reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
MO Rev Stat § 109.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.020 - Duty of executor.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   109.020. Duty of executor. — When such officer shall die, his executor or administrator shall deliver such records, books and papers to his successor. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3623)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3233; 1919 § 10595; 1909 § 10406
MO Rev Stat § 109.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.030 - Penalties for failure to deliver records.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   109.030. Penalties for failure to deliver records. — 1. If any such officer, or the executor or administrator of such officer, shall fail to deliver such records, books or papers, he or they shall forfeit not more than one thousand nor less than one hundred dollars, to be recovered by civil action to the use of the county.  2. Such officer, or the executor or administrator of such officer, shall pay to any person injured by the detention of such records, books or papers all damages which may accrue to him, to be recovered by civil action. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 §§ 3624, 3625)  Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 3234, 3235; 1919 §§ 10596, 10597; 1909 §§ 10407, 10408
MO Rev Stat § 109.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.040 - Vacated office — seizure of records by warrant.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   109.040. Vacated office — seizure of records by warrant. — If any person whose office has become vacated, or his executors or administrators, shall fail to deliver any record, book or paper to the person entitled to the same, the circuit judge, upon the affidavit of any credible person, setting forth the facts, may issue a warrant, directed to the sheriff, or coroner, commanding him to seize all the records, books and papers appertaining to such office, and deliver them to the proper officer named in such warrant. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3626, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3236; 1919 § 10598; 1909 § 10409  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 109.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.050 - Authority of officer executing writ.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   109.050. Authority of officer executing writ. — The officer executing such warrant may break open any doors, trunk or places in which any records, books or papers named in such warrant may be, or in which he may suspect them to be; and may arrest any person who shall resist the execution of such warrant, and carry him before some judge, to be dealt with for obstructing the execution of process. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3627, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3237; 1919 § 10599; 1909 § 10410  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 109.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.060 - Penalty for not executing the writ.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   109.060. Penalty for not executing the writ. — Any officer to whom any such warrant may be directed and delivered, who shall fail to execute or return the same, or to perform any duty required of him in relation thereto, shall forfeit not more than one thousand nor less than one hundred dollars, to be recovered by civil action, to the use of the county. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3628)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3238; 1919 § 10600; 1909 § 10411
MO Rev Stat § 109.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.070 - Remedy of person aggrieved by issuance of such warrant.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   109.070. Remedy of person aggrieved by issuance of such warrant. — 1. Any person aggrieved by any such warrant may apply to a circuit judge, who upon affidavit of the applicant that injustice has been done or is about to be done by such warrant, shall issue a citation to all persons interested, commanding them to appear before said judge at a place and time named in the citation, which shall be served by the sheriff or coroner.  2. The circuit judge may enforce obedience to such citation by attachment, and shall proceed in a summary manner and determine the matter according to right and justice and may issue a warrant for the restoration of any record, book or paper found to have been improperly seized. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 §§ 3629, 3630, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 3239, 3240; 1919 §§ 10601, 10602; 1909 §§ 10412, 10413  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 109.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.080 - Private persons to deliver records — proceedings on failure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   109.080. Private persons to deliver records — proceedings on failure. — If any private person shall have or obtain possession of any books, records or papers, appertaining to any public office, he shall deliver them to the officer entitled to the same. If any person fail to comply with the requirements of this section, he shall be proceeded against in all respects as is provided for in cases of officers under this chapter. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 §§ 3631, 3632)  Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 3241, 3242; 1919 §§ 10603, 10604; 1909 §§ 10414, 10415
MO Rev Stat § 109.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.090 - Courts may order records rebound, transcribed, indexed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   109.090. Courts may order records rebound, transcribed, indexed. — The judges and justices of the several courts of record within this state shall have power to order any of the books or records in the clerk's offices of their respective courts to be rebound; or when defaced, torn or in a ruinous condition, to be transcribed in new books; or, when deemed necessary, may order new or correct indexes to be made to any record or records, and shall make a reasonable allowance therefor, which shall be chargeable to the proper county and payable out of the county treasury. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3633, A. 1949 H.B. 2048)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3243; 1919 § 10605; 1909 § 10416
MO Rev Stat § 109.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.100 - Photographic copies of records.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   109.100. Photographic copies of records. — Wherever the statute authorizes books or records to be rebound, or their contents transcribed into new books, or new indexes to be made, the making of photographic copies of said books, records or indexes shall be deemed transcribing and the binding together of such photographic copies shall be deemed rebinding of such records within the meaning of this section. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3650)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3260; 1919 § 10622
MO Rev Stat § 109.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.110 - Transcript to be evidence, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   109.110. Transcript to be evidence, when. — After any book or record so transcribed is examined by the judge or justices of such courts, respectively, ordering the same to be transcribed, and he or they shall make an order on the records of the court that the same is correct, the same faith and credit shall be given to the transcript that the book or record transcribed was entitled. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3244; 1919 § 10606; 1909 § 10417
MO Rev Stat § 109.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.130 - Reproduced records deemed original, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1999   109.130. Reproduced records deemed original, when. — Such reproduction of the original records shall be deemed to be an original record for all purposes provided that the reproduction is equal in resolution to microfilm or electronic process produced pursuant to those standards set forth in subsection 4 of section 109.241, and shall be admissible in evidence in all courts or administrative agencies. A facsimile, exemplification or certified copy thereof shall, for all purposes recited in sections 109.120 to 109.140, be deemed to be a transcript, exemplification or certified copy of the original. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 1427 § 2, A.L. 1986 S.B. 732, A.L. 1999 S.B. 34)
MO Rev Stat § 109.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.140 - Disposition of court records, how authorized — methods of disposition.

Effective - 28 Aug 1973   109.140. Disposition of court records, how authorized — methods of disposition. — The supreme court may authorize the disposition of its own closed court files and records more than five years old and such files and records of the several courts of record. Disposition may consist of destroying useless or duplicative files or records, or providing for archival storage of files or records, or the destruction of court files and records when photostatic copies, photographs, microphotographs or reproductions on film are made and placed in conveniently accessible files and provisions are made for preserving, examining and using them. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 1427 § 4, A. 1949 H.B. 2048, A.L. 1963 p. 157, A.L. 1972 S.B. 376, A.L. 1973 S.B. 71)
MO Rev Stat § 109.156 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.156 - Original may be destroyed after reproduction, exceptions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1969   109.156. Original may be destroyed after reproduction, exceptions. — Following the reproduction of a record or records in the manner provided for in section 109.120, the head of any business may destroy the record or records from which such reproduction was made; provided, that this section shall not authorize the destruction of an original record of or relating to any asset or liability shown on the face of such record to be existing or outstanding. ­­-------- (L. 1969 H.B. 96)
MO Rev Stat § 109.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.160 - Statement and affidavit when record lost or destroyed.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   109.160. Statement and affidavit when record lost or destroyed. — When any record of judgments or executions, or any allowances or orders of any probate division of the circuit court or county commission, or any inventory, sale bill or appraisement or other document or paper filed or being in any court of record shall have been mutilated, lost or destroyed, stolen or carried away, any person interested in any such record or paper, or his or her agent or attorney may make out a statement in writing, verified by affidavit, setting out as near as may be the full contents of said lost, mutilated or destroyed record or paper, and file the same in the clerk's office wherein said lost, mutilated or destroyed records belonged. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3639, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3249; 1919 § 10611; 1909 § 10422  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 109.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.170 - Clerk to issue summons — proceedings.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   109.170. Clerk to issue summons — proceedings. — When any such statement shall be filed in the clerk's office, as provided in section 109.160, it shall be the duty of the said clerk, if a judgment of execution is intended to be supplied, to issue a summons as in ordinary suits, which summons shall be served in like manner and in the same time as in ordinary suits at law, and upon the return of such summons, duly served, the defendant or defendants may file his or their answer as in ordinary cases at law; and when judgment shall be rendered for the plaintiff or plaintiffs, said judgment, when entered of record, shall specify that the same is rendered upon a former judgment, and when such former judgment was rendered; and said judgment shall take its lien from the rendition of such former judgment. If said statement is intended to reinstate any inventory, sale bill or order of any county commission or probate division of the circuit court, then no summons shall issue, but the party seeking to establish the same shall cause a notice, setting forth the substance of said paper or order sought to be reinstated, to be served upon the administrator or executor of the estate affected by said order or paper, and also cause a copy of said notice to be set up at the courthouse door, for at least four weeks before the day at which said order or paper is sought to be reinstated. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 3640, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 3250; 1919 § 10612; 1909 § 10423  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 109.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.180 - Public records open to inspection — refusal to permit inspection, penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 1961   109.180. Public records open to inspection — refusal to permit inspection, penalty. — Except as otherwise provided by law, all state, county and municipal records kept pursuant to statute or ordinance shall at all reasonable times be open for a personal inspection by any citizen of Missouri, and those in charge of the records shall not refuse the privilege to any citizen. Any official who violates the provisions of this section shall be subject to removal or impeachment and in addition shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by confinement in the county jail not exceeding ninety days, or by both the fine and the confinement. ­­-------- (L. 1961 p. 548 § 1)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Tax returns and records of department of revenue, confidentiality, 32.057, 92.338, 94.540, 94.620
MO Rev Stat § 109.190 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.190 - Right of person to photograph public records — regulations.

Effective - 28 Aug 1961   109.190. Right of person to photograph public records — regulations. — In all cases where the public or any person interested has a right to inspect or take extracts or make copies from any public records, instruments or documents, any person has the right of access to the records, documents or instruments for the purpose of making photographs of them while in the possession, custody and control of the lawful custodian thereof or his authorized deputy. The work shall be done under the supervision of the lawful custodian of the records who may adopt and enforce reasonable rules governing the work. The work shall, where possible, be done in the room where the records, documents or instruments are by law kept, but if that is impossible or impracticable, the work shall be done in another room or place as nearly adjacent to the place of custody as possible to be determined by the custodian of the records. While the work authorized herein is in progress, the lawful custodian of the records may charge the person desiring to make the photographs a reasonable rate for his services or for the services of a deputy to supervise the work and for the use of the room or place where the work is done. ­­-------- (L. 1961 p. 548 § 2)
MO Rev Stat § 109.195 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.195 - Public records of ownership or security interest not subject to inspection or copying.

Effective - 28 Aug 1985   109.195. Public records of ownership or security interest not subject to inspection or copying. — Records concerning the ownership of, or security interest in, registered public obligations are not subject to inspection or copying under any law of this state relating to the right of the public to inspect or copy public records, notwithstanding any law to the contrary. ­­-------- (L. 1985 H.B. 791)
MO Rev Stat § 109.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.200 - Short title.

Effective - 28 Aug 1972   109.200. Short title. — Sections 109.200 to 109.310 shall be known as "The State and Local Records Law". ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 233 § 1, A.L. 1972 S.B. 376)
MO Rev Stat § 109.210 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.210 - Definitions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1972   109.210. Definitions. — As used in sections 109.200 to 109.310 the following words and terms have the meanings indicated, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:  (1) "Agency", any department, office, commission, board or other unit of state government or any political or administrative subdivisions created for any purpose under the authorities of or by the state of Missouri;  (2) "Boards", the local records board;  (3) "Commission", the state records commission;  (4) "Local record", any record not a state record;  (5) "Record", document, book, paper, photograph, map, sound recording or other material, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or received pursuant to law or in connection with the transaction of official business. Library and museum material made or acquired and preserved solely for reference or exhibition purposes, extra copies of documents preserved only for convenience of reference, and stocks of publications and of processed documents are not included within the definition of records as used in sections 109.200 to 109.310, and are hereinafter designated as "nonrecord" materials;  (6) "Secretary", the secretary of state;  (7) "State record", any record designated or treated as a state record under state law. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 233 § 2, A.L. 1972 S.B. 376)
MO Rev Stat § 109.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.220 - Records management and archives service to be established — appointment of director.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   109.220. Records management and archives service to be established — appointment of director. — The secretary of state shall establish and administer in the executive branch of state government a "Records Management and Archives Service" for the efficient and economical application of management methods to the creation, utilization, maintenance, retention, preservation and disposal of official records. He shall make an annual report to the governor for transmission to the legislature. The report shall describe the status and progress of programs and shall include recommendations for improvements and additional economies in the management of state government. The secretary shall appoint a director of records management and archives service who shall be technically qualified in records management and archives practices and techniques. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 233 § 3)
MO Rev Stat § 109.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.230 - Duties of director.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   109.230. Duties of director. — The director shall, with due regard for the functions of the agencies concerned, and subject to the approval of the secretary of state:  (1) Establish standards, procedures, and techniques for effective management of records;  (2) Make continuing surveys of paperwork operations and recommend improvements in current records management practices including the use of space, equipment and supplies employed in creating, maintaining, storing and servicing records;  (3) With approval of the state records commission or local records board, establish standards for the preparation of schedules which provide for the retention of state or local records of continuing value and for the prompt and orderly disposal of state or local records no longer possessing sufficient administrative, legal, historical or fiscal value to warrant their future keeping;  (4) Publish lists of records authorized for disposal or retention;  (5) Supervise the state records center and archives;  (6) Establish standards and formulate procedures for the transfer, safeguarding and servicing of records;  (7) Evaluate economies of microfilming services for agencies;  (8) Obtain reports from agencies as required for the administration of the program;  (9) Serve as secretary to the state records commission; and  (10) Make copies of the public records filed with the state archives available at the expense of any person requesting copies. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 233 § 4, A.L. 1972 S.B. 376, A.L. 1978 S.B. 755)
MO Rev Stat § 109.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records|Chapter 109 - Public and Business Records|Section 109.240 - Duties of agency heads.

Effective - 28 Aug 1972   109.240. Duties of agency heads. — The head of each agency shall:  (1) Establish and maintain an active, continuing program for the economical and efficient management of the agency;  (2) Make and maintain records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures and essential transactions of the agency designed to furnish information to protect the legal and financial rights of the state and of persons directly affected by the agency's activities;  (3) Submit to the chairman of the state records commission, in accordance with the standards established by the commission and promulgated by the director of records management and archives service, schedules proposing the length of time each state records series warrants retention for administrative, legal, historical or fiscal purposes after it has been received or created by the agency. The head of each agency also shall submit lists of state records in his custody that are not needed in the transaction of current business and that do not have sufficient administrative, legal, historical or fiscal value to warrant their further keeping;  (4) Cooperate with the director in the conduct of surveys made by him pursuant to the provisions of sections 109.200 to 109.310; and  (5) Comply with the rules, regulations, standards and procedures approved by the state records commission and issued by the director, records management and archives service. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 233 § 5, A.L. 1972 S.B. 376)