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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 476.350 — MO Code / Chapter 476 / Section 476.350
476.350 Duties of judicial conference, executive council and circuit judges.
Status: in_force

476.350. Duties of judicial conference, executive council and circuit judges. — 1. It shall be the duty of said judicial conference and its executive council to study the organization, rules, methods of procedure, and practice of the judicial system of this state, the work accomplished, and the results produced by that system in its various parts and judicial tribunals; the problems of administration confronting the courts and the judicial system in general.

2. It shall be the duty of the presiding judge of each circuit, of the chief justice of the supreme court and of the chief judge of each district of the court of appeals to prepare and submit to the executive council, at such times and in such form as may be specified by rules of the conference, reports setting forth the condition of the docket and the business dispatched and pending in his court or the courts over which he presides, and such other facts pertinent to the business dispatched and pending as the conference or its executive council may deem proper. Such reports shall be public records and rules may be made for publication of the same or summaries thereof.

3. It shall be the duty of said conference through its executive council to make biennially to the general assembly of the state any recommendations it may deem proper for the modification or amelioration of existing conditions, for harmonizing and improving laws, or for amendments to the codes of practice and procedure, and concerning any statute or legislative act which has been declared unconstitutional.

4. The conference may authorize the presiding officer or the executive council to appoint such committees as are necessary to expedite the performance of the duties herein required. The conference may make and adopt such rules as it deems necessary to carry out the purposes and provisions of this law.

(L. 1943 p. 514 § 5, A.L. 1973 S.B. 263, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634) Effective 1-02-79
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 407.1079 — MO Code / Chapter 407 / Section 407.1079
407.1079 Telemarketers required to keep certain records.
Status: in_force

407.1079. Telemarketers required to keep certain records. — 1. A seller or telemarketer shall keep for a period of twenty-four months from the date the record is produced all verifiable authorizations and records as required in sections 407.1070 to 407.1085 , in the form, manner, format or place as they keep such records in the ordinary course of business, including but not limited to:

(1) All substantially different advertising, brochures, telemarketing scripts and promotional materials;

(2) For any prize with a value of twenty-five dollars or greater, the name and last known address of each prize recipient and the prize awarded;

(3) The name and last known address of each consumer, the merchandise purchased, the date such merchandise was shipped or provided and the amount paid by the consumer for the merchandise;

(4) The name, any fictitious name used, the last known home address and telephone number, and the job title for all current and former employees directly involved in telephone sales, provided, that if the seller permits fictitious names to be used by employees, each fictitious name must be traceable to only one specific employee; and

(5) All written authorizations required to be provided or received pursuant to sections 407.1070 to 407.1085 .

2. For offers of consumer credit products subject to The Truth in Lending Act, 15 U.S.C. et seq., and Regulation Z, 12 CFR 226, compliance with the record-keeping requirements pursuant to The Truth in Lending Act and Regulation Z shall constitute compliance with subdivision (3) of subsection 1 of this section.

3. The seller and the telemarketer calling on behalf of the seller may, by written agreement, allocate responsibility between themselves for the record keeping required by this section. When a seller and telemarketer have entered into such an agreement, the terms of the agreement shall govern, and the seller or telemarketer, as the case may be, need not keep records that duplicate those of the other. If the agreement is unclear as to who must maintain any required record, or if no such agreement exists, the seller shall be responsible for complying with subdivisions (1), (2), (3) and (5) of subsection 1 of this section and the telemarketer shall be responsible for complying with subdivision (4) of subsection 1 of this section.

4. In the event of any dissolution or termination of the telemarketer's business, the telemarketer shall maintain all records as required pursuant to this section. In the event of any sale, assignment or other change in ownership of the seller's business, the successor shall maintain all records required pursuant to this section.

(L. 2000 S.B. 763)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 164.071 — MO Code / Chapter 164 / Section 164.071
164.071 Levy and collection of taxes in metropolitan districts.
Status: in_force

164.071. Levy and collection of taxes in metropolitan districts. — The board of education in metropolitan districts may levy all taxes authorized by law to be levied for school purposes in the city. The officers of the board and the collector and assessor in the city, and all other officers of the city and of the state concerned with the assessment and collection of taxes and fines and penalties payable to the school funds, shall perform the duties in relation to the levying and collection of school taxes and the collection of the fines and penalties, and the payment thereof to the board for school purposes, that are imposed by law upon the officers.

(L. 1963 p. 200 § 5-7) (Source: RSMo 1959 § 165.637) CROSS REFERENCE: School operating levy may be set by Kansas City school board, when, Const. Art. X, Sec. 11(g)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 9.288 — MO Code / Chapter 9 / Section 9.288
9.288 Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Awareness Day designated for April 18.
Status: in_force

9.288. Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Awareness Day designated for April 18. — April eighteenth of each year shall be known and designated as "Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Awareness Day". Hypoplastic left heart syndrome is a critical congenital heart defect that forms during the pregnancy when portions of the left side of the baby's heart remain underdeveloped or too small. It is recommended to the people of this * state that the day be appropriately observed through activities that will increase awareness of hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

(L. 2022 H.B. 1738 merged with H.B. 2627) *Word "the" appears in original rolls of H.B. 2627, 2022.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 379.690 — MO Code / Chapter 379 / Section 379.690
379.690 Statement of condition and affairs may be required by director — ...
Status: in_force

379.690. Statement of condition and affairs may be required by director — restriction on liability of members. — There shall be filed with the director of the department of commerce and insurance of this state, by the attorney, a statement under the oath of the attorney, showing in the case of fire insurance, the maximum amount of indemnity upon any single risk, and the attorney shall, whenever and as often as the same shall be required, file with the director of the department of commerce and insurance a statement verified by his oath to the effect that he has examined the commercial rating of the subscribers as shown by the reference book of a commercial agency having at least one hundred thousand subscribers, and that from the examination or from * other information in his possession, it appears that no subscriber has assumed on any single fire insurance risk an amount greater than ten percent of the net worth of the subscriber.

(RSMo 1939 § 6082, A.L. 1967 p. 516) Prior revisions: 1929 § 5970; 1919 § 6378 *Word "for" in original rolls.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 211.069 — MO Code / Chapter 211 / Section 211.069
211.069 Citation of law.
Status: in_force

211.069. Citation of law. — Sections 211.071 and 211.073 shall be known and may be cited as "Jonathan's Law".

(L. 2013 S.B. 36)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 448.200 — MO Code / Chapter 448 / Section 448.200
448.200 Managers to keep records, open to owners.
Status: in_force

448.200. Managers to keep records, open to owners. — The manager or board of managers, as the case may be, shall keep detailed, accurate records in chronological order of the receipts and expenditures affecting the common elements, specifying and itemizing the maintenance and repair expenses of the common elements and any other expenses incurred. Such records and the vouchers authorizing the payments shall be available for examination by the unit owners at convenient hours of week days.

(L. 1963 p. 648 § 19)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 194.360 — MO Code / Chapter 194 / Section 194.360
194.360 Veterans, cremated remains — definitions — funeral establishment or ...
Status: in_force

194.360. Veterans, cremated remains — definitions — funeral establishment or coroner, authorized release of identifying information, to whom — release of remains, when — immunity from liability. — 1. As used in this section the following terms shall mean:

(1) "Funeral establishment" , as defined in section 333.011 , a funeral home, a funeral director, an embalmer, or an employee of any of the individuals or entities;

(2) "Identifying information" , data required by the Department of Veterans Affairs to verify a veteran or their dependent's eligibility for burial in a national or state cemetery: name, service number, Social Security number, date of birth, date of death, place of birth, and copy of death certificate;

(3) "Veteran" , a person honorably discharged from the Armed Forces of the United States, including, but not limited to, the Philippine Commonwealth Army, the Regular Scouts "Old Scouts", and the Special Philippine Scouts "New Scouts", or a person who died while on active military service with any branch of the Armed Forces of the United States;

(4) "Veterans' service organization" , a veterans organization that is federally chartered by the Congress of the United States, veterans' service organization recognized by the Department of Veterans Affairs or that qualifies as a Section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(19), nonprofit tax exempt organization under the Internal Revenue Code that is organized for the verification and burial of veterans and dependents.

2. A funeral establishment or coroner in the possession of cremated remains is authorized to release the identifying information to the Department of Veterans Affairs or a veterans' service organization for the purpose of obtaining verification of the veteran's or veterans' dependent's eligibility for a military burial, interment, or scattering. When verification of a veteran or dependent is completed, the funeral establishment or coroner may release the remains to the veterans' service organization who then may arrange for the burial, interment, or scattering of the remains.

3. A funeral establishment or coroner who releases the identifying information shall not be liable in any action regarding the release of the identifying information and neither the funeral establishment, coroner, or veterans' service organization shall be liable in any action stemming from the final disposition, interment, burial, or scattering of remains released to a veterans' service organization pursuant to this chapter so long as the funeral establishment, prior to the burial, interment, or scattering of the remains, follows the notification procedures for unclaimed cremated remains as set out in subdivision (4) of section 194.350 .

4. A veterans' service organization accepting remains under this section shall take all reasonable steps to inter the remains in a veterans' cemetery.

(L. 2009 H.B. 111 merged with H.B. 427, A.L. 2013 S.B. 186)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 58.097 — MO Code / Chapter 58 / Section 58.097
58.097 Classroom instruction and training, requirements.
Status: in_force

58.097. Classroom instruction and training, requirements. — 1. To fulfill the requirements established in section 58.095 , each elected or appointed coroner, deputy coroner, and assistant to the coroner shall complete at least twenty hours of classroom instruction and training each calendar year.

2. (1) The classroom instruction and training required under this section shall relate to:

(a) Operation of the coroner's office;

(b) Legal responsibilities of the coroner's office; and

(c) Technical skills and knowledge required of the coroner's office.

(2) Acceptable training shall relate to administrative standards and ethics of the profession, pathology, toxicology, histology, and other associated medicolegal sciences. Such training shall include, but not be limited to, instruction in best practices or standards, as certified, recognized, or otherwise endorsed by nationally or internationally recognized organizations such as the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, International Association of Coroners and Medical Examiners, and the National Institute of Justice.

3. Particular instructional emphases relating to coroner training standards shall include and be provided, at a minimum, on properly conducting, establishing, facilitating, overseeing, performing, and using the following:

(1) Autopsies;

(2) Body or remains handling and transport;

(3) Chain of custody and confidentiality;

(4) Ethical conduct;

(5) Etiology and medical certification;

(6) Evidence, inventory, property, and samples;

(7) Illicit drug handling;

(8) Infant and child fatalities;

(9) Laboratory services;

(10) Mass fatalities;

(11) Notification procedures;

(12) Organ and tissue donation;

(13) Occupational deaths;

(14) Personal protective equipment;

(15) Release of documents, photographs, and other information;

(16) Reporting of probable contagious diseases;

(17) Scene investigation, documentation, and safety;

(18) Sample or specimen collection; and

(19) Statutory and regulatory requirements.

(L. 2025 H.B. 199)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 226.502 — MO Code / Chapter 226 / Section 226.502
226.502 Legislative intent — funds to be used.
Status: in_force

*226.502. Legislative intent — funds to be used. — It is declared that the legislative intent of this act is to improve the safety and convenience of the highways of this state.

(1) It may be determined by the general assembly that funds shall be expended from the state road fund for the purposes of this act, or

(2) Any funds expended by the state hereunder as may be necessary to comply with any federal law or requirement which is or may become a condition to receipt of federal funds for highway purposes shall be appropriated only from state highway funds.

(L. 1972 S.B. 382) Effective 3-30-72 *Revisor's Note: Language in this section taken from unnumbered paragraphs following 226.580.4 in S.C.S. S.B. 382, 1972.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 306.125 — MO Code / Chapter 306 / Section 306.125
306.125 Operation of watercraft, how — restricted areas, certain vessels, speed ...
Status: in_force

306.125. Operation of watercraft, how — restricted areas, certain vessels, speed allowed, penalty for violations — rulemaking authority — exceptions. — 1. Every person shall operate a motorboat, vessel or watercraft in a careful and prudent manner and at a rate of speed so as not to endanger the property of another or the life or limb of any person and shall exercise the highest degree of care.

2. No person shall operate a motorboat, vessel or watercraft at any time from a half-hour after sunset until an hour before sunrise the following day at a speed exceeding thirty miles per hour.

3. Vessels shall not be operated within one hundred feet of any dock, pier, occupied anchored boat or buoyed restricted area on any lake at a speed in excess of slow-no wake speed. The operator of any watercraft in violation of this subsection is guilty of an infraction and shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars; however, if the operator cannot be identified, the owner of the watercraft shall be subject to such penalty. Notwithstanding any provision of law or court rule to the contrary, no court costs shall be imposed on any person due to a violation of this subsection.

4. The department of public safety shall promulgate all necessary rules and regulations for the implementation and administration of a no-wake cove for class 3 vessels in a cove with its main juncture less than 800 feet, measured from shore to shore, at the main channel. 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, 2018, shall be invalid and void.

5. Subsection 1 of this section shall not apply to a motorboat or other boat race authorized under section 306.130 .

(L. 1989 S.B. 135, A.L. 1995 H.B. 217, A.L. 1997 H.B. 379, A.L. 2008 H.B. 1715, A.L. 2018 H.B. 2116) CROSS REFERENCE: Penalty provisions for violations of this section, 306.210
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 67.638 — MO Code / Chapter 67 / Section 67.638
67.638 Definitions.
Status: in_force

67.638. Definitions. — As used in sections 67.638 to 67.645 , the following terms mean:

(1) "City" , a city with a population of three hundred fifty thousand or more inhabitants, located wholly or partially within a first class county with a charter form of government which does not adjoin a city not within a county or a charter city located in a first class county;

(2) "Convention and sports complex fund" , the fund established by a county or city pursuant to the provisions of sections 67.638 to 67.645 , for the purposes of developing, maintaining or operating within its jurisdiction, sports, convention, exhibition or trade facilities;

(3) "County" , a first class county, other than a first class county with a charter form of government which adjoins a city not within a county;

(4) "Governing body" , the county commission or other governing body charged with governing the county or the city council charged with governing the city.

(L. 1989 S.B. 295 & 312 § 1)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 80.650 — MO Code / Chapter 80 / Section 80.650
80.650 Trustee in disincorporation — duties on conclusion of trust.
Status: in_force

80.650. Trustee in disincorporation — duties on conclusion of trust. — When the trustee shall have closed the affairs of the corporation, he shall pay over to the county commission all moneys remaining in his hands, and deliver to the clerk of such commission all books, papers, records and deeds belonging to the dissolved corporation.

(RSMo 1939 § 7303) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7152; 1919 § 8601; 1909 § 9489
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 140.480 — MO Code / Chapter 140 / Section 140.480
140.480 Record of land sold kept by collector.
Status: in_force

140.480. Record of land sold kept by collector. — A record shall be kept by the county collector in his office containing a brief description of the lands by him conveyed on sales for taxes, the name of the person charged therewith, the date of the sale, the name of the purchaser, the amount for which it sold, the name of the grantee in the deed, and the date of its execution.

(RSMo 1939 § 11154)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 55.240 — MO Code / Chapter 55 / Section 55.240
55.240 Sheriff to make monthly report to auditor (second class and certain first ...
Status: in_force

55.240. Sheriff to make monthly report to auditor (second class and certain first class counties). — The sheriff of each county of the first class not having a charter form of government and of each county of the second class shall, on the last secular day of each month, make out and file with the auditor a full and complete statement of all fines and forfeitures by him collected, stating therein from whom and when collected, the amount thereof, and on what account; and he shall file with such statement a receipt showing to whom he has paid the same; he shall also at the same time file with the auditor a receipt for any and all moneys and fees paid by him to any officer whose duty it is to make settlement with the county commission, and whose duty it is to report to the auditor the receipts and expenditures of his office.

(RSMo 1939 § 13875, A.L. 1973 H.B. 678) Prior revisions: 1929 § 12212; 1919 § 9610; 1909 § 3831
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 600.051 — MO Code / Chapter 600 / Section 600.051
600.051 Waiver of counsel, when permitted.
Status: in_force

600.051. Waiver of counsel, when permitted. — 1. Any judge of a court of competent jurisdiction may permit a waiver of counsel to be filed in any criminal case wherein a defendant may receive a jail sentence or confinement if the court first determines that defendant has made a knowledgeable and intelligent waiver of the right to assistance of counsel and the waiver is signed before and witnessed by the judge or clerk of the court, providing further that the waiver contains at least the following information which the defendant has read or which has been read to the defendant before the signing thereof:

(1) That the defendant has been charged with the offense of ______ (nature of charge must be inserted before signing);

(2) That the defendant has a right to a trial on the charge and further that the defendant has a right to a trial by a jury;

(3) That the maximum possible sentence on the charge is ______ imprisonment in jail and a fine in the amount of ______ dollars or by both imprisonment and fine. That the minimum possible sentence is ______ imprisonment in jail or by a fine in the amount of ______ dollars or by both such confinement and fine;

(4) That the defendant is aware that any recommendations by a prosecuting attorney or other prosecuting official are not binding on the judge and that any such recommendations may or may not be accepted by judge;

(5) That if defendant pleads guilty or is found guilty of the charge, the judge is most likely to impose a sentence of confinement;

(6) That, if indigent, and unable to employ an attorney, the defendant has a right to request the judge to appoint counsel to assist the defendant in his defense against the charge.

2. Such a waiver and procedure shall be required if the judge imposes an order of probation, parole or suspension of sentence whereby subsequently the defendant may be ordered confined thereunder. Whenever a judge has permitted the filing of a waiver and a plea of guilty or a finding of guilty on the charge is entered and before the imposition of a sentence of confinement (including probation, parole or suspended sentence), the judge shall determine:

(1) That if a plea of guilty has been entered, there is a factual basis for such a plea and, upon inquiry of defendant, that defendant is in fact guilty of the charge;

(2) That the defendant does not know of the existence of any witness or of any fact, circumstances or evidence which was not presented to the court, which would exonerate defendant of the charge;

(3) That upon inquiry of the prosecuting attorney there are no witnesses or evidence which would cast a reasonable doubt about the defendant's guilt or defenses available to defendant not disclosed to the court.

(L. 1976 H.B. 1095 § 600.046)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 47.030 — MO Code / Chapter 47 / Section 47.030
47.030 Removal of county seat — vote of people.
Status: in_force

47.030. Removal of county seat — vote of people. — Whenever one-fourth of the voters of any county shall petition the county commission for a removal of the seat of justice of such county to any other designated place, the commission shall make an order directing that the question be submitted to the voters of the county at the next municipal election.

(RSMo 1939 § 13732, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971) Prior revisions: 1929 § 12073; 1919 § 9473; 1909 § 3694