reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
MO Rev Stat § 84.650 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 84 - Police Departments in St. Louis and Kansas City|Section 84.650 - Arrests — procedure.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   84.650. Arrests — procedure. — The commissioners of police shall cause all persons arrested by the police to be brought before some judge within said cities, to be dealt with according to law. Proper police officers in charge of police station houses may, if the offense charged against any person is a bailable one, at the request of such person, take from him a recognizance in such sum as may seem to be sufficient and proper with sufficient sureties for his appearance at the proper time before some judge; but no attorney at law, police officer, constable or his deputy, and no official employee holding office under the municipality of the said cities, or the state of Missouri, and no clerk in the employ of such officer, officials or employees shall be accepted as surety upon such bond or bonds; the proper officers in charge of said station houses may administer oaths to parties qualifying as such surety or sureties; and may refuse to receive as such surety or sureties any and all parties with unsavory reputations or who, as professional bondsmen, tend to defeat the ends of justice, and no one shall be accepted as bondsman who shall have standing against him an unsatisfied judgment rendered on a forfeited bond. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7667, A.L. 1943 p. 727 § 7668, A.L. 1949 H.B. 2033, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7517; 1919 § 8928; 1909 § 9780  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 84.710 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 84 - Police Departments in St. Louis and Kansas City|Section 84.710 - Police force — officers of state — powers to arrest.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   84.710. Police force — officers of state — powers to arrest. — 1. The members of the police force appointed in pursuance hereof are hereby declared to be officers of the state of Missouri and of the city for which such commissioners are appointed.  2. They shall have power within the city or on public property of the city beyond the corporate limits thereof to arrest, on view, any person they see violating or whom they have reason to suspect of having violated any law of the state or ordinance of the city. They shall have power to arrest and hold, without warrant, for a period of time not exceeding twenty-four hours, persons found within the city or on public property of the city beyond the corporate limits thereof charged with having committed felonies in other states, and who are reported to be fugitives from justice. They shall also have the power to stop any person abroad whenever there is reasonable ground to suspect that he is committing, has committed or is about to commit a crime and demand of him his name, address, business abroad and whither he is going. When stopping or detaining a suspect, they may search him for a dangerous weapon whenever they have reasonable ground to believe they are in danger from the possession of such dangerous weapon by the suspect. No unreasonable force shall be used in detaining or arresting any person, but such force as may be necessary may be used when there is no other apparent means of making an arrest or preventing an escape and only after the peace officer has made every reasonable effort to advise the person that he is the peace officer engaged in making arrest.  3. Any person who has been arrested without a warrant may be released, without being taken before a judge, by the officer in charge of the police station whenever the officer is satisfied that there is no ground for making complaint against him, or when the person was arrested for a misdemeanor and will sign a satisfactory agreement to appear in court at the time designated. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7674, A.L. 1943 p. 727 § 7673, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7519; 1919 § 8930; 1909 § 9782  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 84.720 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 84 - Police Departments in St. Louis and Kansas City|Section 84.720 - Police commissioners, power to regulate security personnel — fingerprint, criminal history record check — penalty — excursion gambling boat exception.

Effective - 28 Aug 2016, 2 histories   84.720. Police commissioners, power to regulate security personnel — fingerprint, criminal history record check — penalty — excursion gambling boat exception. — 1. The police commissioners of any city with a population of three hundred fifty thousand or more inhabitants which is located in more than one county shall have power to regulate and license all private security personnel and organizations, serving or acting as such in such cities, and no person or organization shall act in the capacity of, or provide, security services in such cities without first having obtained the written license of the president or acting president of the police commissioners of such cities. In order to determine an individual's suitability to be licensed, the police commissioners of such cities shall require each applicant to be licensed to be fingerprinted and shall forward the fingerprints to the Missouri state highway patrol for a criminal history record check. Any person or organization that violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.  2. Any individual who is a holder of an occupational license issued by the Missouri gaming commission as defined under section 313.800 to perform the duties of an unarmed security guard while working on an excursion gambling boat as defined under section 313.800 or at a facility adjacent to an excursion gambling boat shall be exempt from the requirements of subsection 1 of this section and from any other political subdivision licensing requirements for unarmed security guards. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7675, A.L. 1943 p. 727 § 7674, A.L. 1993 H.B. 209 & 288, A.L. 2016 S.B. 732)
MO Rev Stat § 84.730 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 84 - Police Departments in St. Louis and Kansas City|Section 84.730 - Board of police — annual budget estimate — appropriations.

Effective - 28 Aug 1958   84.730. Board of police — annual budget estimate — appropriations. — It shall be the duty of the board, on the fifteenth day of January of each year, to prepare, in writing, a budget estimating the sum of money which will be necessary for the next fiscal year, to enable the board to discharge the duties hereby imposed upon it, and to meet the expenses of the police department, which it shall forthwith certify to the governing body of such cities, and the budget shall itemize purposes of expenditure by organization units, activities, functions, and character classes in not less detail than "personal services", "contractual services", "commodities", and "capital outlays", and shall in any event be prepared in form and detail similar to the form and detail in which budgets for the various departments of such city government are prepared. The governing body of the cities is hereby required to appropriate the total amount so certified, payable out of the revenue of the cities after first having deducted the amount necessary to pay the interest on the indebtedness of the cities, the amount necessary for lighting the city, and any sum required by law to be placed to the credit of the sinking fund of the cities, and if the board shall be required to call out extra police force and the expense thereof shall not have been contemplated in their estimate for the fiscal year during which the extra police force is called out, it shall immediately certify the expense of such additional force, and the additional amount so required shall be appropriated for that purpose, except that in no event shall the governing body of the cities be required to appropriate for the use of the police board in any fiscal year an amount in excess of one-fifth of the general revenue fund of such year. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7676, A.L. 1943 p. 727 § 7675, A.L. 1958 2d Ex. Sess. p. 152)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7515; 1919 § 8926; 1909 § 9778  (1955) All revenue of the city, including that devoted to special purposes by charter provision or ordinance, must be used in reckoning one-sixth of the fund as specified by this section unless the charter provisions or ordinances so devoting the revenues were enacted pursuant to constitutional or statutory authority. Spink v. Kemp, 365 Mo. 368, 283 S.W.2d 502.
MO Rev Stat § 84.740 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 84 - Police Departments in St. Louis and Kansas City|Section 84.740 - Board of police — annual budget — expenditures.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   84.740. Board of police — annual budget — expenditures. — Out of the amount of money appropriated by the governing body of such cities to meet the expense of the police department for the ensuing fiscal year, the police board shall, on or before May first of each year, adopt a budget for the police department for the ensuing fiscal year. Said budget shall itemize purposes of expenditure by organization units, activities, functions, and character classes in not less detail than "personal services", "contractual services", "commodities", and "capital outlays". Such budget, when adopted and certified by the board, shall be the authorization of expenditures for the purposes set forth therein. No transfer from one character classification of expenditure in the board budget to another character classification shall be made without the approval of said board. A copy of said budget and notice of subsequent transfers shall be deposited with the chief of police and the secretary of the police board and copies thereof shall be prepared and available to the public upon request. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 727 § 7675)
MO Rev Stat § 84.750 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 84 - Police Departments in St. Louis and Kansas City|Section 84.750 - Board of police — expenditure vouchers.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   84.750. Board of police — expenditure vouchers. — No order or voucher which involves a commitment to expend money shall be issued unless it bears the signature of the secretary of the board certifying that a sufficient unexpended and unencumbered appropriation balance remains in the amount appropriated for such purpose in the board budget. Any order or voucher not so certified shall be void and shall not be paid. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 727 § 7675)
MO Rev Stat § 84.760 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 84 - Police Departments in St. Louis and Kansas City|Section 84.760 - Board of police — limitation of expenditures — penalty for violation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   84.760. Board of police — limitation of expenditures — penalty for violation. — 1. No officer or employee of police departments of such cities shall, during any fiscal year, spend any money, incur any liability, or enter into any contract which by its terms incurs the expenditure of money for any purpose for which no appropriation is provided in the board budget or in excess of the amount appropriated by the board for any such purpose.  2. Any officer or employee violating the provisions hereof shall immediately be removed from office, and liable for the amount of such claim. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 727 § 7675)
MO Rev Stat § 84.770 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 84 - Police Departments in St. Louis and Kansas City|Section 84.770 - Organization or payment of other police force prohibited.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   84.770. Organization or payment of other police force prohibited. — The common council or municipal assembly of said cities shall have no power or authority to levy or collect any taxes or appropriate any money for the payment of any police force, other than that organized and employed under sections 84.350 to 84.860. No officer or servant of the mayor or the common council or municipal assembly of said cities shall disburse any money for the payment of any police force other than that organized and employed under sections 84.350 to 84.860, and the power of said mayor and common council or municipal assembly to appropriate and disburse money for the payment of the police force organized and employed under sections 84.350 to 84.860 shall be exercised as in these sections directed and not otherwise. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7676, A.L. 1943 p. 727 § 7675)
MO Rev Stat § 84.780 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 84 - Police Departments in St. Louis and Kansas City|Section 84.780 - Board of police — requisitions — claims.

Effective - 28 Aug 1958   84.780. Board of police — requisitions — claims. — 1. The secretary of the police board, as agent of the board, is hereby authorized to requisition semimonthly upon the chief finance officer of the city such sum, within the limits of the annual appropriation, as may be necessary for that period, which sum shall be allocated by said officer and placed to the credit of the police department hereby created.  2. All claims against the police department shall be approved for payment by the secretary of the board before payment thereof. No claim shall be certified by the secretary as being entitled to payment unless:  (1) Such claim is a valid claim against the department;  (2) The chief of police or a division head shall have furnished proof as to the receipt of the materials or performance of the service involved and as to other facts establishing the liability of the department;  (3) All such claims, payrolls, and bills shall have been examined by him and found to be in proper form and correctly computed.  3. Payrolls for salaries or compensation shall also bear the certificate of the chief, or the proper officer at the direction of the chief, that the names of the persons named therein appear in the personnel records as officers or employees of such police department.  4. The claims, when so certified, shall be paid by the proper disbursing officer of the city within ten days after being certified out of any moneys in the city treasury not appropriated to the specific purposes enumerated in section 84.730. The amount of the claims and salary rolls so certified shall not exceed, in any one year, the limitations set forth in section 84.730. The chief finance officer or other disbursing officer of the city shall in no wise be held liable, either personally or officially, for the payment of any claims which are properly certified by the police department to them for payment, and it shall not be their responsibility to pass upon the validity of the claims so properly certified to them. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7677, A.L. 1943 p. 727 § 7676, A.L. 1958 2d Ex. Sess. p. 152)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7516; 1919 § 8927; 1909 § 9779
MO Rev Stat § 84.790 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 84 - Police Departments in St. Louis and Kansas City|Section 84.790 - Board of police — journal — records — annual report.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   84.790. Board of police — journal — records — annual report. — The board shall cause a full journal of their proceedings to be kept, and shall also cause all their receipts and disbursements of money to be faithfully entered in books to be procured and kept for that purpose, and said journal, and all said books, and all other documents in possession of said board, shall always be open to the inspection of the general assembly of the state of Missouri or any committee appointed by it for that purpose. It shall be the duty of the board to report to the common council or municipal assembly of the said city at each annual session thereof, the number and expenses of the police force employed by it under sections 84.350 to 84.860, and all such other matters as may be of public interest, in connection with the duties assigned it by sections 84.350 to 84.860. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7678, A.L. 1943 p. 727 § 7677)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7518; 1919 § 8929; 1909 § 9781
MO Rev Stat § 84.800 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 84 - Police Departments in St. Louis and Kansas City|Section 84.800 - Police relief association.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   84.800. Police relief association. — The members of the police force may, by assessment or monthly dues, maintain any police relief association incorporated by them under the laws of Missouri, for the purpose of rendering assistance to sick or injured members, or, in case of the death of any member, to the widow and children, if any. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7679, A.L. 1943 p. 727 § 7678)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7529; 1919 § 8940; 1909 § 9792
MO Rev Stat § 84.810 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 84 - Police Departments in St. Louis and Kansas City|Section 84.810 - Police relief association — police board assistance.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   84.810. Police relief association — police board assistance. — The board may assist in the maintenance of such police relief association, by causing to be paid into the treasury thereof, all unclaimed money that may come into the hands of the police, the proceeds of sale of unclaimed property remaining in the hands of the police at the end of each fiscal year; provided, that the treasurer or other officers of such relief association, into whose hands such money may be placed, shall be required to give a good and sufficient bond to the city for securing the same. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7680, A.L. 1943 p. 727 § 7679)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7530; 1919 § 8941; 1909 § 9793
MO Rev Stat § 84.820 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 84 - Police Departments in St. Louis and Kansas City|Section 84.820 - Aged and disabled police force members — special provisions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   84.820. Aged and disabled police force members — special provisions. — The board may, in its discretion, make special provisions for policemen and officers who have grown old in the service, or those crippled while in the discharge of their duties so as to unfit them for active work, by assigning them to special duty at a proper salary or by making other such provisions as may be just and legal. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7681, A.L. 1943 p. 727 § 7680)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7523; 1919 § 8934; 1909 § 9786
MO Rev Stat § 84.840 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 84 - Police Departments in St. Louis and Kansas City|Section 84.840 - Police department — annual audit of accounts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1993   84.840. Police department — annual audit of accounts. — The board of such cities shall at least three months before the close of the fiscal year, provide that a certified audit of the police department's accounts for the current year be made by an independent firm of certified accountants, experienced and qualified in municipal and governmental auditing. The firm shall be selected by the board with the approval of the city's mayor. Such audit shall be complete and general in scope, and report of such audit shall be completed and published within sixty days after the close of such fiscal year, and one copy shall be filed with the public library of such cities. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 727 § 7682, A.L. 1993 S.B. 250)
MO Rev Stat § 84.850 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 84 - Police Departments in St. Louis and Kansas City|Section 84.850 - Police department — certain contracts with municipal government.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   84.850. Police department — certain contracts with municipal government. — The police may contract with the municipal government of such cities for the performance of any of the following functions: Purchasing, building maintenance and auditing, which functions are common to the two authorities. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 727 § 7683)
MO Rev Stat § 84.860 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 84 - Police Departments in St. Louis and Kansas City|Section 84.860 - Interference with enforcement of sections 84.350 to 84.860 — penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 1943   84.860. Interference with enforcement of sections 84.350 to 84.860 — penalty. — Any officer or servant of the mayor or common council or municipal assembly of the said cities, or other persons whatsoever, who shall forcibly resist or obstruct the execution or enforcement of any of the provisions of sections 84.350 to 84.860 or relating to the same, or who shall disburse any money in violation thereof, or who shall hinder or obstruct the organization or maintenance of said board of police, or the police force provided in said sections to be organized and maintained, or who shall maintain or control any police force other than the one herein provided for, or who shall delay or hinder the due enforcement of said sections by failing or neglecting to perform the duties therein imposed upon him, shall be liable to a penalty of one thousand dollars for each and every offense, recoverable by the board by action at law in the name of the state, and shall forever thereafter be disqualified from holding or exercising any office or employment whatsoever under the mayor or common council or municipal assembly of said cities, or under said sections; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed to interfere with the punishment, under any existing or any future laws of this state, or any criminal offense which shall be committed by the said parties in or about the resistance, obstruction, hindrance, conspiracy, combination or disbursement aforesaid. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7654, A.L. 1943 p. 727 § 7655)
MO Rev Stat § 84.870 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 84 - Police Departments in St. Louis and Kansas City|Section 84.870 - Police officer — holidays.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   84.870. Police officer — holidays. — That the board of police commissioners in cities of one hundred thousand inhabitants and over shall grant each and every metropolitan police officer, in active service, twenty-four days a year. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7585)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7442; 1919 § 8850; 1909 § 9699
MO Rev Stat § 84.880 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 84 - Police Departments in St. Louis and Kansas City|Section 84.880 - Holidays — no salary deduction.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   84.880. Holidays — no salary deduction. — No deduction shall be made from the salary of any police officer on account of the aforesaid holidays. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7586)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7443; 1919 § 8851; 1909 § 9700
MO Rev Stat § 84.890 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 84 - Police Departments in St. Louis and Kansas City|Section 84.890 - Holidays — set apart by chief.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   84.890. Holidays — set apart by chief. — Upon the taking effect of section 84.870, the board of police commissioners of all cities of one hundred thousand inhabitants and over shall make an order instructing the chief of police to set apart the days in each month each police officer is entitled to under section 84.870. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7587)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7444; 1919 § 8852; 1909 § 9701
MO Rev Stat § 85.005 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 85 - City Police and Fire Departments Generally|Section 85.005 - Mayor and police authorities can appoint none but residents.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   85.005. Mayor and police authorities can appoint none but residents. — The mayor, chief of police and members of the board of police commissioners of any city in this state shall be governed by the same restrictions and subject to the same penalties as a sheriff of any county, under the provisions of section 57.117. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 4628)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4239; 1919 § 3486; 1909 § 4701