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MO Rev Stat § 476.560 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.560 - Disqualification by improper behavior.

Effective - 28 Aug 1971   476.560. Disqualification by improper behavior. — Except as provided in section 476.540, the benefits under sections 476.515 to 476.570 shall not apply to any judge who has been convicted of a felony in any court or who has been removed from office by impeachment or for misconduct or disbarred from the practice of law. ­­-------- (L. 1971 S.B. 132 § 10)
MO Rev Stat § 476.565 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.565 - Retiree may practice law, when, requirements, exceptions.

Effective - 12 May 1981   476.565. Retiree may practice law, when, requirements, exceptions. — Any person under the age of seventy-six who receives retirement compensation under the provisions of sections 476.515 to 476.570 may engage in the practice of law or do law business at any time after his retirement if he makes himself available to serve as appointed defense counsel for indigent persons who may be charged with a violation of any of the criminal laws of this state. Such appointments shall not exceed six cases involving prosecution for a violation of a criminal law classified as a felony in any calendar year, and any person so appointed shall not receive any compensation therefor but may be reimbursed for his actual and necessary out-of-pocket expenses from funds appropriated for the support of public defender activities. The supreme court may excuse any such person from so serving as appointed defense counsel upon a showing of physical or mental condition which would preclude such service. Any person of the age of seventy-six or over who retires or is retired under the provisions of sections 476.515 to 476.570 may engage in the practice of law without making himself available to serve as appointed defense counsel. ­­-------- (L. 1971 S.B. 132 § 11, A.L. 1981 H.B. 835, et al.)  Effective 5-12-81
MO Rev Stat § 476.575 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.575 - Definitions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1977   476.575. Definitions. — As used in sections 476.575, 476.580, 476.585, 476.590, and 476.595 of this act*, the following terms shall mean:  (1) "Board", the board of trustees of the Missouri state employees' retirement system;  (2) "Judge", a judge of the supreme court, judge of the court of** appeals, circuit court, the St. Louis court of criminal corrections, court of common pleas, associate division of the circuit court, probate division of the circuit court, and commissioner of the supreme court, and all retired judges and commissioners of such courts. ­­-------- (L. 1976 S.B. 513 § 1, A.L. 1977 S.B. 94)  *"This act" contained sections 476.575 and 476.590 only.  **Words "court of" do not appear in original rolls.
MO Rev Stat § 476.580 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.580 - Retirement benefits, who administers, how paid.

Effective - 28 Aug 1997   476.580. Retirement benefits, who administers, how paid. — On September 1, 1976, the Missouri state employees' retirement system shall administer the retirement benefits of all judges provided for in this chapter and, unless otherwise provided by law, effective July 1, 1998, the commissioner of administration, the state treasurer and the executive director of the Missouri state employees' retirement system shall perform the same duties in regard to the retirement system established pursuant to the provisions of this chapter that are prescribed for such officers in sections 104.436 and 104.438, in regard to the Missouri state employees' retirement system. Funds so certified and transferred for the retirement system established pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be deposited in a separate account of the Missouri state employees' retirement system and shall be disbursed only for the purposes of the retirement system established pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. Until July 1, 1998, retirement benefits provided for in this chapter shall be paid monthly out of the general revenue of the state of Missouri. The system shall calculate the annuity provided to a judge, as defined in section 476.515, based on the law in effect at the time the judge's employment was terminated. ­­-------- (L. 1976 S.B. 513 § 2, A.L. 1997 H.B. 356)
MO Rev Stat § 476.585 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.585 - No payroll deductions, when — accumulated contributions refunded, when, to whom.

Effective - 28 Aug 1982   476.585. No payroll deductions, when — accumulated contributions refunded, when, to whom. — 1. No payroll deduction shall be made from the compensation of any judge for retirement benefits after September 1, 1976.  2. Any judge holding office on September 1, 1976, who thereafter retires, shall be paid by the commissioner of administration the total amount of contributions paid by him under the provisions of section 476.525, not previously refunded, together with the interest as computed by the board of trustees of the Missouri state retirement system and this amount shall be in addition to any retirement benefits to which he is entitled. Any judge who fails to become eligible for retirement because of lack of service may at any time after leaving office request and receive his accumulated contributions and interest.  3. When a judge who is in office dies on or after September 1, 1976, the commissioner of administration shall pay to such beneficiary as the judge may have designated in writing, or to his estate if no beneficiary be designated, an amount equal to the total amount of contributions paid by him under the provisions of section 476.525, not previously refunded, together with interest as provided in subsection 2 of this section.  4. When a judge, as defined in section 476.515, requests in writing, the board shall pay to that judge within ninety days from general revenue all accumulated contributions made through September 1, 1976, and not previously refunded, plus credited interest to the date the payment is made by the board. Such refund of contributions and interest shall not in any way change any benefits or rights to which the judge may be entitled. ­­-------- (L. 1976 S.B. 513 § 3, A.L. 1981 H.B. 835, et al., A.L. 1982 S.B. 497)
MO Rev Stat § 476.590 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.590 - Life insurance benefits to be provided judges, retired judges and dependents.

Effective - 28 Aug 1992   476.590. Life insurance benefits to be provided judges, retired judges and dependents. — The board shall provide or contract for life insurance benefits under the provisions of section 104.515 for judges who, for the purpose of that section, shall be considered members of the Missouri state employees' retirement system with the amount of life insurance benefits based on the creditable service of the judges as provided in section 104.515. ­­-------- (L. 1976 S.B. 513 § 4, A.L. 1977 S.B. 94, A.L. 1992 H.B. 1574)
MO Rev Stat § 476.595 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.595 - Election to become a special commissioner, when, how — compensation — refund of certain contributions, how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1997   476.595. Election to become a special commissioner, when, how — compensation — refund of certain contributions, how. — 1. If the person so elects, any person receiving benefits pursuant to section 476.530 shall be made, constituted and appointed a special commissioner or referee for and during the remainder of the person's life, as provided and in the manner set forth in section 476.500. When so appointed the special commissioner or referee shall receive the same compensation as provided by law for special commissioners or referees made, constituted or appointed pursuant to the provisions of section 476.450.  2. If the person so elects, any person receiving benefits pursuant to section 476.545 shall also be made, constituted and appointed a special commissioner or referee for and during the remainder of the person's life as provided and in the manner set forth in section 476.500. When so appointed, the special commissioner or referee shall be reimbursed for expenses as provided in section 476.490, and shall receive a reduced annual compensation in a sum equal to the proportion of the compensation provided in section 476.450 that the person's period of service bears to twelve years.  3. Any person electing to become a special commissioner or referee pursuant to this section shall be subject to the provisions of sections 476.460, 476.480, 476.490, 476.510, subdivision (1) of section 476.515, sections 476.537 and 476.590. On the effective date of the person's election, the person shall cease to be subject to any other provision of sections 476.515 to 476.590.  4. Upon the effective date of this election to become a special commissioner or referee, the special commissioner or referee may make written application to the commissioner of administration for a refund of the person's contributions pursuant to sections 476.515 to 476.570*. On receipt of the written application the commissioner of administration shall pay the refund in one lump sum which shall equal the total amount of such contributions pursuant to sections 476.515 to 476.570*. ­­-------- (L. 1976 S.B. 513 § 5, A.L. 1982 S.B. 497, A.L. 1997 H.B. 356)  *Section 476.570 was repealed by H.B. 1634, 1978.
MO Rev Stat § 476.675 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.675 - Commissioner of juvenile division of circuit court may elect to transfer membership service to creditable service as a judge, procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1989, 2 histories   476.675. Commissioner of juvenile division of circuit court may elect to transfer membership service to creditable service as a judge, procedure. — Any person who is a commissioner of the juvenile division of the circuit court, appointed pursuant to section 211.023 on October 1, 1989, may elect to transfer membership service earned under the provisions of the Missouri state employees' retirement system as a commissioner of the juvenile division of the circuit court to creditable service as a judge as defined in section 476.515, if such person makes written application to the board of trustees of the Missouri state employees' retirement system and to the state courts administrator to transfer such service prior to December 31, 1989, provided application is made prior to the person receiving retirement benefits for such service. In no event shall a person receive credit for the same period of service under more than one retirement system or plan. ­­-------- (L. 1989 H.B. 674)
MO Rev Stat § 476.680 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.680 - Votes, how counted and canvassed — governor to proclaim results (Clay County).

Effective - 28 Aug 1972   476.680. Votes, how counted and canvassed — governor to proclaim results (Clay County). — 1. The votes on the question shall be counted, canvassed and returned by the regular boards of judges, clerks and officers as votes for candidates are counted, canvassed and returned, and the abstract made by the officials in general charge of elections in each such county shall be returned to the secretary of state on separate abstract sheets, in the manner provided for abstract of votes for state and county officers.  2. The secretary of state, in the presence of the governor, sixty days after the election, shall proceed to canvass the votes on the question; and the governor shall forthwith issue his proclamation, giving the whole number of votes cast in each such judicial circuit for and against the question, and if the question is approved by a majority of those voting thereon, declaring the nonpartisan selection of the circuit and associate circuit judges to be in full force and effect in each such judicial circuit as provided for in Article V, Section 29 of the Constitution of 1945. ­­-------- (L. 1972 H.B. 622 § 5)
MO Rev Stat § 476.681 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.681 - Retired senior judges or commissioners, application, qualifications, appointment, term.

Effective - 28 Aug 1999   476.681. Retired senior judges or commissioners, application, qualifications, appointment, term. — 1. Any retired judge or retired commissioner receiving retirement benefits under any of the applicable provisions of this chapter, who is willing to serve as a senior judge or senior commissioner, respectively, may make application for such service with the clerk of the supreme court on forms provided by the clerk. The application shall contain information relating to the prior legal and judicial experience of the applicant, the applicant's physical and mental health, and the times of the applicant's availability. The clerk may request physical or mental examinations of any applicant and may request that the applicant furnish or authorize the furnishing of any relevant medical or other health records. An application shall be submitted to the supreme court for approval or disapproval and shall be valid for a period of one year from the date of approval.  2. Upon written request of the chief judge of any district of the court of appeals or the presiding judge of any circuit, the supreme court may appoint a senior judge or senior commissioner from the file of approved applications maintained by the clerk of the supreme court. Appointments to serve shall be based on caseload and need, as determined by the supreme court in its discretion, taking into consideration reports filed pursuant to section 476.412, recommendations made by the judicial resources commission created herein and such other matters that the court deems relevant. The appointment may be made for a specific case or cases or for a specified period of time not to exceed one year. The appointment may be extended for additional periods of time not to exceed one year each if the appointed senior judge or senior commissioner maintains an annual updated and approved application for appointment. Persons serving as a senior judge or senior commissioner pursuant to the provisions of this section shall receive compensation as provided in section 476.682. ­­-------- (L. 1989 S.B. 439 § 2, A.L. 1999 S.B. 1, et al.)
MO Rev Stat § 476.683 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.683 - Judge failing to retire on seventieth birthday, a waiver of salary and retirement benefits.

Effective - 28 Aug 1988   476.683. Judge failing to retire on seventieth birthday, a waiver of salary and retirement benefits. — Except as provided in Subsection 24 of Section 27 of Article V of the Missouri Constitution, any judge who becomes eligible after August 13, 1988, for annual compensation, salary or retirement compensation pursuant to sections 476.450 to 476.595, but fails to retire on or before his seventieth birthday shall automatically waive all such annual compensation, salary and retirement compensation. ­­-------- (L. 1988 S.B. 425 § 3)
MO Rev Stat § 476.684 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.684 - Judges with certain service may tack prior service credit in MOSERS to judicial system by purchase, limitation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1989   476.684. Judges with certain service may tack prior service credit in MOSERS to judicial system by purchase, limitation. — Any person having at least four years of service as a judge, as defined in section 476.515, and who had at least ten years of prior service as a state employee prior to September 1, 1959, may reinstate such service to receive prior service credit therefor if the person shall pay into the fund an amount equal to any refund of contributions which the person may have received, with simple interest thereon, to the date application is made for such prior service credit. The person shall then become a member of the Missouri state employees' retirement system. Thereafter not more than fifty percent of such credit may be transferred to and be counted as service as a judge for the purpose of calculating retirement benefits for judicial service if retirement benefits as a judge have not yet begun. ­­-------- (L. 1989 H.B. 674 § 2)
MO Rev Stat § 476.686 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.686 - Magistrate judges not now serving in St. Louis City may become special consultant, when — compensation to be creditable service in judicial retirement system.

Effective - 28 Aug 1992   476.686. Magistrate judges not now serving in St. Louis City may become special consultant, when — compensation to be creditable service in judicial retirement system. — Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any person who has reached the age of sixty-five years and has served, but is not serving on August 28, 1992, as a magistrate judge in a city not within a county and has not received creditable service in the judges' retirement system for such service, shall be made, constituted, appointed, and employed by the judges' retirement system as a special consultant on the problems of retirement, aging and other state matters for the remainder of the person's life. As compensation for such employment, the person shall receive creditable service in the judges' retirement system for the time that person served as a magistrate judge and be entitled to any benefits provided by sections 476.450 to 476.683 that are applicable. ­­-------- (L. 1989 H.B. 674 § 476.681, A.L. 1992 S.B. 499, et al.)
MO Rev Stat § 476.687 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.687 - Previous state employment, additional credited service.

Effective - 01 Jul 2000   476.687. Previous state employment, additional credited service. — Any judge as defined in section 476.515 who is actively serving pursuant to this chapter or chapter 56 and has served for at least ten years shall receive additional credited service for previous public employment with the state covered by another retirement plan as defined in section 105.691, if all of the following conditions are met:  (1) Such member has a vested right to receive a retirement benefit from the other retirement plan at the time of application pursuant to this section and is not a retiree under the other retirement plan;  (2) The other retirement plan transfers to the system an amount equal to the employee's account balance under a defined contribution plan or the amount equal to the employee's pension obligation under a defined benefit plan at the time of transfer to the extent that obligation is funded as of the plan's most recent actuarial valuation, not to exceed one hundred percent, as determined by the other retirement plan's actuary using the same assumption used in performing the last regular actuarial valuation of the transferring plan, except that in no event shall the transferred amount be less than the employee's accumulated contributions on deposit with the transferring plan;  (3) No such credited service remains credited in such other retirement plan;  (4) The member applies for the additional credited service in a manner and form established by the appropriate board. ­­-------- (L. 2000 H.B. 1808)  Effective 7-01-00
MO Rev Stat § 476.688 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.688 - Compensation to be treated as other benefits.

Effective - 28 Aug 1998   476.688. Compensation to be treated as other benefits. — Except as provided in section 104.312, the compensation provided for in sections 476.455 to 476.688, and any benefits consolidated with the compensation, shall be treated like any other state retirement benefits payable by the Missouri state employees' retirement system and shall not be subject to execution, garnishment, attachment, writ of sequestration or any other process or claim whatsoever, and shall be unassignable except with regard to the collection of child support or maintenance. ­­-------- (L. 1995 H.B. 416, et al., A.L. 1998 S.B. 910)
MO Rev Stat § 476.690 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.690 - Eligible judge electing not to retire shall receive in addition to retirement compensation all annual cost-of-living increases given to retired judges — appointment as special consultant.

Effective - 01 Jul 2000   476.690. Eligible judge electing not to retire shall receive in addition to retirement compensation all annual cost-of-living increases given to retired judges — appointment as special consultant. — 1. Any judge who has become eligible to receive retirement compensation pursuant to section 476.520 and who has elected not to retire and has continued to serve as a judge after August 28, 1995, shall have added to the retirement compensation when the judge retires or dies an amount equal to the total of all annual cost-of-living increases that retired judges received between the time the judge first became eligible to retire and the year the judge actually retires or dies. In no event shall the total increase in compensation granted pursuant to this section and section 476.601 exceed sixty-five percent of the judge's retirement compensation calculated at the time of retirement or death.  2. Any judge who was eligible to retire on August 28, 1995, and elected to continue to serve as a judge after such date, but who retired before August 28, 1996, shall, upon application to the board of trustees of the Missouri state employees' retirement system, be made, constituted and appointed and employed by the board as a special consultant on the problems of retirement, aging and other state matters for the remainder of the person's life. Upon request of the board or the court from which the judge retired, the consultant shall give opinions or be available to give opinions in writing or orally in response to such request. As compensation for such services, the consultant shall have the retirement benefit recalculated from the date of the retirement, pursuant to the provisions of subsection 1 of this section.  3. Any judge who retired prior to August 28, 1995, and who is receiving judicial retirement compensation on September 1, 2000, shall upon application to the board of trustees of the Missouri state employees' retirement system be made, constituted and appointed and employed by the board as a special consultant on the problems of retirement, aging and other state matters for the remainder of the judge's life. Upon request of the board or the court from which the judge retired, the consultant shall give opinions or be available to give opinions in writing or orally in response to such request. As compensation for such services, the consultant shall have the consultant's retirement benefit recalculated as if subsection 1 of this section was in effect on the consultant's date of retirement. Any monthly benefit increases payable pursuant to this subsection shall become effective September 1, 2000. In no event shall the system make any retroactive compensation payments under this subsection. ­­-------- (L. 1995 S.B. 47, A.L. 1996 H.B. 1361, A.L. 1997 H.B. 356, A.L. 2000 H.B. 1808)  Effective 7-01-00