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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 381.410 — MO Code / Chapter 381 / Section 381.410
381.410 Definitions.
Status: in_force

381.410. Definitions. — As used in this section and section 381.412 , the following terms mean:

(1) "Cashier's check" , a check, however labeled, drawn on the financial institution, which is signed only by an officer or employee of such institution, is a direct obligation of such institution, and is provided to a customer of such institution or acquired from such institution for remittance purposes;

(2) "Certified funds" , United States currency, funds conveyed by a cashier's check, certified check, or teller's check, as defined in Federal Reserve Regulations CC, or funds conveyed by wire transfers unconditionally received by the settlement agent or the agent's depository, or funds conveyed by a real-time payment system, including, but not limited to, RTP and Fed Now, for which a settlement agent receives written advice from a financial institution that collected funds have been credited to the settlement agent's account;

(3) "Director" , the director of the department of commerce and insurance, unless the settlement agent's primary regulator is another department. When the settlement agent is regulated by such department, that department shall have jurisdiction over this section and section 381.412 ;

(4) "Financial institution" :

(a) A person or entity doing business under the laws of this state or the United States relating to banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations, credit unions, commercial and consumer finance companies, industrial loan companies, insurance companies, small business investment corporations licensed under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, 15 U.S.C. Section 661, et seq., as amended, or real estate investment trusts as defined in 26 U.S.C. Section 856, as amended, or institutions constituting the Farm Credit System under the Farm Credit Act of 1971, 12 U.S.C. Section 2000, et seq., as amended; or

(b) A mortgage loan company or mortgage banker doing business under the laws of this state or the United States which is subject to licensing, supervision, or auditing by the Federal National Mortgage Association, or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, or the United States Veterans' Administration, or the Government National Mortgage Association, or the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, or a successor of any of the foregoing agencies or entities, as an approved seller or servicer, if their principal place of business is in Missouri or a state which is contiguous to Missouri;

(5) "Settlement agent" , a person, corporation, partnership, or other business organization which accepts funds and documents as fiduciary for the buyer, seller or lender for the purposes of closing a sale of an interest in real estate located within the state of Missouri, and is not a financial institution, or a member in good standing of the Missouri Bar, or a person licensed under chapter 339 .

(L. 1996 S.B. 664, A.L. 2000 S.B. 894, A.L. 2007 S.B. 66, A.L. 2008 S.B. 788, A.L. 2025 H.B. 754 merged with S.B. 98)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 302.169 — MO Code / Chapter 302 / Section 302.169
302.169 Selective Service System registration at time of application for driver's ...
Status: in_force

302.169. Selective Service System registration at time of application for driver's license, procedure. — 1. Any male applicant who applies for a driver's license instruction permit or license or renewal of any such permit or license and who is at least eighteen years of age but less than twenty-six years of age shall also be allowed to register in compliance with the requirements of Section 3 of the Military Selective Service Act, 50 U.S.C. App. Section 453, as amended. The application shall provide appropriate space for completion by the applicant to indicate his desire to register with the Selective Service.

2. If the applicant indicates his desire to register with the Selective Service by completing the appropriate section of the application as described in subsection 1 of this section, the department of revenue shall forward in an electronic format the necessary personal information of such applicants to the Selective Service system. The applicant's signature on the application and completion of the appropriate section of the application shall serve as an indication that the applicant is authorizing the department to forward to the Selective Service system the necessary information for such registration. The department shall notify the applicant at the time of application that the applicant's signature constitutes consent to registration with the Selective Service system, if the applicant is not already registered.

3. The provisions of this section shall become effective July 1, 2003.

(L. 2002 H.B. 1265) Effective 7-01-03
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 348.180 — MO Code / Chapter 348 / Section 348.180
348.180 Annual report — audit.
Status: in_force

348.180. Annual report — audit. — The authority shall, following the close of each fiscal year, submit an annual report of its activities for the preceding year to the governor and the general assembly. Each report shall set forth a complete operating and financial statement for the authority during the fiscal year it covers. At least once in each year, an independent certified public accountant shall audit the books and accounts of the authority.

(L. 1981 H.B. 681 § 39)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 374.050 — MO Code / Chapter 374 / Section 374.050
374.050 Seal of office — effect.
Status: in_force

374.050. Seal of office — effect. — 1. The seal now used by said department shall be the seal of the office of the director of the department of commerce and insurance, and the same may be renewed whenever necessary.

2. Every certificate or other paper executed by said director in pursuance of any authority conferred on him by law, and sealed with his seal of office, and all copies of papers in the office of said director, certified by him and authenticated by said seal, shall, in all cases, be evidence equally and in like manner as the originals, and shall have the same force and effect as the originals thereof would, in any suit or proceeding in any court of this state.

(RSMo 1939 § 5787) Prior revisions: 1929 § 5677; 1919 § 6088; 1909 § 6882
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 67.665 — MO Code / Chapter 67 / Section 67.665
67.665 Tourism tax may be levied by certain lakefront counties, rate — tourism ...
Status: in_force

67.665. Tourism tax may be levied by certain lakefront counties, rate — tourism fund created — use of revenues — tourism committee, appointment, terms, duties — transient guest defined — refunds and penalties. — 1. The county commission of any county bordering on a lake having at least one hundred and ten miles of shoreline may levy a tax not to exceed three percent on the amount of sales, rents or charges for all sleeping rooms paid by the transient guests of hotels, motels, condominiums and space rented campgrounds and houseboats situated within such county. The tax shall be known as a "tourism tax" and shall be deposited by the county treasurer in a separate fund to be known as the "Tourism Fund". The county commission shall appropriate from the tourism fund.

2. The person, firm or corporation, subject to any tax imposed pursuant to sections 67.665 and 67.667 shall collect the tax from the transient guests, and each such transient guest shall pay the amount of the tax due to the person, firm or corporation required to collect the tax.

3. The tax imposed pursuant to the provisions of sections 67.665 and 67.667 shall be in addition to any and all other taxes and licenses.

4. The revenues received from any tax imposed under the provisions of sections 67.665 and 67.667 shall be used exclusively for the general area advertising and promotion of tourism business for the region from which it is collected but shall not be spent for specific areas within the county or counties comprising such region.

5. The governing body of a county levying a tax under the provisions of sections 67.665 and 67.667 shall appoint a tourism committee comprised of five persons, a majority of whom are engaged in the hotel or motel business in the county. Of the members first appointed, two shall serve for a term of three years, two shall serve for a term of two years, and one shall serve for a term of one year. Their successors shall serve for a term of three years, and may serve for more than one term. The members shall serve without compensation.

6. The tourism committee of any county shall allocate funds concerning programs and expenditures to promote conventions and tourism in the county, and may contract with any public or private agency, individual, partnership, association, or corporation for the furnishing of services and supplies for such activities. As used in this section, "transient guests" means a person or persons who, for a charge, occupy a room or rooms in a hotel, motel, condominium, houseboats or space at campgrounds for thirty-one days or less during any calendar quarter. The county commission shall permit the person required to remit the tax to deduct and retain an amount equal to two percent of the taxes collected. All refunds and penalties as provided in sections 144.010 to 144.510 are hereby made applicable to violation of this section.

(L. 1982 S.B. 711 § 10) Effective 5-20-82
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 242.720 — MO Code / Chapter 242 / Section 242.720
242.720 Survey and reclamation plan — how made — exceptions.
Status: in_force

242.720. Survey and reclamation plan — how made — exceptions. — 1. The chief engineer appointed by the board of supervisors of any mine drainage district, as provided in section 242.220 , shall make a survey of the lands, both surface and underground, within the district, and of all mineralized lands adjacent thereto that may or will be benefitted by such system of drainage, and report thereon in writing to the board of supervisors, with maps and profiles of such survey, showing the shafts, drifts, drill holes, underground excavations and underground watercourses, with plans for draining, dewatering and reclaiming such lands for mining purposes, together with designs and plans for the construction of a custom concentrating plant or plants and all necessary facilities in connection therewith, including also an estimate of the amount of ores and minerals available for mining from such lands upon completion and execution of such plans. Such report, or any modification thereof approved by the chief engineer shall be adopted by the board of supervisors as the plan for reclamation as provided in section 242.230 .

2. On the filing and adoption of the plan for reclamation, the board of supervisors shall, by resolution, provide for the levy and collection of the taxes and charges hereinbefore and hereinafter provided for, including provisions for the increase thereof as provided for in section 242.740 , and shall give notice thereof by causing such resolution to be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in each county in which the said district or any part thereof may be located.

3. Any owner of land within the district or adjacent thereto that may or will be benefitted by such plan for reclamation may, within ten days following the last day of publication of said notice, file with the secretary of the board of supervisors, exceptions to such tax levies or charges.

4. Thereupon the board of supervisors shall, within five days after the filing of such exceptions, hear and determine the same, and in case any such landowner is not satisfied with the determination of such exceptions by such board, he may file his exceptions in the form of a petition in the circuit court by which the district was organized, and such court shall hear and determine the same as provided in section 242.280 .

5. The chief engineer shall keep a complete record of the drainage of said district and the lands affected thereby and of the operation of such concentrating plant or plants, and shall file a written report thereon from time to time as may be requested by the board of supervisors, but at least once each year.

(RSMo 1939 § 12392)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 41.206 — MO Code / Chapter 41 / Section 41.206
41.206 Missouri Youth Challenge Academy authorized, purpose — rulemaking authority.
Status: in_force

41.206. Missouri Youth Challenge Academy authorized, purpose — rulemaking authority. — 1. The adjutant general may establish the "Missouri Youth Challenge Academy" in order to provide positive interventions in the lives of at-risk high school-age youth. The academy will utilize residential military-based training and supervised work experience to build life skills of high school dropouts. Academy participants will receive training that focuses on responsible citizenship, life-coping skills, academic skills, job training and placement, physical fitness, services to the community, personal development, group skills, professional values, and additional subjects as directed by the adjutant general.

2. Rules necessary to administer and implement this section may be established by the adjutant general. 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, 2010, shall be invalid and void.

(L. 2010 H.B. 1524 & 2260 merged with H.B. 2262 & 2264) Effective 5-27-10
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 347.705 — MO Code / Chapter 347 / Section 347.705
347.705 Definitions.
Status: in_force

347.705. Definitions. — As used in sections 347.700 to 347.735 , the following terms mean:

(1) "Constituent entity" , each person that is a party to a merger or consolidation subject to sections 347.700 to 347.735 ;

(2) "New entity" , the person into which constituent entities consolidate, as identified in the agreement of consolidation or articles of consolidation provided for in sections 347.700 to 347.735 ;

(3) "Organizational document" , with respect to a corporation, its articles of corporation or their equivalent, with respect to a general partnership, its fictitious name registration or its equivalent, with respect to a limited partnership, its certificate of limited partnership or its equivalent, with respect to a limited liability company, its articles of organization or their equivalent, with respect to a limited liability partnership, its registration as a limited liability partnership or its equivalent, with respect to a limited liability limited partnership, its certificate of limited partnership and its registration as a limited liability partnership or their equivalent, and with respect to any other type of person, the documents, if any, necessary to form and organize such person under the laws of the jurisdiction under which such person was or is formed and organized;

(4) "Person" , a domestic or foreign general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability limited partnership, limited liability company, corporation, trust, business trust, real estate investment trust and other association or business entity;

(5) "Surviving entity" , the constituent entity surviving a merger, as identified in the agreement of merger or articles of merger provided for in sections 347.700 to 347.735 .

(L. 1993 S.B. 66 & 20 § 359.902, A.L. 1997 H.B. 655 merged with S.B. 170) Effective 6-24-97 (H.B. 655); 5-20-97 (S.B. 170)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 262.640 — MO Code / Chapter 262 / Section 262.640
262.640 Warrants, how drawn.
Status: in_force

262.640. Warrants, how drawn. — The money paid out under sections 262.630 to 262.660 shall be upon warrants of the county authorizing the payment, drawn in favor of the treasurer of the organization making such approved application, and upon a statement of such itemized expenses, which may include expenses of holding and conducting said agricultural meetings as herein provided, namely hiring of hall, advertising, expense of procuring speakers from a distance who are not on the regular staffs of the state department of agriculture or college of agriculture or state teachers' colleges, such statements to be signed and sworn to by said treasurer of said organization.

(RSMo 1939 § 14316) Prior revisions: 1929 § 12658; 1919 § 12148
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 473.717 — MO Code / Chapter 473 / Section 473.717
473.717 Supposed decedent substituted for administrator, when — effect on actions, ...
Status: in_force

473.717. Supposed decedent substituted for administrator, when — effect on actions, judgments. — 1. After the revocation of such letters of administration as aforesaid, the person erroneously supposed to be dead may, upon suggestion of said fact, filed of record, be substituted in all actions brought by the administrator of his estate, whether prosecuted to judgment or otherwise. He may, in all actions previously brought against his administrator, be substituted as defendant, on proper suggestion, filed by himself or by the plaintiff therein, but he shall not be compelled to go to trial in less than three months from the time of the filing of such suggestion.

2. Judgments recovered against the administrator before the revocation of his letters, as aforesaid, may be opened, upon application by the supposed decedent, if made by affidavit, denying specifically, on the knowledge of the affiant, the cause of action, or specifically alleging the existence of facts which would be a valid defense; but if within said three months, such application shall not be made, or, being made, the facts exhibited shall be adjudged an insufficient defense, the judgment shall be conclusive to all intents, saving the defendant's right to have the same reviewed, as in other cases, by appeal or by writ of error, as now provided by law. After the substitution of the supposed decedent as defendant in any judgment, as aforesaid, such judgment shall become a lien on his real estate situate in the county for which the court is held, and shall have the same force and effect as if said action had been originally instituted against said supposed decedent.

(RSMo 1939 § 270) Prior revisions: 1929 § 271; 1919 § 270; 1909 § 277
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 476.360 — MO Code / Chapter 476 / Section 476.360
476.360 Clerks of various courts shall make reports to executive council.
Status: in_force

476.360. Clerks of various courts shall make reports to executive council. — The clerks of the various courts of the state named in section 476.320 , shall make such reports to the executive council as the conference or the executive council may require.

(L. 1943 p. 514 § 6)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 344.020 — MO Code / Chapter 344 / Section 344.020
344.020 License required — separate license for assisted living facilities ...
Status: in_force

344.020. License required — separate license for assisted living facilities administrators, limitations of license. — No person shall act or serve in the capacity of a nursing home administrator without first procuring a license from the Missouri board of nursing home administrators as provided in sections 344.010 to 344.108 . The board may issue a separate license to administrators of residential care facilities that were licensed as a residential care facility II on or before August 27, 2006, that continue * to meet the licensure standards for a residential care facility II in effect on August 27, 2006, and assisted living facilities, as defined in section 198.006 . Any individual who receives a license to operate a residential care facility or an assisted living facility is not thereby authorized to operate any intermediate care facility or skilled nursing facility as those terms are defined in section 198.006 .

(L. 1969 3d Ex. Sess. H.B. 33 § 2, A.L. 1989 S.B. 387, A.L. 2007 H.B. 780, A.L. 2010 H.B. 2226, et al. merged with S.B. 754) *Word "continues" appears in original rolls of S.B. 754.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 87.475 — MO Code / Chapter 87 / Section 87.475
87.475 Honorary members, admission of.
Status: in_force

87.475. Honorary members, admission of. — The board of trustees may provide for the admission of honorary members of the department in such manner and under such conditions as may be set forth in the rules and regulations enacted by said board of trustees.

(RSMo 1939 § 9521) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8954; 1919 § 9055; 1909 § 9880
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 571.015 — MO Code / Chapter 571 / Section 571.015
571.015 Armed criminal action, offense of — penalty.
Status: in_force

571.015. Armed criminal action, offense of — penalty. — 1. Any person who commits any felony under the laws of this state by, with, or through the use, assistance, or aid of a dangerous instrument or deadly weapon is also guilty of the offense of armed criminal action; the offense of armed criminal action shall be an unclassified felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment by the department of corrections for a term of not less than three years and not to exceed fifteen years, unless the person is unlawfully possessing a firearm, in which case the term of imprisonment shall be for a term of not less than five years. The punishment imposed pursuant to this subsection shall be in addition to and consecutive to any punishment provided by law for the crime committed by, with, or through the use, assistance, or aid of a dangerous instrument or deadly weapon. No person convicted under this subsection shall be eligible for parole, probation, conditional release, or suspended imposition or execution of sentence for a period of three calendar years.

2. Any person convicted of a second offense of armed criminal action under subsection 1 of this section shall be punished by imprisonment by the department of corrections for a term of not less than five years and not to exceed thirty years, unless the person is unlawfully possessing a firearm, in which case the term of imprisonment shall be for a term not less than fifteen years. The punishment imposed pursuant to this subsection shall be in addition to and consecutive to any punishment provided by law for the crime committed by, with, or through the use, assistance, or aid of a dangerous instrument or deadly weapon. No person convicted under this subsection shall be eligible for parole, probation, conditional release, or suspended imposition or execution of sentence for a period of five calendar years.

3. Any person convicted of a third or subsequent offense of armed criminal action under subsection 1 of this section shall be punished by imprisonment by the department of corrections for a term of not less than ten years, unless the person is unlawfully possessing a firearm, in which case the term of imprisonment shall be no less than fifteen years. The punishment imposed pursuant to this subsection shall be in addition to and consecutive to any punishment provided by law for the crime committed by, with, or through the use, assistance, or aid of a dangerous instrument or deadly weapon. No person convicted under this subsection shall be eligible for parole, probation, conditional release, or suspended imposition or execution of sentence for a period of ten calendar years.

(L. 1977 S.B. 60, A.L. 2020 S.B. 600, A.L. 2024 S.B. 754, et al.)