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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 52.180 — MO Code / Chapter 52 / Section 52.180
52.180 Disposition and audit of tax books in case of vacancy.
Status: in_force

52.180. Disposition and audit of tax books in case of vacancy. — In case of the death, resignation, removal or other disability of any county collector, during the time the tax books are in his hands, and before the time specified for making settlements, the county clerk shall demand and take charge of the tax books. Said clerk shall appoint one competent person, the legal representatives of the collector may choose a second, and the sureties of the collector may choose a third, and the persons so appointed and chosen shall examine said tax books, and it shall be their duty to ascertain the amount remaining uncollected, and make out a correct abstract of the same. If the representatives or sureties of such collector shall fail or refuse to choose persons to make such examination, then the person appointed by the county clerk shall proceed to make the same and report the same to the county clerk; provided, that should there be but a small portion of the taxes collected at the time of the death of the collector, then the amount actually collected shall be ascertained and the same books used in completing the collections.

(RSMo 1939 § 11075) Prior revisions: 1929 § 9904; 1919 § 12896; 1909 § 11450
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 285.1040 — MO Code / Chapter 285 / Section 285.1040
285.1040 Intergovernmental agreement and memorandum of understanding, when.
Status: in_force

285.1040. Intergovernmental agreement and memorandum of understanding, when. — The board may enter into an intergovernmental agreement or memorandum of understanding with the state of Missouri, another state or states, and any agency thereof to receive outreach, technical assistance, enforcement and compliance services, collection or dissemination of information pertinent to the plan, subject to such obligations of confidentiality as may be agreed or required by law, or other services or assistance. The state of Missouri, another state or states, and any agency thereof that enters into such agreements or memoranda of understanding shall collaborate to provide the outreach, assistance, information, and compliance or other services or assistance to the board. The memoranda of understanding may cover the sharing of costs incurred in gathering and disseminating information and the reimbursement of costs for any enforcement activities or assistance.

(L. 2023 S.B. 20 merged with S.B. 75)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 380.351 — MO Code / Chapter 380 / Section 380.351
380.351 Certificate of merger returned to whom.
Status: in_force

380.351. Certificate of merger returned to whom. — The certificate of merger and certified copy thereof, with a copy of the articles of merger affixed thereto by the secretary of state, shall be returned to the surviving corporation or new corporation, as the case may be, or to its representative.

(L. 1984 H.B. 1498) Effective 1-01-85
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 260.1053 — MO Code / Chapter 260 / Section 260.1053
260.1053 Definitions.
Status: in_force

*260.1053. Definitions. — As used in sections 260.1050 to 260.1101 , the following terms mean:

(1) "Brand" , the name, symbol, logo, trademark, or other information that identifies a product rather than the components of the product;

(2) "Computer materials" , a desktop or notebook computer and includes a computer monitor or other display device that does not contain a tuner;

(3) "Consumer" , an individual who uses equipment that is purchased primarily for personal or home business use;

(4) "Department" , department of natural resources;

(5) "Equipment" , computer materials;

(6) "Manufacturer" , a person:

(a) Who manufactures or manufactured equipment under a brand that:

a. The person owns or owned; or

b. The person is or was licensed to use, other than under a license to manufacture equipment for delivery exclusively to or at the order of the licensor;

(b) Who sells or sold equipment manufactured by others under a brand that:

a. The person owns or owned; or

b. The person is or was licensed to use, other than under a license to manufacture equipment for delivery exclusively to or at the order of the licensor;

(c) Who manufactures or manufactured equipment without affixing a brand;

(d) Who manufactures or manufactured equipment to which the person affixes or affixed a brand that:

a. The person does not or has not owned; or

b. The person is not or was not licensed to use; or

(e) Who imports or imported equipment manufactured outside the United States into the United States unless at the time of importation the company or licensee that sells or sold the equipment to the importer has or had assets or a presence in the United States sufficient to be considered the manufacturer.

(L. 2008 S.B. 720) *Contingent expiration date, see § 260.1092
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 522.230 — MO Code / Chapter 522 / Section 522.230
522.230 Verdict and judgment.
Status: in_force

522.230. Verdict and judgment. — In every such action, if the plaintiff recover, the verdict assessing the damages shall be entered on the record, and judgment shall be rendered for the penalty of the bond, or for the penal sum forfeited, as in other actions, together with costs of suit, and with a further judgment that the plaintiff have execution for the damages so assessed, which damages shall be specified in the judgment.

(RSMo 1939 § 3270) Prior revisions: 1929 § 2883; 1919 § 1033; 1909 § 1240
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 260.1101 — MO Code / Chapter 260 / Section 260.1101
260.1101 Rulemaking authority.
Status: in_force

*260.1101. Rulemaking authority. — 1. The department shall adopt any rules required to implement sections 260.1050 to 260.1101 not later than July 1, 2009. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010 , that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028 . This section and chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2008, shall be invalid and void.

2. Sections 260.1050 to 260.1101 shall not be enforced before rules developed under this section are promulgated.

3. It shall not be considered a violation of sections 260.1050 to 260.1101 for a retailer to sell any inventory accrued before August 28, 2008.

(L. 2008 S.B. 720) *Contingent expiration date, see § 260.1092
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 476.056 — MO Code / Chapter 476 / Section 476.056
476.056 Municipal court automation, duties of municipality.
Status: in_force

476.056. Municipal court automation, duties of municipality. — 1. Any city, county, village or other municipality may provide for automation of its municipal court pursuant to subsection 3 of section 476.055 , in the manner provided in this section. In order to make such provisions, such municipality must:

(1) Adopt an ordinance imposing the surcharge in the amount allowed, and payable in the manner provided, by section 476.053 * , and sections 488.010 to 488.020 ;

(2) Enter into an agreement with the state courts administrator for automation of the municipality's court. Such agreement may provide for continuation of the surcharge for a minimum period of time, payable to the fund established by section 476.055 , or a special fund established in the state treasury for such purpose upon expiration of section 476.055 , for payment of a guaranteed minimum annual amount in the event that payment of such surcharges shall not offset the cost of the automation of the municipality's court; and such other terms as may be agreed on between the municipality and the state courts administrator.

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 476.053 * , the payment of any surcharge provided by this section may continue for a period in excess of that allowed by section 476.053 * for payment of surcharges in the circuit courts. The provisions of section 33.080 shall not apply to any special fund established pursuant to this section.

(L. 1997 S.B. 248) *Transferred 2000; now 488.027
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 243.030 — MO Code / Chapter 243 / Section 243.030
243.030 Petition to be filed — bond required.
Status: in_force

243.030. Petition to be filed — bond required. — Before any county commission may organize, incorporate and establish a drainage district, or make any improvement as provided in this chapter, there must be filed with the clerk of the county commission a petition signed by one or more landowners, whose lands will be liable to be affected by or assessed for the construction of the improvements necessary to be made, which petition shall set forth the following:

(1) The necessity for the proposed improvement, as well as the starting point, route and terminus thereof;

(2) The boundary of the proposed district;

(3) The names of the owners of lands or other property within the boundary of said proposed district, together with a description of the said lands or other property owned by each; when the name of the owner of any of said land or other property is unknown the fact shall be stated in the petition. There shall be filed, with such petition, a bond in the sum of not less than fifty dollars per mile, payable to the state of Missouri, signed by one or more of the petitioners, with two or more good and sufficient freehold sureties, to be approved by the county commission, conditioned for the payment of all costs and expenses if the prayer of the petition be not granted or the petition be from any cause dismissed. No landowner having signed a petition for the formation of a drainage district under this chapter shall have his name stricken from such petition without the written consent of the owners of a majority of the acreage represented by those signing said petition.

(RSMo 1939 § 12399) Prior revisions: 1929 § 10810; 1919 § 4478; 1909 § 5579
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 256.633 — MO Code / Chapter 256 / Section 256.633
256.633 Injunctions — attorney general to represent division.
Status: in_force

256.633. Injunctions — attorney general to represent division. — The division may petition a court of competent jurisdiction for injunctions or other appropriate relief to enforce the provisions of sections 256.600 to 256.640 . The attorney general shall represent the division when requested to do so.

(L. 1985 S.B. 281 § 11)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 620.1000 — MO Code / Chapter 620 / Section 620.1000
620.1000 Definitions.
Status: in_force

620.1000. Definitions. — As used in sections 620.1000 to 620.1007 , the following terms mean:

(1) "Department" , the Missouri department of economic development;

(2) "Director" , the director of the Missouri small business development centers program that is an employee of the host entity and approved by the United States Small Business Administration;

(3) "Fund" , the Missouri small business development centers fund that is created in section 620.1001 ;

(4) "Host entity" , the educational institution that is selected by the United States Small Business Administration to host the small business development centers program and to serve as the lead center for the state of Missouri;

(5) "Matching basis" , the requirement that at least one matching dollar of cash or at least one dollar in-kind must be expended directly or indirectly for every state dollar;

(6) "Missouri small business development centers program" , the small business development centers program for the state of Missouri, including the lead center at the host entity which is selected by the United States Small Business Administration and all of the regional centers;

(7) "Small business" , a business that satisfies the eligibility criteria for assistance by the United States Small Business Administration under title 13 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and has its place of business in the state of Missouri or seeks to establish business in Missouri.

(L. 1992 S.B. 661 & 620 § 1)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.111 — MO Code / Chapter 115 / Section 115.111
115.111 Improper conduct of challenger or watcher, how handled.
Status: in_force

115.111. Improper conduct of challenger or watcher, how handled. — If any watcher or challenger interferes with the orderly process of voting, or is guilty of misconduct or any law violation, the election judges shall ask the watcher or challenger to leave the polling place or cease the interference. If the interference continues, the election judges shall notify the election authority, which shall take such action as it deems necessary. It shall be the duty of the police, if requested by the election authority or judges of election, to exclude any watcher or challenger from the polling place or the place where votes are being counted. If any challenger is excluded, another may be substituted by the designating committee chairman.

(L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 4.020) Effective 1-01-78
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 32.060 — MO Code / Chapter 32 / Section 32.060
32.060 Annual report, contents.
Status: in_force

32.060. Annual report, contents. — The director of the department of revenue shall prepare, in consultation with the commissioner of administration and state treasurer, a combined financial report for each fiscal year and submit such report to the governor and the members of the general assembly within sixty days after the close of the fiscal year. This report shall contain an interpretative summary of the financial status of the state, including a statement of the income into each fund, sources of income, unencumbered balances in each fund, programs for which expenditures were made, unencumbered balances by appropriations, and estimates of revenue for the coming fiscal year from the various sources. The report also shall show the state's indebtedness, its total unencumbered balance, portions of such balance as may be invested, and the depositaries in which state funds are located, together with the type of deposit, and such other information as may be included at the discretion of the director of revenue or the governor.

(RSMo 1939 § 13022, A.L. 1945 p. 1428 § 6, A.L. 1959 S.B. 40, A.L. 1961 p. 411) Prior revisions: 1929 § 11400; 1919 § 13297; 1909 § 11809
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 105.266 — MO Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105.266
105.266 Leave of absence granted, state employees, bone marrow or organ donation.
Status: in_force

105.266. Leave of absence granted, state employees, bone marrow or organ donation. — 1. Any employee of the state of Missouri, its departments or agencies shall be granted a leave of absence for the time specified for the following purposes:

(1) Five workdays to serve as a bone marrow donor if the employee provides his or her employer with written verification that he or she is to serve as a bone marrow donor;

(2) Thirty workdays to serve as a human organ donor if the employee provides his or her employer with written verification that he or she is to serve as a human organ donor.

2. An employee who is granted a leave of absence pursuant to this section shall receive his or her base state pay without interruption during the leave of absence. For purposes of determining seniority, pay or pay advancement and performance awards and for the receipt of any benefit that may be affected by a leave of absence, the service of the employee shall be considered uninterrupted by the leave of absence.

3. The employer shall not penalize an employee for requesting or obtaining a leave of absence according to this section.

4. The leave authorized by this section may be requested by the employee only if the employee is the person who is serving as the donor.

(L. 2001 H.B. 679)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 154.030 — MO Code / Chapter 154 / Section 154.030
154.030 Wharfage charge (cities of 5,000 and less than 50,000).
Status: in_force

154.030. Wharfage charge (cities of 5,000 and less than 50,000). — Any city or corporation having a population exceeding five thousand and less than fifty thousand inhabitants, and having an improved wharf in suitable condition for receiving and discharging freight, may charge and collect two dollars for each and every landing at said wharf; and any city or corporation having a less population than five thousand, and having an improved wharf in good condition, may charge and collect the sum of one dollar and fifty cents for each and every landing of any steamboat or other watercraft at said wharf.

(RSMo 1939 § 11301) Prior revisions: 1929 § 10073; 1919 § 13063; 1909 § 11615
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 456.1085 — MO Code / Chapter 456 / Section 456.1085
456.1085 Authority to release — method of release — revocation or amendment of release.
Status: in_force

456.1085. Authority to release — method of release — revocation or amendment of release. — 1. A powerholder may release a power of appointment, in whole or in part, except to the extent the terms of the instrument creating the power prevent the release.

2. A powerholder of a releasable power of appointment may release the power in whole or in part:

(1) By substantial compliance with a method provided in the terms of the instrument creating the power; or

(2) If the terms of the instrument creating the power do not provide a method or the method provided in the terms of the instrument is not expressly made exclusive, by an instrument manifesting the powerholder's intent by clear and convincing evidence and delivered to the donor, the donor's personal representative, a guardian of the donor or the conservator of the estate of the donor, or the holder of the legal title to the property to which the interest related. A release involving an estate or property within the jurisdiction of the probate division of a circuit court may be filed in that division.

3. A powerholder may revoke or amend a release of a power of appointment only to the extent that:

(1) The instrument of release is revocable by the powerholder; or

(2) The powerholder reserves a power of revocation or amendment in the instrument of release.

(L. 2016 H.B. 1765)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 701.047 — MO Code / Chapter 701 / Section 701.047
701.047 City or county may adopt more restrictive standards.
Status: in_force

701.047. City or county may adopt more restrictive standards. — Nothing in sections 701.025 to 701.059 shall be construed so as to prohibit any city or county from adopting minimum standards which are more restrictive than the standards adopted by the state pursuant to sections 701.025 to 701.059 .

(L. 1994 S.B. 446 § 701.046 subsec. 2)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 358.400 — MO Code / Chapter 358 / Section 358.400
358.400 Rules for distribution.
Status: in_force

358.400. Rules for distribution. — In settling accounts between the partners after dissolution, the following rules shall be observed, subject to any agreement to the contrary:

(1) The assets of the partnership are:

(a) The partnership property; and

(b) The contributions of the partners specified in subdivision (4) of this section.

(2) The liabilities of the partnership shall rank in order of payment, as follows:

(a) Those owing to creditors other than partners;

(b) Those owing to partners other than for capital and profits;

(c) Those owing to partners in respect of capital;

(d) Those owing to partners in respect of profits.

(3) The assets shall be applied in the order of their declaration in subdivision (1) of this section to the satisfaction of the liabilities.

(4) Except as provided in subsection 2 of section 358.150 :

(a) The partners shall contribute as provided by subdivision (1) of section 358.180 the amount necessary to satisfy the liabilities; and

(b) If any, but not all, of the partners are insolvent, or, not being subject to process, refuse to contribute, the other partners shall contribute their share of the liabilities, and, in the relative proportions in which they share the profits, the additional amount necessary to pay the liabilities.

(5) An assignee for the benefit of creditors or any person appointed by the court shall have the right to enforce the contributions specified in subdivision (4) of this section.

(6) Any partner or the partner's legal representative shall have the right to enforce the contributions specified in subdivision (4) of this section, to the extent of the amount which the partner has paid in excess of the partner's share of the liability.

(7) The individual property of a deceased partner shall be liable for the contributions specified in subdivision (4) of this section.

(8) When partnership property and the individual properties of the partners are in possession of a court for distribution, partnership creditors shall have priority on partnership property and separate creditors on individual property, saving the rights of lien or secured creditors as heretofore.

(9) Where a partner has become bankrupt or the partner's estate is insolvent the claims against the partner's separate property shall rank in the following order:

(a) Those owing to separate creditors;

(b) Those owing to partnership creditors;

(c) Those owing to partners by way of contribution.

(L. 1949 p. 506 § 40, A.L. 1995 H.B. 558)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 278.290 — MO Code / Chapter 278 / Section 278.290
278.290 Disestablishment of watershed district, procedure.
Status: in_force

278.290. Disestablishment of watershed district, procedure. — 1. After a watershed district has been organized for more than five years and that watershed district does not have any outstanding bonds, has not constructed or contracted to construct any works of improvement, nor incurred any continuing obligations for maintenance and operation of any works of improvement or if any works of improvement have been constructed, if there are no bonds outstanding, and an agency of the United States government or the state of Missouri or a county or municipal corporation of this state has made arrangements satisfactory to the Secretary of Agriculture and the state soil and water districts commission to assume responsibility for operating and maintaining such improvement, not less than fifty percent of the landowners of the watershed district may petition the governing body of the watershed district to call for and conduct a referendum upon the disestablishment of the watershed district. If sixty-five percent of the landowners voting in referendum do vote in favor of the disestablishment of the watershed district, the watershed district board shall declare the watershed district to be disestablished; however, prior to any such declaration the watershed district board shall pay or make arrangements to pay any outstanding indebtedness. The provisions of sections 278.190 , 278.200 and 278.210 as to notice, qualification of voters and manner of holding the referendum in organizing a watershed district to the extent practicable shall apply to the referendum held pursuant to this section.

2. Following the entry in the official minutes of the board or boards of watershed district supervisors of the disestablishment of the watershed district, the watershed district supervisors shall certify this fact on a separate form, authentic copies of which shall be recorded with the recorder of deeds of each county in which any portion of the watershed district lies and with the state soil and water districts commission.

3. Whenever a watershed district is declared to be disestablished, the respective boards of supervisors of the soil and water conservation districts in which the watershed district was formed shall take charge of all property and funds of the watershed district. After all property has been sold and the obligations of the watershed district are met, any remaining funds shall be turned over to the county commissions of the respective counties.

(L. 1967 p. 376, A.L. 1969 S.B. 184, A.L. 2001 S.B. 462)