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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.095 - Service of process, immunity from liability for sheriffs and law enforcement officers, when.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 2014
57.095. Service of process, immunity from liability for sheriffs and law enforcement officers, when. —
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 537.600 to the contrary, sheriffs or any other law enforcement officers shall have immunity from any liability, civil or criminal, while conducting service of process at the direction of any court to the extent that the officers' actions do not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.
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(L. 2014 H.B. 1231 merged with S.B. 621 merged with S.B. 672)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.100 - Duties generally — concealed carry permits, duties.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 2013
57.100. Duties generally — concealed carry permits, duties. —
1. Every sheriff shall quell and suppress assaults and batteries, riots, routs, affrays and insurrections; shall apprehend and commit to jail all felons and traitors, and execute all process directed to him by legal authority, including writs of replevin, attachments and final process issued by circuit and associate circuit judges.
2. Beginning January 1, 2014, every sheriff shall maintain, house, and issue concealed carry permits as specified under chapter 571.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13138, A. 1949 H.B. 2015, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 2013 S.B. 75)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11518; 1919 § 11642; 1909 § 11212
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.101 - Ordinances, city, town and villages, enforcement, requirements.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1983
57.101. Ordinances, city, town and villages, enforcement, requirements. —
A county sheriff and his deputies, when authorized by written agreement entered into by the sheriff and a city, town or village within the county and approved by the governing body of the county, shall have the same power and authority to enforce the ordinances of the city, town or village, and in the same manner, as have the police of the city, town or village.
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(L. 1983 H.B. 81)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.102 - To report on jail and prisoners (second class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1965
57.102. To report on jail and prisoners (second class counties). —
The sheriff in counties of the second class shall on January first of each year and every three months thereafter file with the circuit court of the county a report on the conditions of the county jail, the number of prisoners confined in said jail, together with recommendations relating to its operation.
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(L. 1965 p. 150 § 8)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.104 - Sheriff, all noncharter counties, employment of attorney.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 2013
57.104. Sheriff, all noncharter counties, employment of attorney. —
1. The sheriff of any county, except a county with a charter form of government, and any county of the second classification, county of the third classification, and county of the fourth classification
*
may employ an attorney at law to aid and advise him in the discharge of his duties and to represent him in court. The sheriff shall set the compensation for an attorney hired pursuant to this section within the allocation made by the county commission to the sheriff's department for compensation of employees to be paid out of the general revenue fund of the county.
2. The attorney employed by a sheriff pursuant to subsection 1 of this section shall be employed at the pleasure of the sheriff.
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(L. 1993 H.B. 209 & 288 § 1 merged with S.B. 180 § 15, A.L. 2013 S.B. 42 merged with S.B. 75)
*Word "classifiaction" appears in original rolls of S.B. 75, 2013.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.109 - May contract for services on federal water resources lands, limitation.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1979
57.109. May contract for services on federal water resources lands, limitation. —
1. Every sheriff shall have the power to contract with the Secretary of the Army of the United States, acting through the Corps of Engineers, for the purpose of providing increased law enforcement services at or near water resources development projects, active or inactive, under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Army which are located within the county of the contracting sheriff.
2. No such contracts shall be for a period of more than two years.
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(L. 1979 S.B. 260 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.110 - Duties as conservators of the peace — return of recognizance.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1959
57.110. Duties as conservators of the peace — return of recognizance. —
Every sheriff is a conservator of the peace within his county, and shall cause all offenders against law, in his view, to enter into recognizance, with security, to keep the peace and to appear at the next term of the circuit court of the county, and to be committed to jail in case of failure to give the recognizance. The sheriff shall certify the recognizance to the clerk of the circuit court.
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(RSMo 1939 §§ 13136, 13137, A.L. 1959 S.B. 68)
Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 11516, 11517; 1919 §§ 11640, 11641; 1909 §§ 11210, 11211
CROSS REFERENCE:
Arrest without warrant, on suspicion, persons violating any law including misdemeanors and ordinances in jurisdiction, powers, 544.216
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.111 - May act in adjoining county, when — deemed employee of sending county for purposes of benefits and compensation.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 2016, 2 histories
57.111. May act in adjoining county, when — deemed employee of sending county for purposes of benefits and compensation. —
Whenever any sheriff or deputy sheriff of any county in this state is expressly requested, in each instance, by a sheriff of this state to render assistance, such sheriff or deputy shall have the same powers of arrest in such county as he or she has in his or her own jurisdiction. Any sheriff, or deputy sheriff that a responding sheriff sends, of a county responding to a request for assistance in another county of the state shall be deemed an employee of the sending sheriff's office and shall be subject to the workers' compensation, overtime, and expense reimbursement provisions provided to him or her as an employee of the sending sheriff's office.
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(L. 1979 S.B. 259 § 1, A.L. 2016 H.B. 1936)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.113 - Duty to patrol certain highways (certain first and certain second class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1973
57.113. Duty to patrol certain highways (certain first and certain second class counties). —
1. Sheriffs in counties of the first class not having a charter form of government and in counties of the second class having a population in excess of seventy thousand shall, in addition to their general duties:
(1) Regularly patrol and police all county constructed and maintained highways within the county;
(2) Enforce all laws designed to safeguard and protect these highways;
(3) Protect county employees engaged in maintenance and construction work on these highways;
(4) Report all dangerous conditions on these highways to the county highway department.
2. The expenditures resulting from the performance of the duties imposed by this section are subject to the budgetary procedures and controls provided in sections 50.525 to 50.660.
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(L. 1961 p. 297 § 57.103, A.L. 1971 S.B. 171, A.L. 1973 H.B. 684)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.115 - Sheriff may patrol roads and highways (third and fourth class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1974
57.115. Sheriff may patrol roads and highways (third and fourth class counties). —
Sheriffs in counties of the third and fourth class may:
(1) Regularly patrol and police all public roads and highways within the county;
(2) Enforce all laws designed to safeguard and protect these roads and highways;
(3) Report all dangerous conditions on these roads and highways to the county commission or other road or highway supervising body.
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(L. 1974 H.B. 1028 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.117 - Deputy sheriff to be resident of state — or adjoining state — exception, Jackson County and City of St. Louis.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
• Effective - 28 Aug 2018, 2 histories
57.117. Deputy sheriff to be resident of state — or adjoining state — exception, Jackson County and City of St. Louis. —
Hereafter no sheriff in this state shall appoint any under sheriff or deputy sheriff unless the person so appointed shall be, at the time of his or her appointment, a bona fide resident of this state or of an adjoining state. The provisions of this section authorizing the appointment of a person as an under sheriff or deputy sheriff who is a bona fide resident of an adjoining state shall not apply to a sheriff of any county with a charter form of government and with more than six hundred thousand but fewer than seven hundred thousand inhabitants or any city not within a county.
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(RSMo 1939 § 4627, A.L. 2018 H.B. 1355 merged with S.B. 652)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 4238; 1919 § 3485; 1909 § 4700
CROSS REFERENCE:
Special deputies must be residents, 542.190
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.119 - Deputy sheriffs, temporary appointment.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1959
57.119. Deputy sheriffs, temporary appointment. —
In any emergency the sheriff shall appoint sworn deputies, who are residents of the county, possessing all the qualifications of sheriff. The deputies shall serve not exceeding thirty days, and shall possess all the powers and perform all the duties of deputy sheriffs, with like responsibilities, and for their services shall receive two dollars per day, to be paid out of the county treasury.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13136, A.L. 1959 S.B. 68)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11516; 1919 § 11640; 1909 § 11210
(1953) Powers and duties of emergency deputy sheriff appointed under this section are limited primarily to the county for which he is commissioned and such powers do not exist when deputy is in another county for purposes of his own. State v. Owen (Mo.) 258 S.W.2d 662.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.125 - Investigation of personnel for circuit court — jurors (certain first class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 02 Jan 1979, see footnote
57.125. Investigation of personnel for circuit court — jurors (certain first class counties). —
1. In all counties of class one having a population of less than seven hundred thousand inhabitants, whenever the appointment of deputies and assistants is required by law to be approved by circuit judges of the circuit court, and an investigation or examination of the applicants is caused to be made by the judges, the sheriff of the county shall conduct the examination or investigation.
2. At the request of the jury commissioners, the sheriff shall investigate the qualifications of prospective jurors.
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(L. 1961 p. 298 § 1, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)
Effective 1-02-79
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.140 - Moneys collected on executions, to whom paid.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1959
57.140. Moneys collected on executions, to whom paid. —
All moneys collected by the sheriff on executions shall be paid to the plaintiff or his order or his attorney of record.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13139, A.L. 1959 S.B. 68)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11519; 1919 § 11643; 1909 § 11213
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.150 - At expiration of term, to turn over funds to successor.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
• Effective - 02 Jan 1979, see footnote
57.150. At expiration of term, to turn over funds to successor. —
Whenever the term of office of any sheriff shall expire, it shall be the duty of said sheriff to turn over to his successor in office all money in his hands due any party to a partition suit, either plaintiff or defendant, all money due guardians ad litem or attorneys, and all money due any witness, juror, circuit clerk, responsible clerk, county clerk, commissioner, sheriff or coroner, or due anyone who has formerly held any one of said offices. The fees due for paying out any such fees or money shall thereupon be due to the sheriff receiving such fees or money. The sheriff receiving such fees or receiving money due any party to a partition suit, or due any guardian ad litem or attorney, and the securities on said sheriff's bond, shall be liable for the payment of said money to the person or persons entitled thereto, or for the payment of the same to the county treasurer, or the state treasurer, as is now provided by law.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13140, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11520; 1919 § 11644; 1909 § 11214
Effective 1-02-79
CROSS REFERENCES:
Execution, how proceeded upon after sheriff leaves office, 513.315 to 513.350
Execution sales, how made when term changed, 513.295
Partition sales, to be completed by outgoing sheriff, 528.440
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.160 - Failure to turn over — guilty of misdemeanor and subject to civil action on bond.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
57.160. Failure to turn over — guilty of misdemeanor and subject to civil action on bond. —
Any outgoing sheriff who shall fail or refuse for sixty days to turn over to his successor in office any fee or money required to be turned over by the provisions of section 57.150 shall be liable on his bond for double the amount that he shall fail or refuse to turn over, to be recovered by a civil action in the name of the person to whom said money or fees is due; and, in addition thereto, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13141)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11521; 1919 § 11645; 1909 § 11215
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.170 - Summary proceedings against sureties.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
57.170. Summary proceedings against sureties. —
Whenever summary proceedings are given against a sheriff, his sureties, jointly and severally, shall be liable to the same, and may or may not be joined with him, and such recovery may be had against them as is given against the sheriff; provided, that upon such recovery against the sureties of any sheriff, in a summary mode of proceeding, the extent of said recovery shall not exceed the amount of money withheld by the sheriff, and ten percent per annum on the same from and after the return day of the execution.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13142)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11522; 1919 § 11646; 1909 § 11216
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.180 - Settlements of courts with sheriffs and marshals.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
57.180. Settlements of courts with sheriffs and marshals. —
It shall be the duty of all courts of record, at each term thereof, to settle with the sheriffs or marshals for all moneys by them received, or which they ought to have collected, for the use of their respective counties, and have not before accounted for. They shall cause their clerks to make out a list of all sums chargeable to said sheriffs or marshals and payable to the counties, specifying on what account, and cause the same to be certified under the seal of the court, which certificate shall be immediately transmitted to the clerks of the county commissions of the counties to which such moneys are payable who shall charge the same accordingly.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13839)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12177; 1919 § 9575; 1909 § 3795
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.190 - Penalty if sheriff or marshal fails to settle.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
57.190. Penalty if sheriff or marshal fails to settle. —
If any sheriff or marshall shall fail to pay, without delay, the moneys with which he shall become chargeable on the settlement in section 57.180 mentioned, he shall forfeit to the county entitled to the said moneys double the amount with which he is chargeable, to be recovered by motion in the court in which such settlement shall have been made, after ten days' previous notice of such motion.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13840)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12178; 1919 § 9576; 1909 § 3796
CROSS REFERENCE:
Fees collected for others, account to be kept, 50.470, 50.480
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.201 - Deputies, appointment, compensation — serve at pleasure of sheriff (certain first class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 2014
57.201. Deputies, appointment, compensation — serve at pleasure of sheriff (certain first class counties). —
1. The sheriff of all counties of the first class not having a charter form of government shall appoint such deputies, assistants and other employees as he deems necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of his office and may set their compensation within the limits of the allocations made for that purpose by the county commission. The compensation for the deputies, assistants and employees shall be paid in equal installments out of the county treasury in the same manner as other county employees are paid.
2. The assistants and employees shall hold office at the pleasure of the sheriff.
3. A deputy sheriff, as the term deputy sheriff is defined under section 57.015 shall hold office pursuant to the provisions of sections 57.015 and 57.275.
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(L. 1973 H.B. 684, A.L. 1998 S.B. 659, A.L. 1999 H.B. 895, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1665 & 1335 merged with S.B. 745)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.220 - Appointment of deputies, provisions of law to apply (second class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 2014
57.220. Appointment of deputies, provisions of law to apply (second class counties). —
The sheriff, in a county of the second class, shall be entitled to such a number of deputies as a majority of the circuit judges of the circuit court shall deem necessary for the prompt and proper discharge of the duties of the sheriff's office; provided, however, such number of deputies appointed by the sheriff shall not be less than one chief deputy sheriff and one additional deputy for each five thousand inhabitants of the county according to the last decennial census. Such deputies shall be appointed by the sheriff, but no appointment shall become effective until approved by a majority of the circuit judges of the circuit court of the county. A majority of the circuit judges of the circuit court, by agreement with the sheriff, shall fix the salaries of such deputies. A statement of the number of deputies allowed the sheriff, and their compensation, together with the approval of any appointment by such judges of the circuit court, shall be in writing and signed by them and filed by the sheriff with the county commission. A deputy sheriff as the term deputy sheriff is defined under section 57.015 shall hold office pursuant to the provisions of sections 57.015 and 57.275.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13480, A.L. 1945 p. 1569 § 9, A.L. 1955 p. 351 § 1, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1998 S.B. 659, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1665 & 1335 merged with S.B. 745)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11848; 1919 § 11056
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.230 - Salaries of deputies from county treasury.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 02 Jan 1979, see footnote
57.230. Salaries of deputies from county treasury. —
The county shall pay the salaries, in the amount approved by a majority of the circuit judges of the circuit court, of each deputy appointed by the sheriff and approved by a majority of the circuit judges of the circuit court.
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(L. 1945 p. 1569 § 10, A.L. 1959 S.B. 68, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)
Effective 1-02-79
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.240 - Employment of other persons.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1945
57.240. Employment of other persons. —
The sheriff, in counties of the second class, may employ, in addition to the deputies authorized, such other employees, with the approval of the county commission, as may be necessary to the efficient operation of his office and the performance of the duties imposed upon him by law. The salary of any person, so employed, shall be fixed by the sheriff, with the approval of the county commission.
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(L. 1945 p. 1569 § 11)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.250 - Appointment of deputies — compensation — duty of circuit judges — presiding judge may order additional deputies, when — provisions of law to apply (third and fourth class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
• Effective - 28 Aug 2014
57.250. Appointment of deputies — compensation — duty of circuit judges — presiding judge may order additional deputies, when — provisions of law to apply (third and fourth class counties). —
The sheriff in counties of the third and fourth classifications shall be entitled to such number of deputies and assistants, to be appointed by such official, with the approval of a majority of the circuit judges of the circuit court, as such judges shall deem necessary for the prompt and proper discharge of such sheriff's duties relative to the enforcement of the criminal law of this state. Such judges of the circuit court, in their order permitting the sheriff to appoint deputies or assistants, shall fix the compensation of such deputies or assistants. The circuit judges shall annually review their order fixing the number and compensation of the deputies and assistants and in setting such number and compensation shall have due regard for the financial condition of the county. Each such order shall be entered of record and a certified copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the county clerk at least fifteen days prior to the date of the adoption of the county budget as prescribed by section 50.610. The sheriff may at any time discharge any assistant and may regulate the time of such person's employment. A deputy sheriff as the term deputy sheriff is defined under section 57.015 shall hold office pursuant to the provisions of sections 57.015 and 57.275. At the request of the sheriff, the presiding judge may order additional deputies in cases where exigent or emergency circumstances require the need for such additional deputies.
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(L. 1945 p. 1547 § 2, L. 1945 p. 1562 § 2, A. 1949 H.B. 2015, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1995 H.B. 274 & 268 merged with S.B. 352, A.L. 1998 S.B. 659, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1665 & 1335 merged with S.B. 745)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.251 - Sheriff to appoint deputies and assistants — compensation — provisions of law to apply — effective date (third and fourth class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1998
57.251. Sheriff to appoint deputies and assistants — compensation — provisions of law to apply — effective date (third and fourth class counties). —
1. The sheriff of each county of the third and fourth classes shall appoint such deputies, assistants and other employees as the sheriff deems necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of office and may set their compensation within the limits of the allocations made for that purpose by the county commission. The compensation for the deputies, assistants and employees shall be paid in equal installments out of the county treasury in the same manner as other county employees are paid.
2. The assistants and employees shall hold office at the pleasure of the sheriff.
3. Deputies shall hold office pursuant to the provisions of sections 57.015 and 57.275.
4. The provisions of this section shall not become effective until the supreme court of the state of Missouri has issued an opinion, or until an opinion of a circuit court of the state of Missouri has become final, stating substantially that section 57.250 is invalid or unconstitutional in part or as a whole, and that a sheriff has no authority to appoint deputy sheriffs pursuant to such section. Once either of such events occurs, then this section shall become effective as of the date the opinion of the supreme court becomes effective or as of the date the opinion of the circuit court becomes final, as the case may be, or October 1, 1983, whichever occurs later.
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(L. 1983 S.B. 212 § 57.251, § 2, A.L. 1998 S.B. 659)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.260 - Duties — penalty for neglect (Marion County).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 2004
57.260. Duties — penalty for neglect (Marion County). —
It shall be the duty of the sheriff of Marion County to have at least one deputy who shall attend district number 2 of the circuit court of Marion County at Hannibal; and if said sheriff shall neglect for one month to appoint a deputy as required by this section, he or she shall be liable to pay as a penalty therefor the sum of five hundred dollars for each month of such failure or neglect, and judgment may be entered for said penalty on a citation to show cause, issued from said court and served on said sheriff in like manner as an order or summons, or may be recovered by an action for that purpose brought in the name of the county of Marion.
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(RSMo 1939 § 2426, A. 1949 H.B. 2015, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 2004 S.B. 1211)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 14554; 1919 § 13732; 1909 § 4281
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.270 - Powers of deputies.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
57.270. Powers of deputies. —
Every deputy sheriff shall possess all the powers and may perform any of the duties prescribed by law to be performed by the sheriff.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13134)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11514; 1919 § 11638; 1909 § 11209
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.275 - Dismissal of deputies, procedure.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
• Effective - 28 Aug 1998
57.275. Dismissal of deputies, procedure. —
1. Any full-time deputy sheriff upon dismissal shall be furnished with a written notice of the grounds for the dismissal. Upon receipt of the written grounds for the dismissal, the deputy sheriff may request a hearing. The request must be made to the sheriff, in writing, within three working days of receipt of the grounds for dismissal. Such hearing shall take place before the hearing board to be appointed by the sheriff. The sheriff shall schedule a closed hearing within a reasonable time but within thirty days after the written request was received by the sheriff. A written report of the facts determined during the hearing shall be forwarded to the sheriff. The sheriff will review the findings, and has the final decision-making authority. Any law enforcement agency shall be deemed to be in compliance with this section if the agency:
(1) Has published and distributed department policies and procedures which include provisions for dismissal of deputy sheriffs or other employees;
(2) Provides a deputy sheriff who has been dismissed written notification of the grounds for the dismissal;
(3) Allows the officer to request and have a hearing; and
(4) Provides the officer with written results of such hearing.
2. The procedural requirements created pursuant to this section shall not be interpreted as creating any new substantive due process rights. Nothing in this chapter shall be interpreted as conferring or creating an employment status for deputy sheriffs other than at-will status and nothing in this chapter shall be interpreted as depriving any person of any rights which are conferred as a matter of employment, including postemployment benefits such as workers' compensation and unemployment compensation.
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(L. 1998 S.B. 659)
(2004) Mandated hearing is not a contested case subject to judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act. McCoy v. Caldwell County, 145 S.W.3d 427 (Mo.banc).
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.278 - Deputy sheriff salary supplementation fund created, use of moneys.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
• Effective - 28 Aug 2008
57.278. Deputy sheriff salary supplementation fund created, use of moneys. —
1. There is hereby created in the state treasury the "Deputy Sheriff Salary Supplementation Fund", which shall consist of money collected from charges for service received by county sheriffs under subsection 4 of section 57.280. The money in the fund shall be used solely to supplement the salaries, and employee benefits resulting from such salary increases, of county deputy sheriffs. The state treasurer shall be custodian of the fund and may approve disbursements from the fund in accordance with sections 30.170 and 30.180. The Missouri sheriff methamphetamine relief taskforce created under section 650.350 shall administer the fund.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080 to the contrary, any moneys remaining in the fund at the end of the biennium shall not revert to the credit of the general revenue fund. The state treasurer shall invest moneys in the fund in the same manner as other funds are invested. Any interest and moneys earned on such investments shall be credited to the fund.
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(L. 2008 H.B. 2224)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.295 - Uniform allowance, county may pay.

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1997
57.295. Uniform allowance, county may pay. —
In each county of this state the sheriff and each full-time deputy sheriff shall receive, at the discretion of the county commission, twenty-five dollars per month, as a uniform allowance, and may receive, at the discretion of the county commission, not in excess of a total of one hundred dollars per month, as a uniform allowance, to be paid to him or her monthly out of the county treasury. This allowance shall apply only to sheriffs and deputy sheriffs who wear an official uniform in performance of their duty.
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(L. 1969 H.B. 264 § 1, A.L. 1982 H.B. 907 & 1497, A.L. 1983 H.B. 713 Revision, A.L. 1984 S.B. 419, A.L. 1997 S.B. 11)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.320 - County may supply automobiles to sheriff and deputies (first class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 02 Jan 1979, see footnote
57.320. County may supply automobiles to sheriff and deputies (first class counties). —
In all counties of this state of the first class the county commission may provide and supply the sheriff and deputy sheriffs of such county with such number of police cars or automobiles as may be needed for the efficient performance of the duties of such office.
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(L. 1945 p. 1729 § 1, A.L. 1973 H.B. 684, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)
Effective 1-02-79
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.349 - Sheriffs' motor vehicles, county commission to provide (second class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1972
57.349. Sheriffs' motor vehicles, county commission to provide (second class counties). —
In all counties of the second class the county commission may provide and supply the sheriff and deputy sheriffs of the county with such number of police cars or motor vehicles as the said county commission shall determine to be necessary for the efficient performance of the duties of the office, but the number shall be not less than one motor vehicle for each fifteen thousand inhabitants or part thereof in counties of the second class containing all or part of a city of more than eight thousand inhabitants, and shall be not less than one vehicle for each five thousand inhabitants in all other counties of the second class. The motor vehicles provided may be of any make or size as determined by the county commission.
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(L. 1969 H.B. 129, A.L. 1972 H.B. 1171)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.355 - Additional duty, investigation of jurors (second class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1972
57.355. Additional duty, investigation of jurors (second class counties). —
Sheriffs in counties of the second class shall, in addition to other duties imposed upon them by law, aid and assist the jury commissioners in such counties by conducting investigations into the identity of prospective jurors summoned for jury duty, and upon request of the board of jury commissioners, make and file a report with the board setting out the results of the investigation.
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(L. 1969 H.B. 264, A.L. 1972 S.B. 598)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.360 - Additional travel expense (second class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1945
57.360. Additional travel expense (second class counties). —
The sheriff and his deputies shall be reimbursed out of the county treasury, for actual and necessary traveling expenses, incurred in the performance of their official duties, in addition to the mileage above provided. All claims for reimbursement shall be in writing and shall contain the following information, in addition to such other pertinent information as the county commission may need in order to approve the payment:
(1) The date and place the expense was incurred;
(2) If the account is for more than one day, it shall be itemized to show the amount of each day's expense and the purpose for which each day's expense was incurred;
(3) The transportation charge, sleeping car fare, lodging and meals shall each be shown as separate items and the amount for each stated;
(4) If any item of expense exceeds one dollar, it shall be supported by a subvoucher or receipt, showing date and place, signed by the person to whom payment was made, and such subvoucher or receipt shall show in detail the information required by this section;
(5) No voucher or claim for partial payment or reimbursement on account of traveling expenses shall be submitted but every voucher or claim must contain all and every expense incurred within the time it purports to cover;
(6) Every item of expense must be just and reasonable;
(7) The oath or affirmation by which a claim for reimbursement is made, shall be in the following form:
I, ______, do solemnly swear, or affirm that the above claim is correct and just; that no part of the same has been paid; that the expense was necessary to the performance of the duties of the office of the sheriff; that payment was made out of my personal funds and that I have not been reimbursed therefor; and that I have not received and will not receive from any source whatever any payment of any part hereof, except as provided by law.
­­Whenever a claim for reimbursement is made by a deputy, it shall also be approved in writing by the sheriff.
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(L. 1945 p. 1569 § 8)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.380 - Collection of fees in civil and criminal matters, disposition (second class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1972
57.380. Collection of fees in civil and criminal matters, disposition (second class counties). —
The sheriff in all counties of the second class shall charge, collect and receive, on behalf of the county, every fee, penalty, charge, commission and other money that accrues to him or his office for official services rendered in civil and criminal matters, by virtue of any statute of this state, and all the fees, penalties, charges, commissions, and other money collected by him, shall at the end of each month be paid by him to the county treasurer, as provided in section 50.360. He is not entitled to collect the per diem allowed to the sheriff as a member of the board of equalization and board of appeals, as provided in section 138.020.
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(RSMo 1939 §§ 13483, 13484, A.L. 1945 p. 1569 §§ 3, 4, A.L. 1959 S.B. 68, A.L. 1972 S.B. 598)
Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 11851, 11852; 1919 §§ 11059, 11060
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.395 - Sheriff to investigate identity of prospective jurors (third and fourth class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 01 Jan 1988, see footnote
57.395. Sheriff to investigate identity of prospective jurors (third and fourth class counties). —
Sheriffs in third and fourth class counties shall, in addition to other duties imposed upon them by law, aid and assist the jury commissioners in such counties by conducting all investigations into the identity of all prospective jurors summoned for jury duty by the jury commissioners, and upon request of the board of jury commissioners, make and file a report with the board setting out the results of the investigation.
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(L. 1967 p. 135 § 1, § 2 subsec. 3, A.L. 1969 S.B. 262, A.L. 1987 S.B. 65, et al.)
Effective 1-01-88
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.403 - Compensation for reporting to highway patrol (third and fourth class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
• Effective - 28 Aug 1986
57.403. Compensation for reporting to highway patrol (third and fourth class counties). —
1. In addition to all compensation now provided by law, the sheriff in each county of the third class shall receive the sum of one thousand dollars per year, payable in twelve equal monthly installments out of the county treasury, for the performance of the duties required by sections 43.500 to 43.530.
2. In addition to all compensation now provided by law, the sheriff in each county of the fourth class shall receive the sum of five hundred dollars per year payable in twelve equal monthly installments out of the county treasury, for the performance of the duties required by sections 43.500 to 43.530.
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(L. 1959 H.B. 296 § 1, A.L. 1986 H.B. 873 & 874)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.407 - Additional duty, report on county jail, recommendations required (third class counties) — fees, civil, how paid, exception (third and fourth class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 01 Jan 1988, see footnote
57.407. Additional duty, report on county jail, recommendations required (third class counties) — fees, civil, how paid, exception (third and fourth class counties). —
1. The sheriff in counties of the third class shall on January first of each year and every three months thereafter file with the circuit court of the county a report on the conditions of the county jail, the number of prisoners confined in the jail, together with recommendations relating to its operation.
2. In counties of the third and fourth class, the sheriff shall pay all fees collected by him in civil matters, and which were previously retainable by him, into the county treasury, except charges for each mile traveled, allowable to him, which he may retain, in serving civil process.
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(L. 1969 S.B. 165 §§ 1, 2, A.L. 1978 S.B. 752, A.L. 1987 S.B. 65, et al.)
Effective 1-01-88
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.408 - Sheriff to establish personal property identification system (all noncharter counties and St. Louis City).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 01 Jan 1988, see footnote
57.408. Sheriff to establish personal property identification system (all noncharter counties and St. Louis City). —
Sheriffs in all counties, except counties having a charter form of government, or in any city not within a county, shall establish and make available an identification system for the identification of personal property. Anyone, upon application to a sheriff, shall be assigned an identification number to be composed of at least ten characters which will readily permit law enforcement officials of this state, in cooperation with officials in other states using interstate computerized law enforcement communication systems and other methods, to recover stolen property. The identification number should follow substantially the following form:
MO
026
0001
D
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First letter of last name of applicant
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Applicant's assigned number
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County National Crime Information Center assigned number
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Prefix for Missouri
­­New owners of any marked property should be encouraged by the sheriff to mark their identification number below the previous owner's mark for uniformity and ease of identification. The sheriff of any city not within a county shall identify each application for a weapon permit as provided in section 564.630
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with the applicant's identification number of the police department in said city.
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(L. 1978 S.B. 752, A.L. 1987 S.B. 65, et al.)
Effective 1-01-88
*Transferred 1978 to 571.125, which was repealed by H.B. 296, 1981.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government › Chapter 57 - Sheriffs › Section 57.410 - Sheriff to collect fees for county (third and fourth class counties).

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57
Effective - 28 Aug 1969
57.410. Sheriff to collect fees for county (third and fourth class counties). —
In third and fourth class counties the sheriff shall charge and collect for and on behalf of the county every fee accruing to his office which arises out of his duties in connection with the investigation, arrest, prosecution, care, commitment and transportation of persons accused of or convicted of a criminal offense, except such criminal fees as are chargeable to the county.
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(L. 1945 pp. 1547, 1562 § 3, A. 1949 H.B. 2015, A.L. 1969 S.B. 262)