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MO Rev Stat § 478.005 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.005 - Conditions and criteria for referral — statements by participant not to be used as evidence, when — records, access to staff, closed, when.

Effective - 18 Dec 2018, 2 histories   478.005. Conditions and criteria for referral — statements by participant not to be used as evidence, when — records, access to staff, closed, when. — 1. Each circuit court shall establish conditions for referral of proceedings to the treatment court division. Each treatment court within a treatment court division shall establish criteria upon which a person is deemed eligible for that specific treatment court and for determining successful completion of the treatment court program.  2. Any statement made by a participant as part of participation in the treatment court program, or any report made by the staff of the program, shall not be admissible as evidence against the participant in any criminal, juvenile or civil proceeding. Notwithstanding the foregoing, termination from the treatment court program and the reasons for termination may be considered in sentencing or disposition.  3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, treatment court staff shall be provided with access to all records of any state or local government agency relevant to the treatment of any program participant. Upon general request, employees of all such agencies shall fully inform treatment court staff of all matters relevant to the treatment of the participant. All such records and reports and the contents thereof shall be treated as closed records and shall not be disclosed to any person outside of the treatment court, and shall be maintained by the court in a confidential file not available to the public. ­­-------- (L. 1998 H.B. 1147, et al. § 5 subsecs. 3, 4, 5, A.L. 2018 1st Ex. Sess. H.B. 2)  Effective 12-18-18
MO Rev Stat § 478.007 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.007 - Alternative disposition of cases, court may be established — private probation services, when.

Effective - 18 Dec 2018, 4 histories   478.007. Alternative disposition of cases, court may be established — private probation services, when. — 1. Any circuit court may establish a DWI court within the treatment court division to provide an alternative for the judicial system to dispose of cases in which a person has pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated or driving with excessive blood alcohol content and:  (1) The person was operating a motor vehicle with at least fifteen-hundredths of one percent or more by weight of alcohol in such person's blood; or  (2) The person has previously pleaded guilty to or has been found guilty of one or more intoxication-related traffic offenses as defined by section 577.001; or  (3) The person has two or more previous alcohol-related enforcement contacts as defined in section 302.525.  2. This court shall combine judicial supervision, drug or alcohol testing, continuous alcohol monitoring, or verifiable breath alcohol testing, substance abuse traffic offender program compliance, and treatment of DWI court participants. The court may assess any and all necessary costs for participation in DWI court against the participant. Any money received from such assessed costs by a court from a defendant shall not be considered court costs, charges, or fines. This court shall operate in conjunction with a treatment court established pursuant to sections 478.001 to 478.009.  3. If the division of probation and parole is otherwise unavailable to assist in the judicial supervision of any person who wishes to enter a DWI court, a court-approved private probation service may be utilized by the DWI court to fill the division's role. In such case, any and all necessary additional costs may be assessed against the participant. No person shall be rejected from participating in DWI court solely for the reason that the person does not reside in the city or county where the applicable DWI court is located but the DWI court can base acceptance into a treatment court program on its ability to adequately provide services for the person or handle the additional caseload. ­­-------- (L. 2010 H.B. 1695, et al., A.L. 2013 S.B. 100 merged with S.B. 327, A.L. 2015 S.B. 254, A.L. 2018 1st Ex. Sess. H.B. 2)  Effective 12-18-18
MO Rev Stat § 478.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.010 - Election of circuit judges.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   478.010. Election of circuit judges. — 1. Except as provided in Section 25 of Article V of the Constitution of Missouri, the circuit judges of the various judicial circuits shall be elected at the general elections as herein provided and at the general election every six years thereafter, and shall enter upon the duties of their office on the first day in January next following their election; provided, however, that any terms commencing in 1981 and 1983 shall commence on the first Monday in January.  2. The circuit judge of judicial circuit number one shall be elected in 1980.  3. The circuit judge of judicial circuit number thirty-six shall be elected in 1984.  4. The circuit judges of the remaining judicial circuits, except those covered by sections 478.370 through 478.715, shall be elected in 1982. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2099, A. 1949 S.B. 1140, A.L. 1953 p. 398, A.L. 1958 2d Ex. Sess. p. 166, A.L. 1959 S.B. 96, A.L. 1965 pp. 639, 644, A.L. 1973 H.B. 69, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1937; 1919 § 2435; 1909 § 3955  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 478.011 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.011 - Number of judicial circuits

Effective - 18 Feb 2016   478.011. Number of judicial circuits — This state is divided into forty-six judicial circuits, numbered consecutively from one to forty-six. ­­-------- (L. 2016 S.B. 585) Effective 2-18-16
MO Rev Stat § 478.012 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.012 - Circuit court defined.

Effective - 28 Aug 1997   478.012. Circuit court defined. — When the term "circuit court" is used in the statutes to refer to the location in which a case or proceeding may or shall be filed, that term shall mean any division of the circuit court in which the case or proceeding could be filed pursuant to other law or valid court rule. ­­-------- (L. 1997 S.B. 248)
MO Rev Stat § 478.013 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.013 - Salaries of circuit judges — practice of or doing law business prohibited.

Effective - 28 Aug 1990   478.013. Salaries of circuit judges — practice of or doing law business prohibited. — 1. Each judge of the circuit court shall receive an annual salary of seventy-nine thousand one hundred sixty-four dollars plus any salary adjustment provided after August 28, 1990, pursuant to section 476.405, all of which shall be paid by the state out of the state treasury.  2. No circuit judge shall practice law or do a law business nor shall he accept, during his term of office, any public appointment or employment for which he receives compensation for his services. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 1522 § 2, A.L. 1949 p. 568, A.L. 1951 p. 430, A.L. 1953 p. 402, A.L. 1955 p. 497, A.L. 1959 S.B. 96, A.L. 1961 p. 308, A.L. 1965 pp. 640, 641, A.L. 1967 p. 647, A.L. 1972 S.B. 496, A.L. 1975 H.B. 82, A.L. 1977 H.B. 521, A.L. 1982 S.B. 497, A.L. 1984 H.B. 1244, A.L. 1990 S.B. 567)  Revisor's note: Salary adjustment index is printed, as required by § 476.405, in Appendix D.
MO Rev Stat § 478.014 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.014 - Judge of the circuit court, defined.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   478.014. Judge of the circuit court, defined. — The term "judge of the circuit court" as used in section 478.013 means circuit judge, and does not include an associate circuit judge or municipal judge. ­­-------- (L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 478.017 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.017 - Travel allowance for circuit judges.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   478.017. Travel allowance for circuit judges. — 1. Each circuit judge of a judicial circuit composed of a single county which now has or may hereafter have less than two hundred thousand inhabitants and in which circuit court is held in more than one place and each circuit and associate circuit judge of a circuit court which consists of more than one county, in addition to his salary*, shall be reimbursed out of the state treasury for all reasonable and necessary travel and subsistence expenses incurred in holding court at any place in the county of his residence other than the place of his residence.  2. Each circuit and associate circuit judge of a judicial circuit which consists of more than one county, in addition to his salary, shall be reimbursed out of the state treasury for all reasonable and necessary travel and subsistence expenses incurred in holding court in a county other than the county of his residence.  3. Whenever a judge, other than a municipal judge, travels to any place other than to the judge's regular courtroom or courtrooms to hear municipal ordinance violation cases, he shall be reimbursed from the state treasury, in addition to his salary, for his reasonable and necessary travel and subsistence expenses incurred in holding court at such place. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 1522 § 4, A.L. 1958 2d Ex. Sess. p. 164, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Effective 1-02-79  *Words "their salaries" appear in original rolls.
MO Rev Stat § 478.018 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.018 - Associate judges, circuit court, compensation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1990   478.018. Associate judges, circuit court, compensation. — Each associate circuit judge shall receive an annual salary of sixty-nine thousand seven hundred thirteen dollars plus any salary adjustment provided after August 28, 1990, pursuant to section 476.405. ­­-------- (L. 1979 S.B. 431, A.L. 1982 S.B. 497, A.L. 1984 H.B. 1244, A.L. 1990 S.B. 567)  Revisor's note: Salary adjustment index is printed, as required by § 476.405, in Appendix D.
MO Rev Stat § 478.019 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.019 - Judge of probate division, ex officio circuit or associate circuit judge, when, salary, how payable.

Effective - 28 Aug 1984   478.019. Judge of probate division, ex officio circuit or associate circuit judge, when, salary, how payable. — Each judge of the probate division of the circuit court shall also be an ex officio circuit judge of the circuit for such additional classes of cases as may be assigned to him by the presiding judge of the circuit if he be a circuit judge and an ex officio associate circuit judge of the county for such additional classes of cases as may be assigned to him by the presiding judge of the circuit if he be an associate circuit judge. The salary payable to each such judge who serves as a judge of the probate division shall be payable to him in his capacity as such ex officio circuit judge or ex officio associate circuit judge, as the case may be, and not in his capacity as a judge of the probate division. ­­-------- (L. 1982 S.B. 497, A.L. 1984 H.B. 1244)
MO Rev Stat § 478.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.020 - Expenses of judge when serving outside regular circuit.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   478.020. Expenses of judge when serving outside regular circuit. — Each circuit and associate circuit judge when temporarily serving, transferred or assigned as a judge of a court sitting outside of such judge's own circuit, in addition to the salary and expense money herein provided, shall be reimbursed from the state treasury for all reasonable and necessary travel and subsistence expenses incurred in connection with his service, assignment or transfer to the other court. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 1522 § 5, A.L. 1958 2d Ex. Sess. p. 164, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1938; 1919 § 2436; 1909 § 3956  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 478.023 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.023 - Salary and expenses, how paid.

Effective - 28 Aug 1980   478.023. Salary and expenses, how paid. — All of said salaries and expenses herein provided for circuit and associate circuit judges shall be paid out of the state treasury and shall constitute the total compensation for all duties performed by, and all expenses of, said judges, and there shall be no further payment made to or accepted by said judges for the performance of any duties required to be performed by them under the law. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 1522 § 6, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1266)
MO Rev Stat § 478.035 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.035 - Circuit courts — counties and City of St. Louis to provide quarters.

Effective - 03 Feb 1995   478.035. Circuit courts — counties and City of St. Louis to provide quarters. — The counties and the city of St. Louis shall provide suitable quarters for the respective circuit courts, including all divisions thereof except divisions presided over by municipal judges. Such quarters shall be provided at the county seat, except in the following situations:  (1) Except as provided in section 478.038, in counties where provision was made on January 1, 1979, for a county to provide quarters for the circuit court or the courts replaced by divisions of the circuit court at a location other than at the county seat, the county shall continue to provide suitable quarters for the respective divisions of the circuit court at such additional locations.  (2) The county commission may, by proper order, provide additional quarters for divisions of the circuit court at additional locations outside the county seat. ­­-------- (L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1995 H.B. 239)  Effective 2-03-95
MO Rev Stat § 478.038 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.038 - Circuit number nine, election to maintain quarters for circuit court, form of question.

Effective - 03 Feb 1995   478.038. Circuit number nine, election to maintain quarters for circuit court, form of question. — 1. In circuit number nine, the county commission of the county of Linn may submit the issue of whether to maintain quarters for the circuit court at a location other than at the county seat to a vote of the people.  2. The county commission may make an order to present to the voters of the county the question of whether to maintain quarters for the circuit court at a location other than at the county seat. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form: Shall the county continue to maintain quarters for the circuit court at a location other than at the county seat?  3. If a majority of the votes cast on the question are in favor of maintaining a second courthouse at a location other than the county seat, the county commission shall by order entered of record continue to maintain quarters for the circuit court at a location other than the county seat. If a majority of the votes cast on the question are against maintaining a second courthouse at a location other than the county seat, the county commission shall by order entered of record cease to maintain a second courthouse at a location other than the county seat. ­­-------- (L. 1995 H.B. 239 § 478.037)  Effective 2-03-95
MO Rev Stat § 478.063 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.063 - Juvenile divisions designated.

Effective - 28 Aug 1993   478.063. Juvenile divisions designated. — In all judicial circuits of this state, except in jurisdictions that have a family court as provided in sections 487.010 to 487.190 the circuit judges shall be vested with power to designate by local circuit court rule and concurred in by a majority of such judges, the division or divisions which shall be juvenile division or divisions and the classes of cases that shall be assigned to each, and may amend such rule from time to time as, in the judgment of a majority of such judges, will best serve the public interest. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 811 § 1, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1993 H.B. 346)
MO Rev Stat § 478.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.070 - Jurisdiction of circuit courts.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   478.070. Jurisdiction of circuit courts. — The circuit courts shall have original jurisdiction over all cases and matters, civil and criminal. Such courts may issue and determine original remedial writs. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2100, A. 1949 S.B. 1140, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 478.072 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.072 - Preserving record, case assigned to associate circuit judge, how, approval required — supreme court to prescribe procedures and forms.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   478.072. Preserving record, case assigned to associate circuit judge, how, approval required — supreme court to prescribe procedures and forms. — 1. In any case assigned to an associate circuit judge to be heard upon the record as authorized by law, the associate circuit judge shall utilize electronic, magnetic, or mechanical sound, or video recording devices, or a court reporter, or a stenographer for the purpose of preserving the record. The method of preserving the record in each such assigned case shall be specified by the assigning judge at the time he enters his order of assignment. Electronic, magnetic, or mechanical recording devices shall be approved by the office of state courts administrator prior to their utilization by any associate circuit judge.  2. The supreme court shall by order prescribe necessary and proper forms and procedures in addition to those specified herein.  3. Any circuit judge serving as judge of a probate division of the circuit court may also preserve the record in his court by using such approved electronic, magnetic, or mechanical recording devices. ­­-------- (L. 1976 H.B. 1317 & 1098 § 2, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 478.073 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.073 - Circuit realignment plan authorized — judicial conference duties — effective date — minimum number of circuits — publication by the revisor.

Effective - 28 Aug 2013   478.073. Circuit realignment plan authorized — judicial conference duties — effective date — minimum number of circuits — publication by the revisor. — 1. (1) As set forth in this section, the general assembly authorizes the judicial conference of the state of Missouri, as established pursuant to section 476.320, to alter the geographical boundaries and territorial jurisdiction of the judicial circuits by means of a circuit realignment plan as the administration of justice may require, subject to the requirements set forth in Article V of the Constitution of Missouri.  (2) Beginning in 2020, and every twenty years thereafter, within the first ten calendar days of the regular legislative session, the judicial conference shall submit to the secretary of the senate, the chief clerk of the house of representatives and the chairs of the house and senate judiciary committees a circuit realignment plan for the alteration of the geographical boundaries and territorial jurisdiction of the judicial circuits. Along with a statement of the numbers and boundaries of the proposed judicial circuits together with a map of the proposed judicial circuits, the circuit realignment plan shall include an analysis of the following supporting information:  (a) A current judicial weighted workload model;  (b) A current clerical weighted workload model;  (c) Whether litigants in the current circuits have adequate access to the courts;  (d) The populations of the current and proposed judicial circuits determined on the basis of the most recent decennial census of the United States or annual population estimates prepared by the United States Bureau of the Census;  (e) Judicial duties and travel time;  (f) Historical connections between counties in the judicial circuits; and  (g) Other information deemed relevant by the judicial conference.  (3) Once submitted to both chambers, a circuit realignment plan shall become effective January first of the year following the session of the general assembly to which it is submitted, unless a bill realigning the judicial circuits is presented to the governor and is duly enacted.  2. A circuit realignment plan shall not alter the total number of judicial circuits in existence on December 31, 2019, and any circuit realignment plan creating or reducing the number of judicial circuits shall be null and void.  3. A circuit realignment plan not superceded in the manner set forth in this section shall be considered for all purposes as the equivalent in force, effect, and intent of a public act of the state upon its taking effect, and it shall be published by the revisor of statutes together with the laws adopted by the general assembly during the session in which the plan is submitted. ­­-------- (L. 1959 S.B. 96, A.L. 1971 S.B. 163, A.L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Judicial circuits--establishment and changes, Const. Art. V § 15
MO Rev Stat § 478.191 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.191 - Authority for establishment of circuits, repealed, effective when.

Effective - 18 Feb 2016, 2 histories   478.191. Authority for establishment of circuits, repealed, effective when. — The repeal of sections 478.075, 478.077, 478.080, 478.085, 478.087, 478.090, 478.093, 478.095, 478.097, 478.100, 478.103, 478.105, 478.107, 478.110, 478.113, 478.115, 478.117, 478.120, 478.123, 478.125, 478.127, 478.130, 478.133, 478.135, 478.137, 478.140, 478.143, 478.145, 478.147, 478.150, 478.153, 478.155, 478.157, 478.160, 478.163, 478.165, 478.167, 478.170, 478.173, 478.175, 478.177, 478.180, 478.183, 478.185, 478.186, 478.188, and the repeal and reenactment of section 487.010 shall become effective December 31, 2020. ­­-------- (L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § B, A.L. 2016 S.B. 585)  Effective 2-18-16
MO Rev Stat § 478.205 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 478 - Circuit Courts|Section 478.205 - Circuit court, continual session — when term required, time commencing.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   478.205. Circuit court, continual session — when term required, time commencing. — The circuit court of each county and in the city of St. Louis shall be considered as being in continual session, and it shall not be necessary for a term or special term of any such court to be convened or held for such court or the judges thereof to conduct the business of the court with respect to any case or matter before the court. To the extent that a term of a circuit court may be required or specified by any provision of law, terms of each circuit court of the state shall be considered as commencing on the second Mondays in February, May, August and November of each year; provided, however, that no court by reason of this section shall be required to hold court on the first day of any such term and provided further that each circuit court for convenience may provide by local court rule for a different number of terms per year and for terms to commence on different dates. ­­-------- (L. 1959 S.B. 96, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Effective 1-02-79