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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 562.041 — MO Code / Chapter 562 / Section 562.041
562.041 Responsibility for the conduct of another.
Status: in_force

562.041. Responsibility for the conduct of another. — 1. A person is criminally responsible for the conduct of another when:

(1) The statute defining the offense makes him or her so responsible; or

(2) Either before or during the commission of an offense with the purpose of promoting the commission of an offense, he or she aids or agrees to aid or attempts to aid such other person in planning, committing or attempting to commit the offense.

2. However, a person is not so responsible if:

(1) He or she is the victim of the offense committed or attempted;

(2) The offense is so defined that his or her conduct was necessarily incident to the commission or attempt to commit the offense. If his or her conduct constitutes a related but separate offense, he or she is criminally responsible for that offense but not for the conduct or offense committed or attempted by the other person;

(3) Before the commission of the offense such person abandons his or her purpose and gives timely warning to law enforcement authorities or otherwise makes proper effort to prevent the commission of the offense.

3. The defense provided by subdivision (3) of subsection 2 of this section is an affirmative defense.

(L. 1977 S.B. 60, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491) Effective 1-01-17 (1997) Female can be held guilty of rape where she aids a male in committing the rape, even though she cannot commit a rape individually. Bass v. State, 950 S.W.2d 940 (Mo.App.W.D.).
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 260.1077 — MO Code / Chapter 260 / Section 260.1077
260.1077 Financial and proprietary information not a public record.
Status: in_force

*260.1077. Financial and proprietary information not a public record. — Financial or proprietary information submitted to the department under sections 260.1050 to 260.1101 shall not be considered a public record under chapter 610 .

(L. 2008 S.B. 720) *Contingent expiration date, see § 260.1092
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 184.364 — MO Code / Chapter 184 / Section 184.364
184.364 Indebtedness, district may incur by election, limitation.
Status: in_force

184.364. Indebtedness, district may incur by election, limitation. — The metropolitan zoological park and museum district by a vote of the qualified voters thereof voting thereon as now or hereafter required by Section 26(b) of Article VI of the Missouri Constitution may incur an additional indebtedness for the purposes of the said subdistricts separately. The total indebtedness authorized separately by the voters for the respective subdistricts shall not exceed five percent of the taxable tangible property therein as shown by the last completed assessment for state and county purposes in said city and said county.

(L. 1969 3d Ex. Sess. H.B. 23 § 8)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 130.049 — MO Code / Chapter 130 / Section 130.049
130.049 Out-of-state committees, reporting, contents.
Status: in_force

130.049. Out-of-state committees, reporting, contents. — An out-of-state committee which according to the provisions of subsection 10 of section 130.021 is not required to file a statement of organization and is not required to file the full disclosure reports required by section 130.041 shall file reports with the Missouri ethics commission according to the provisions of such sections if the committee makes contributions or expenditures in support of or in opposition to candidates or ballot measures in this state in any election covered by this chapter or makes contributions to any committee domiciled in this state. An initial report shall be filed no later than fourteen days prior to the date such out-of-state committee first makes a contribution or expenditure in this state. Such initial report shall state the name and address of the committee receiving such contributions or expenditures. The contributions or expenditures shall be made no later than thirty days prior to the election. The out-of-state committee thereafter shall file copies of the campaign disclosure report required to be filed in the domicile of the committee with the Missouri ethics commission as required by subsections 1 to 3 of section 130.046 . No candidate or committee may accept any contribution made by a committee domiciled outside this state unless the provisions of this section are met.

(L. 1997 S.B. 16)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 528.360 — MO Code / Chapter 528 / Section 528.360
528.360 Effect of confirmation of report on parties claiming adversely.
Status: in_force

528.360. Effect of confirmation of report on parties claiming adversely. — When, in any report of commissioners, setting off a parcel, the subject of the adverse claims of different parties shall be confirmed, it shall be a bar to the claims of such parties to the residue of the lands, or the moneys arising thereon, if sold, and shall vest the part allotted subject to the controversy, in the party who shall have title to the share or shares represented in the allotment.

(RSMo 1939 § 1744) Prior revisions: 1929 § 1580; 1919 § 2028; 1909 § 2592
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 590.500 — MO Code / Chapter 590 / Section 590.500
590.500 Certain law enforcement officers' right of appeal from disciplinary ...
Status: in_force

590.500. Certain law enforcement officers' right of appeal from disciplinary actions, procedure. — Any law enforcement officer, other than an elected sheriff or deputy, who possesses the duty and power of arrest for violations of the criminal laws of this state or for violations of ordinances of counties or municipalities of this state, who is regularly employed for more than thirty hours per week, and who is employed by a law enforcement agency of this state or political subdivision of this state which employs more than fifteen law enforcement officers, shall be given upon written request a meeting within forty-eight hours of a dismissal, disciplinary demotion or suspension that results in a reduction or withholding of salary or compensatory time. The meeting shall be held before any individual or board as designated by the governing body. At any such meeting, the employing law enforcement agency shall at a minimum provide a brief statement, which may be oral, of the reason of the discharge, disciplinary demotion or suspension, and permit the law enforcement officer the opportunity to respond. The results from such meeting shall be reduced to writing. Any law enforcement agency that has substantially similar or greater procedures shall be deemed to be in compliance with this section. This section shall not apply to an officer serving in a probationary period or to the highest ranking officer of any law enforcement agency.

(L. 1990 S.B. 593 § 1) Effective 7-01-90 CROSS REFERENCE: Due process certain police on disciplinary actions, exception, 85.011
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 64.337 — MO Code / Chapter 64 / Section 64.337
64.337 County commission authorized to appoint and set compensation of park ...
Status: in_force

64.337. County commission authorized to appoint and set compensation of park rangers — rangers, certification by department of public safety required, powers and duties (Clay County). — 1. In order to furnish security similar to that provided in state parks, the county commission of any county of the first classification without a charter form of government with a population of at least one hundred fifty thousand containing a part of a city with a population over three hundred fifty thousand may appoint and set the compensation of such park rangers, who shall be certified by the director of the department of public safety, as provided in chapter 590 , as it deems necessary for the prompt and proper discharge of its duties relating to the parks and recreational facilities of the county. Such certification shall include one hundred twenty hours of training in addition to that required in section 590.105 . The salaries of all park rangers appointed pursuant to this section shall be paid in the same manner as the salaries of other county employees.

2. Each park ranger appointed pursuant to this section shall:

(1) Before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties, take and subscribe an oath of office to perform his or her duties faithfully and impartially;

(2) Have full authority, including all the powers given to other peace officers of this state, to preserve the peace, make arrests, and issue citations for violations of any state law or of any rules or regulations adopted by the governing body pursuant to section 64.345 , on all land, thoroughfares and waterways within the park boundaries.

3. Park rangers appointed pursuant to this section may carry firearms while engaged in the performance of their official duties only while within the park boundaries, subject to the training requirements of section 590.105 .

4. All revenues received from fines levied pursuant to subsection 2 of this section shall be deposited into the county school fund and distributed pursuant to section 166.131 .

(L. 2000 H.B. 1238 merged with S.B. 894)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 361.410 — MO Code / Chapter 361 / Section 361.410
361.410 Expenses of liquidation, how paid.
Status: in_force

361.410. Expenses of liquidation, how paid. — 1. The director shall pay out of the funds in his hands, of such corporation, all expenses of liquidation, subject to the approval of the circuit court in the county or city in which the principal office of such corporation is located, and upon notice of the application for such approval to such corporation.

2. He shall, in like manner, fix and pay the compensation of special deputy directors, assistants, counsel and other employees appointed to assist him in such liquidation pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. But a special deputy who, as examiner acting under commission from the director, has previously examined the books, papers and affairs of such corporation, shall not receive compensation as such special deputy which exceeds by more than five dollars a day the per diem compensation received by him as examiner at the time of making such examination.

(RSMo 1939 § 7918, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634) Prior revisions: 1929 § 5324; 1919 § 11707 Effective 1-02-79
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 198.052 — MO Code / Chapter 198 / Section 198.052
198.052 Records of facilities — when examined or audited — retention, how long — to ...
Status: in_force

198.052. Records of facilities — when examined or audited — retention, how long — to accompany resident on transfer, when. — 1. The state auditor, at the request of the department or on his own initiative, may examine and audit any records relating to the operation of any facility.

2. The director of the department may examine and audit, or cause to be examined and audited, any records relating to the operation of any facility.

3. Each facility shall retain all financial information, data and records relating to the operation and reimbursement of the facility for a period of not less than seven years.

4. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in sections 198.003 to 198.186 , 198.200 , 202.905 , 208.030 , or 208.159 , the state auditor shall have the right to examine the records of any facility which he deems necessary in connection with any examination conducted pursuant to his statutory authority, and to disclose the results of any such examination including the identity of any facility examined, provided that the identity of any resident of any such facility shall not be divulged or made known by the state auditor.

5. All financial information, data and records of facilities under the provisions of sections 198.003 to 198.186 , 198.200 , 202.905 , 208.030 , or 208.159 shall be open upon request for inspection, examination and audit by the director of the department, the state auditor, appropriate committees of the general assembly, and their designees, at all reasonable times.

6. Each facility shall retain medical records of each resident for five years after he leaves the facility. In the event the resident is less than twenty-one years of age, the records shall be retained for five years after the age of twenty-one years is reached. The time limitations of this subsection shall not apply when longer time limitations are specified in standards for facilities certified under Medicare or Medicaid, Title XVIII and Title XIX of the Social Security Act, (Title 42, United States Code, Sec. 1395x or 1396d).

7. In the event a new operator takes over a facility's operation, the original medical records of the residents of such facility shall be retained in the facility by the new operator.

8. In the event a resident is transferred from the facility, the resident shall be accompanied by a copy of his medical records.

(L. 1979 S.B. 328, et al. § 17)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 287.660 — MO Code / Chapter 287 / Section 287.660
287.660 Fees.
Status: in_force

287.660. Fees. — 1. The division as agent of the department of revenue shall charge and collect the following fees, to be paid at least once each month into the state treasury to the credit of the fund for the support of the division of workers' compensation of the department of labor and industrial relations:

(1) For copies of papers and records not required to be certified or otherwise authenticated by the commission, ten cents for each one hundred words and figures;

(2) For certified copies of official documents, awards or other records, fifteen cents for each one hundred words and figures, and one dollar for every certificate under seal affixed thereto;

(3) For each certified copy of annual report of the commission, one dollar and fifty cents;

(4) For copies of evidence and proceedings, fifteen cents for each one hundred words and figures;

(5) Also all other fees and charges allowed or required to be collected under this chapter or any other law.

2. The division shall also fix and collect as agent of the department of revenue from the employer the reasonable expense of any investigation necessary to determine his ability to carry his own insurance. No fees shall be charged or collected for copies of papers, records, or official documents furnished to public officers for use in their official capacity, or for annual reports or other matters published by the commission, in the ordinary course of distribution, but the division may fix reasonable charges for publications issued under its authority.

(RSMo 1939 § 3752, A.L. 1945 p. 1996, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1396) Prior revision: 1929 § 3362
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 140.1012 — MO Code / Chapter 140 / Section 140.1012
140.1012 Dissolution of agency, procedure.
Status: in_force

140.1012. Dissolution of agency, procedure. — 1. A land bank agency shall be dissolved as a public body corporate and politic no sooner than sixty calendar days, but no later than one hundred eighty calendar days, after an ordinance or resolution for such dissolution is passed by the county or municipality that established the land bank agency.

2. No less than sixty calendar days' advance written notice of consideration of such an ordinance or resolution of dissolution shall be given to the land bank agency, shall be published in a local newspaper of general circulation within such county or municipality, and shall be sent certified mail to each trustee of any outstanding bonds of the land bank agency.

3. No land bank agency shall be dissolved while there remains any outstanding bonds, notes, or other obligations of the land bank agency unless such bonds, notes, or other obligations are paid or defeased pursuant to the resolution, indenture, or other financing document under which such bonds, notes, or other obligations were issued prior to or simultaneously with such dissolution. Once all outstanding bonds, notes, or other obligations are satisfied, no new property shall be purchased by, gifted to, traded to, or exchanged with the land bank agency. No further debts or other obligations shall be incurred other than that which is necessary to sell or put to public use any remaining property held by the land bank agency. The land bank agency shall be dissolved within thirty days after all outstanding bonds, notes, or other obligations are satisfied.

4. Upon dissolution of a land bank agency pursuant to this section, all real property, personal property, and other assets of the land bank agency shall be transferred by appropriate written instrument to and shall become the assets of the county or municipality that established the land bank agency. Such county or municipality shall act expeditiously to return such real property to the tax rolls and shall market and sell such real property using an open, public method that ensures the best possible prices are realized while ensuring such real property is returned to a suitable, productive use for the betterment of the neighborhood in which such real property is located. Upon the sale or other disposition of any such property by such county or municipality, the proceeds therefrom shall be applied and distributed in the following order:

(1) To the payment of the expenses of sale;

(2) To the reasonable costs incurred by such county or municipality in maintaining and marketing such property; and

(3) The balance shall be paid to the respective taxing authorities that, at the time of the distribution, are taxing the real property from which the proceeds are being distributed.

(L. 2019 H.B. 821, A.L. 2024 H.B. 2062)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 242.380 — MO Code / Chapter 242 / Section 242.380
242.380 Board may appoint overseers — duties.
Status: in_force

242.380. Board may appoint overseers — duties. — 1. For the purpose of preserving any ditch, drain, dike, levee or other work constructed or erected under the provisions of sections 242.010 to 242.690 , the board of supervisors shall have power to appoint an overseer or overseers of the district, who shall hold their positions at the will of the board.

2. It shall be the duty of such overseer or overseers to keep the ditches, drains, levees, dikes and other works of the district in good repair, and remove all obstructions from ditches, drains or watercourses within or without said district that may affect the works of the district. It shall be the further duty of said appointees to report at such times as the board may require the condition of the levees, drains and other works of the district assigned to each by the board; to make such examinations of all levees during high water periods as he may be directed by the board of supervisors; and upon any emergency or danger to levees or other works of the district, of which the overseer has charge, he may call out all able-bodied men over sixteen years of age and under fifty years within the district, and compel such persons to perform such work as said overseer may deem necessary to be made in order to protect the levees, grades or other works of the district.

3. Any person who shall refuse to perform such work assigned to him by said overseer shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon affidavit made before any associate circuit judge of the county by the overseer or any other person, that the offender has defaulted in obeying such call or summons of said overseer, said associate circuit judge shall issue a warrant for the arrest of such offender, and upon conviction before said associate circuit judge, upon information or any other modes provided by law for trials of cases of misdemeanor, he shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not less than fifteen nor more than sixty days, or both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the associate circuit judge. For each day's work any person shall perform under such requisition, he shall be paid the sum of one dollar and fifty cents out of the funds of the district.

(RSMo 1939 § 12368) Prior revisions: 1929 § 10787; 1919 § 4417
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 90.020 — MO Code / Chapter 90 / Section 90.020
90.020 Park lands — condemnation.
Status: in_force

90.020. Park lands — condemnation. — The common council or mayor and board of aldermen, in proceedings by ordinance to purchase or condemn lands for the purpose stated in section 90.010 , shall proceed in the manner provided by law, or in the manner provided in the charter of such city for the condemnation of lands for the establishment of streets, avenues, alleys or market places, or public squares; and on such condemnation and the payment of the appraisement as therein provided, the title of such land shall vest in such city for the uses and purposes for which it was taken.

(RSMo 1939 § 15332, A. 1949 H.B. 2038) Prior revisions: 1929 § 14239; 1919 § 9211; 1909 § 10240
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 486.902 — MO Code / Chapter 486 / Section 486.902
486.902 Controlling law.
Status: in_force

486.902. Controlling law. — Sections 486.900 to 486.1010 supplement the provisions of sections 486.600 to 486.825 for in-person electronic notarial acts. To the extent sections 486.600 to 486.825 are inconsistent with sections 486.900 to 486.1010 , the provisions of 486.900 to 486.1010 control regarding the performance of in-person electronic notarial acts.

(L. 2020 H.B. 1655)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 260.278 — MO Code / Chapter 260 / Section 260.278
260.278 Performance bond or letter of credit required for transporter of scrap ...
Status: in_force

260.278. Performance bond or letter of credit required for transporter of scrap tires, when — provisions required — forfeiture of bond, when, procedure — bond requirement ceases, when. — 1. A person who has, within the preceding twenty-four months, been found guilty or pleaded guilty to a violation of section 260.270 which involves the transport of scrap tires may not be granted a permit to transport scrap tires unless the person seeking the permit has provided to the department a performance bond or letter of credit as provided under this section.

2. The bond or letter shall be conditioned upon faithful compliance with the terms and conditions of the permit and section 260.270 and shall be in the amount of ten thousand dollars.

3. Such performance bond, placed on file with the department, shall be in one of the following forms:

(1) A performance bond, payable to the department and issued by an institution authorized to issue such bonds in this state; or

(2) An irrevocable letter of credit issued in favor of and payable to the department from a commercial bank or savings and loan having an office in the state of Missouri.

4. Upon a determination by the department that a person has violated the terms and conditions of the permit or section 260.270 , the department shall notify the person that the bond or letter of credit shall be forfeited and the moneys placed in an appropriate subaccount of the solid waste management fund, created under section 260.330 , for remedial action.

5. The department shall expend whatever portion of the bond or letter of credit necessary to conduct resource recovery or nuisance abatement activities to alleviate any condition resulting from a violation of section 260.270 or the terms and conditions of a permit.

6. The requirement for a person to provide a performance bond or a letter of credit under this section shall cease for that person after two consecutive years in which the person has not been found guilty or pleaded guilty to a violation of section 260.270 .

(L. 1995 S.B. 60 & 112, A.L. 2005 S.B. 225)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 287.945 — MO Code / Chapter 287 / Section 287.945
287.945 Director to monitor degree of competition, purpose.
Status: in_force

287.945. Director to monitor degree of competition, purpose. — In determining whether or not a competitive market exists pursuant to section 287.942 , the director shall monitor the degree of competition in this state. In doing so, the director shall use existing relevant information, analytical systems and other sources; cause or participate in the development of new relevant information, analytical systems and other sources; or rely on some combination thereof. Such activities may be conducted internally within the department of commerce and insurance, in cooperation with other state insurance departments, through outside contractors or in any other appropriate manner.

(L. 1993 S.B. 251 § 23) Effective 1-01-94