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MO Rev Stat § 478.206 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.206 - Writs and other processes returned to first term, when, effect.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   478.206. Writs and other processes returned to first term, when, effect. — When any writ or other process is made returnable to any stated term of any court of record and the time of holding such term shall be changed by the legislature or by local court rule, such process shall be returned to the first term of the court held in pursuance of such change, and with the same effect as if returned at the time named in such process. ­­-------- (L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 478.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.220 - Circuit and associate circuit judges, jurisdiction, restrictions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1989, 2 histories   478.220. Circuit and associate circuit judges, jurisdiction, restrictions. — Circuit judges and associate circuit judges may hear and determine all cases and matters within the jurisdiction of their circuit courts, subject however, to the following restrictions:  (1) Circuit judges shall not hear and determine municipal ordinance violation cases, except upon trial de novo, unless the judge be transferred or assigned to hear and determine the case or that class of case pursuant to section 478.240 or 478.245, or Section 6 of Article V of the Constitution; and  (2) Each circuit judge or associate circuit judge who serves as the judge of the probate division of the circuit court may hear and determine all cases and matters within the probate division of the circuit court in the county for which he is judge in accordance with the rules of civil procedure, except where specific statutes govern procedure in the probate division; and  (3) The provisions of this section authorizing the hearing and determination of particular cases or classes of cases by circuit judges and associate circuit judges shall be subject to the transfer, assignment, and disqualification provisions contained in Article V of the Constitution, in provisions of law, or in court rules which are authorized by the constitution or by law. ­­-------- (L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)
MO Rev Stat § 478.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.230 - Municipal judges, jurisdiction — cases subject to transfer.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979, 2 histories   478.230. Municipal judges, jurisdiction — cases subject to transfer. — A municipal judge may hear and determine municipal ordinance violation cases of the municipality or municipalities making provision for the particular municipal judge. The provisions of this section authorizing the hearing and determination of particular cases or classes of cases by municipal judges shall be subject to the transfer, assignment, and disqualification provisions contained in Article V of the Constitution, in provisions of law, or in court rules which are authorized by the constitution or by law. ­­-------- (L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 478.248 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.248 - Availability of a judge for bail purposes, when, local court rules to ensure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1982   478.248. Availability of a judge for bail purposes, when, local court rules to ensure. — The circuit courts of this state by local rule shall adopt a procedure ensuring the availability at all hours and times of a circuit judge or associate circuit judge within the circuit for the purpose of admitting persons to bail with qualified sureties or on their own recognizances in such amounts as may be set by the court or judge during any such hours and times. ­­-------- (L. 1982 S.B. 497 § 3)
MO Rev Stat § 478.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.250 - Procedure for filing cases, docketing, assignment, hearing.

Effective - 28 Aug 1989, 2 histories   478.250. Procedure for filing cases, docketing, assignment, hearing. — 1. Until otherwise provided by court rule authorized by the constitution or by court order authorized by law, cases shall continue to be filed in the same places and the same filing, docketing and assignment of case procedures shall apply as were in effect on January 1, 1979, with respect to the same categories of cases.  2. In those counties with centralized filing, if a case is within those categories of cases enumerated in subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection 1 of section 517.011, the plaintiff when filing the case may designate at the time of filing that the case shall be heard and determined under the civil practice and procedure applicable before circuit judges, and in such event the case shall be heard and determined by a circuit judge unless an associate circuit judge shall be assigned or transferred to hear and determine the case pursuant to section 478.240 or 478.245 or Section 6 of Article V of the Constitution. If no such designation is made, the case shall be heard and determined under chapter 517.  3. In the assignment of cases to associate circuit judges in circuit courts with more than one resident associate circuit judge, insofar as is reasonably possible and consistent with the proper administration of justice, assignments made either pursuant to local circuit court rule or by the presiding judge:  (1) Shall not effect an assignment of the cause from the courthouse where the case is filed to another courthouse in the county for hearing without the consent of the parties shown except for good cause shown; and  (2) Shall be made in such manner as will assure that when a litigant or counsel simultaneously file a number of cases of a similar character to be heard before an associate circuit judge, such cases will be assigned as a group to a single associate circuit judge or in such other manner as will reasonably assure that they will be processed and heard without setting or return date conflicts which would require counsel to appear on multiple occasions or at conflicting times.  4. The provisions of subsection 3 of this section shall apply as to assignments made where a centralized docketing procedure has been adopted by local court order under the provisions of subsection 4* of section 478.245. ­­-------- (L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)  *The number "4" does not appear in original rolls.
MO Rev Stat § 478.255 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.255 - Disqualification of judge, reassignment procedure — applicability to probate judges.

Effective - 28 Aug 2005, 2 histories   478.255. Disqualification of judge, reassignment procedure — applicability to probate judges. — 1. When the presiding judge assigns an associate circuit judge to sit as a circuit judge in a particular case and, thereafter, the associate circuit judge is disqualified from hearing the case, the case shall be returned to the presiding judge for reassignment to another judge of the circuit court including the presiding judge himself should that be necessary in the discretion of the presiding judge.  2. When a presiding judge elects to hear and determine a case but subsequently is disqualified, such judge is disqualified for all purposes and the chief justice of the supreme court shall assign a competent judge to hear and determine the case, except as provided in subsection 3 of this section.  3. In any circuit, which has four circuit judges or less, when a presiding judge elects to hear and determine a case but subsequently is disqualified, such presiding judge may assign another judge within the circuit, qualified to hear the case, to hear and determine the case. If there is no other judge within the circuit qualified to hear the case, the chief justice of the supreme court shall assign a competent judge to hear and determine the case.  4. The provisions of this section shall apply to disqualification of any judge in the probate division of a circuit court. ­­-------- (L. 1979 S.B. 431, A.L. 1982 S.B. 643, A.L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 2005 S.B. 420 & 344)
MO Rev Stat § 478.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.260 - Probate division of circuit court established, jurisdiction.

Effective - 28 Aug 1989, 2 histories   478.260. Probate division of circuit court established, jurisdiction. — 1. There shall be a probate division of the circuit court in each county and in the city of St. Louis.  2. In probate matters, the circuit judge or associate circuit judge serving in the probate division shall have general equitable jurisdiction. ­­-------- (L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)
MO Rev Stat § 478.265 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.265 - Commissioner of the probate division of circuit court, appointment, qualifications, powers, duties, compensation (counties over 400,000).

Effective - 02 Jan 1979, 2 histories   *478.265. Commissioner of the probate division of circuit court, appointment, qualifications, powers, duties, compensation (counties over 400,000). — The judge of the probate division of the circuit court of any county which has more than four hundred thousand inhabitants may appoint a person to be known as commissioner of the probate division of the circuit court, who shall possess the same qualifications and take and subscribe a like oath as such judge. The compensation of the commissioner shall be limited, determined and paid in the same manner as division clerks as provided by subsection 2 of section 483.243 until June 30, 1981, and section 483.245 after that date except as provided in sections 478.266 and 478.267; provided, however, that said commissioner shall receive a per diem of twenty dollars per day as compensation unless said commissioner is a regular salaried employee serving the probate division of the circuit court in which event he shall receive no per diem allowance; and his service shall extend until terminated by order of the judge of the probate division of the circuit court entered of record but not beyond the term of office of such judge. Subject to approval or rejection by the judge of the probate division, the commissioner shall have all the powers and duties of such judge; but the judge shall by order of record reject or confirm all orders, judgments, and decrees of the commissioner within the time such judge could set aside such orders, judgments, or decrees, had the same been made by him; and if so confirmed such orders, judgments, and decrees shall have the same effect as if made by the judge on the date of such confirmation. ­­-------- (L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Effective 1-02-79  *Formerly 481.115.
MO Rev Stat § 478.267 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.267 - Probate division of circuit court, commissioner authorized, compensation, term — commissioner's orders, rejection or confirmation of (St. Louis County).

Effective - 28 Aug 1991, 2 histories   *478.267. Probate division of circuit court, commissioner authorized, compensation, term — commissioner's orders, rejection or confirmation of (St. Louis County). — Notwithstanding the provisions of section 478.265, on and after January 2, 1979, in each county of the first class having a charter form of government and having a population of at least nine hundred thousand or more inhabitants, the judge of the probate division of the circuit court may appoint one person, who shall possess the same qualifications as a circuit judge, to act as commissioner of the probate division of the circuit court. The commissioner shall be appointed for a term of four years. The compensation of the commissioner shall be determined by the judge of the probate division of the circuit court, not to exceed the compensation of a circuit court judge, payable in the same manner and from the same source as the compensation of the judge who serves in the probate division of the circuit court. Subject to approval or rejection by the judge of the probate division, the commissioner shall have all the powers and duties of the judge. The judge shall by order of record reject or confirm all orders, judgments and decrees of the commissioner within the time the judge could set aside such orders, judgments or decrees had the same been made by him. If so confirmed, the orders, judgments and decrees shall have the same effect as if made by the judge on the date of their confirmation. ­­-------- (L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1991 S.B. 34)  *Formerly 481.117.
MO Rev Stat § 478.268 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.268 - Probate division commissioner authorized, thirty-first judicial circuit, term, compensation — commissioner's orders, rejection or confirmation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1999   478.268. Probate division commissioner authorized, thirty-first judicial circuit, term, compensation — commissioner's orders, rejection or confirmation. — Notwithstanding the provisions of section 478.265, in the thirty-first judicial circuit, the circuit court en banc may appoint one person, who shall possess the same qualifications as a circuit judge, to act as commissioner of the probate division of the circuit court. The commissioner shall be appointed for a term of four years. The compensation and retirement benefits of the commissioner shall be the same as that of an associate circuit judge, payable in the same manner and from the same source as that of the associate circuit judge. Subject to approval or rejection by the judge of the probate division, the commissioner shall have all the powers and duties of a circuit judge. The judge shall by order of record reject or confirm all orders, judgments and decrees of the commissioner within the time the judge could set aside such orders, judgments or decrees had the same been made by such judge. If so confirmed, the orders, judgments and decrees shall have the same effect as if made by the judge on the date of their confirmation. ­­-------- (L. 1996 S.B. 869, A.L. 1997 H.B. 59, A.L. 1999 S.B. 1, et al.)
MO Rev Stat § 478.270 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.270 - Judge or clerk not to prepare wills or settlements — letters revoked, when.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979, 2 histories   *478.270. Judge or clerk not to prepare wills or settlements — letters revoked, when. — 1. No judge or clerk of the probate division of the circuit court shall draw or witness any will or make any settlement for any administrator, executor or guardian over which his court has jurisdiction.  2. The acceptance of the office of judge of the probate division of the circuit court operates as a revocation of all letters testamentary and of administration and of guardianship held by a judge of a probate division of a circuit court at the time of his election, and disqualifies him from acting in any capacity in such cases in any court of this state. ­­-------- (L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Effective 1-02-79  *Formerly 481.130.
MO Rev Stat § 478.320 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.320 - Associate circuit judges, authorized number — population determination — election — restrictions on practice of law or paid public appointment — residency requirement.

Effective - 08 Jul 2014, 2 histories   478.320. Associate circuit judges, authorized number — population determination — election — restrictions on practice of law or paid public appointment — residency requirement. — 1. In counties having a population of thirty thousand or less, there shall be one associate circuit judge. In counties having a population of more than thirty thousand and less than one hundred thousand, there shall be two associate circuit judges. In counties having a population of one hundred thousand or more, there shall be three associate circuit judges and one additional associate circuit judge for each additional one hundred thousand inhabitants.  2. For purposes of this section, notwithstanding the provisions of section 1.100, population of a county shall be determined on the basis of the last previous decennial census of the United States; and, beginning after certification of the year 2000 decennial census, on the basis of annual population estimates prepared by the United States Bureau of the Census, provided that the number of associate circuit judge positions in a county shall be adjusted only after population estimates for three consecutive years indicate population change in the county to a level provided by subsection 1 of this section.  3. Except in circuits where associate circuit judges are selected under the provisions of Sections 25(a) to (g) of Article V of the constitution, the election of associate circuit judges shall in all respects be conducted as other elections and the returns made as for other officers.  4. In counties not subject to Sections 25(a) to (g) of Article V of the constitution, associate circuit judges shall be elected by the county at large.  5. No associate circuit judge shall practice law, or do a law business, nor shall he or she accept, during his or her term of office, any public appointment for which he or she receives compensation for his or her services.  6. No person shall be elected as an associate circuit judge unless he or she has resided in the county for which he or she is to be elected at least one year prior to the date of his or her election; provided that, a person who is appointed by the governor to fill a vacancy may file for election and be elected notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection. ­­-------- (L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1985 S.B. 5, et al., A.L. 1999 S.B. 1, et al., A.L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 merged with S.B. 100, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1231 merged with S.B. 621)  Effective 7-08-14
MO Rev Stat § 478.330 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.330 - Additional circuit judges authorized, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2016   478.330. Additional circuit judges authorized, when. — 1. When an annual judicial performance report submitted pursuant to section 477.405 indicates for three consecutive calendar years the need for two or more full-time judicial positions in any judicial circuit there shall be one additional circuit judge position authorized in such circuit, subject to appropriations made for that purpose.  2. Except in circuits where circuit judges are selected under the provisions of Sections 25(a) to 25(g) of Article V* of the Missouri Constitution, the election of circuit judges authorized by this section shall be conducted in accordance with chapter 115. ­­-------- (L. 2016 S.B. 578)  *Words "article V of sections 25(a) to 25(g)" appear in original rolls.
MO Rev Stat § 478.370 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.370 - Divisions of Circuit No. 5, number — when judges elected.

Effective - 01 Jan 1982, 2 histories   478.370. Divisions of Circuit No. 5, number — when judges elected. — 1. There shall be four circuit judges in the fifth judicial circuit consisting of the counties of Buchanan and Andrew. These judges shall sit in divisions numbered one, two, three and four.  2. The circuit judge in division two shall be elected in 1980. The circuit judges in divisions one, three and four shall be elected in 1982. ­­-------- (L. 1889 p. 73 §§ 1, 2, L. 1915 p. 257 § 1, A. 1949 S.B. 1140, A.L. 1959 S.B. 96, S.B. 151, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1981 S.B. 24)  Effective 1-01-82
MO Rev Stat § 478.385 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.385 - Circuit No. 7, number of judges.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   478.385. Circuit No. 7, number of judges. — There shall be four circuit judges in the seventh judicial circuit consisting of the county of Clay. ­­-------- (L. 1958 2d Ex. Sess. p. 165 § 1, A.L. 1965 p. 642, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 478.387 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.387 - Circuit No. 22, number of judges.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   478.387. Circuit No. 22, number of judges. — There shall be twenty-four circuit judges in the twenty-second judicial circuit consisting of the city of St. Louis. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2213, A.L. 1965 p. 643, A.L. 1971 S.B. 89, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2111; 1919 § 2614; 1909 § 4147  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 478.400 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.400 - General term — business, how distributed and expedited.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   478.400. General term — business, how distributed and expedited. — Said court may classify, arrange, distribute and assign the business thereof, and the causes instituted therein, among the several judges thereof, in such manner and at such time as the majority of such judges may from time to time prescribe by rules or orders; and each of said judges shall, at special term, attend to such business as may, under such rules or orders, be assigned to him. And said court in general term, may, by general rules, further provide for the hearing of certain motions, demurrers and applications for relief, or extraordinary remedies, by the presiding judge, or any other judge of said court, and for the assignment for trial, the reassignment and transfer of causes from one division to another of said court by the sole action of either the presiding judge, or other judge of said court, designated for such purpose by said general term. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2219)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 2117; 1919 § 2620; 1909 § 4153