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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 434.020 — MO Code / Chapter 434 / Section 434.020
434.020 Assignment not to affect defense.
Status: in_force

434.020. Assignment not to affect defense. — The assignment of any bond, bill, note, judgment, conveyance or other security shall not affect the defense of the person executing or confessing the same.

(RSMo 1939 § 3395) Prior revisions: 1929 § 3008; 1919 § 5745; 1909 § 6626
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 334.687 — MO Code / Chapter 334 / Section 334.687
334.687 Rulemaking authority.
Status: in_force

334.687. Rulemaking authority. — For purposes of this section, the licensing of physical therapists and physical therapist assistants shall take place within processes established by the state board of registration for the healing arts through rules. The board of healing arts is authorized to adopt rules establishing licensing and renewal procedures, supervision of physical therapist assistants, and former licensees who wish to return to the practice of physical therapy, fees, and addressing such other matters as are necessary to protect the public and discipline the profession.

(L. 2008 S.B. 788)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 385.424 — MO Code / Chapter 385 / Section 385.424
385.424 Prohibited use of names and terms.
Status: in_force

385.424. Prohibited use of names and terms. — 1. Unless licensed as an insurance company, a vehicle protection product warrantor shall not use in its name, contracts, or literature the words "insurance", "casualty", "surety", "mutual", or any other word that is descriptive of the insurance, casualty, or surety business or that is deceptively similar to the name or description of any insurance or surety corporation or any other vehicle protection product warrantor. A warrantor may use the term "guaranty" or a similar word in the warrantor's name. A warrantor or its representative shall not in its vehicle protection product warranties or literature make, permit, or cause to be made any false or misleading statement, or deliberately omit any material statement that would be considered misleading if omitted, in connection with the sale, offer to sell, or advertisement of a vehicle protection product warranty.

2. A vehicle protection product seller or warrantor may not require as a condition of financing that a retail purchaser of a motor vehicle purchase a vehicle protection product.

(L. 2008 S.B. 930 & 947) Effective 1-01-09
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 300.160 — MO Code / Chapter 300 / Section 300.160
300.160 Pedestrian control signals.
Status: in_force

300.160. Pedestrian control signals. — Whenever special pedestrian control signals exhibiting the words "Walk" or "Don't Walk", or appropriate symbols, are in place, such signals shall indicate as follows:

(1) "Walk" , pedestrians facing such signal may proceed across the roadway in the direction of the signal and shall be given the right-of-way by the drivers of all vehicles;

(2) "Wait" or "Don't Walk" , no pedestrian shall start to cross the roadway in the direction of such signal, but any pedestrian who has partially completed his crossing on the walk signal shall proceed to a sidewalk or safety zone while the wait signal is showing.

(L. 1965 p. 445 § 32, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 108.508 — MO Code / Chapter 108 / Section 108.508
108.508 State ceiling for each calendar year, how calculated.
Status: in_force

108.508. State ceiling for each calendar year, how calculated. — The dollar amount of the state ceiling for the state of Missouri for each calendar year commencing January 1, 1988, shall be determined by the director on or before the beginning of each such calendar year in accordance with Section 146 of the Code.

(L. 1987 S.B. 351 § 108.505, A.L. 1990 S.B. 632) Effective 5-25-90
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 287.123 — MO Code / Chapter 287 / Section 287.123
287.123 Insurers to establish safety engineering and management services program — ...
Status: in_force

287.123. Insurers to establish safety engineering and management services program — requirements — division to maintain registry. — 1. Each insurance carrier writing workers' compensation insurance in this state shall establish a program whereby the carrier shall have available and shall provide to each employer obtaining workers' compensation coverage from such insurance carrier comprehensive safety engineering and management services upon a request made by the employer for such services.

2. Each insurance carrier writing workers' compensation insurance in this state shall provide the director of the department of labor and industrial relations with a written outline of the safety engineering and management program required to be established under subsection 1 of this section. Such program required to be established pursuant to subsection 1 of this section shall require certification by the director as to its adequacy in providing safety management and loss control to the employer. An insurance carrier's program required to be established pursuant to subsection 1 of this section shall be reviewed by the director at least annually to determine that it is delivering comprehensive services for safety education and the elimination of and protection against unsafe acts in the workplace and frequently recognized compensable worker injuries. An insurance carrier may establish such program required to be established pursuant to subsection 1 of this section through contracts with private safety engineering and management service companies in the state. Each insurance carrier shall collect annual data on what impact its program required to be established pursuant to subsection 1 of this section has had on compensable losses of the employers it insures, and such data shall be made available to the department of commerce and insurance and the department of labor and industrial relations. When the employer requests services under such program and the insurance carrier provides such services, the insurance carrier shall report such services to the division.

3. At each time the division of workers' compensation receives notice from an employer that the employer has purchased workers' compensation insurance coverage from a different insurance carrier or has made an initial purchase of workers' compensation coverage, the division shall notify the employer in writing of publicly or privately administered worker safety programs available in the state, unless such notice has been given in the prior twelve months.

4. The division shall maintain a registry of safety consultants and safety engineers certified by the department of labor and industrial relations and such registry shall be available for inspection by any employer in this state. Standards and requirements for certificates of safety consultants and safety engineers shall be determined by the department of labor and industrial relations by rule.

(L. 1993 S.B. 251, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1237, et al., A.L. 2001 S.B. 521)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 338.315 — MO Code / Chapter 338 / Section 338.315
338.315 Receipt of drugs from unlicensed source, unlawful — penalty — ...
Status: in_force

338.315. Receipt of drugs from unlicensed source, unlawful — penalty — pharmacy-to-pharmacy transfers, limit — legend drugs, inventories and records — rulemaking authority. — 1. Except as otherwise provided by the board by rule, it shall be unlawful for any pharmacist, pharmacy owner or person employed by a pharmacy to knowingly purchase or receive any legend drugs under 21 U.S.C. Section 353 from other than a licensed or registered drug distributor, drug outsourcer, third-party logistics provider, or licensed pharmacy. Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of a class A misdemeanor. Any subsequent conviction shall constitute a class E felony.

2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the sale, purchase, or trade of a prescription drug by a pharmacy to other pharmacies is permissible if the total dollar volume of such sales, purchases, or trades are in compliance with the rules of the board and do not exceed five percent of the pharmacy's total annual prescription drug sales.

3. Pharmacies shall establish and maintain inventories and records of all transactions regarding the receipt and distribution or other disposition of legend drugs. Such records shall be maintained for two years and be readily available upon request by the board or its representatives.

4. The board shall promulgate rules to implement the provisions 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, 2012, shall be invalid and void.

(L. 1989 S.B. 39, A.L. 2011 S.B. 325, A.L. 2012 H.B. 1563, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491, A.L. 2018 H.B. 1719)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 226.910 — MO Code / Chapter 226 / Section 226.910
226.910 Contract requirements not in compliance with federal law to be null and void.
Status: in_force

226.910. Contract requirements not in compliance with federal law to be null and void. — If the United States Secretary of Transportation determines that sections 226.900 to 226.907 have the effect of placing the state of Missouri in noncompliance with any federal constitutional, statutory or regulatory provision that would result in the loss of any federal aid funds to the Missouri highways and transportation commission, then sections 226.900 to 226.907 shall be null and void.

(L. 1993 1st Ex. Sess. H.B. 2 § 4) Effective 9-30-93
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 260.240 — MO Code / Chapter 260 / Section 260.240
260.240 Violations, how proceeded against — county regulations, how enforced, ...
Status: in_force

260.240. Violations, how proceeded against — county regulations, how enforced, penalty for violation — exceptions. — 1. In the event the director determines that any provision of sections 260.200 to 260.245 and 260.330 or any standard, rule, regulation, final order or approved plan promulgated pursuant thereto is being, was, or is in imminent danger of being violated, the director may, in addition to those remedies provided in section 260.230 , cause to have instituted a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction for injunctive relief to prevent any such violation or further violation or in the case of violations concerning a solid waste processing facility, for the assessment of a penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars per day, or part thereof, the violation occurred and continues to occur, or both, as the court deems proper or in the case of violations concerning a solid waste disposal area and in the case of a violation of section 260.330 by a solid waste processing facility, for the assessment of a penalty not to exceed five thousand dollars per day, or part thereof, the violation occurred and continues to occur, or both, as the court deems proper. A civil monetary penalty under this section shall not be assessed for a violation where an administrative penalty was assessed under section 260.249 . The director may request either the attorney general or a prosecuting attorney to bring any action authorized in this section in the name of the people of the state of Missouri. Suit can be brought in any county where the defendant's principal place of business is located or where the violation occurred. Any offer of settlement to resolve a civil penalty under this section shall be in writing, shall state that an action for imposition of a civil penalty may be initiated by the attorney general or a prosecuting attorney representing the department under authority of this section, and shall identify any dollar amount as an offer of settlement which shall be negotiated in good faith through conference, conciliation and persuasion.

2. Any rule, regulation, standard or order of a county commission, adopted pursuant to the provisions of sections 260.200 to 260.245 , may be enforced in a civil action for mandatory or prohibitory injunctive relief or for the assessment of a penalty not to exceed five hundred dollars per day for each day, or part thereof, that a violation of such rule, regulation, standard or order of a county commission occurred and continues to occur, or both, as the commission deems proper. The county commission may request the prosecuting attorney or other attorney to bring any action authorized in this section in the name of the people of the state of Missouri.

3. The liabilities imposed by this section shall not be imposed due to any violation caused by an act of God, war, strike, riot or other catastrophe.

(L. 1972 S.B. 387 § 9, A.L. 1975 S.B. 98, A.L. 1993 S.B. 80, et al., A.L. 2007 S.B. 54, A.L. 2019 S.B. 134)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 88.797 — MO Code / Chapter 88 / Section 88.797
88.797 Sprinkling and oiling of streets (cities, under 30,000).
Status: in_force

88.797. Sprinkling and oiling of streets (cities, under 30,000). — The city council of any city in the state having a population of less than thirty thousand inhabitants and being operated under a special charter, shall have power within the city, by ordinance, to cause the streets and public places in the city, or any part thereof, to be sprinkled or oiled, and the cost thereof to be provided for and defrayed by a special tax to be assessed in favor of the city on the adjoining property fronting or bordering on the streets or public places where such sprinkling or oiling is proposed to be done, on the proportion that the linear feet of each lot fronting or bordering on the street or public place so to be sprinkled or oiled bears to the total number of all property chargeable with the special tax aforesaid in the territory embraced by the contract under which said sprinkling is to be done. The above work shall be contracted for annually by the commissioner of streets and public improvements at such time and under such terms as shall be provided by ordinance, and the city shall be divided into convenient sprinkling or oiling districts for the above purpose, and each district shall be let separately. The special tax bills spoken of shall be and become a lien on the property charged therewith from the first Monday in April each year and shall be prima facie evidence of the liability of the property charged therewith to the extent and amount therein specified, and may be collected of and from the owner of the land in the name of and by the city as any other claim in any court of competent jurisdiction, with interest at the rate of eight percent per annum from the first day of May in each year, and they shall be issued and collected in the manner hereafter provided by ordinance.

(RSMo 1939 § 7500) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7347; 1919 § 8761
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 349.105 — MO Code / Chapter 349 / Section 349.105
349.105 Annual report, contents.
Status: in_force

349.105. Annual report, contents. — No later than January thirty-first of each year, the issuing authority shall file a report with the department of economic development on the previous year's issuances, which report shall contain only the following information:

(1) The name and address of the issuing entity;

(2) The name, address, age, and type of business of the beneficiary firm;

(3) The amount, term, interest rate, and date of issuance of the bonds issued;

(4) The name and address of the underwriter, if any, of such bonds;

(5) A copy of the guaranty instrument, if any;

(6) The size, by assets and previous year's sales, and the current number of employees, of the beneficiary firm;

(7) A copy of the preliminary official statement used when offering the bonds for sale;

(8) The estimated number of new jobs to be generated by the proposed project;

(9) A list of the use of bond proceeds, including whether the purpose of the project and the funds generated by the issuance of such bonds is to open a new business, build a branch plant, expand an existing facility or acquire an existing business;

(10) The estimated total cost of the project.

(L. 1982 H.B. 1411 & 1587, A.L. 1983 S.B. 316) Effective 6-22-83
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 325.020 — MO Code / Chapter 325 / Section 325.020
325.020 Application for license, contents of — bond.
Status: in_force

325.020. Application for license, contents of — bond. — 1. Any person, partnership, association or corporation desiring to be licensed as a public adjuster or public adjuster solicitor shall submit an application therefor to the director upon forms adopted by the director, and shall file corporate surety bond in the amount of ten thousand dollars and for each employee engaged as a public adjuster or solicitor a separate corporate surety bond in the amount of one thousand dollars; said bonds shall be conditioned upon a satisfactory accounting of any funds received in settlement of losses or claims for holders of insurance policies within the provisions of sections 325.010 to 325.055 ; provided, however, that the aggregate liability of the surety for all breaches of the conditions of the bond shall, in no event, exceed the sum of such bond. The surety on the bond shall have the right to cancel such bond upon giving thirty days' notice to the director and thereafter shall be relieved of liability for any breach of condition occurring after the effective date of said cancellation.

2. Each application shall be signed and verified under oath by the applicant, shall contain the name and address of the applicant and the address of the place where the applicant will conduct an adjusting business, whether any adjuster's license has previously been issued to the applicant, the applicant's occupation or business for the five years next preceding the date of the application, including names and addresses of employers within this period, and such other information as the director may require to enable him to determine the experience, education and training of the applicant to engage in this type of business.

3. If the applicant is a partnership, association or corporation, the application shall contain the above information for each partner, member, officer or director as may be applicable. The license issued shall entitle only those persons named in the application to engage in the adjusting business.

(L. 1973 S.B. 28 § 3)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 456.1030 — MO Code / Chapter 456 / Section 456.1030
456.1030 Substantial compliance with donor-imposed formal requirement.
Status: in_force

456.1030. Substantial compliance with donor-imposed formal requirement. — A powerholder's substantial compliance with a formal requirement of appointment imposed by the donor is sufficient if the powerholder knows of and intends to exercise the power, and the powerholder's manner of attempted exercise of the power does not impair a material purpose of the donor in imposing the requirement.

(L. 2016 H.B. 1765)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 170.341 — MO Code / Chapter 170 / Section 170.341
170.341 Hebrew Scriptures and the Bible, offering of elective social studies ...
Status: in_force

170.341. Hebrew Scriptures and the Bible, offering of elective social studies courses related to — purpose — requirements. — 1. Any school district or public charter school may offer students elective social studies courses relating, but not limited to, the following:

(1) The Hebrew Scriptures, the Old Testament of the Bible;

(2) The New Testament of the Bible; or

(3) The Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament of the Bible.

2. The purpose of a course under this section is to:

(1) Teach students knowledge of biblical content, characters, poetry, and narratives that are prerequisites to understanding contemporary society and culture, including literature, art, music, mores, oratory, and public policy; and

(2) Familiarize students with, as applicable:

(a) The contents of the Hebrew Scriptures or New Testament;

(b) The history of the Hebrew Scriptures or New Testament;

(c) The literary style and structure of the Hebrew Scriptures or New Testament; and

(d) The influence of the Hebrew Scriptures or New Testament on law, history, government, literature, art, music, customs, morals, values, and culture.

3. A student shall not be required to use a specific translation as the sole text of the Hebrew Scriptures or New Testament and may use as the basic textbook a different translation of the Hebrew Scriptures or New Testament from that chosen by the school district or public charter school.

4. A course offered under this section shall follow applicable law and all federal and state guidelines in maintaining religious neutrality and accommodating the diverse religious views, traditions, and perspectives of students in the school. A course offered under this section shall not endorse, favor, or promote, or disfavor or show hostility toward, any particular religion or nonreligious faith or religious perspective.

5. School districts and public charter schools, in complying with this section, shall not violate any provision of the Constitution of the United States or federal law, the Constitution of Missouri or any state law, or any administrative regulations of the department of elementary and secondary education or the United States Department of Education.

(L. 2023 S.B. 34)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 303.220 — MO Code / Chapter 303 / Section 303.220
303.220 Certificate of self-insurance — cancelled, when.
Status: in_force

303.220. Certificate of self-insurance — cancelled, when. — 1. Any religious denomination which has more than twenty-five members with motor vehicles and discourages its members from purchasing insurance, of any form, as being contrary to its religious tenets, may qualify as a self-insurer by obtaining a self-insurance certificate issued by the director as provided in subsection 3 of this section.

2. Any person in whose name more than twenty-five motor vehicles are registered may qualify as a self-insurer by obtaining a certificate of self-insurance issued by the director as provided in subsection 3 of this section.

3. The director may, in his discretion, upon the application of any religious denomination or person described in subsection 1 or 2 of this section, issue a certificate of self-insurance when he is satisfied that such religious denomination or person is possessed and will continue to be possessed of the ability to pay judgments obtained against such religious denomination or person.

4. Upon not less than ten days' notice and a hearing pursuant to such notice, the director may, upon reasonable grounds, cancel a certificate of self-insurance. Failure to pay any judgment within thirty days after such judgment shall have become final shall constitute a reasonable ground for the cancellation of a certificate of self-insurance.

(L. 1953 p. 569 § 303.340, A.L. 1986 S.B. 424, A.L. 2021 H.B. 604 merged with S.B. 6)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 79.210 — MO Code / Chapter 79 / Section 79.210
79.210 Mayor — communications to board.
Status: in_force

79.210. Mayor — communications to board. — The mayor shall, from time to time, communicate to the board of aldermen such measures as may, in his opinion, tend to the improvement of the finances, the police, health, security, ornament, comfort and general prosperity of the city.

(RSMo 1939 § 7105) Prior revisions: 1929 § 6955; 1919 § 8406; 1909 § 9308