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MO Rev Stat § 476.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.110 - Acts constituting contempt of court.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   476.110. Acts constituting contempt of court. — Every court of record shall have power to punish as for criminal contempt persons guilty of:  (1) Disorderly, contemptuous or insolent behavior committed during its session, in its immediate view and presence, and directly tending to interrupt its proceeding or to impair the respect due to its authority;  (2) Any breach of the peace, noise or other disturbance directly tending to interrupt its proceedings;  (3) Willful disobedience of any process or order lawfully issued or made by it;  (4) Resistance willfully offered by any person to the lawful order or process of the court;  (5) The contumacious and unlawful refusal of any person to be sworn as a witness, or, when so sworn, to refuse to answer any legal and proper interrogatory. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2028)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1864; 1919 § 2359; 1909 § 3881  (1951) The procuring of false testimony and presentation of same in trial in court impedes and obstructs justice and constitutes contempt. Osborne v. Purdome (Mo.), 244 S.W.2d 1005, 29 A.L.R.2d 1141.  (1951) Practice known as "purgation by oath" under which contemnor was entitled to release upon denial of charges under oath, has never been the law in Missouri. Osborne v. Purdome (Mo.), 244 S.W.2d 1005, 29 A.L.R.2d 1141. (1951) Contempt complaint, filed by prosecuting attorney, and signed by reputable attorneys as amici curiae, need not be verified. Osborne v. Purdome (Mo.), 244 S.W.2d 1005, 29 A.L.R.2d 1141. (1953) Prosecution for criminal contempt held barred after one year under § 541.210. Ponick v. Purdome (A.), 254 S.W.2d 673. (1954) Prosecution for criminal contempt based on subornation of prejury is not a criminal case and is not barred by the one year statute of limitations. (Quashing writs of Court of Appeals in Ponick v. Owsley, 254 S.W.2d 673, and Osborne v. Owsley, 254 S.W.2d 676.) Osborne v. Owsley, 364 Mo. 544, 264 S.W.2d 332. (1954) Where magistrate orally ordered sheriff to produce prisoner held without warrant and sheriff refused, magistrate court had jurisdiction to cite sheriff for contempt. State ex rel. Cunningham v. Leavitt (A.), 271 S.W.2d 63. (1955) Where circuit judge cited judges of county court and then committed them for contempt for failure to order payment of salary of deputy circuit clerk as authorized by such circuit judge, he was not so entirely without jurisdiction as to be civilly liable for damages to the county judges. Pogue v. Swink, 365 Mo. 503, 284 S.W.2d 868.  (1976) Proceedings to cite defendant for contempt for failure to pay court ordered support and maintenance held to be civil contempt proceedings. Teefey v. Teefey (Mo.), 533 S.W.2d 563.
MO Rev Stat § 476.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.120 - Punishment for contempt.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   476.120. Punishment for contempt. — Punishment for contempt may be by fine or imprisonment in the jail of the county where the court may be sitting, or both, in the discretion of the court. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2029)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1865; 1919 § 2360; 1909 § 3882  (1976) Proceedings to cite defendant for contempt for failure to pay court ordered support and maintenance for plaintiff and their minor children classified as civil contempt and subject to review on appeal. Judgment, with sentence of imprisonment, reversed and remanded since there was no evidence from which trial court could have concluded that defendant was financially able to pay the award. Teefey v. Teefey (Mo.), 533 S.W.2d 563. (1977) Held, that purpose of contempt citation is to vindicate the authority of the court and deter future defiance by disobedient parties. Chemical Fireproofing Corp. v. Bronska (A.), 533 S.W.2d 710.
MO Rev Stat § 476.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.130 - May be punished summarily, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   476.130. May be punished summarily, when. — Contempt committed in the immediate view and presence of the court may be punished summarily; in other cases the party charged shall be notified of the accusation, and have a reasonable time to make his defense. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2030)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1866; 1919 § 2361; 1909 § 3883  (1957) Conviction of defendant of contempt on charge that she negligently disobeyed orders of court as to children held improper because order allegedly disobeyed was one granting custody on certain conditions, and violation of condition could not be contempt and also because judgment was not responsive to charge. G....v.Souder (A.), 305 S.W.2d 883. (1987) Dialogue between assistant county prosecutor to judge regarding alleged statement made by prosecutor to newspaper held to constitute indirect criminal contempt. Judge's order placing prosecutor in contempt was in error finding prosecutor in contempt without having given prosecutor prior notice that such hearing would be conducted as required by this section. State ex rel. Shepherd v. Steeb, 734 S.W.2d 610 (Mo.App.W.D.).
MO Rev Stat § 476.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.140 - Commitment for contempt to set forth particulars.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   476.140. Commitment for contempt to set forth particulars. — Whenever any person shall be committed for any contempt specified in sections 476.010 to 476.310, the particular circumstances of his offense shall be set forth in the order or warrant of commitment. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2031)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1867; 1919 § 2362; 1909 § 3884  (1953) Commitment for contempt, based on refusal of witness to answer questions, must set forth the questions asked and the answers or statements made in response thereto, in order to be valid. Novak v. Weismantel (A.), 261 S.W.2d 491. (1959) Order of commitment stating that lawyer "accused the court of malicious conduct and proceeded in a heated argument against the court" held insufficient as stating only conclusions. Scott v. Davis (A.), 328 S.W.2d 394. (1961) A commitment which recited that the person in prison was cited to show cause why he was not in contempt of court and that after hearing he was adjudged in contempt of court and duly sentenced was clearly insufficient and would not justify his detention. Glenn v. Hendrix (A.), 349 S.W.2d 532. (1972) Where warrant of commitment by which petitioner for writ of habeas corpus was confined for direct criminal contempt of court recited only that the commitment was "in lieu of payment of a fine. . .heretofore assessed as a punishment for being in contempt of court", it failed to satisfy statutory and decisional requirements that it set forth the particular circumstances of the offense and did not justify petitioner's detention. In re Randolph (A.), 474 S.W.2d 36. (1974) Both the court's judgment in contempt and the commitment must recite the facts and circumstances constituting the offense of contempt. An order nunc pro tunc cannot be used to correct such an omission. Ex parte Neal (A.), 507 S.W.2d 674. (1974) Writ of commitment held insufficient as failing to set forth necessary facts. A commitment cannot be validated if void on its face because judgment on which it is based is a lawful conviction. Vokolek v. Carnes (Mo.), 512 S.W.2d 112. (1974) Held that failure to set out the circumstances of the contempt specified and further failure to issue a warrant of commitment cannot be cured by an order nunc pro tunc. Ex parte Huff (A.), 516 S.W.2d 778. (1976) Held that judgment of contempt which fails to recite facts and circumstances constituting offense is invalid and petitioner must be discharged. Recital of such facts and circumstances in commitment does not cure defect. Ex parte Brown (Mo.), 530 S.W.2d 228.
MO Rev Stat § 476.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.150 - Contempt not to be used to enforce civil rights.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   476.150. Contempt not to be used to enforce civil rights. — Nothing contained in sections 476.110 to 476.140 shall be construed to extend to any proceeding against parties or officers, as for contempt, for the purpose of enforcing any civil right or remedy. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2032)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1868; 1919 § 2363; 1909 § 3885
MO Rev Stat § 476.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.160 - Parties may be indicted, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   476.160. Parties may be indicted, when. — Persons punished for contempt under the provisions of sections 476.010 to 476.310 shall, notwithstanding, be liable to indictment for such contempt, if the same be an indictable offense; but the court before which a conviction shall be had on such indictment shall, in forming its sentence, take into consideration the punishment before inflicted. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2033)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1869; 1919 § 2364; 1909 § 3886
MO Rev Stat § 476.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.170 - Sittings to be public.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   476.170. Sittings to be public. — The sitting of every court shall be public and every person may freely attend the same. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2007)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1843; 1919 § 2340; 1909 § 3862
MO Rev Stat § 476.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.180 - Judge interested, not to sit.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   476.180. Judge interested, not to sit. — No judge of any court of record, who is interested in any suit or related to either party, or who shall have been of counsel in any suit or proceeding pending before him, shall, without the express consent of the parties thereto, sit on the trial or determination thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2012)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1848; 1919 § 2345; 1909 § 3867
MO Rev Stat § 476.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.220 - Judge may call special term for disposition of cause pending.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   476.220. Judge may call special term for disposition of cause pending. — Whenever in his opinion the public good requires, or whenever it is necessary for the dispatch of business, any circuit judge may, by written order filed with the clerk, call a special term of court for the trial or other disposition of any civil or criminal cause or matter pending therein. At such term the court may exercise its ordinary and usual jurisdiction in all cases wherein the parties have been given five days' previous notice in writing of the calling of the term to be given by the judge or clerk and served upon the parties or their attorneys or agents in the manner provided by section 506.100, and likewise in all causes and matters where notice is waived. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2016, A.L. 1955 p. 377, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revision: 1929 § 1852  Effective 1-02-79  CROSS REFERENCE:  Judge to call special term to try prisoner, when, 545.850
MO Rev Stat § 476.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.240 - May try civil cases at such special terms.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   476.240. May try civil cases at such special terms. — At every such special term the court may, with the consent of parties, exercise its ordinary jurisdiction in civil cases. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2020)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1856; 1919 § 2352; 1909 § 3874
MO Rev Stat § 476.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.250 - No court to sit on Sunday.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   476.250. No court to sit on Sunday. — No court shall be open or transact business on Sunday, unless it be for the purpose of receiving a verdict or discharging a jury; and every adjournment of a court on Saturday shall always be to some other day than Sunday, except such adjournment as may be made after a cause has been committed to a jury; but this section shall not prevent the exercise of the jurisdiction of any judge, when it shall be necessary in criminal cases, to preserve the peace or arrest the offender, nor shall it prevent the issuing and service of any attachment in a case where a debtor is about fraudulently to secrete or remove his effects, nor shall it prevent the issuing and service of such orders as exigencies may require. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2027, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1863; 1919 § 2358; 1909 § 3880  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 476.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.260 - Court to audit accounts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   476.260. Court to audit accounts. — The court shall audit and adjust the accounts of the sheriff or other officer attending it, and certify the same for payment. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2035, A. 1949 S.B. 1138)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1871; 1919 § 2366; 1909 § 3888
MO Rev Stat § 476.265 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.265 - Judicial department, budget, procedure for formulation.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   476.265. Judicial department, budget, procedure for formulation. — 1. The budget for the funding of the judicial department by the state for each fiscal year shall be formulated in the same manner as provided in subdivision (4) of subsection 6 of section 1 of the Omnibus State Reorganization Act of 1974, as amended, and in section 33.220, except as otherwise provided in this section.  2. For purposes of budget procedures, the supreme court shall be considered as the head of the department. The chief judge of each district of the court of appeals with the approval of a majority of the judges of each district and the presiding judge of each circuit with the approval of a majority of the circuit and associate circuit judges of the circuit shall present their estimates for the districts and circuits, respectively, in the same manner as a division of a department of the executive branch of government.  3. The budget estimates prepared within the judicial department shall be provided to the budget director on or before October first in each year preceding the annual session of the general assembly.  4. Budgets shall be submitted by circuit and by district of the court of appeals; provided, however, that budgeting on a district-by-district and circuit-by-circuit basis shall not preclude additional contingency appropriations which may be made for allocation by the supreme court as needed among the various districts and circuits. ­­-------- (L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 476.270 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.270 - Expenditures of court to be paid out of county treasury — exceptions.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   476.270. Expenditures of court to be paid out of county treasury — exceptions. — All expenditures accruing in the circuit courts, except salaries and clerk hire which is payable by the state, except all expenditures accruing in the municipal divisions of the circuit court, and except as otherwise provided by law, shall be paid out of the treasury of the county in which the court is held in the same manner as other demands. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2102, A.L. 1945 p. 812, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1940; 1919 § 2438; 1909 § 3958  Effective 1-02-79  (1984) A judgment against a circuit court in a Title VII action was considered an "expenditure accruing in the circuit courts" within the meaning of this section, and the county was therefore required to pay the judgment. Goodwin v. Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Mo. (8th Cir.), 741 F.2d 1087.
MO Rev Stat § 476.280 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.280 - Oath of judges.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   476.280. Oath of judges. — Each judge shall, within thirty days after the receipt of his commission, and before entering upon the duties of his office, take the oath prescribed by the constitution of this state. A certificate of having taken such oath shall be endorsed upon his commission. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1989)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1825; 1919 § 2322; 1909 § 3844
MO Rev Stat § 476.290 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.290 - Judges not to practice law — exception, municipal judges.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   476.290. Judges not to practice law — exception, municipal judges. — No judge, except a part-time municipal judge, shall practice or act as counselor or attorney in any court within this state nor shall any clerk or deputy clerk, while he continues to act as such, plead, practice or act as counselor or attorney in any court within the county for which he is such clerk or deputy clerk, in his own name or in the name of any other person, under any pretense whatever. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2024, A. 1949 S.B. 1138, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1860; 1919 § 2355; 1909 § 3877  Effective 1-02-79  CROSS REFERENCE:  Judges not to practice law or do law business, Const. Art. V § 20  (1962) Trial court did not err in overruling motion to deny assistant prosecuting attorney right to further appear in prosecution for second degree murder where at the time he had signed and filed information he was also clerk of magistrate court but had resigned before trial time. Oral motion to strike and quash information was not preserved in motion for new trial and not before appellate court. State v. Gray (Mo.), 360 S.W.2d 642. (1986) This section does not prohibit an attorney on the circuit clerk's staff from giving the circuit clerk legal advice. Bauer v. Bosley, 802 F.2d 1058 (8th Cir.).
MO Rev Stat § 476.310 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.310 - No judge or clerk to have partner — exception.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   476.310. No judge or clerk to have partner — exception. — No judge, clerk or deputy clerk of any court shall have any partner practicing in the court in which he is a judge, clerk or deputy clerk, except that the partner of a municipal judge who is not a full-time judge may practice in other divisions of the circuit court if such practice does not involve municipal ordinance violation cases arising from a municipality which is served by such municipal judge. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 2026, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 1862; 1919 § 2357; 1909 § 3879  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 476.320 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.320 - Judicial conference of the state of Missouri established, members.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   476.320. Judicial conference of the state of Missouri established, members. — There is hereby established "The Judicial Conference of the State of Missouri". The conference shall consist of the judges of the supreme court and of the court of appeals, the circuit judges, associate circuit judges, family court commissioners, the commissioners of the juvenile division of the circuit courts, and all judges and commissioners who have retired under any of the provisions of sections 476.450 to 476.595 heretofore or hereafter in effect. The chief justice of the supreme court, or in his absence the vice president elected by the executive council, shall be the presiding officer. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 514 § 2, A.L. 1953 p. 405, A.L. 1973 S.B. 263, A.L. 1977 H.B. 289, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1993 H.B. 346 merged with S.B. 88, A.L. 2014 S.B. 621)
MO Rev Stat § 476.330 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.330 - Conference shall meet, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   476.330. Conference shall meet, when. — The conference shall meet on the call of the chief justice. A meeting shall be called at least once every odd-numbered year at some convenient time and place in the state. It shall be the duty of all members of the conference to attend such meeting. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 514 § 3, A.L. 2014 S.B. 621)
MO Rev Stat § 476.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXXII - Courts|Chapter 476 - Courts — General Provisions|Section 476.340 - Executive council shall be governing body, how formed — members.

Effective - 28 Aug 2014   476.340. Executive council shall be governing body, how formed — members. — 1. The governing body of the conference, between sessions, shall be the executive council. The executive council shall consist of the following members:  (1) The chief justice of the supreme court, or some member of the supreme court appointed by him;  (2) Two other members of the supreme court appointed by the supreme court;  (3) One member of each district of the court of appeals elected by the judges thereof, respectively;  (4) Eight circuit judges, other than judges of the probate division, three of whom shall be elected for three-year terms, one from each district of the court of appeals, by the circuit judges, other than judges of the probate division, of the district to represent each of the districts of the court of appeals, respectively. A judge whose circuit is in part in more than one district of the court of appeals may vote in and be elected to represent either district but not both. Five of the circuit judges on the council shall be elected for three-year terms by the circuit judges of the state;  (5) One judge of the probate division of circuit courts in counties having a population of more than thirty thousand inhabitants elected for a three-year term by the judges of the probate divisions of the circuit courts in such counties;  (6) Three associate circuit judges elected for three-year terms, one from each district of the court of appeals, by the associate circuit judges of the district to represent each of the districts of the court of appeals, respectively;  (7) Three other associate circuit judges elected for three-year terms by the associate circuit judges of the state;  (8) One associate circuit judge from counties having a population of thirty thousand inhabitants or less elected for a three-year term by the associate circuit judges in such counties;  (9) One retired judge or commissioner who is a member of the judicial conference elected for a three-year term by such judges and commissioners. ­­Members of the executive council on August 28, 2003, shall serve out their terms and their replacements shall be elected under the provisions of this section. Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term of any member as provided by resolution of the judicial conference.  2. The executive council shall have general supervision of the work of the conference and such other duties and authority as may be given to it under rules or resolutions adopted by the conference. The members of the executive council shall elect one of its members vice president to act in the absence of the chief justice. ­­-------- (L. 1943 p. 514 § 4, A.L. 1973 S.B. 263, A.L. 1977 H.B. 289, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1993 S.B. 180, A.L. 2003 H.B. 430 merged with H.B. 613 merged with S.B. 457, A.L. 2014 S.B. 621)