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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 67.787 — MO Code / Chapter 67 / Section 67.787
67.787 Lake authority — initial meeting — officers — duties — bond, amount — ...
Status: in_force

67.787. Lake authority — initial meeting — officers — duties — bond, amount — restrictions. — 1. The county commissions shall by joint resolution establish a date and time for the initial meeting of the authority. At the initial meeting and annually thereafter, the authority shall elect one of its members as chairman and one as vice chairman. In addition, at the initial meeting and annually thereafter, the authority shall appoint a secretary and a treasurer, either of whom may be a member of the authority and, if not a member of the authority, shall receive such compensation as shall be fixed from time to time by action of the authority. The authority may appoint an executive director who shall not be a member of the authority and who shall serve at its pleasure. If an executive director is appointed, he shall receive such compensation as shall be fixed from time to time by action of the authority. The authority may designate the secretary to act in lieu of the executive director. The secretary shall keep a record of the proceedings of the authority and shall be the custodian of all books, documents, and papers filed with the authority, the minute books or journal thereof, and its official seal. The secretary may cause copies to be made of all minutes and other records and documents of the authority and may give certificates under the official seal of the authority to the effect that the copies are true and correct copies, and all persons dealing with the authority may rely on such certificates. The authority, by resolution duly adopted, shall fix the powers and duties of its executive director as it may from time to time deem proper and necessary.

2. Each member of the authority shall execute a surety bond in the penal sum of fifty thousand dollars or, in lieu thereof, the chairman of the authority shall execute a blanket bond covering each member and the employees or other officers of the authority, each surety bond to be conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of the office or offices covered, to be executed by a surety company authorized to transact business in the state as surety, and to be approved by the attorney general and filed in the office of the secretary of state. The cost of each such bond shall be paid by the authority.

3. No authority member shall participate in any deliberations or decisions concerning issues where the authority member has a direct financial interest in contracts, property, supplies, services, facilities or equipment purchased, sold, or leased by the authority. Authority members shall additionally be subject to the limitations regarding the conduct of public officials as provided in chapter 105 .

(L. 1990 S.B. 776)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 88.077 — MO Code / Chapter 88 / Section 88.077
88.077 Condemnation of property — condemnation outside city limits.
Status: in_force

88.077. Condemnation of property — condemnation outside city limits. — When it becomes necessary for any city to condemn private property outside of the city limits for any authorized purpose the proceedings therefor shall be regulated in all respects as the condemnation of property for railroad purposes is at the time regulated by law.

(RSMo 1939 § 7495; A. 1949 H.B. 2036) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7342; 1919 § 8756
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 375.924 — MO Code / Chapter 375 / Section 375.924
375.924 Contracts to contain address of insurer and notice of address change to be ...
Status: in_force

375.924. Contracts to contain address of insurer and notice of address change to be furnished insured, penalty, exception. — 1. Any insurer, health services corporation or health maintenance organization, subject to regulation pursuant to chapter 354 or chapters 374 to 385 , which delivers or issues for delivery a policy or contract of insurance or coverage in this state shall furnish, either within such policy or contract or in written form annexed to such policy or contract, the address of the principal place of business and telephone number of such insurer, health services corporation or health maintenance organization for purposes of contact by the insured or covered person with the insurer, health services corporation or health maintenance organization.

2. Any insurer, health services corporation or health maintenance organization subject to subsection 1 of this section, other than title insurers governed by chapter 381 , which changes such address or telephone number shall inform those insured or covered persons in writing of such change within thirty days of completing such change.

* 3. Violation of this section shall be an unfair trade practice and shall be subject to the provisions of, and penalties provided by, sections 375.930 to 375.948 relating to unfair trade practices.

4. The provisions of subsection 3 of this section shall become effective on July 1, 1993.

(L. 1992 H.B. 1574 § 23, A.L. 1994 H.B. 1107) *Provisions of subsection 3 effective 7-1-93
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 87.300 — MO Code / Chapter 87 / Section 87.300
87.300 Members deemed to consent to deduction — amount to be credited to members' ...
Status: in_force

87.300. Members deemed to consent to deduction — amount to be credited to members' savings fund. — The deductions provided for herein shall be made notwithstanding that the minimum compensation provided by law for any member shall be reduced thereby. Every member shall be deemed to consent to the deductions made and provided for herein, and shall receipt for his full salary or compensation, and payment of salary or compensation less the deduction shall be a full and complete discharge and acquittance of all claims and demands whatsoever for services rendered during the period covered by the payment except as to benefits provided by sections 87.120 to 87.370 . The chief of the fire department shall certify to the board of trustees on each and every payroll or in such other manner as the board of trustees shall prescribe the amount deducted, and such amounts shall be paid into the members' savings fund and shall be credited to the individual account of the member from whose compensation the deduction was made.

(L. 1943 p. 708 § 8, A.L. 1959 S.B. 314 § 86.573)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 334.123 — MO Code / Chapter 334 / Section 334.123
334.123 Organization of board — employment of executive director and employees — ...
Status: in_force

334.123. Organization of board — employment of executive director and employees — meetings — records as evidence — quorum. — The board shall elect its own president and secretary, each to serve for a term of one year, and shall maintain an office and employ an executive director and such other board personnel, as defined in section 324.001 , as the board in its discretion deems necessary. Without limiting the foregoing, the board is specifically authorized to obtain the services of specially trained and qualified persons or organizations to assist in conducting examinations of applicants for licenses and may employ legal counsel. The executive director shall have the degree of bachelor of arts or the equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and abilities can be acquired. The board shall meet annually in Jefferson City and at such other times and places as the members of the board may designate, and shall keep a record of its proceedings and shall cause a register to be kept of all applicants for certificates of licensure. The records and register shall be prima facie evidence of all matters recorded therein. Four members of the board shall constitute a quorum, at least one of whom shall be a graduate of a professional school approved and accredited as reputable by the American Medical Association or the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, and at least one of whom shall be a graduate of a professional school approved and accredited as reputable by the American Osteopathic Association.

(L. 1959 S.B. 50 § 2, A.L. 1981 S.B. 16, A.L. 1990 S.B. 737, A.L. 1996 H.B. 999, A.L. 2008 S.B. 788)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 452.782 — MO Code / Chapter 452 / Section 452.782
452.782 Joinder of a party.
Status: in_force

452.782. Joinder of a party. — If the court learns from information furnished by the parties under section 452.800 or from other sources that a person not a party to the custody proceeding has physical custody of the child or claims to have custody or visitation rights with respect to the child, it may order that person to be joined as a party and to be duly notified of the pendency of the proceeding and of his or her joinder as a party. If the person joined as a party is outside this state, such person shall be served with process or otherwise notified in accordance with section 452.762 .

(L. 2009 H.B. 481)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 534.190 — MO Code / Chapter 534 / Section 534.190
534.190 When depositions may be read.
Status: in_force

534.190. When depositions may be read. — Every such deposition taken and returned according to law may be read if competent and relevant, as evidence in the cause in the same manner and under the same circumstances as in the trial of civil causes before circuit judges.

(RSMo 1939 § 2858, A.L. 1945 p. 1089, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634) Prior revisions: 1929 § 2472; 1919 § 3020; 1909 § 7682 Effective 1-02-79
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 257.300 — MO Code / Chapter 257 / Section 257.300
257.300 Preliminary plan, notice — objections, adoption — objections to official ...
Status: in_force

257.300. Preliminary plan, notice — objections, adoption — objections to official plan, trial by court order — state agency to be informed. — 1. When the preliminary plan is completed by the designated state agency, the board shall cause notice by publication to be given in each county of the district, of the completion of the plan, and shall permit the inspection thereof at their office or at a convenient location in each county by all persons interested. The notice shall fix the time and place for the hearing of all objections to the plan not less than twenty days nor more than thirty days after the last publication of the notice.

2. All objections to the plan shall be in writing and filed with the secretary of the board at his office or at the place of hearing within ten days after the last publication of the notice.

3. After the hearing before the board of trustees, the board shall adopt the plan, or such modification thereof as the board determines, as an official plan of the district, and designate the plan as "Official Plan No. ______", the number to be the same as that of the preliminary plan from which the official plan originated.

4. If, however, any person or public corporation objects to the official plan, so adopted, then the person or public corporation may, within fifteen days from the adoption of the official plan, file the objections in writing in the office of the clerk of the court by which the district was created, specifying the objectionable features of the plan and setting forth wherein the proposed provisions of the plan are not necessary under the purposes for which the district was created. The court shall then fix a day for the hearing thereof before the court, not less than twenty days nor more than thirty days after the first regular session of court after the time fixed for filing objections, at which time the court shall hear the objections and adopt, amend, reject or refer back the plan to the board of trustees. If the court:

(1) Rejects the plan, the board shall proceed to prepare another plan;

(2) Refers back the plan to the board for amendment, the court shall continue the hearing to a day certain without publication of notice;

(3) Approves the original or amended plan as the official plan of the district, a certified copy of the order of court approving the original or amended plan shall be filed with the secretary of the board of trustees, and by him incorporated into the records of the district as "Official Plan No. ______".

5. The designated state agency herein referred to shall be kept informed by the secretary of the board of pending proceedings, and action taken, relative to the formulation of an official plan, to the end that the state's interest may be represented and proper records maintained. A copy of any official plan, or changes made in arriving at the plan, shall be filed forthwith with the agency.

(L. 1959 S.B. 199 § 30)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 479.050 — MO Code / Chapter 479 / Section 479.050
479.050 Municipalities may establish traffic violation bureau, procedure, costs.
Status: in_force

479.050. Municipalities may establish traffic violation bureau, procedure, costs. — The municipal judge or judges, or, in those municipalities where the violations of municipal ordinances are heard and determined by an associate circuit judge, or judges, the associate circuit judge, or judges, may establish a traffic violations bureau in any municipality, and shall establish such a bureau when a request therefor is made by the governing body of the municipality. The traffic violations bureau shall operate under the supervision of the circuit court and those judges regularly hearing and determining municipal ordinance violation cases of the particular municipality and shall be operated in accordance with the rules of the supreme court and the rules of the circuit court. All expenses incident to the operation of the traffic violations bureau, including salaries of clerical personnel, shall be paid by the municipality. The municipality shall provide suitable quarters for the traffic violations bureau; and all fines and costs shall be paid into the municipal treasury; provided, however, that when a municipality's ordinance violation cases are heard and determined by an associate circuit judge, or judges, provision may be made by circuit court rule for a traffic violation bureau to be operated by the staff available to the associate circuit judge and in such case fines and costs shall be paid over and distributed as provided in subsection 2 of section 479.080 .

(L. 1978 H.B. 1634) Effective 1-02-79
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 511.220 — MO Code / Chapter 511 / Section 511.220
511.220 If answer or motion filed, cause to proceed.
Status: in_force

511.220. If answer or motion filed, cause to proceed. — If the answer or motion is filed within the time so limited, the cause shall proceed as it would have done had the defendant appeared to the summons and filed his answer or motion to the petition; if not, the judgment shall be made absolute.

(RSMo 1939 § 1252, A. 1949 H.B. 2119) Prior revisions: 1929 § 1086; 1919 § 1537; 1909 § 2106
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 33.460 — MO Code / Chapter 33 / Section 33.460
33.460 Duty of fund commissioners to make requisition for amount of interest.
Status: in_force

33.460. Duty of fund commissioners to make requisition for amount of interest. — The fund commissioners, at the times provided by law before any state bonds or interest thereon becomes due, shall requisition the amount necessary to pay the bonds or interest and the necessary expenses to be incurred in transmitting the moneys; whereupon the commissioner of administration shall certify the amount and a warrant shall be issued upon the state treasury payable out of the current appropriation made by the general assembly for the payment of the bonds and interest. If there is not sufficient money in the treasury belonging to the fund to pay the warrant, then the deficiency shall be paid out of any other moneys in the treasury belonging to the general revenue fund. The warrant shall be delivered to the state treasurer, who shall transmit the amount of money therein specified to the state's fiscal agent, with instructions to place the money to the credit of the board of fund commissioners for payment of interest, or principal, of the bonded indebtedness of the state.

(RSMo 1939 § 13116, A.L. 1945 p. 1428 § 100, A.L. 1961 p. 411, A.L. 1991 S.B. 185) Prior revisions: 1929 § 11496; 1919 § 13395; 1909 § 11896 Effective 6-18-91
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 34.353 — MO Code / Chapter 34 / Section 34.353
34.353 All public agencies and political subdivisions to purchase or lease only ...
Status: in_force

34.353. All public agencies and political subdivisions to purchase or lease only goods or commodities produced in the United States, exceptions, procedure. — 1. Each contract for the purchase or lease of manufactured goods or commodities by any public agency, and each contract made by a public agency for construction, alteration, repair, or maintenance of any public works shall contain a provision that any manufactured goods or commodities used or supplied in the performance of that contract or any subcontract thereto shall be manufactured or produced in the United States.

2. This section shall not apply where the purchase, lease, or contract involves an expenditure of less than twenty-five thousand dollars. This section shall not apply when only one line of a particular good or product is manufactured or produced in the United States.

3. This section shall not apply where the executive head of the public agency certifies in writing that:

(1) The specified products are not manufactured or produced in the United States in sufficient quantities to meet the agency's requirements or cannot be manufactured or produced in the United States within the necessary time in sufficient quantities to meet the agency's requirements;

(2) Obtaining the specified products manufactured or produced in the United States would increase the cost of the contract by more than ten percent;

(3) The specified products are to be purchased or leased by a state-supported four-year institute of higher education and such certification as required by subdivision (1) or (2) of this subsection has been made within the last three years;

(4) The specified products are to be purchased or leased by a publicly supported institution and such certification as required by subdivision (1) or (2) of this subsection has been made within the last three years; or

(5) The political subdivision has adopted a formal written policy to encourage the purchase of products manufactured or produced in the United States.

4. The certificate required by this section shall specify the nature of the contract, the product being purchased or leased, the names and addresses of the United States manufacturers and producers contacted by the public agency or the project architect or engineer, and an indication that such manufacturers or producers could not supply sufficient quantities or that the price of the products would increase the cost of the contract by more than ten percent.

5. Certificates required by this section shall be maintained by the public agency for a period of three years.

(L. 1987 S.B. 74 § 3, A.L. 1995 H.B. 562)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 41.150 — MO Code / Chapter 41 / Section 41.150
41.150 Assistant adjutants general — appointment — duties.
Status: in_force

41.150. Assistant adjutants general — appointment — duties. — The adjutant general may assign the number of assistant adjutants general that are authorized by National Guard Bureau rules and regulations from the ground forces and the air forces of this state. The assistant adjutants general shall, if they qualify therefor * , hold military rank as may be authorized and approved for the positions by the National Guard Bureau of the United States. The assistant adjutants general, at the time of their appointment, shall have not less than ten years of military service as a commissioned officer with the military forces of this state, another state or territory, the District of Columbia or the United States, or in any or all such services combined, five years of the service being in field grade. The assistant adjutants general shall serve at the pleasure of the adjutant general and perform such duties as are assigned by the adjutant general. During any period when the adjutant general is unable to perform such duties, the senior assistant adjutant general may, under the direction of the governor, perform the duties of the adjutant general.

(L. 1951 p. 654 § 24, A.L. 1953 p. 561, A.L. 1961 p. 479, A.L. 2002 H.B. 2047, A.L. 2006 S.B. 964, A.L. 2009 H.B. 427 merged with H.B. 861) *Word "therefore" appears in original rolls.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 54.090 — MO Code / Chapter 54 / Section 54.090
54.090 Oath to be taken.
Status: in_force

54.090. Oath to be taken. — The person elected or appointed county treasurer shall, after giving bond according to law, take the oath prescribed by the constitution of this state, which oath shall be endorsed on his commission. The commission and endorsement shall be promptly recorded in the recorder's office of the proper county.

(RSMo 1939 § 13797, A.L. 1959 S.B. 66) Prior revisions: 1929 § 12135; 1919 § 9533; 1909 § 3754
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 269.023 — MO Code / Chapter 269 / Section 269.023
269.023 Director may assist in enforcement, authorized employees' powers.
Status: in_force

269.023. Director may assist in enforcement, authorized employees' powers. — 1. The director shall have the power to authorize certain employees of the department or employees of the United States Department of Agriculture to assist in the enforcement of this chapter.

2. In connection with such enforcement, such authorized employees may intercept, stop and detain for official inspection or inquiry any vehicle suspected of being used for the transportation of dead animals except for wildlife taken under the Missouri wildlife code in this state. Such authorized employees may use a red flashing light to aid them in stopping such vehicles.

(L. 1992 H.B. 878)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 311.880 — MO Code / Chapter 311 / Section 311.880
311.880 Violation a misdemeanor — penalty.
Status: in_force

311.880. Violation a misdemeanor — penalty. — Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter, except where some penalty is otherwise provided, shall upon conviction thereof be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and jail sentence.

(RSMo 1939 § 4933)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 95.400 — MO Code / Chapter 95 / Section 95.400
95.400 Construction of law.
Status: in_force

95.400. Construction of law. — No law or act heretofore passed by any general assembly for the state of Missouri shall be in any way construed to abridge, impair or otherwise affect the provisions of sections 95.370 to 95.395 .

(RSMo 1939 § 7159) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7009; 1919 § 8460; 1909 § 9362
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 273.100 — MO Code / Chapter 273 / Section 273.100
273.100 Impounding of dogs — redemption — fees — penalty.
Status: in_force

273.100. Impounding of dogs — redemption — fees — penalty. — 1. Every city or town marshal of every incorporated city or town in this state, within their jurisdiction, shall take up and impound in a suitable place, the location of which place shall be given by a notice posted in some conspicuous place in his office, all dogs found running at large in their respective cities or towns without collars around their necks, marked as herein provided, and they shall keep such dogs for a period of one week, and at the expiration of such period shall put such dogs to death by humane methods.

2. The owner of any such impounded dogs, upon the payment of the tax herein provided, and a redemption fee of five dollars, may redeem such impounded dog and the city or town marshal shall be permitted to retain the sum of two dollars out of each redemption fee so paid, and shall pay over the balance of the fee on the first day of each month to the treasurer of the county in which the city or town marshal has jurisdiction, to be accounted for by the treasurers in the same manner as they are required by sections 273.040 to 273.180 , to account for licenses taxes.

3. Any marshal who shall fail or refuse to take up and impound any such dog shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof fined not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars.

(RSMo 1939 § 14554, A. 1949 S.B. 1097) Prior revision: 1929 § 12877