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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 305.400 — MO Code / Chapter 305 / Section 305.400
305.400 Definitions (Greene County).
Status: in_force

305.400. Definitions (Greene County). — For purposes of sections 305.400 to 305.410 the following words or phrases shall mean the following:

(1) "Airport zone" is each area located wholly or in part outside a municipality in a county which is located within the following description: Beginning at a point on the end of any runway and on the centerline of the runway; thence to the right a distance of five hundred feet on a course perpendicular to said centerline to a point; thence to a point two thousand feet to the right of and perpendicular to the centerline extended which point is directly opposite a point ten thousand feet from the end of the runway on the said centerline extended away from the runway; thence to a point two thousand feet to the left of and perpendicular to the centerline extended which point is directly opposite a point ten thousand feet from the end of the runway on the said centerline extended away from the runway; thence to a point five hundred feet to the left of the point of beginning and perpendicular to the said centerline; thence to the point of beginning.

(2) "County" is county of the first class having a population of more than one hundred and fifty thousand persons but less than six hundred thousand persons.

(3) "Dwelling" is a building or portion thereof, including mobile homes, designed for residential use and occupancy including one-family, two-family, multiple-family dwellings, boarding houses, or rooming houses.

(4) "Municipality" is a municipal corporation with a population of more than one hundred fifteen thousand but less than three hundred thousand persons.

(5) "Runway" is a surface used for landing or taking off of aircraft which is shown on a duly adopted airport master plan of the municipality and includes all such runways shown thereon, whether existing or proposed, including extension of such runways.

(L. 1979 H.B. 957 § 1)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 249.030 — MO Code / Chapter 249 / Section 249.030
249.030 Location of sewer district.
Status: in_force

249.030. Location of sewer district. — A sewer district may be established and incorporated under sections 249.010 to 249.420 partly within and partly without or wholly without or wholly within one or more cities, towns or villages.

(RSMo 1939 § 12677)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 138.085 — MO Code / Chapter 138 / Section 138.085
138.085 County board of equalization, certain first and second class counties.
Status: in_force

138.085. County board of equalization, certain first and second class counties. — 1. In all first class counties not having a charter form of government and in each second class county which contains a portion of a city having a population of at least three hundred thousand and which adjoins a first class county which does not have a charter form of government, there may be a board of equalization consisting of three taxpaying property-owning citizen, residents of such county for five years next before their appointment, who shall be appointed by the county commission for three-year terms with one member being appointed annually on the second Monday in January of each year; after the county commission makes the first appointments on the full three-member board on the second Monday in January, 1981. The initial appointments shall be for one-, two- and three-year terms, respectively.

2. Each member shall take an oath similar to that required by law of members of other county boards of equalization.

3. Compensation shall be fixed by order of the county commission.

4. Vacancies or absences on the board of equalization caused by death, incapacity to perform duties, failure to attend three consecutive meetings, or resignation shall be filled forthwith by appointment by the county commission.

(L. 1980 S.B. 802, A.L. 1985 S.B. 152) Effective 7-11-85
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 82.290 — MO Code / Chapter 82 / Section 82.290
82.290 Certain officers to administer oaths free.
Status: in_force

82.290. Certain officers to administer oaths free. — In all cities having a population of over one hundred thousand inhabitants in this state, the mayor, comptroller, auditor, register, recorder of deeds, president of the board of assessors, and their deputies, are hereby authorized and required to administer, free of charge, any and all oaths in connection with the business of their offices required to be made or submitted to or before them, by any law or ordinance now in force or which may hereafter be enacted, or which they themselves may deem necessary in the discharge of their official duties.

(RSMo 1939 § 7643, A.L. 1953 p. 268) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7500; 1919 § 8911; 1909 § 9763
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 507.210 — MO Code / Chapter 507 / Section 507.210
507.210 Appointment of guardian ad litem, when.
Status: in_force

507.210. Appointment of guardian ad litem, when. — If such infant defendant neglects, for one day after the expiration of the time within which the infant defendant is summoned to appear to the suit, to procure the appointment of a guardian ad litem to defend the suit, the court shall appoint some competent person to be guardian ad litem for such infant in the defense of such suit.

(RSMo 1939 § 869, A.L. 1949 H.B. 2117, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45) Prior revisions: 1929 § 718; 1919 § 1175; 1909 § 1749
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 474.530 — MO Code / Chapter 474 / Section 474.530
474.530 Wills heretofore probated, effect — evidence.
Status: in_force

474.530. Wills heretofore probated, effect — evidence. — All wills heretofore proved and admitted to probate, not afterward rejected by the court, the records of the court not showing approval of such acceptance and probate during a regular session by the court, and which have been spread upon the records of said court for ten years, have the same force and effect and shall be received as evidence in all the courts of this state, as though properly approved and probate confirmed at a regular session of the court.

(RSMo 1939 § 530, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 282, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634) Prior revision: 1929 § 529 Effective 1-02-79
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 190.087 — MO Code / Chapter 190 / Section 190.087
190.087 Ambulance district serving city in more than one county may be expanded — ...
Status: in_force

190.087. Ambulance district serving city in more than one county may be expanded — procedure (Franklin County). — The boundaries of any ambulance district established pursuant to chapter 190 , which is located in a noncharter county of the first classification with a population of less than one hundred thousand which adjoins any county of the first classification with a charter form of government with a population of nine hundred thousand or more inhabitants, if such ambulance district serves any portion of a city which is located in both such counties, may be expanded so as to include the entire city within the ambulance district, but the boundaries of the district shall not be expanded beyond the city limits of such city. Such change in the boundaries of the district shall be accomplished only if seventy-five percent of the owners of any territory or tract of land within that part of the city which is not within the ambulance district file with the board a petition in writing praying that such real property be included within the district. The petition shall describe the property to be included in the district and shall describe the property owned by the petitioners and shall be deemed to give assent of the petitioners to the inclusion in the district of the property described in the petition; and such petition shall be in substantially the form set forth in section 321.495 dealing with referendums and verified in like manner.

(L. 1993 S.B. 256 § 1) Effective 5-19-93
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 379.865 — MO Code / Chapter 379 / Section 379.865
379.865 Annual and special meetings.
Status: in_force

379.865. Annual and special meetings. — 1. There shall be an annual meeting of the insurers and members of the governing committee on a date fixed by the committee.

2. A special meeting may be called at such time and place designated by the committee or upon the written request to the committee of any ten insurers, not more than one of which may be in a group under the same management or ownership.

3. Twenty days' notice of such annual or special meeting shall be given in writing by the committee to insurers. A majority of the insurers shall constitute a quorum. Voting by proxy shall be permitted. Notice of any meeting shall be accompanied by an agenda for such meeting.

4. Any matter may be proposed and voted upon by mail, provided such procedure is unanimously authorized by the members of the committee present and voting at any meeting of the committee. If so approved by the committee, notice of any proposal shall be mailed to the insurers not less than twenty days prior to the final date fixed by the committee for voting thereon.

5. At any regular or special meeting at which the vote of the insurers is or may be required on any proposal or any vote of the insurers which may be taken by mail on any proposal, such votes shall be cast and counted on a weighted basis in accordance with each insurer's premiums written. On any proposal, deemed by the committee to relate exclusively to habitational or exclusively to commercial business, the votes shall be cast and counted on a weighted basis in accordance with each insurer's respective habitational or commercial premiums written, as the case may be. A proposal shall become effective when approved by at least two-thirds of the votes cast on such weighted basis.

(L. 1969 H.B. 772 § 379.131)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 630.575 — MO Code / Chapter 630 / Section 630.575
630.575 Council created, members, duties, terms, meetings.
Status: in_force

630.575. Council created, members, duties, terms, meetings. — 1. There is hereby established within the department of mental health the "Missouri Eating Disorder Council" which shall consist of the following persons to be selected by and the number of members to be determined by the director of the department of mental health:

(1) Director's designees from the department of mental health;

(2) Eating disorder researchers, clinicians, and patient advocacy groups; and

(3) The general public.

2. The council shall:

(1) Oversee the eating disorder education and awareness programs established in section 630.580 ;

(2) Identify whether adequate treatment and diagnostic services are available in the state; and

(3) Assist the department of mental health in identifying eating disorder research projects.

3. Members of the council shall serve four-year terms, with the initial terms of the members staggered as two-year, three-year, and four-year terms. The members of the council may be reappointed. The members of the council shall not receive compensation for their service on the council, but may, subject to appropriation, be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred as members of the council.

4. The council shall conduct an organizational meeting at the call of the director of the department of mental health. At such meeting, the council shall select a chair and vice chair of the council. Subsequent meetings of the council shall be called as necessary by the chair of the council or the director of the department of mental health.

(L. 2010 S.B. 754)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 236.250 — MO Code / Chapter 236 / Section 236.250
236.250 Forfeiture of rights, when.
Status: in_force

236.250. Forfeiture of rights, when. — If any person or corporation, or his or its legal representatives, to whom permission to erect a dam by virtue hereof shall have been given, shall fail to build, rebuild or repair the same, together with the mill, electric power and light works, or other machinery connected therewith, according to the requirements of law or the conditions of the permission, it shall be lawful for any person owning the land on one side of the watercourse, at the point where such dam is erected, or below, to build a dam and mill, electric power and light works, or other machinery thereon, as if no such permission had been given, without incurring any liability on account of backing the water on such dam.

(RSMo 1939 § 10310) Prior revisions: 1929 § 9181; 1919 § 7423; 1909 § 5480
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 196.710 — MO Code / Chapter 196 / Section 196.710
196.710 Emulsified cream and filled milk prohibited.
Status: in_force

196.710. Emulsified cream and filled milk prohibited. — It shall be unlawful to use the article known as emulsified cream in milk, or in any milk product, or any purpose whatsoever. It is hereby declared that filled milk, and emulsified cream as herein defined, are adulterated articles of food injurious to the public health and its sale constitutes a fraud upon the public. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to manufacture or ship or deliver to any person within this state any filled milk or emulsified cream.

(RSMo 1939 § 14064) Prior revision: 1929 § 12411 (1940) This section forbids sale of filled milk only if the resulting product is in imitation or semblance of milk, cream or skim milk. Thus wholesome and nutritious product under label stating nature of product and that it is "not to be sold for evaporated milk" may be sold without violating this section. State ex rel. McKittrick v. Carolene Products Co., 346 Mo. 1049, 144 S.W.2d 153.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 630.133 — MO Code / Chapter 630 / Section 630.133
630.133 Psychosurgery, consent required — not to be performed by department.
Status: in_force

630.133. Psychosurgery, consent required — not to be performed by department. — 1. Psychosurgery shall not be performed involuntarily on any patient or resident. A competent patient or resident shall be informed, both orally and in writing, of the risks of the therapy and shall give his express written voluntary consent before the surgery is performed. Parents of minor patients or residents or legal guardians of incompetent patients or residents shall be required to obtain court orders authorizing such surgery under the procedures and criteria specified in subsection 3 of section 630.130 .

2. Psychosurgery shall not be performed by the department in any of its facilities.

(L. 1980 H.B. 1724)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 67.572 — MO Code / Chapter 67 / Section 67.572
67.572 Repeal of sales tax, procedure.
Status: in_force

67.572. Repeal of sales tax, procedure. — The governing body of any county which has adopted a sales tax pursuant to sections 67.571 to 67.577 may submit the question of repeal of the tax to the voters at any primary or general election. The ballot of submission shall be in substantially the following form:

If a majority of the votes cast on the proposal are in favor of repeal, that repeal shall become effective on December thirty-first of the calendar year in which such repeal was approved.

(L. 2001 S.B. 323 & 230)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 170.031 — MO Code / Chapter 170 / Section 170.031
170.031 Physiology texts to contain chapter on dental hygiene — penalty.
Status: in_force

170.031. Physiology texts to contain chapter on dental hygiene — penalty. — One or more chapters on dental hygiene is required in all textbooks on physiology used in the public schools of the state of Missouri. The chapters shall convey the proper knowledge to the pupil on the care, function and relation of the teeth to the general health. Such chapters in the textbooks shall be edited or approved by a competent committee composed of five members, three of whom are selected by the state dental society, one by the director of the department of social services, and one by the state board of education, and they shall serve without compensation. The sale or offer for sale of any textbook which does not contain the chapter on dental hygiene required by this section is a misdemeanor.

(L. 1963 p. 200 § 10-3) (Source: RSMo 1959 §§ 163.180, 163.190)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 99.875 — MO Code / Chapter 99 / Section 99.875
99.875 Definitions.
Status: in_force

99.875. Definitions. — As used in sections 99.875 to 99.912 , the following terms mean:

(1) "Abandoned property" , any real property on which there is a vacant structure and on which real property taxes have been delinquent for one year or more and orders have been issued by the municipality's fire official, building official or health official and there has been no compliance with those orders within the prescribed time given by such official or within ninety days, whichever is longer, or the owner has declared in writing to the building official that his property is abandoned or there has been a determination by the municipality that the vacant structure contributes to housing blight;

(2) "Building official" , the person appointed by the municipality to oversee municipal building codes or housing;

(3) "Fire official" , the fire chief or the municipal official authorized to administer the provisions of the municipal fire safety code;

(4) "Health official" , the municipal official authorized to administer the provisions of any local health code;

(5) "Low- or moderate-income families" , families or individuals who lack the amount of income necessary to rent or purchase adequate housing without financial assistance, as defined by such income limits as shall be established by the Missouri housing development commission for the purposes of determining eligibility under any programs aimed at providing housing for low- and moderate-income families or persons;

(6) "Municipality" , any city, town or village;

(7) "Owner" , any holder, as appears in the land records of the municipality, of title to real property and any mortgage or other secured or equitable interest in such property;

(8) "Rehabilitation permit" and "demolition permit" , those permits obtained from a local building official for the purpose of rehabilitating or demolishing a structure;

(9) "Urban homesteader" , any person, firm, partnership, corporation or other legal entity to which urban homestead program property is conveyed;

(10) "Urban homesteading agency" , the agency designated by the legislative body of a municipality pursuant to sections 99.875 to 99.912 .

(L. 1992 H.B. 1434 & 1490 § 2)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 28.010 — MO Code / Chapter 28 / Section 28.010
28.010 Salary of secretary of state.
Status: in_force

28.010. Salary of secretary of state. — The secretary of state shall receive an annual salary of sixty thousand dollars plus any salary adjustment provided pursuant to section 105.005 , payable out of the state treasury as full compensation for all duties to be performed by him.

(L. 1943 p. 869 § 1, A. 1949 S.B. 1011, A.L. 1955 p. 574, A.L. 1967 p. 97, A.L. 1972 S.B. 615, A.L. 1977 H.B. 520, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1266, A.L. 1984 S.B. 528) Effective 1-01-85 Revisor's Note: Salary adjustment index is printed, as required by § 105.005, in Appendix E.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 169.640 — MO Code / Chapter 169 / Section 169.640
169.640 Bank deposits of system, how secured.
Status: in_force

169.640. Bank deposits of system, how secured. — Any funds belonging to this retirement system which are deposited in any bank or trust company shall be secured by the deposit of securities of the kind and value required by section 30.270 as security for the safekeeping and payment of deposits made by the board.

(L. 1965 p. 298 § 5)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 443.930 — MO Code / Chapter 443 / Section 443.930
443.930 Prohibited acts — constitutes mortgage fraud — no private right of action ...
Status: in_force

443.930. Prohibited acts — constitutes mortgage fraud — no private right of action created. — 1. It is unlawful for a person, in connection with the application for or procurement of a loan secured by real estate to:

(1) Employ a device, scheme, or artifice to defraud;

(2) Make an untrue statement of a material fact or to omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statement made, in the light of the circumstances under which it is made, not misleading;

(3) Receive any portion of the purchase, sale, or loan proceeds, or any other consideration paid or generated in connection with a real estate closing that such person knew involved a violation of this section; or

(4) Influence, through extortion or bribery, the development, reporting, result, or review of a real estate appraisal, except that this subsection does not prohibit a mortgage lender, mortgage broker, mortgage banker, real estate licensee, or other person from asking the appraiser to do one or more of the following:

(a) Consider additional property information;

(b) Provide further detail, substantiation, or explanation for the appraiser's value conclusion; or

(c) Correct errors in the appraisal report in compliance with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice.

2. Such acts shall be deemed to constitute mortgage fraud.

3. This section shall not be construed to create a private right of action.

(L. 2008 H.B. 2188)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 640.657 — MO Code / Chapter 640 / Section 640.657
640.657 Annual computation of actual energy cost savings.
Status: in_force

640.657. Annual computation of actual energy cost savings. — Annually, at the conclusion of each state fiscal year, each borrower pursuant to the provisions of sections 640.651 to 640.686 shall compute the actual energy cost savings resulting from the implementation of the energy conservation project financed by the loan or financial assistance. Energy cost savings shall be calculated in the manner prescribed by the department.

(L. 1995 H.B. 414)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 355.741 — MO Code / Chapter 355 / Section 355.741
355.741 Decree of dissolution.
Status: in_force

355.741. Decree of dissolution. — 1. If after a hearing the court determines that one or more grounds for judicial dissolution described in section 355.726 exist, it may enter a decree dissolving the corporation and specifying the effective date of the dissolution, and the clerk of the court shall deliver a certified copy of the decree to the secretary of state, who shall file it.

2. After entering the decree of dissolution, the court shall direct the winding up and liquidation of the corporation's affairs in accordance with section 355.691 and the notification of its claimants in accordance with sections 355.696 and 355.701 .

(L. 1994 H.B. 1095) Effective 7-01-95
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 37.075 — MO Code / Chapter 37 / Section 37.075
37.075 Federal surplus property — office of administration as agency for distribution.
Status: in_force

37.075. Federal surplus property — office of administration as agency for distribution. — 1. The office of administration is designated as the "Missouri State Agency for Surplus Property". It may acquire, warehouse, and distribute federal surplus property to any and all eligible departments and agencies of the state and local government, and to any and all other institutions and organizations eligible to receive surplus property under Public Law 152, 81st Congress, as amended, and under any other laws enacted by the Congress of the United States which provide for the disposal of United States government surplus property, and may otherwise cooperate with the federal government in the transfer of government surplus property.

2. The state agency for surplus property may take any action necessary for the accomplishment of the purposes of this section and section 37.080 and it may make the certifications and enter into the agreements for and on behalf of the state which are necessary or appropriate under the controlling federal statutes and regulations, and may make regulations necessary for the disposal of surplus properties.

(L. 1963 p. 200 § 2-19) (Source: RSMo 1959 § 160.173)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 477.070 — MO Code / Chapter 477 / Section 477.070
477.070 Territorial jurisdiction of the western district court of appeals.
Status: in_force

477.070. Territorial jurisdiction of the western district court of appeals. — The jurisdiction of the western district of the court of appeals shall be coextensive with all the counties in the state except those embraced in the jurisdiction of the eastern and the southern districts of the court of appeals.

(RSMo 1939 § 2061, A.L. 1973 S.B. 263, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634) Prior revisions: 1929 § 1897; 1919 § 2393; 1909 § 3915 Effective 1-02-79