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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 137.018 — MO Code / Chapter 137 / Section 137.018
137.018 Certain merchandise exempt from ad valorem taxes.
Status: in_force

137.018. Certain merchandise exempt from ad valorem taxes. — 1. As used in this section, the term "merchandise" shall include short-term rentals of equipment and other merchandise offered for short-term rentals by rental companies under 532412 or 532210 of the 2012 edition of the North American Industry Classification System as prepared by the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, which will subsequently or ultimately sell such merchandise or equipment. As used in this section, the term "short-term rental" shall mean rentals for a period of less than three hundred sixty-five consecutive days, for an undefined period, or under an open-ended contract.

2. For the purposes of Article X, Section 6 of the Constitution of Missouri, all merchandise held or owned by a merchant whether or not currently subject to a short-term rental and which will subsequently or ultimately be sold shall be considered inventory and exempt from ad valorem taxes.

(L. 2015 H.B. 613 merged with H.B. 616)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 105.1105 — MO Code / Chapter 105 / Section 105.1105
105.1105 First conviction of employee for use of drugs, certified drug abuse ...
Status: in_force

105.1105. First conviction of employee for use of drugs, certified drug abuse treatment and education requirement — failure to comply, suspension and dismissal — employee in compliance to be returned to position or comparable status. — Any public employee who is convicted, pleads guilty, or pleads nolo contendere for the first time, under the laws of this state, the United States or any other state, of any criminal offense involving the use of a controlled substance, marijuana or other dangerous drug as such substances are defined in chapter 195 shall be required to show evidence of completion of a drug abuse treatment and education program certified by the state. If the public employee refuses to participate in a drug abuse treatment program or if he fails to complete such program within six months of his public employer becoming aware of the conviction, the public employee shall be suspended from his public employment until such time as he shows evidence of completion of or shows evidence of enrollment and continuing progress in a certified drug abuse treatment and education program. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 36.370 , such suspension shall be for no more than three months, after which time, if the public employee has failed to complete or has failed to show evidence of continuing progress in a drug abuse treatment and education program, he shall be dismissed from his public employment. After all requirements of the suspension period have been fulfilled by the public employee, he shall be returned to his former position with the public employer or, if such position is no longer available, he shall be placed in a position of comparable status as his former position prior to suspension.

(L. 1993 S.B. 67 § 3)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 70.835 — MO Code / Chapter 70 / Section 70.835
70.835 Formation of major case squads authorized.
Status: in_force

70.835. Formation of major case squads authorized. — 1. The governing body of any political subdivision and the board of police established by section 84.020 and the board of police commissioners established by section 84.350 may by ordinance, order, or other ruling agree to cooperate with one another in the formation of a major case squad for the purpose of intensive professional investigation of a certain individual crime which may occur in their general geographical area.

2. Expenses of a major case squad may be paid by the individual political subdivisions and by the board of police established by section 84.020 , or by the board of police commissioners established by section 84.350 .

3. The major case squad shall operate and be activated upon the request of the county sheriff or police chief of the political subdivision where the crime occurred.

4. Notwithstanding other provisions of law to the contrary, whenever any peace officer is duly authorized as a member of a major case squad, he shall have the power to arrest anywhere within this state. This power shall only be exercised during the time the peace officer is an active member of an active major case squad and only within the scope of the investigation on which the squad is working.

5. Prior to the initiation of a major case squad investigation in a political subdivision other than where the crime occurred, a member of the major case squad shall notify the chief law enforcement officer of the political subdivision in which the investigation is to be conducted, or a designated agent thereof.

(L. 1986 S.B. 450 § 20, A.L. 1987 S.B. 372)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 266.400 — MO Code / Chapter 266 / Section 266.400
266.400 Violations may be enjoined.
Status: in_force

266.400. Violations may be enjoined. — The director of the department of agriculture of this state is hereby authorized to apply for, through the attorney general of this state, and the circuit courts of this state are hereby authorized to grant, a temporary or permanent injunction restraining any person from violating or continuing to violate sections 266.361 to 266.400 , notwithstanding the existence of other remedies at law, said injunction to be issued without bond.

(L. 1965 p. 394 § 5, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634) Effective 1-02-79
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 507.050 — MO Code / Chapter 507 / Section 507.050
507.050 Misjoinder of parties.
Status: in_force

507.050. Misjoinder of parties. — 1. Misjoinder of parties is not ground for dismissal of an action. Parties may be dropped, added, or severed by order of the court on motion of any party or of its own initiative at any stage of the action and on such terms as are just. Any claim against a party may be severed and proceeded with separately.

2. A motion to drop or add parties may be made at the same time as other motions provided for in section 509.290 , and if so made, the provisions of section 509.340 with reference to the consolidation of motions and waiver of objections shall also apply. If said motion is made at any other time, the hearing and determination thereof shall not delay the trial. Objections on account of misjoinder or nonjoinder of parties may also be raised by answer or reply.

(L. 1943 p. 353 § 17, A. 1949 H.B. 2117, A.L. 2019 S.B. 7)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 227.876 — MO Code / Chapter 227 / Section 227.876
227.876 PFC Bryon Lea Brown memorial highway designated for a portion of State ...
Status: in_force

227.876. PFC Bryon Lea Brown memorial highway designated for a portion of State Highway A in Montgomery County. — The portion of State Highway A from Hopewell Church Road continuing east to State Highway 161 in Montgomery County shall be designated the "PFC Byron Lea Brown Memorial Highway". The department of transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs designating such highway, with the costs to be paid by the department of transportation.

(L. 2025 S.B. 348)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 542.296 — MO Code / Chapter 542 / Section 542.296
542.296 Motion to suppress, grounds for.
Status: in_force

542.296. Motion to suppress, grounds for. — 1. A person aggrieved by an unlawful seizure made by an officer and against whom there is a pending criminal proceeding growing out of the subject matter of the seizure may file a motion to suppress the use in evidence of the property or matter seized. For the purposes of this section, a pending criminal proceeding shall mean any criminal investigation being conducted with the intention of using the seized subject matter in seeking an indictment or information or when an information has been issued or an indictment returned.

2. The motion to suppress shall be in writing. It shall be filed with the court in which there is pending against the moving party a criminal proceeding growing out of the subject matter of the seizure.

3. The motion shall be made before the commencement of the trial of the moving party on the charge arising out of the seizure unless he was unaware of the grounds or had no opportunity to do so before the trial. In that event the motion may be made during the trial. However, the trial judge may in his discretion entertain a motion any time during trial.

4. Notice shall be given to the prosecuting attorney of the date, time, place and nature of the hearing.

5. The motion to suppress may be based upon any one or more of the following grounds:

(1) That the search and seizure were made without warrant and without lawful authority;

(2) That the warrant was improper upon its face or was illegally issued, including the issuance of a warrant without proper showing of probable cause;

(3) That the property seized was not that described in the warrant and that the officer was not otherwise lawfully privileged to seize the same;

(4) That the warrant was illegally executed by the officer;

(5) That in any other manner the search and seizure violated the rights of the movant under Section 15 of Article I of the Constitution of Missouri, or the fourth and fourteenth amendments of the Constitution of the United States.

6. The judge shall receive evidence on any issue of fact necessary to the decision of the motion. The burden of going forward with the evidence and the risk of nonpersuasion shall be upon the state to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the motion to suppress should be overruled.

7. If the motion is sustained, the judge shall order the property or matter delivered to the moving party, unless its retention is authorized or required by section 542.301 , or by any other law of this state.

(L. 1974 S.B. 366 § 8)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 265.450 — MO Code / Chapter 265 / Section 265.450
265.450 Violation basis for suspension or refusal to license.
Status: in_force

265.450. Violation basis for suspension or refusal to license. — The director may refuse to license or may suspend or revoke the license of any commercial plant for any violation of sections 265.300 to 265.470 .

(L. 1967 p. 371 § 16)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 640.686 — MO Code / Chapter 640 / Section 640.686
640.686 Form, details and incidents of revenue bonds.
Status: in_force

640.686. Form, details and incidents of revenue bonds. — 1. When not inconsistent with the provisions of sections 640.651 to 640.686 , the department and the authority, respectively, are authorized to prescribe the form, details and incidents of the bonds and to make such covenants as in their judgment may be advisable or necessary properly to secure the payment of the bonds.

2. The authority and the department shall have the power to perform all duties imposed upon the authority and the department by sections 640.651 to 640.686 , including the making and collecting of sufficient rates and charges for the use of the project for which the bonds were issued.

(L. 1995 H.B. 414)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 115.233 — MO Code / Chapter 115 / Section 115.233
115.233 Testing of automatic tabulating equipment, when done, procedure.
Status: in_force

115.233. Testing of automatic tabulating equipment, when done, procedure. — Within fourteen days prior to an election at which an electronic voting system is to be used, the election authority shall have the automatic tabulating equipment tested to ascertain that the equipment is in compliance with the law and that it will correctly count the votes cast for all offices and on all questions. At least forty-eight hours prior to the test, notice of the time and place of the test shall be mailed to each independent and new party candidate and the chairman of the county committee of each established political party named on the ballot. The test shall be observed by at least two persons designated by the election authority, one from each major political party, and shall be open to representatives of the political parties, candidates, the news media and the public. The test shall be conducted by processing a preaudited group of ballots. If any error is detected, the cause shall be ascertained and corrected, and an errorless count shall be made before the tabulating equipment is approved.

(L. 1977 H.B. 101 § 8.030, A.L. 2002 S.B. 675)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 376.2080 — MO Code / Chapter 376 / Section 376.2080
376.2080 Funding agreement defined — authority to issue — rulemaking authority.
Status: in_force

376.2080. Funding agreement defined — authority to issue — rulemaking authority. — 1. As used in this chapter and chapter 375 , the term "funding agreement" means an agreement for an insurer to accept and accumulate funds and to make one or more payments at future dates in amounts that are not based on mortality or morbidity contingencies of the person to whom the funding agreement is issued. A funding agreement shall not be deemed to constitute a security, as such term is defined in section 409.1-102 .

2. A life insurance company formed under this chapter may issue funding agreements. The issuance of a funding agreement shall be deemed to be doing insurance business.

3. The director may promulgate rules as necessary for the implementation of this section. 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, 2021, shall be invalid and void.

(L. 2021 H.B. 604 merged with S.B. 6)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 274.280 — MO Code / Chapter 274 / Section 274.280
274.280 Association not guilty of conspiracy, or illegal monopoly.
Status: in_force

274.280. Association not guilty of conspiracy, or illegal monopoly. — No association organized hereunder and complying with the terms hereof shall be deemed to be a conspiracy or a combination in restraint of trade or an illegal monopoly; or an attempt to lessen competition or to fix prices arbitrarily nor shall the marketing contracts and agreements between the association and its members or any agreements authorized in this chapter, be considered illegal as such or in unlawful restraint of trade or as part of a conspiracy or combination to accomplish an improper or illegal purpose.

(RSMo 1939 § 14360) Prior revision: 1929 § 12702
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 510.190 — MO Code / Chapter 510 / Section 510.190
510.190 Right of trial by jury — waiver.
Status: in_force

510.190. Right of trial by jury — waiver. — 1. The right of trial by jury as declared by the constitution or as given by a statute shall be preserved to the parties inviolate. In particular, any issue as to whether a release, composition, or discharge of plaintiff's original claim was fraudulently or otherwise wrongfully procured shall be tried by jury unless waived.

2. Parties shall be deemed to have waived trial by jury:

(1) By failing to appear at the trial;

(2) By filing with the clerk written consent in person or by attorney;

(3) By oral consent in court, entered on the minutes;

(4) By entering into trial before the court without objection.

3. In actions against the state when a statute provides for trial without a jury, the court, with the consent of both parties, may order a trial with a jury whose verdict has the same effect as if trial by jury had been a matter of right.

4. In actions where an infant or a mentally incapacitated person is a party and where an infant or mentally incapacitated person is represented by a legal representative, trial by jury shall be deemed to be waived under the circumstances set forth in subsection 2.

(RSMo 1939 § 1101, A.L. 1943 p. 353 § 98, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45) Prior revisions: 1929 § 950; 1919 § 1400; 1909 § 1970 (1973) Held that trial by jury cannot be waived by informal statement by counsel that jury would not be required. Randolph v. Simpson (A.), 500 S.W.2d 289. (1974) Held wife's counterclaim for necessaries was a claim at law and jury trial must be granted. Attebery v. Attebery (A.), 507 S.W.2d 87.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 176.510 — MO Code / Chapter 176 / Section 176.510
176.510 Types of risks that may be shared — association may reinsure risk.
Status: in_force

176.510. Types of risks that may be shared — association may reinsure risk. — 1. Any association organized under the provisions of sections 176.500 to 176.540 may provide for the sharing of the following risks of loss:

(1) All risks of physical loss or damage to a member of the association's real or personal property of every kind and description wherever located;

(2) All loss or damage to automobiles, wherever located, owned by a member of the association or on which a member of the association has an obligation to provide adequate insurance against all risk of direct physical loss, including collision of the automobile with another object;

(3) All sums which a member of the association shall be obligated to pay by reason of the liability imposed upon the member of the association by law, or assumed by the member of the association under contract or agreement, for losses or damages, direct or consequential, including but not limited to bodily injury, property damage, errors and omissions and personal injury, and expenses;

(4) Employee health and disability benefit programs;

(5) All loss caused by reason of theft, burglary, robbery, kidnapping, disappearance or destruction of any money or securities of any member of the association which may at any time be, or believed by the member of the association to be, in or upon any premise occupied or used by the member or by any bank, trust company, or safe deposit company, or while in transit or in the custody of the member of the association's officers or employees;

(6) Any other risk for which a member of the association may otherwise procure insurance, excepting that of life insurance and dealing in annuities.

2. Any association organized under the provisions of sections 176.500 to 176.540 may cause itself to be wholly or partially reinsured against any loss arising from any risk which it may have undertaken, on such terms and to such extent as it may deem proper from time to time.

3. Membership in any association organized under the provisions of sections 176.500 to 176.540 shall be available to, and the coverage of any losses by such association shall be extended to, only those institutions qualifying under section 176.500 .

(L. 1986 H.B. 1387 § 3)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 215.120 — MO Code / Chapter 215 / Section 215.120
215.120 Issuance of bonds or notes authorized.
Status: in_force

215.120. Issuance of bonds or notes authorized. — 1. The commission may from time to time issue its negotiable revenue bonds or notes in such principal amount, as, in the opinion of the commission, shall be necessary to provide sufficient funds for achieving its corporate purposes, including the making of mortgage loans for residential housing to be occupied by low and moderate income persons; for the rehabilitation of existing structures so occupied; for the construction of residential housing and appurtenant community facilities as provided in sections 215.010 to 215.250 ; for establishment of reserves to secure such bonds and notes; and all other expenditures of the commission incident to and necessary to carry out its corporate purposes and powers.

2. The commission may from time to time issue renewal notes, issue bonds to pay such notes, and whenever it deems refunding expedient, to refund any bonds by the issuance of new bonds, whether the bonds to be refunded have or have not matured, and to issue bonds partly to refund bonds then outstanding and partly for any other purpose. The refunding bonds shall be sold and the proceeds applied to the purchase, redemption or payment of the bonds to be refunded.

3. The notes and bonds issued under sections 215.010 to 215.250 shall be authorized by resolution of the members of the commission, shall bear such date or dates, and shall mature at such time or times, in the case of any note, or any renewal thereof, not exceeding twenty years, from the date of issue of such original note, and in the case of any bond not exceeding fifty years from the date of issue, as the resolution may provide. The notes and bonds shall bear interest at such rate, be in such denominations, be in such form, either coupon or registered, carry such registration privileges, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places and be subject to such terms of redemption as such resolution or resolutions may provide. The notes and bonds of the commission may be sold by the commission, at public or private sale, at such price or prices as the commission shall determine.

4. The state shall not be liable on notes or bonds of the commission and such notes and bonds shall not be a debt of the state, and such notes and bonds shall contain on the face thereof a statement to such effect.

(L. 1969 H.B. 130 §§ 17 to 20)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 354.080 — MO Code / Chapter 354 / Section 354.080
354.080 Reserves required, how computed.
Status: in_force

354.080. Reserves required, how computed. — The corporation shall maintain at all times reserves adequate to provide the hospital, medical-surgical and other health services made available to its members and beneficiaries and to meet all its costs and expenses. The reserves shall not be less than an amount equal to two months of benefit payments and administrative expenses, based on an average of the preceding twelve months, or if the reserves are not equal to such average, they must have been increased during the preceding twelve months by an amount equal to one percent of the gross dues income during such period. The determination of minimum reserves hereunder shall be subject, as to amounts payable to participating providers of the health services, to any right of the corporation to prorate the amounts under the terms of its health service contracts with providers. The director may decrease or suspend the requirements of this section if he finds that such action would be in the best interest of the members of the corporation.

(L. 1973 S.B. 3 § 15)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 249.515 — MO Code / Chapter 249 / Section 249.515
249.515 County commission's powers — treatment system, violations — compliance ...
Status: in_force

249.515. County commission's powers — treatment system, violations — compliance period — failure to comply, penalty. — 1. The county commission may contract with each participating community for the payment of its proportionate share of treatment costs.

2. The county commission may refuse to receive any wastes into the sewage system which do not meet relevant water pollution, solid waste, or pretreatment standards.

3. The county commission shall have all of the powers necessary and convenient to provide for the operation, maintenance, administration, and regulation, including the adoption of rules and regulations, of any individual home or business sewage treatment systems within the jurisdiction of the sewer district.

4. The county commission shall have power to pass all necessary rules and regulations for the proper management and conduct of the business of the sewer district, and for carrying into effect the objects for which the district is formed.

5. After the owner of the sewer treatment system has been notified of any violation and has been given a reasonable time of not less than thirty days in which to come into compliance, it shall be a class C misdemeanor for any sewer treatment system to be operated within the jurisdiction of the sewer district which is not in compliance with applicable water pollution, solid waste, or pretreatment regulations or ordinances. Any penalty imposed by this subsection shall not preclude any appropriate civil remedy.

(L. 1983 H.B. 371)