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Timestamp: 2019-04-21 12:10:02+00:00

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§ 140.100 Traffic Violations Bureau.
§ 140.160 Municipal Judge Without Jurisdiction, When.
§ 140.180 Parole and Probation.
§ 140.220 Disqualification of Municipal Judge From Hearing Particular Case.
§ 140.230 Temporary Municipal Judge.
§ 140.253 Credit Card Transaction Fee.
§ 140.255 Administrative Fee Charged to Individuals Posting Bond.
§ 140.260 Court Costs — Assessed Against Prosecuting Witness.
§ 140.280 Obedience to Summons, Etc.
§ 140.290 Suspension of Driving Privileges.
Section 140.100 Traffic Violations Bureau.
Section 140.160 Municipal Judge Without Jurisdiction, When.
Section 140.180 Parole and Probation.
Section 140.220 Disqualification of Municipal Judge From Hearing Particular Case.
Section 140.230 Temporary Municipal Judge.
Section 140.253 Credit Card Transaction Fee.
Section 140.255 Administrative Fee Charged to Individuals Posting Bond.
Section 140.260 Court Costs — Assessed Against Prosecuting Witness.
Section 140.280 Obedience to Summons, Etc.
Section 140.290 Suspension of Driving Privileges.
There is hereby established in this City a Municipal Court, to be known as the "Berkeley Municipal Court, a Division of the 21st Judicial Circuit Court of the State of Missouri". This Court is a continuation of the Municipal Court of the City as previously established, and is termed herein "the Municipal Court".
Violations of municipal ordinances shall be heard and determined only before divisions of the Circuit Court as hereinafter provided in this Chapter. "Heard and determined", for purposes of this Chapter, shall mean any process under which the court in question retains the final authority to make factual determinations pertaining to allegations of a municipal ordinance violation.
He/she shall be appointed to office on the first (1st) day of June following the election of the Mayor to his/her position by a majority vote of the entire City Council for a term of four (4) years. If a vacancy exists in such office his/her successor shall be appointed to fill the unexpired term.
For cause and provided with a hearing before the City Council.
He/she shall be a licensed attorney, qualified to practice law within the State of Missouri and be in active legal practice for at least five (5) years prior to his/her appointment.
No Municipal Judge shall serve as a Municipal Judge in more than five (5) municipalities at one (1) time.
Editor's Note — Section 140.070 "report to council" was deleted in its entirety at the city's request. Former said section derived from: CC 1961 §6.7 and ord. no. 2306 §1(6.7), 12-4-78. At the editor's discretion this section was reserved for the city's future use.
The Municipal Judge shall be a conservator of the peace. He/she shall keep a docket in which he/she shall enter every case commenced before him/her and the proceedings therein and he/she shall keep such other records as may be required. Such docket and records shall be records of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County. The Municipal Judge shall deliver the docket and records of the Municipal Court, and all books and papers pertaining to his/her office, to his/her successor in office or to the Presiding Judge of the Circuit.
Establish a Traffic Violations Bureau as provided for in the Missouri Rules of Practice and Procedure in Municipal and Traffic Courts and Section 479.050 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri.
Administer oaths and enforce due obedience to all orders, rules and judgments made by him/her, and may fine and imprison for contempt committed before him/her while holding Court, in the same manner and to the same extent as a Circuit Judge.
The Municipal Judge shall have such other powers, duties and privileges as are or may be prescribed by the laws of this State, this Code or other ordinances of this City or Charter.
Should the Municipal Judge determine that there shall be a Traffic Violations Bureau, the City shall provide all expenses incident to the operation of the same. The Director of Finance is hereby designated as the Traffic Violations Clerk for said Bureau, if established. Failure to obey summons or warrants shall be a violation.
All warrants issued by a Municipal Judge shall be directed to the Chief of Police or any other Police Officer of the municipality or to the Sheriff of the County. The warrant shall be executed by the Marshal, Chief of Police, Police Officer, or Sheriff any place within the limits of the County and not elsewhere unless the warrants are endorsed in the manner provided for warrants in criminal cases, and, when so endorsed, shall be served in other counties, as provided for in warrants in criminal cases.
The Chief of Police, or other Police Officer of the City may, without a warrant, make arrest of any person who commits an offense in his/her presence, but such officer shall, before the trial file a written complaint with the Judge hearing violations of municipal ordinances.
It shall be the duty of an attorney designated by the municipality to prosecute the violations of the City's ordinances before the Municipal Judge or before the Circuit Judge hearing violations of the City's ordinances. The salary or fees of the attorney and his/her necessary expenses incurred in such prosecutions shall be paid by the City. The compensation of such attorney shall not be contingent upon the result in any case.
It shall be the duty of the Municipal Judge to summon all persons whose testimony may be deemed essential as witnesses at the trial, and to enforce their attendance by attachment, if necessary. The fees of witnesses shall be the same as those fixed for witnesses in trials before Associate Circuit Judges and shall be taxed as other costs in the case. When a trial shall be continued by the Municipal Judge it shall not be necessary to summon any witnesses who may be present at the continuance; but the Municipal Judge shall orally notify such witnesses as either party may require to attend before him/her on the day set for trial to testify in the case, and enter the names of such witnesses on his/her docket, which oral notice shall be valid as a summons.
If in the opinion of the Municipal Judge, the City has no suitable and safe place of confinement, the Municipal Judge may commit the defendant to the County Jail, and it shall be the duty of the Sheriff, if space for the prisoner is available in the County Jail, upon receipt of a Warrant of Commitment from the Judge to receive and safely keep such prisoner until discharged by due process of law. The City shall pay the board of such prisoner at the same rate as may now or hereafter be allowed to such Sheriff for the keeping of such prisoner in his/her custody. The same shall be taxed as cost.
Editor's Note — Section 140.200 "appeal from jury verdicts" was deleted in its entirety at the city's request. Former said section derived from: CC 1961 §6.20 and ord. no. 2306 §1(6.20), 12-4-78. At the editor's discretion this section was reserved for the city's future use.
The Municipal Judge shall be disqualified to hear any case in which he/she is anywise interested, or, if before the trial is commenced, the defendant or the Prosecutor files an affidavit that the defendant or the City, as the case may be, cannot have a fair and impartial trial by reason of the interest or prejudice of the Judge. Neither the defendant nor the City shall be entitled to file more than one (1) affidavit or disqualification in the same case.
If a Municipal Judge be absent, sick or disqualified from acting, the Council may designate some competent, eligible person to act as Municipal Judge until such absence or disqualification shall cease. The Council shall provide by ordinance for the compensation of any person designated to act as Municipal Judge.
Accept the appearance, waiver of trial and plea of guilty and payment of fine and costs in Traffic Violations Bureau cases or as directed by the Municipal Judge; generally act as Violations Clerk of the Traffic Violations Bureau.
Court. Further, to maintain a similar certified copy on file with the Clerk serving the Circuit Court of this County.
There may also be assessed a two dollar ($2.00) cost for the purpose of providing operating expenses for shelters for battered persons as set out in Section 488.607, RSMo.
Other costs, such as for the issuance of a warrant, a commitment, or a summons, as provided before the Associate Circuit Judge in criminal prosecutions.
Actual costs assessed against the City by the County Sheriff for apprehension or confinement in the County Jail.
Editor's Note: Ordinance No. 4187, adopted 1-5-2015, provided for the collection of the cost of incarceration, the deposit of all moneys collected in the general fund of the City, and set the average per-day cost of incarceration in Berkeley jail facilities. Said current per-day cost is on file in the City offices.
Any other reasonable cost as may be otherwise provided by ordinance, including but not limited to costs of confinement, including any necessary transportation related thereto, medical costs incurred by the City while a defendant is in City custody and costs related to the arrest and testing of any person for any intoxication-related traffic offense as set out in Subsection (10) hereof.
Upon a plea or a finding of guilty for a first (1st) offense of violating the provisions of an ordinance of the City of Berkeley, involving alcohol- or drug-related traffic offenses, the Court may, in addition to imposition of any penalties provided by law, order the convicted person to reimburse the Police Department for the costs associated with such arrest.
The Chief of Police shall establish a schedule of such costs hereby authorized and shall submit the same to the Municipal Judge. However, the Court may order the costs reduced if it determines that the costs are excessive.
Upon receipt of such additional costs authorized by this Subsection, the City Treasurer shall retain such costs in a separate fund to be known as the "DWI/Drug Offense Cost Reimbursement Fund". Monies with such fund shall be appropriated by the City Council to the Police Department in amounts equal to those costs so collected and shall be used by such Department specifically to enhance and support the enforcement and prosecution of alcohol- and drug-related traffic laws within the City.
Letter or notice of failure to appear in Court: $3.00.
Appeal costs from Municipal Court to the Circuit Court of St. Louis County as required.
In addition to the above costs, there shall be added twenty cents ($.20) per mile for each mile or fraction thereof that the Police must travel to serve any warrant or commitment or order of the Court.
Expert witness fees required by the City shall be taxed as costs by the Court. Expert witnesses are witnesses who testify relative to matters outside of the scope of general knowledge and possess special skills and knowledge.
Certification of any and all documents of the Municipal Court shall cost two dollars fifty cents ($2.50).
Judicial Education Fund and Appointed Counsel Fund.
A fee of one dollar ($1.00) shall be assessed as Court costs on all municipal violations that result in a plea or finding of guilty in the Municipal Court of Berkeley, Missouri.
This fee shall be collected and allocated between the Judicial Education Fund and the Appointed Counsel Fund, as determined by the Court.
The funds shall be administered and utilized consistent with the requirements of State Law, specifically, Section 479.260, RSMo.
There is hereby approved and authorized a transaction fee of four dollars ($4.00) to be charged in connection with each credit card payment made to the City of Berkeley, Missouri Municipal Court to be used to offset the transaction fees charged to the City of Berkeley in connection with credit card payments.
There shall be an administrative fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) charged to any individual posting a bond on a municipal violation including a personal recognizance bond for the City of Berkeley, Missouri.
This fee shall be collected prior to release from custody.
When a fine is assessed for violating an ordinance, it shall be within the discretion of the Judge assessing the fine to provide for the payment of a fine on an installment basis under such terms and conditions as he/she may deem appropriate.
No person shall refuse to obey a summons, warrant or fail to appear in Court after any cause is continued to a subsequent date and any such violation in failing to appear in Court shall constitute a violation of this Section.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this Section shall be punished as set forth in Section 100.070, Penalty, of this Code.
If a resident of the State of Missouri shall be charged with a moving traffic violation by the City of Berkeley and fails to dispose of charges of which he/she stands accused through authorized prepayment of fine and Court costs or fails to appear on the return date or at any subsequent date to which the case has been continued, or without good cause fails to pay any fine or Court costs against him/her for any such violation within the period of time specified or in such installments as approved by the Court or as otherwise provided by law, the Municipal Court of the City of Berkeley shall within ten (10) days of failure to comply, inform the defendant by ordinary mail to the last address shown on the Court records that the Municipal Court shall order the Missouri Director of Revenue to suspend the defendant's driving privileges if the charges are not disposed of and fully paid within thirty (30) days from the date of mailing.
If the defendant shall fail within the thirty (30) days allowed to dispose of the charges and fully pay any applicable fines and Court costs. The Municipal Court shall notify the defendant in the Municipal Court of Berkeley.
Upon receipt of the notifications set forth in Subsection (B), the Director of the Missouri Department of Revenue shall forthwith suspend the driving privileges of the defendant, and provide notice of the suspension to the driver at the last address for the driver shown on the records of the Department of Revenue.
If the defendant shall thereafter dispose of the charges and fully pay any applicable fines and Court costs, the Municipal Court of the City of Berkeley shall furnish to the defendant satisfactory evidence of disposition of the pending charges and payment of fines and Court costs.

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