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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 241.080 — MO Code / Chapter 241 / Section 241.080
241.080 Title to be conveyed by patents.
Status: in_force

241.080. Title to be conveyed by patents. — In order to convey to the different counties in the state of Missouri a complete title to all the swamp and overflowed lands which have been granted and patented to the state of Missouri by an act of congress, entitled "An act to enable the state of Arkansas and other states to reclaim the swamp lands within their limits", approved September 28, 1850, the secretary of state is hereby directed to prepare a patent or patents, embracing all the swamp or overflowed lands lying within the limits of the several counties of this state, conveying thereby all the title and interest of the state of Missouri in and to such lands, to the counties in which such lands may lie, and when such patents have been prepared as provided in sections 241.010 to 241.280 , they shall be presented to and signed by the governor of this state, attested by the secretary of state, and recorded by the secretary of state in his office.

(RSMo 1939 § 12780) Prior revisions: 1929 § 11156; 1919 § 7020; 1909 § 8023
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 475.335 — MO Code / Chapter 475 / Section 475.335
475.335 Payment and delivery to foreign guardian or conservator.
Status: in_force

475.335. Payment and delivery to foreign guardian or conservator. — Any person indebted to a minor or disabled person or having possession of property or of an instrument evidencing a debt, stock, or chose in action belonging to a minor or disabled person may pay such debt or deliver such property or instrument to a conservator, curator, committee, guardian of the estate or other like fiduciary appointed by a court of the state of residence of the person, upon being presented with proof of his appointment and an affidavit made by him or on his behalf stating:

(1) That no application for appointment of a conservator or conservatorship proceeding relating to the person is pending in this state; and

(2) That the foreign guardian, conservator, committee or curator is entitled to payment or to receive delivery. If the person to whom the affidavit is presented is not aware of any conservatorship proceeding pending in this state, payment or delivery in response to the demand and affidavit discharges the debtor or possessor.

(RSMo 1939 § 416, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 348, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45) Prior revisions: 1929 § 416; 1919 § 412; 1909 § 442
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 600.021 — MO Code / Chapter 600 / Section 600.021
600.021 Public defenders, appointment, terms, qualifications, restrictions — ...
Status: in_force

600.021. Public defenders, appointment, terms, qualifications, restrictions — compensation of defenders and employees — offices, where established — private attorneys, services authorized. — 1. The commission shall employ persons to be public defenders for a term of four years. A public defender shall employ such persons to be assistant public defenders, deputy public defenders, investigators, and any other employees as are necessary to discharge the function of the office, all of whom shall serve at the pleasure of the employing public defender. Circuit and regional public defenders holding office on April 1, 1982, shall continue to hold such office until the expiration of their terms under the direction of the director as otherwise described in this chapter. Public defenders may be appointed to serve additional terms by the commission.

2. Public defenders, assistant public defenders, and deputy public defenders shall be attorneys, licensed to practice law in this state, and shall not otherwise engage in the practice of law except as authorized by this chapter or by commission rule. Public defenders, assistant public defenders and deputy public defenders may be employed on a full- or part-time basis.

3. The compensation of persons appointed under this section shall be fixed by the commission.

4. The commission may establish such local or regional offices as it deems necessary to properly carry out purposes of this chapter.

5. The commission may appoint, on recommendation of the director, and fix the compensation of all other personnel necessary to the operation of the state public defender system.

6. The commission may contract with private attorneys to provide defense services in such areas of the state and on such terms as it deems appropriate.

(L. 1982 H.B. 1169, A.L. 1986 S.B. 451)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 96.230 — MO Code / Chapter 96 / Section 96.230
96.230 Authorizing certain cities to create social welfare boards.
Status: in_force

96.230. Authorizing certain cities to create social welfare boards. — In all cities of the third class in this state there is hereby created and established, at the option of the mayor and common council of any such city, a board which shall be styled "The Social Welfare Board of the City of ______". All powers and duties connected with and incident to the relief and prevention of dependency, relief and care of the indigent, and the care of sick dependents, with the exception of the insane and those suffering with contagious, infectious and transmissible diseases, and excepting those persons who may be admitted to the county poorhouses of the counties in which such cities are located, shall be exclusively invested in and exercised by the board. The board shall have power to receive and expend donations for social welfare purposes, and shall have exclusive control of the distribution and expenditure of any public funds set aside and appropriated by such cities for relief of the temporary dependent. The board shall have power to sue and be sued, complain and defend in all courts, to assume the care of or take by gift, grant, devise, bequest or otherwise, any money, real estate, personal property, right of property or other valuable things, and may use, enjoy, control, sell or convey the same for charitable purposes, to have and to use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure. The board may make bylaws for its own guidance, rules and regulations for the government of its agents, servants and employees, and for the distribution of the funds under its control.

(RSMo 1939 § 7049, A.L. 1975 H.B. 398) Prior revision: 1929 § 6899
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 160.516 — MO Code / Chapter 160 / Section 160.516
160.516 Curriculum, textbooks, and other instructional materials not to be mandated ...
Status: in_force

160.516. Curriculum, textbooks, and other instructional materials not to be mandated by state board or department — exceptions — appendix to common core standards not to be required. — 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 160.514 , the state board of education and the department of elementary and secondary education shall not be authorized to mandate and are expressly prohibited from mandating the curriculum, textbooks, or other instructional materials to be used in public schools. Each local school board shall be responsible for the approval and adoption of curriculum used by the school district. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to schools and instructional programs administered by the state board of education and the department of elementary and secondary education or to school districts that are classified as unaccredited.

2. The state board of education and the department of elementary and secondary education shall not require districts to use any appendix to the common core state standards.

(L. 2014 H.B. 1490)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 250.025 — MO Code / Chapter 250 / Section 250.025
250.025 City board of public works may manage combined system, when.
Status: in_force

250.025. City board of public works may manage combined system, when. — If any city, town or village which has heretofore established or which may hereafter establish a board of public works under the provisions of sections 91.450 to 91.540 shall combine its waterworks and sewerage system pursuant to the provisions of sections 250.020 and 250.030 , said city, town or village may by ordinance vest in said board of public works during the existence of said board the power and duty to take charge of and exercise control over said combined waterworks and sewerage system and thereafter said board shall have all of the powers and duties respecting said combined waterworks and sewerage system which are vested in said board with respect to the waterworks of said city under the provisions of sections 91.450 to 91.540 .

(L. 1953 p. 548 § 1)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 11.040 — MO Code / Chapter 11 / Section 11.040
11.040 State manual — determination of suitable material for.
Status: in_force

11.040. State manual — determination of suitable material for. — Before any statistical or other general information is published in any official publication at state expense, the manuscript therefor shall be submitted to the secretary of state for his examination, and if he considers the same suitable material for publication in the official manual, he may prohibit the publication thereof in any other publication, or public document. If he considers the manuscript not suitable material for publication in the official manual, he shall stamp or endorse thereon, over his signature and the date of the endorsement "not suitable material for publication in the official manual" and thereafter, if there is no other legal objection thereto, and if the manuscript is not a duplication of any part of the official manual or any other official report or document, authorized to be printed at state expense, it may, if authorized by law, be printed in any official report or document published by the officer submitting same to the secretary of state for his approval or rejection.

(RSMo 1939 § 15008, A.L. 1957 p.726) Prior revision: 1929 § 13815
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 408.455 — MO Code / Chapter 408 / Section 408.455
408.455 Variable rate agreements subject to certain provisions.
Status: in_force

408.455. Variable rate agreements subject to certain provisions. — All contracts or agreements originally subject to sections 408.450 to 408.470 , existing on August 28, 2003, shall remain subject to the provisions of sections 408.140 , 408.150 , 408.160 and 408.550 to 408.562 , even if the contract or agreement is converted into another form of credit.

(L. 1984 H.B. 1170, A.L. 2003 H.B. 221 merged with S.B. 346)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 161.400 — MO Code / Chapter 161 / Section 161.400
161.400 Commission for the deaf and hard of hearing created — appointment — ...
Status: in_force

161.400. Commission for the deaf and hard of hearing created — appointment — qualifications — terms — expenses — chairperson — deaf members to be provided with interpreters, cost for, how paid. — 1. As used in sections 161.400 to 161.405 , the term "commission" means the Missouri commission for the deaf and hard of hearing.

2. There is hereby established within the department of elementary and secondary education a commission, to be known as the "Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing", which shall be composed of nine members. Each member shall be appointed by the governor for a term of three years, except that, of the members first appointed, three shall be appointed for a term of three years, three for a term of two years and three for a term of one year. Of the members appointed, two shall be deaf or hard of hearing, one shall be a parent of a deaf or hard of hearing child, one shall be a representative of an organization representing the interests of the deaf or hard of hearing, one shall be a representative of the Missouri School for the Deaf or the department of elementary and secondary education, one shall be an interpreter for the deaf, one shall be a representative of the business community, one shall be a representative of local public school administration and one shall be a professional from one of the following fields: audiology, psychology, speech pathology, mental health or medicine. No person shall be eligible to serve more than two successive terms, except that a person appointed to fill a vacancy may serve two additional successive terms. The members shall receive no compensation for their services on the Missouri commission for the deaf and hard of hearing, but shall be reimbursed for ordinary and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. The provisions of this subsection shall not prevent any person serving on the commission on August 28, 1994, from completing the term for which that person was appointed.

3. A chairperson shall be selected by the commission from among its members. The commission shall meet at the call of the chairperson, but not less than four times per year. Professional interpreting services for the deaf members shall be provided for at every meeting of the commission, with the expense of the services to be borne by the commission.

(L. 1988 H.B. 1385 § 1, A.L. 1994 H.B. 1044 merged with S.B. 568, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1783)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 245.195 — MO Code / Chapter 245 / Section 245.195
245.195 Board may levy maintenance tax — unprotected lands not taxable.
Status: in_force

245.195. Board may levy maintenance tax — unprotected lands not taxable. — 1. To maintain and preserve the levees or other improvements made pursuant to sections 245.010 to 245.280 and to strengthen, repair, replace and restore the same, when needed, and for the purpose of defraying the current expenses of the district, the board of supervisors, on or before the first day of September in each year thereafter, may levy an assessment upon each tract or parcel of land and upon corporate property within the district, to be known as a "maintenance tax". The maintenance tax shall be apportioned upon the basis of the net assessment of benefits accruing for original construction, and shall be certified to the collector of revenue of each county in which lands of the district are situate in the same book in like manner and at the same time as the annual tax is certified, but in a separate column, under the heading "maintenance tax". The collector shall demand and collect the maintenance tax and make return thereof and shall receive the same compensation therefor and be liable for the same penalties for failure or neglect so to do as is provided herein for the annual installment tax.

2. No maintenance tax shall be levied or assessed against any lands or other property which is not protected from overflow by the levees and other improvements of the district. No such tax heretofore levied or assessed against any such lands or other property shall be collected by or for the district, and the board of supervisors of the district is hereby authorized and empowered to strike from the levee tax books of the district any unpaid maintenance tax which has been levied or assessed against any such lands or other property.

(RSMo 1939 § 12535, A.L. 1955 p. 601, A.L. 1994 S.B. 633) Prior revisions: 1929 § 10945; 1919 § 4639 Effective 7-12-94
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 443.861 — MO Code / Chapter 443 / Section 443.861
443.861 Transfer or sale of residential mortgage, notice to be given to mortgagor, ...
Status: in_force

443.861. Transfer or sale of residential mortgage, notice to be given to mortgagor, contents. — Whenever the servicing of a residential mortgage is transferred or sold by a residential mortgage loan broker, notice shall be given to the mortgagor simultaneously with such transfer and shall include, at the minimum, where and to whom to address the mortgagor's questions relating to the residential mortgage, the exact name, address and telephone number to whom at least the next three months' payments are to be submitted and the total amount required of the mortgagor by the servicer for each of the months referred to in the notice.

(L. 1994 S.B. 718 § 21, A.L. 2009 H.B. 382) Effective 7-08-09
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 536.019 — MO Code / Chapter 536 / Section 536.019
536.019 Effective date of rules — contingent effective date.
Status: in_force

*536.019. Effective date of rules — contingent effective date. — 1. Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter to the contrary, a final order of rulemaking shall not take effect prior to the expiration of thirty legislative days of a regular session after such order of rulemaking has been filed with the general assembly by providing a copy thereof to the joint committee on administrative rules and the secretary of state.

2. This section shall become effective only upon the expiration of twenty calendar days following the:

(1) Failure of the executive to sign executive order number 97-97; or

(2) Modification, amendment or rescission of executive order number 97-97; or

(3) An agency's failure to hold the rule in abeyance as required by executive order number 97-97; or

(4) Declaration by a court with jurisdiction that section 536.024 or any portion of executive order number 97-97 is unconstitutional or invalid for any reason. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection to the contrary, no modification, amendment or rescission of executive order number 97-97 or failure to hold the rule in abeyance shall make this section effective if the modification, amendment or rescission of the executive order or failure to hold the rule in abeyance is approved by the general assembly by concurrent resolution.

(L. 1997 H.B. 850) *Contingent effective date, see subsection 2 of this section. *Revisor's note: To date, the contingencies contained in this section regarding Executive Order 97-97 have not occurred.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 567.030 — MO Code / Chapter 567 / Section 567.030
567.030 Patronizing prostitution — penalty.
Status: in_force

567.030. Patronizing prostitution — penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of patronizing prostitution if he or she:

(1) Pursuant to a prior understanding, gives something of value to another person as compensation for having engaged in sexual conduct with any person; or

(2) Gives or agrees to give something of value to another person with the understanding that such person or another person will engage in sexual conduct with any person; or

(3) Solicits or requests another person to engage in sexual conduct with any person in return for something of value.

2. It shall not be a defense that the person believed that the individual he or she patronized for prostitution was eighteen years of age or older.

3. The offense of patronizing prostitution is a class B misdemeanor, unless the individual who the person patronizes is less than eighteen years of age but older than fifteen years of age, in which case patronizing prostitution is a class E felony.

4. The offense of patronizing prostitution is a class B felony if the individual who the person patronizes is fifteen years of age or younger. Nothing in this section shall preclude the prosecution of an individual for the offenses of:

(1) Statutory rape in the first degree pursuant to section 566.032 ;

(2) Statutory rape in the second degree pursuant to section 566.034 ;

(3) Statutory sodomy in the first degree pursuant to section 566.062 ; or

(4) Statutory sodomy in the second degree pursuant to section 566.064 .

(L. 1977 S.B. 60, A.L. 2004 H.B. 1487, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491, A.L. 2018 S.B. 793, A.L. 2025 S.B. 43)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 33.546 — MO Code / Chapter 33 / Section 33.546
33.546 Federal grant program fund created — deposits and disbursements — lapse.
Status: in_force

33.546. Federal grant program fund created — deposits and disbursements — lapse. — 1. There is hereby created in the state treasury the "Federal Grant Program Fund". All moneys received from the federal government as grants shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the federal grant program fund except those funds which are required by the constitution or statutes of this state to be placed in a restricted use fund.

2. All money received by any agency to cover indirect or reimbursable costs shall be deposited in the treasury to the credit of the appropriate fund.

3. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080 , moneys in the federal grant program fund shall not lapse.

4. No money shall be withdrawn from the federal grant program fund except by appropriation.

(L. 1978 H.B. 1218 § 2) Effective 7-01-78
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 60.580 — MO Code / Chapter 60 / Section 60.580
60.580 Right of entry, immune to trespass arrest.
Status: in_force

*60.580. Right of entry, immune to trespass arrest. — The state land surveyor or any and all employees of the department of agriculture have the right to enter upon private property for the purpose of making surveys, or for searching for, locating, relocating, or remonumenting land monuments, leveling stations, or section corners. Should any of these persons necessarily damage property of the owner in making the surveys or searches or remonumentations, the department of agriculture may make reasonable payment for the damage from funds available for that purpose. However, department of agriculture employees are personally liable for any damage caused by their wantonness, willfulness or negligence. All department of agriculture employees are immune from arrest for trespass in performing their legal duties as stated in sections 60.510 to 60.620 and section 60.670 .

(L. 1969 S.B. 22 § 13, A.L. 2012 H.B. 1251, A.L. 2013 H.B. 28 merged with H.B. 650) Effective 8-28-13 (H.B. 28); 10-11-13 (H.B. 650) *H.B. 650 effective 10-11-13, see § 21.250. H.B. 650 was vetoed July 12, 2013. The veto was overridden on September 11, 2013.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 21.360 — MO Code / Chapter 21 / Section 21.360
21.360 Voting for another member — penalty.
Status: in_force

21.360. Voting for another member — penalty. — Any member of the house of representatives who through the medium of any voting station, records the vote of another member, or who authorizes another member, or other person, to record his vote, and any person, other than a member of the house, who through the medium of a voting station, records the vote of any member is guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not less than three nor more than ten years.

(L. 1947 V. I p. 368 § 5, A.L. 1957 p. 595)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 643.610 — MO Code / Chapter 643 / Section 643.610
643.610 Compact to be effective, when — commissioners, qualifications, terms, ...
Status: in_force

643.610. Compact to be effective, when — commissioners, qualifications, terms, vacancies, how filled. — 1. Within thirty days after October 13, 1967, or within thirty days after the effective date of the act of the legislature of the state of Kansas enacting the Kansas-Missouri air quality compact, whichever date is later, the governor shall appoint five persons to be commissioners of the Kansas-Missouri air quality commission, created by compact between the states of Kansas and Missouri. All commissioners so appointed shall be qualified voters of the state of Missouri, and at least three commissioners shall reside within the district established by the compact. At no time shall more than one commissioner reside within the same county. Officers and employees of any state agency or commission having jurisdiction over air pollution control in the state of Missouri shall be eligible for appointment to the Kansas-Missouri air quality commission.

2. The commissioners appointed pursuant to subsection 1 of this section shall hold their respective offices for a term of four years, except that the commissioners first appointed shall hold their offices for terms as follows: Two for terms ending June 30, 1972, one for a term ending June 30, 1971, one for a term ending June 30, 1970, and one for a term ending June 30, 1969, and the governor in making the appointment shall designate the term for which each is to serve; and on July first of each year thereafter the governor shall appoint successors of like qualifications to fill the vacancies occurring by reason of the expiration of the terms of service as herein provided. In case of a vacancy on said commission, the governor shall appoint a successor of like qualifications for the unexpired term.

(L. 1967 p. 297 § 2)