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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 143.131 — MO Code / Chapter 143 / Section 143.131
143.131 Missouri standard deduction, when used, amount.
Status: in_force

143.131. Missouri standard deduction, when used, amount. — 1. The Missouri standard deduction may be deducted in determining Missouri taxable income of a resident individual unless the taxpayer or his spouse has elected to itemize his deduction as provided in section 143.141 .

2. The Missouri standard deduction shall be the allowable federal standard deduction.

(L. 1972 S.B. 549, A.L. 1977 S.B. 451, A.L. 1989 H.B. 35, et al.) Effective 1-1-90
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 233.220 — MO Code / Chapter 233 / Section 233.220
233.220 Tracts of land regarded within same distance as major portion.
Status: in_force

233.220. Tracts of land regarded within same distance as major portion. — In road districts so incorporated, each tract of land of forty acres, according to a government survey, and each of the smallest subdivisions of land that has been lawfully platted and each separate tract of less than forty acres, shall, for the purposes of this section, be regarded as within one-half mile of any public road or part of a public road, if the major portion thereof is within one-half mile; and over one-half mile and less than a mile, if the major portion thereof is over one-half mile and less than a mile; and over one mile and less than one and one-half miles, if the major portion thereof is over one mile and less than one and one-half miles; and over one and one-half miles if the major portion thereof is over one and one-half miles.

(RSMo 1939 § 8727) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8078; 1919 § 10849
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 511.240 — MO Code / Chapter 511 / Section 511.240
511.240 Sale of property to innocent purchaser not affected by vacating judgment.
Status: in_force

511.240. Sale of property to innocent purchaser not affected by vacating judgment. — No sale or conveyance of property for the satisfaction of any judgment, regularly made, shall be affected or prejudiced by the setting aside any judgment on the appearance of a defendant, as herein provided, if the property shall be in the hands of innocent purchasers.

(RSMo 1939 § 1254) Prior revisions: 1929 § 1088; 1919 § 1539; 1909 § 2108
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 104.608 — MO Code / Chapter 104 / Section 104.608
104.608 General assembly member may become consultant if denied credit in system ...
Status: in_force

104.608. General assembly member may become consultant if denied credit in system due to membership in other state systems — compensation to be creditable service for all service in general assembly. — Upon application to the board of trustees of the Missouri state employees' retirement system, any person who has served at least three full biennial assemblies as a member of the general assembly, and who has been denied credit for any service rendered as a member of the general assembly because he was a member of some other retirement or benefit fund to which the state was a contributor shall be made, constituted, appointed, and employed by the board as a special consultant on the problems of retirement for the remainder of the person's life. Upon request of the board, the consultant shall give opinions or be available to give opinions in writing or orally in response to such requests. As compensation the consultant shall receive creditable service for all service rendered as a member of the general assembly and be a member of the Missouri state employees' retirement system and shall be entitled to a normal annuity or to a deferred normal annuity, based on the person's service as a member of the general assembly and the law in effect at the time service as a member of the general assembly was terminated.

(L. 1989 H.B. 674)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 61.041 — MO Code / Chapter 61 / Section 61.041
61.041 Bond, conditions of, cost, how paid (certain first class counties).
Status: in_force

61.041. Bond, conditions of, cost, how paid (certain first class counties). — Before entering upon the duties of his office, the county highway administrator shall execute and deliver to the county commission for approval a surety bond in such sum as is fixed by the county commission. The condition of the bond shall be that the county highway administrator will faithfully perform and discharge the duties of his office, and that he will keep and carefully preserve all books, records, surveys, plats, plans and other papers pertaining to his office, required by law to be kept by the highway administrator or the county surveyor, and that he will account for and deliver the same, together with all tools, machinery, material and equipment to which he has come into possession by reason of his office, to his successor in office. When the surety bond is approved, it shall, with the approval endorsed thereon, be recorded at the expense of the highway administrator in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county. The cost of the bond shall be paid by the county.

(L. 1973 H.B. 715)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 32.120 — MO Code / Chapter 32 / Section 32.120
32.120 Director's decisions to be in writing — director to determine amount of credit.
Status: in_force

32.120. Director's decisions to be in writing — director to determine amount of credit. — The decision of the director of the department of economic development to approve or disapprove a proposal pursuant to section 32.110 shall be in writing, and if he approves the proposal, he shall state the maximum credit allowable to the business firm. A copy of the decision of the director of the department of economic development shall be transmitted to the director of revenue and to the governor.

(L. 1977 S.B. 375 § 5, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1349 & 1577, A.L. 1989 H.B. 378)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 173.386 — MO Code / Chapter 173 / Section 173.386
173.386 Assets may not be used for payment of debt.
Status: in_force

173.386. Assets may not be used for payment of debt. — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the authority shall not have the power or authority to cause any asset of the authority to be used for the payment of debt incurred by the state, and the authority shall not have the power or authority to distribute any asset of the authority to any fund of the state of Missouri for the purpose of payment of debt incurred by the state.

(L. 2007 S.B. 389)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 376.1300 — MO Code / Chapter 376 / Section 376.1300
376.1300 Reorganization of a domestic mutual life insurance company, authority.
Status: in_force

376.1300. Reorganization of a domestic mutual life insurance company, authority. — A domestic mutual life insurance company organized and operating pursuant to this chapter may reorganize by forming a mutual life insurance holding company as described in section 376.1309 or by merging its policyholders' memberships into such a mutual life insurance holding company. The reorganized life insurance company shall continue its corporate existence, either at the time of the reorganization or at some later time, as a stock life insurance company or as a mutual life insurance company. The authority granted such companies pursuant to sections 376.1300 to 376.1322 shall be in addition to any powers granted pursuant to chapter 382 .

(L. 1996 S.B. 759)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 229.230 — MO Code / Chapter 229 / Section 229.230
229.230 Permit to move building across road.
Status: in_force

229.230. Permit to move building across road. — No person, firm or corporation shall move, haul or transport any house, building or other structure upon, across or over any public highway outside of the limits of any city of the first, second or third class, or any city existing under a scheme and charter or a special charter in the state of Missouri, without first obtaining a permit therefor, as provided in section 229.240 ; provided, that nothing herein shall apply to a city having a population of fifteen thousand or less.

(RSMo 1939 § 8599) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7950; 1919 § 10737
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 300.050 — MO Code / Chapter 300 / Section 300.050
300.050 Traffic division to submit annual traffic safety report.
Status: in_force

300.050. Traffic division to submit annual traffic safety report. — The traffic division shall annually prepare a traffic report which shall be filed with the mayor. Such report shall contain information on traffic matters in the city as follows:

(1) The number of traffic accidents, the number of persons killed, the number of persons injured, and other pertinent traffic accident data;

(2) The number of traffic accidents investigated and other pertinent data on the safety activities of the police;

(3) The plans and recommendations of the division for future traffic safety activities.

(L. 1965 p. 445 § 9)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 238.247 — MO Code / Chapter 238 / Section 238.247
238.247 Condemnation, subject to commission or authority approval, ordinance of ...
Status: in_force

238.247. Condemnation, subject to commission or authority approval, ordinance of local governing body — procedures — relocation expenses to be paid, how. — 1. The district may condemn lands for a project in the name of the state of Missouri, upon prior approval by the commission, or the local transportation authority and by ordinance of the local governing body as appropriate, as to the necessity for the taking of the description of the parcel and the interest taken in that parcel.

2. If condemnation becomes necessary the district shall act under chapter 523 and may condemn a fee simple or other interest in land.

3. The district may, after prior notice to the owner to enter upon private property, survey and determine the most advantageous route and design. The district shall be liable for all damages done to the property by such inspection.

4. Any person who involuntarily transfers any interest in land to a district which becomes insolvent and comes under the jurisdiction of a court may reacquire that property by paying to the district the total amount of the condemnation award for that parcel, plus statutory interest at the statutory rate from the date of taking on the amount of that award, if the project will not be completed by either the district, the commission or a local transportation authority.

5. Whenever a district undertakes any project which results in the acquisition of real property or in any person or persons being displaced from their homes, businesses, or farms, the district shall provide relocation assistance and make relocation payments to such displaced person and do such other acts and follow such procedures as would be necessary to comply with the federal Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, as amended.

(L. 1990 S.B. 479 & 649 § 54, A.L. 2006 H.B. 1944)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 562.011 — MO Code / Chapter 562 / Section 562.011
562.011 Voluntary act.
Status: in_force

562.011. Voluntary act. — 1. A person is not guilty of an offense unless his or her liability is based on conduct which includes a voluntary act.

2. A "voluntary act" is:

(1) A bodily movement performed while conscious as a result of effort or determination; or

(2) An omission to perform an act of which the actor is physically capable.

3. Possession is a voluntary act if the possessor knowingly procures or receives the thing possessed, or having acquired control of it was aware of his or her control for a sufficient time to have enabled him or her to dispose of it or terminate his or her control.

4. A person is not guilty of an offense based solely upon an omission to perform an act unless the law defining the offense expressly so provides, or a duty to perform the omitted act is otherwise imposed by law.

(L. 1977 S.B. 60, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491) Effective 1-01-17
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 386.170 — MO Code / Chapter 386 / Section 386.170
386.170 Publications commission, powers.
Status: in_force

386.170. Publications commission, powers. — The members of the public service commission are hereby made and constituted a publications commission to select and designate what findings, orders and decisions of the public service commission shall be published in a series of volumes designated "Reports of the Public Service Commission of the State of Missouri" and to supervise and cause to be prepared the syllabi for the findings, orders and decisions, and to select and designate such other works, papers or studies of the public service commission relating to the field of public utilities regulation that may be of interest to the public and to cause them to be published in pamphlet, book, or electronic form.

(L. 1947 V. I p. 467 § 5595, A.L. 1977 H.B. 42 & 157, A.L. 2013 S.B. 191)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 361.040 — MO Code / Chapter 361 / Section 361.040
361.040 Director — appointment — term of office.
Status: in_force

361.040. Director — appointment — term of office. — The director of finance shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, and shall hold his office at the pleasure of the governor.

(RSMo 1939 § 7877, A.L. 1967 p. 445) Prior revisions: 1929 § 5283; 1919 § 11674; 1909 § 1074 Revisor's Note: Under section 620.010, the director of the division of finance was nominated by the director of the department of economic development and appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. That language in section 620.010 was repealed in 2008.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 302.186 — MO Code / Chapter 302 / Section 302.186
302.186 Active military duty, expiration of driver's license during, renewal ...
Status: in_force

302.186. Active military duty, expiration of driver's license during, renewal without examination, when — rulemaking authority. — 1. Notwithstanding any other law, if the driver's license of any person expires while such person is on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States, the license of such person shall be renewable, without examination, at any time prior to the end of the sixth month following the discharge of such person from the Armed Forces, or within ninety days after reestablished residence within the state, whichever time is sooner. Missouri residents on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States or any dependent thereof age twenty-one or older residing outside the state of Missouri or the United States may renew their driver's license by mail.

2. The department of revenue may promulgate rules necessary 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, 2011, shall be invalid and void.

(L. 2011 H.B. 204)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 393.740 — MO Code / Chapter 393 / Section 393.740
393.740 Certain taxes applicable.
Status: in_force

393.740. Certain taxes applicable. — 1. All bonds issued pursuant to sections 393.700 to 393.770 and all income or interest thereon shall be exempt from all state taxes, except estate and transfer taxes.

2. All property, real and tangible personal, except for properties acquired exclusively for water supply districts and water supply commissions, acquired by the bonds issued pursuant to sections 393.700 and 393.770 or otherwise acquired by a commission shall be subject to taxation for state, county, and municipal and other local purposes only to the same extent as if such property was owned directly by each contracting or participating municipality in such proportion or manner as specified by contract among all contracting or participating municipalities party to a project or if not specified in proportion to the percentage of each municipality's interest or participation in the facility or property.

(L. 1978 H.B. 1126 § 9, A.L. 1986 S.B. 488, A.L. 2002 H.B. 1402, A.L. 2004 H.B. 1171, A.L. 2007 S.B. 22)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 79.430 — MO Code / Chapter 79 / Section 79.430
79.430 Board may provide public cemeteries and regulate same.
Status: in_force

79.430. Board may provide public cemeteries and regulate same. — The board of aldermen shall have power to purchase, receive, and to hold real estate, as herein mentioned, for public cemeteries, either within or without the city, within a distance of three miles thereof, and the city and its officers shall have jurisdiction over the said cemeteries wherever located; provided, that no such cemetery shall exceed eighty acres in one body. The board of aldermen shall provide for the survey, platting, grading, fencing, ornamenting and improving of all the cemetery ground, and the avenues leading thereto, owned by the city, and may construct walks and protect ornamental trees, and provide for paying the expenses therefor. The board of aldermen may make rules and pass ordinances imposing penalties and fines, regulating, protecting and governing city cemeteries, the owners of lots therein, visitors thereto, and punish trespassers therein, and the officers of such city shall have as full jurisdiction and power in the enforcing of such rules and ordinances as though they related to the city itself.

(RSMo 1939 § 7190) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7040; 1919 § 8491; 1909 § 9393
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 375.994 — MO Code / Chapter 375 / Section 375.994
375.994 Investigators to have power of subpoena — moneys, costs or fines to be ...
Status: in_force

375.994. Investigators to have power of subpoena — moneys, costs or fines to be deposited in insurance dedicated fund — powers of director for violations, penalties. — 1. Department investigators shall have the power to serve subpoenas issued for the examination, investigation, and trial of all offenses determined by their investigations.

2. It is unlawful for any person to interfere, either by abetting or assisting such resistance or otherwise interfering, with department investigators in the duties imposed upon them by law or department rule.

3. Any moneys, or other property which is awarded to the department as costs of investigation, or as a fine, shall be credited to the insurance dedicated fund created by section 374.150 .

4. If the director determines that a person has engaged, is engaging in, or has taken a substantial step toward engaging in an act, practice or course of business constituting a violation of section 375.991 or a rule adopted or order issued pursuant thereto, or that a person has materially aided or is materially aiding an act, practice, omission, or course of business constituting a violation of section 375.991 or a rule adopted or order issued pursuant thereto, the director may issue such administrative orders as authorized under section 374.046 . A violation of any of these sections is a level two violation under section 374.049 . The director may also suspend or revoke the license or certificate of authority of such person for any willful violation.

5. If the director believes that a person has engaged, is engaging in, or has taken a substantial step toward engaging in an act, practice or course of business constituting a violation of section 375.991 or a rule adopted or order issued pursuant thereto, or that a person has materially aided or is materially aiding an act, practice, omission, or course of business constituting a violation of section 375.991 or a rule adopted or order issued pursuant thereto, the director may maintain a civil action for relief authorized under section 374.048 . A violation of any of these sections is a level two violation under section 374.049 .

6. Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting the department of commerce and insurance from regulating unfair or fraudulent trade practices as provided for in sections 375.930 to 375.948 .

7. If the director determines that a person regulated under this chapter has conducted its business fraudulently with respect to sections 375.991 to 375.994 , or has as a matter of business practice abused its rights under said sections, such conduct shall constitute either an unfair trade practice under the provisions of sections 375.930 to 375.948 or an unfair claims settlement practice under the provisions of sections 375.1000 to 375.1018 .

(L. 1990 H.B. 1739 § 3 subsecs. 7 to 11, A.L. 1993 H.B. 709, A.L. 2007 S.B. 66)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 392.430 — MO Code / Chapter 392 / Section 392.430
392.430 Certificates to be approved, when.
Status: in_force

392.430. Certificates to be approved, when. — Except as provided in section 392.450 , the commission shall approve an application for a certificate of local exchange or interexchange service authority upon a showing by the applicant, and a finding by the commission, after notice and hearing, that the grant of authority is in the public interest.

(L. 1987 H.B. 360)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 256.620 — MO Code / Chapter 256 / Section 256.620
256.620 Certain wells exempted from regulation.
Status: in_force

256.620. Certain wells exempted from regulation. — Except as provided in section 256.615 , operational wells in existence on September 28, 1985, shall not be required to conform to the provisions of sections 256.600 to 256.640 , or any rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto unless such wells or pump installations for such wells are determined to present a threat to groundwater.

(L. 1985 S.B. 281 § 7, A.L. 1991 S.B. 221)
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 272.280 — MO Code / Chapter 272 / Section 272.280
272.280 Duties of judge if parties disagree on repairs — fence viewers to designate.
Status: in_force

272.280. Duties of judge if parties disagree on repairs — fence viewers to designate. — If the parties cannot agree as to the part each shall have and keep in repair, either of them may apply to a circuit or associate circuit judge of the county who shall forthwith summon three disinterested householders of the township to appear on the premises, giving three days' notice to each of the parties of the time and place where said viewers shall meet, and the viewers shall, under oath, designate the portion to be kept in repair by each of the parties interested, and notify them in writing of the same.

(L. 1963 p. 401 § 8)