond with sufficient security to be approved by the county commission, to the use of such disincorporated road district, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duty.

(RSMo 1939 § 8857) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8197; 1919 § 10958 (1960) Individual judges of county court held proper parties defendant in mandamus action to compel appointment of successor trustee to liquidate affairs of dissolved special road district. State ex rel. Heath v. County Court of New Madrid Co. (A.), 331 S.W.2d 289.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 517.161 — MO Code / Chapter 517 / Section 517.161
517.161 Procedure in certain cases filed prior to January 1, 1987 — effective date ...
Status: in_force

517.161. Procedure in certain cases filed prior to January 1, 1987 — effective date of certain sections. — The provisions of sections 66.060 , 478.225 , 482.325 , 482.365 , 506.010 , 512.180 , 517.011 to 517.151 , 521.420 , 535.020 , 535.040 , 535.110 , 535.160 and 546.595 shall become effective January 1, 1987. Any case filed prior to January 1, 1987, in the divisions of the circuit court presided over by an associate circuit judge shall be governed by the practice and procedure of causes heard by associate circuit judges as were in effect on the date the case was filed, including the right to trial de novo.

(L. 1985 S.B. 5, et al. § C)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 321.711 — MO Code / Chapter 321 / Section 321.711
321.711 Recall petition, number of signatures required, time limitation — petition ...
Status: in_force

321.711. Recall petition, number of signatures required, time limitation — petition found insufficient, supplemental petition may be filed, when — supplemental petition insufficient, effect. — 1. A recall petition shall be filed with the election authority not more than one hundred eighty days after the filing of the notice of intention.

2. The number of qualified signatures required in order to recall an officer shall be equal in number to at least twenty-five percent of the number of voters who voted in the most recent gubernatorial election in that district.

3. Within twenty days from the filing of the recall petition the election authority shall determine whether or not the petition was signed by the required number of qualified signatures. The election authority shall file with the petition a certificate showing the results of the examination. The authority shall give the proponents a copy of the certificate upon their request.

4. If the election authority certifies the petition to be insufficient, it may be supplemented within ten days of the date of certificate by filing additional petition sections containing all of the information required by section 321.709 and this section. Within ten days after the supplemental copies are filed, the election authority shall file with it a certificate stating whether or not the petition as supplemented is sufficient.

5. If the certificate shows that the petition as supplemented is insufficient, no action shall be taken on it; however, the petition shall remain on file.

(L. 1995 H.B. 452, et al. merged with H.B. 484, et al.)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 140.220 — MO Code / Chapter 140 / Section 140.220
140.220 County clerk to act as clerk of sale — fee.
Status: in_force

140.220. County clerk to act as clerk of sale — fee. — 1. The clerk of the county commission shall attend, either in person or by deputy, as the clerk of the sale of such delinquent land, and shall enter the same on a sufficient record book giving a description of the proper tract or lot, to whom sold, and the price, or whether the same remains unsold.

2. For his services as in this section provided he shall, except in those counties having a population in excess of one hundred thousand, receive the sum of twenty-five cents on each tract of land or lot sold, to become part of the costs of sale and paid by the purchaser, which fee shall include entry or recital of redemption on such record.

(RSMo 1939 § 11139, A.L. 1945 p. 1847, A.L. 2003 S.B. 295)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 272.220 — MO Code / Chapter 272 / Section 272.220
272.220 Fields enclosed, how.
Status: in_force

272.220. Fields enclosed, how. — All fields and enclosures in which livestock are kept or placed shall be enclosed by a lawful fence.

(L. 1963 p. 401 § 2, A.L. 1965 p. 395)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 21.790 — MO Code / Chapter 21 / Section 21.790
21.790 Task force established, members — duties — report.
Status: in_force

21.790. Task force established, members — duties — report. — 1. There is hereby established the "Task Force on Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment". The task force shall be composed of six members from the house of representatives, six members from the senate, and four members appointed by the governor. The senate members of the task force shall be appointed by the president pro tempore of the senate and the house members by the speaker of the house of representatives. There shall be at least two members from the minority party of the senate and at least two members from the minority party of the house of representatives. The members appointed by the governor shall include one member from the health care industry, one member who is a first responder or law enforcement officer, one member who is a member of the judiciary or a prosecuting attorney, and one member representing a substance abuse prevention advocacy group.

2. The task force shall select a chairperson and a vice-chairperson, one of whom shall be a member of the senate and one a member of the house of representatives. A majority of the members shall constitute a quorum. The task force shall meet at least once during each legislative session and at all other times as the chairperson may designate.

3. The task force shall:

(1) Conduct hearings on current and estimated future drug and substance use and abuse within the state;

(2) Explore solutions to substance abuse issues; and

(3) Draft or modify legislation as necessary to effectuate the goals of finding and funding education and treatment solutions to curb drug and substance use and abuse.

4. The task force may make reasonable requests for staff assistance from the research and appropriations staffs of the senate and house of representatives and the joint committee on legislative research. In the performance of its duties, the task force may request assistance or information from all branches of government and state departments, agencies, boards, commissions, and offices.

5. The task force shall report annually to the general assembly and the governor. The report shall include recommendations for legislation pertaining to substance abuse prevention and treatment.

(L. 2019 S.B. 514)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 375.261 — MO Code / Chapter 375 / Section 375.261
375.261 Service of process — procedure.
Status: in_force

375.261. Service of process — procedure. — 1. Service of process as provided herein shall be made by delivery of two copies of the summons, with copies of the petition thereto attached, to the director, or in his or her absence to the deputy director of the department, or in the absence of both the director and deputy director, to the chief clerk of the department, at the office of the director of the department of commerce and insurance of this state at Jefferson City, Missouri. The director shall forthwith mail by certified mail, with return receipt requested, one of the copies of the summons, with petition thereto attached, to the defendant at its last known principal place of business, and shall keep a record of all process so served upon the director, deputy director or chief clerk, and the date of service, and the return receipt showing delivery thereof to the defendant shall be filed therewith.

2. The director, upon receiving the return receipt, shall so certify the fact to the clerk of the court in which the action is pending. The service of process shall be deemed sufficient provided notice of service, and a copy of the summons, with a copy of plaintiff's petition thereto attached, are sent certified mail, with return receipt requested, within ten days after service of process upon the director, or his or her deputy or chief clerk, as aforesaid, by plaintiff or plaintiff's attorney to the defendant at its last known principal place of business, and the return receipt therefor issued by the post office and the affidavit of plaintiff or plaintiff's attorney showing compliance with the aforesaid provisions are filed in the office of the clerk of the court in which the action is pending on or before the date the defendant is required to appear and defend the cause of action.

(L. 1951 p. 276 § 375.161, A.L. 1967 p. 516, A.L. 2008 S.B. 788)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 86.1040 — MO Code / Chapter 86 / Section 86.1040
86.1040 Retirement benefits not subject to execution, garnishment, or attachment — ...
Status: in_force

86.1040. Retirement benefits not subject to execution, garnishment, or attachment — tax-exempt status of funds. — The right of any person to pension or pensions, to the return of contributions, disability or death benefits, or any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of sections 86.900 to 86.1280 and the moneys in the various funds created under sections 86.900 to 86.1280 shall not be subject to execution, garnishment, attachment, or any other process whatsoever, and shall be unassignable except as specifically provided in sections 86.900 to 86.1280 , and except for court orders or assignments approved by a court to provide support for family members or a former spouse of any person entitled to benefits under sections 86.900 to 86.1280 . The moneys in the various funds created under sections 86.900 to 86.1280 are hereby exempt from any tax of the state of Missouri or of any municipality or political subdivision thereof. A revocable request or authorization by a member or a beneficiary to withhold and apply for the requester's convenience some portion or all of a benefit payment shall not be deemed an assignment prohibited under this section provided that any such request shall remain revocable at all times except as to payments or withholdings effected prior to any such revocation. The retirement system may, but shall not be obligated to, comply with any such request.

(L. 2005 H.B. 323)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 190.315 — MO Code / Chapter 190 / Section 190.315
190.315 Contract for service authorized.
Status: in_force

190.315. Contract for service authorized. — Any governing body imposing the tax authorized herein may contract directly with the provider of the emergency telephone service or may contract and cooperate with any public agency or with other states or their political subdivisions or with any association or corporation for the administration of emergency telephone service as provided by law.

(L. 1981 H.B. 437 § 4, A.L. 1986 H.B. 1268)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 1.060 — MO Code / Chapter 1 / Section 1.060
1.060 Powers of deputies.
Status: in_force

1.060. Powers of deputies. — When a statute requires an act to be done, which by law an agent or deputy as well may do as the principal, the requisition is satisfied by the performance of the act by an authorized agent or deputy.

(RSMo 1939 § 655, A. 1949 S.B. 1001, A.L. 1957 p. 587) Prior revisions: 1929 § 655; 1919 § 7058; 1909 § 8057
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 529.010 — MO Code / Chapter 529 / Section 529.010
529.010 Return made to first writ.
Status: in_force

529.010. Return made to first writ. — Where any writ of mandamus shall be issued out of any court in this state, or by any judge thereof in vacation, directed and delivered to any person who, by law, is required to make return of such writ, such person shall make his return to the first writ of mandamus.

(RSMo 1939 § 1696) Prior revisions: 1929 § 1532; 1919 § 1982; 1909 § 2546
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 205.100 — MO Code / Chapter 205 / Section 205.100
205.100 Director of public health center — appointment.
Status: in_force

205.100. Director of public health center — appointment. — The county commission or commissions shall annually at their February meeting, appoint the director of the public health center as county health officer and such county health officer shall exercise all of the rights and perform all of the duties pertaining to that office as set forward under the health laws of the state and rules and regulations of the department of health and senior services.

(L. 1945 p. 969 § 7)