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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements › Chapter 492 - Oaths and Affirmations, Depositions and Perpetuation of Testimony › Section 492.590 - Costs and expenses of taking depositions, how awarded and collected — limitations.

Title XXXIII EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Chapter 492
• Effective - 01 Jul 1997, see footnote
492.590. Costs and expenses of taking depositions, how awarded and collected — limitations. —
1. The costs and expenses of depositions, whether originals or copies, or related court reporter, notarial, or other fees of recording the same, shall be awarded as a judgment in favor of the party or parties requesting the same, and collected in the manner provided by section 514.460
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. Any party incurring any such costs or expenses may request the taxing of such costs or expenses actually incurred by that party whether or not such depositions were taken at the instance of that party or some other party to the suit or suits, provided, however, that any judgment awarded for copies of depositions shall be limited to the cost of one copy per party, except upon leave of court.
2. The costs and expenses so incurred shall be certified by the reporter taking the same and shall be further limited by the court in which the action is pending at the request of either party with said limitation based on:
(1) The relevancy and probative value of the testimony offered by deponent;
(2) The time required in the taking of the deposition;
(3) The reasonableness of the charge made by the reporter;
(4) The availability of stenographers or shorthand reporters in the area where the deposition is taken;
(5) Charges made by other stenographers or shorthand reporters in the community.
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(RSMo 1939 § 1970, A.L. 1951 p. 535, A.L. 1985 S.B. 5, et al., A.L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 1996 S.B. 869)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 1806; 1919 § 5493; 1909 § 6436
Effective 7-01-97
*Transferred 2000; now 488.432
(1998) Word "incurred" in statute does not mean "paid". It means to "to become liable for". Burwick v. Wood, 959 S.W.2d 951 (Mo.App. S.D.).
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements › Chapter 493 - Legal Publications, Notice and Advertisements › Section 493.010 - Cost of advertisements in judicial proceedings, payment by whom.

Title XXXIII EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Chapter 493
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
493.010. Cost of advertisements in judicial proceedings, payment by whom. —
When any notice or advertisement relating to any cause, matter or thing in any court of record shall be required by law or the order of any court to be published, the same, when duly published, shall be paid for by the party at whose instance it was published, which payment, or so much thereof as shall be deemed reasonable, may be taxed as other costs, or otherwise allowed by the proper courts, in the course of the proceedings to which such advertisement relates.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14964)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13771; 1919 § 10399; 1909 § 585
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements › Chapter 493 - Legal Publications, Notice and Advertisements › Section 493.020 - Payment of costs by county, when.

Title XXXIII EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Chapter 493
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
493.020. Payment of costs by county, when. —
When any such advertisement shall be made by a public officer, thereunto authorized by law, the reasonable expense thereof shall be allowed and paid out of the county treasury, as other demands and charges of a like nature.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14965)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13772; 1919 § 10400; 1909 § 586
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements › Chapter 493 - Legal Publications, Notice and Advertisements › Section 493.025 - Rates generally allowable for public advertisements or legal notices.

Title XXXIII EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Chapter 493
• Effective - 28 Aug 1998
493.025. Rates generally allowable for public advertisements or legal notices. —
Except where otherwise provided in this chapter, when the publication of a law, proclamation, nominations to office, proposed constitutional amendments or other questions to be submitted to the people, order or notice shall be published in any newspaper for the state, or for any public officer on account of, or in the name of the state, or for any county, or for any public officer on account of, or in the name of any county, or any legal advertisement, legal notice, order of court or public notice of any kind is allowed or required by law, a newspaper publishing such notice shall charge and receive not more than its regular local classified advertising rate. The regular local classified advertising rate is that rate shown by the newspaper's rate schedule as offered to the public, and shall have been in effect for at least thirty days preceding publication of the particular notice to which it is applied.
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(L. 1981 S.B. 252, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1145)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements › Chapter 493 - Legal Publications, Notice and Advertisements › Section 493.027 - Qualification of newspapers for public notices — rates, review and approval (counties of first classification and City of St. Louis).

Title XXXIII EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Chapter 493
• Effective - 28 Aug 1998
493.027. Qualification of newspapers for public notices — rates, review and approval (counties of first classification and City of St. Louis). —
In any first classification county, or in any city not within a county, a board consisting of the judges of the circuit court of such county, or a majority of them, if they deem it in the public interest, may qualify any newspaper of general circulation, and as further qualified in section 493.050, for the publication of public notices and advertisements, and may review and approve rates which may be charged for public notices and advertisements.
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(L. 1981 S.B. 252 §§ 493.027, 493.028, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1145)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements › Chapter 493 - Legal Publications, Notice and Advertisements › Section 493.040 - Officers to procure best rates.

Title XXXIII EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Chapter 493
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
493.040. Officers to procure best rates. —
In procuring the publication of any law, proclamation, advertisement, order or notice, as in section 493.030 mentioned, the public officers shall accept of the most advantageous terms that can be obtained, not exceeding the rates limited in said section.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14967)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13774; 1919 § 10402; 1909 § 588
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements › Chapter 493 - Legal Publications, Notice and Advertisements › Section 493.045 - Daily newspaper defined.

Title XXXIII EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Chapter 493
Effective - 28 Aug 1951
493.045. Daily newspaper defined. —
As used in this chapter the words
"daily newspaper"
shall mean a newspaper which is published every day, or each day except Sundays and legal holidays, or which shall be published on each of any five days in every week excepting legal holidays and including or excluding Sundays; except, that when a holiday intervenes in any given week the newspaper may be published on each of any four days in said week.
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(L. 1951 p. 532 § 493.055)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements › Chapter 493 - Legal Publications, Notice and Advertisements › Section 493.055 - Publication of certain real estate transactions.

Title XXXIII EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Chapter 493
Effective - 28 Aug 2010
493.055. Publication of certain real estate transactions. —
All public advertisements and orders of publication required by law to be made, including but not limited to amendments to the Missouri Constitution, legal publications affecting all sales of real estate under a power of sale contained in any mortgage or deed of trust, and other legal publications affecting the title to real estate, shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation, qualified under the provisions of section 493.050, and persons responsible for orders of publication described in sections 443.310 and 443.320 shall be subject to the prohibitions in sections 493.130 and 493.140.
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(L. 2010 H.B. 1692, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements › Chapter 493 - Legal Publications, Notice and Advertisements › Section 493.060 - Affidavit of printer, editor or publisher — evidence.

Title XXXIII EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Chapter 493
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
493.060. Affidavit of printer, editor or publisher — evidence. —
When any notice or other advertisement shall be required, by law or the order of any court, to be published in any newspaper or made in conformity with any deed of trust or power of attorney, the affidavit of the printer, editor, or publisher, with a copy of such advertisement annexed, stating the number and date of the papers in which the same was published, shall be sufficient evidence of the publication.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14969)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13776; 1919 § 10404; 1909 § 590
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements › Chapter 493 - Legal Publications, Notice and Advertisements › Section 493.070 - Advertisements published in specified newspapers (cities of 100,000 or more).

Title XXXIII EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Chapter 493
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
493.070. Advertisements published in specified newspapers (cities of 100,000 or more). —
In all cities of this state which now have, or shall hereafter have, a population of one hundred thousand inhabitants or more, all public notices and advertisements, directed by any court, or required by law to be published in a newspaper, shall be published in some daily newspaper of such city, of general circulation therein, which shall have been established and continuously published as such for a period of at least three consecutive years next prior to the publication of any such notice.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14970, A.L. 1941 p. 519)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13777; 1919 § 10405; 1909 § 591
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements › Chapter 493 - Legal Publications, Notice and Advertisements › Section 493.075 - Publication of notice in lieu of posting, limits.

Title XXXIII EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Chapter 493
• Effective - 28 Aug 1959
493.075. Publication of notice in lieu of posting, limits. —
When any law of this state provides that notices of any act or thing be made by posting a notice, or by putting up advertisements in public places, the notices or advertisements may, in lieu of posting, be published for the period required by such law in a newspaper accredited under the provisions of this chapter; and published in the locality where such act or thing is required, but if no newspaper is published therein, then in a newspaper published in the county in such locality; except that nothing in this section shall be construed to limit in any way or restrict the provisions of any law of this state which may require longer or more frequent insertions of any notices in a newspaper, and except that this section shall not apply to the notices required under sections 228.030 and 228.110; provided, however, this section shall not apply to counties of the first class having a charter form of government nor to cities located in said counties.
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(L. 1959 H.B. 529 § 493.125)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements › Chapter 493 - Legal Publications, Notice and Advertisements › Section 493.080 - Notice of meeting to select official publication — petitions of newspapers.

Title XXXIII EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Chapter 493
• Effective - 28 Aug 1969
493.080. Notice of meeting to select official publication — petitions of newspapers. —
In all such cities a board consisting of the judges of the circuit court of such city or of the judicial circuit in which the city is situated, or a majority of them shall on or before the first day of January, 1942, and every two years thereafter, cause to be published in some daily newspaper of said city a notice for at least twenty days announcing and designating the time and place when and where said board shall hold a hearing to determine what newspapers in such cities are qualified to publish public notices and advertisements under the provisions of section 493.070; and all newspapers in the cities desiring to publish such public notices and advertisements shall, on or prior to the date of each such hearing, file with the board a petition verified by the affidavit of one of the publishers thereof, that such newspaper has the qualifications set forth in said section and desires to be designated as a qualified newspaper under the provisions of section 493.070, and a majority of the board at such time and place shall determine what newspapers so petitioning are qualified under the provisions of that section and shall make a record thereof and shall file a copy thereof with the clerk of all courts of record within such cities, and thereupon such newspapers shall be deemed and considered by all courts and officers of this state to be qualified under the provisions of that section; provided, however, that there shall not be charged by or allowed to any such newspaper for such publications a rate that exceeds the rate provided in section 493.030; provided, however, that the petition shall be accompanied by a good and sufficient bond, in a sum to be fixed by the board, conditioned for the correct and faithful publication in the newspaper of all public notices and advertisements, in manner and form as required by law, and at rates not in excess of the rate fixed herein; provided, further, that the board of judges of any such city, if the board shall deem it in the public interest, shall, in the manner herein prescribed, qualify any daily newspaper of general circulation for the publication of public notices and advertisements at rates higher than the maximum rates herein established, though such newspaper shall not file bond hereunder.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14971, A.L. 1941 p. 519, A.L. 1945 p. 1317, A.L. 1969 p. 569)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13778
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements › Chapter 493 - Legal Publications, Notice and Advertisements › Section 493.090 - Public notice or advertisement valid, when.

Title XXXIII EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Chapter 493
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
493.090. Public notice or advertisement valid, when. —
No public notice or advertisement directed by any court or required by law to be published in a newspaper, in cities of one hundred thousand inhabitants or more, shall be valid unless it be published in a daily newspaper qualified to publish such notices and advertisements under the provisions of sections 493.070 to 493.090.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14972, A.L. 1941 p. 519)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13779
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements › Chapter 493 - Legal Publications, Notice and Advertisements › Section 493.100 - Notice of sale of certain real estate published in certain newspapers (cities of 600,000 or more).

Title XXXIII EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Chapter 493
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
493.100. Notice of sale of certain real estate published in certain newspapers (cities of 600,000 or more). —
In all cities having a population of more than six hundred thousand inhabitants, as shown by the last United States census, no notice or other advertisement permitted or required by law to be made in conformity with the power of sale of real estate contained in any mortgage or deed of trust shall be valid or sufficient unless such notice or other advertisement shall be published in a daily newspaper, published in such city, whose annual cash receipts from circulation shall exceed six thousand dollars; and such receipts shall be paid by the bona fide individual and separate subscribers of such newspapers in such city, and in computing such receipts there shall not be counted or included cash received from advertising or from any other source.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7771)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7631; 1919 § 9030
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements › Chapter 493 - Legal Publications, Notice and Advertisements › Section 493.110 - Board to meet and select newspapers, when, how.

Title XXXIII EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Chapter 493
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
493.110. Board to meet and select newspapers, when, how. —
In all such cities, a board, consisting of the judges of the circuit court of such city, or of the judicial circuit in which such city is situated, or a majority of the same, shall, on or before the first day of January, 1912, and every two years thereafter, cause to be published in some daily newspaper of said city a notice for at least ten days announcing and designating the time and place when and where the said board shall have a hearing to determine what newspapers in such cities are eligible to publish such notices under the provisions of the foregoing section. The publishers of newspapers desiring the right to publish such notices shall, upon or prior to the date of such hearing, file with said board a petition, verified by the affidavit of such publishers, directed to said board petitioning for such right and setting forth that such newspaper has the required circulation as set forth in the foregoing section. At the time and place so designated the said board shall determine, by such method as shall seem to it best, what newspapers so making application are eligible under the provisions of the foregoing section, and a record of the decisions of the board and a list of the newspapers so declared eligible shall be made in such court and in such manner as the board shall determine.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7772)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7632; 1919 § 9031
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements › Chapter 493 - Legal Publications, Notice and Advertisements › Section 493.120 - Notice published in other newspapers not valid.

Title XXXIII EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Chapter 493
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
493.120. Notice published in other newspapers not valid. —
No notice or other advertisement, as set forth in section 493.100, published in newspapers other than those so declared eligible by such board shall be valid.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7773)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7633; 1919 § 9032
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements › Chapter 493 - Legal Publications, Notice and Advertisements › Section 493.130 - Unlawful for officer or person holding property in trust to make profit in contract with any newspaper.

Title XXXIII EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Chapter 493
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
493.130. Unlawful for officer or person holding property in trust to make profit in contract with any newspaper. —
It shall be unlawful for any officer of the law, attorney at law, administrator, agent or person holding property in trust, to make a profit, directly or indirectly, through or by virtue of any contract, express or implied, made with any newspaper or publishing company for any advertisements, official or otherwise, and any rebate contracted for, allowed or given to such officer, attorney or person shall be accounted for, and the benefit thereof given to the party entitled thereto.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14973)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13780; 1919 § 10408; 1909 § 594
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIII - Evidence and Legal Advertisements › Chapter 493 - Legal Publications, Notice and Advertisements › Section 493.140 - Punishment for accepting rebates.

Title XXXIII EVIDENCE AND LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Chapter 493
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
493.140. Punishment for accepting rebates. —
Any officer, attorney or person who shall collect, retain or enjoy, and any person who shall give to any such officer, attorney or person, any rebate or pecuniary benefit, as designated in section 493.130 herein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14974)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13781; 1919 § 10409; 1909 § 595
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIV - Juries › Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries › Section 494.400 - Qualifications of jurors, selection, exclusions prohibited.

Title XXXIV JURIES
Chapter 494
• Effective - 28 Aug 2004
494.400. Qualifications of jurors, selection, exclusions prohibited. —
All persons qualified for grand or petit jury service shall be citizens of the state and shall be selected at random from a fair cross section of the citizens of the county or of a city not within a county for which the jury may be impaneled, and all such citizens shall have the opportunity to be considered for jury service and an obligation to serve as jurors when summoned for that purpose, unless excused. A citizen of the county or of a city not within a county for which the jury may be impaneled shall not be excluded from selection for possible grand or petit jury service on account of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or economic status.
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(L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 2004 S.B. 1211)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIV - Juries › Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries › Section 494.410 - Master jury list.

Title XXXIV JURIES
Chapter 494
• Effective - 28 Aug 2003
494.410. Master jury list. —
1. The board of jury commissioners shall compile and maintain a list of potential jurors and their addresses, and shall update such list periodically in a manner to be determined by the board. The master jury list shall be comprised of not less than five percent of the total population of the county or city not within a county as determined from the last decennial census. In no event shall the master jury list contain less than four hundred names. In compiling the master jury list the board of jury commissioners shall take reasonable measures to avoid duplication of names.
2. Beginning July 1, 2004, the master jury list shall be the result of random selection of names from a minimum of two government records including, but not limited to, personal property tax list, voter's registration list, and driver's license records. The information furnished by the department of revenue shall not be disclosed except as allowed pursuant to federal law.
3. Whoever has custody, possession, or control of any record used in compiling the master jury list shall make the record available to the board of jury commissioners for inspection, reproduction and copying at all reasonable times.
4. The names on the master jury list shall be considered a public record. The master jury list and copies of all records used in compiling the list shall be retained by the board of jury commissioners for at least five years after compilation of the list.
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(L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 2003 H.B. 613)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIV - Juries › Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries › Section 494.415 - Qualified jury list — juror qualification form, contents — postponement of service.

Title XXXIV JURIES
Chapter 494
• Effective - 28 Aug 1999
494.415. Qualified jury list — juror qualification form, contents — postponement of service. —
1. From time to time and in a manner prescribed by the board of jury commissioners there shall be drawn at random from the master jury list the names or identifying numbers of as many prospective jurors as the court may require. The board of jury commissioners shall cause to be served in a manner prescribed by law for the service of summons or by ordinary mail, as determined by the board, a summons for jury service and a juror qualification form. The juror qualification form shall be approved by the circuit court en banc and shall:
(1) Contain instructions to fill out and return the form within ten days;
(2) Contain the prospective juror's declaration that his responses are true to the best of his knowledge; and
(3) Elicit information concerning the prospective juror's qualifications.
­­Notarization of the juror qualification form shall not be required. If the prospective juror is unable to fill out the juror qualification form, another person may do it for the prospective juror and shall so indicate and the reason therefor. Any prospective juror who fails to return a completed juror qualification form as instructed may be directed by the board of jury commissioners to appear forthwith to fill out a juror qualification form.
2. If it is determined from an examination of the juror qualification form that a person is not qualified to serve as a juror, that prospective juror shall be notified in a manner directed by the board of jury commissioners and shall not be required to comply with the summons for jury service. Such names shall be deleted from the master jury list.
3. Upon application by a prospective juror, the jury supervisor or board of jury commissioners, acting in accordance with written guidelines adopted by the circuit court, may postpone that prospective juror's service to a later date.
4. Those prospective jurors not disqualified from jury service shall constitute the qualified jury list. If any prospective juror is later determined to be ineligible or disqualified, such name shall be deleted from the qualified jury list and the master jury list.
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(L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 1999 S.B. 1, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIV - Juries › Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries › Section 494.420 - Selection of jurors from qualified jury list.

Title XXXIV JURIES
Chapter 494
• Effective - 28 Aug 1989
494.420. Selection of jurors from qualified jury list. —
1. Those persons constituting the qualified jury list, when summoned, shall be placed under the control and supervision of the sheriff or other person designated by the board of jury commissioners in a designated area to be provided in the courthouse.
2. Whenever a judge of the circuit court shall require a panel of jurors for jury service, he shall designate the number of jurors required. This number of jurors shall be randomly selected in a manner specified by the board of jury commissioners from the qualified jury list.
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(L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIV - Juries › Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries › Section 494.425 - Persons ineligible for jury service.

Title XXXIV JURIES
Chapter 494
• Effective - 28 Aug 2004
494.425. Persons ineligible for jury service. —
The following persons shall be disqualified from serving as a petit or grand juror:
(1) Any person who is less than twenty-one years of age;
(2) Any person not a citizen of the United States;
(3) Any person not a resident of the county or city not within a county served by the court issuing the summons;
(4) Any person who has been convicted of a felony, unless such person has been restored to his civil rights;
(5) Any person unable to read, speak and understand the English language, unless such person's inability is due to a vision or hearing impairment which can be adequately compensated for through the use of auxiliary aids or services;
(6) Any person on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States or any member of the organized militia on active duty under order of the governor;
(7) Any judge of a court of record;
(8) Any person who, in the judgment of the court, is incapable of performing the duties of a juror because of mental or physical illness or infirmity. The juror or the juror's personal representative, may provide the court with documentation from a physician licensed to practice medicine verifying that a mental or physical condition renders the person unfit for jury service for a period of up to twenty-four months.
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(L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 2004 S.B. 1211)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIV - Juries › Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries › Section 494.432 - Postponement of jury duty, when.

Title XXXIV JURIES
Chapter 494
• Effective - 28 Aug 2005, 2 histories
494.432. Postponement of jury duty, when. —
1. Individuals scheduled to appear for jury service have the right to postpone the date of their initial appearance for jury service one time only for reasons other than undue influence or extreme physical or financial hardship. When requested, postponements shall be granted, provided that:
(1) The prospective juror has not previously been granted a postponement;
(2) The prospective juror appears in person or contacts the board of jury commissioners by telephone, electronic mail, or in writing to request a postponement; and
(3) Prior to the grant of a postponement the court shall set the date on which the prospective juror will appear for jury service that is not more than six months after the date on which the prospective juror originally was called to serve and on which date the court will be in session. If a prospective juror is a full-time student of any accredited institution, the court shall set the date on which the prospective juror will appear for jury service that is not more than twelve months after the date on which the prospective juror originally was called to serve and on which the court will be in session.
2. A subsequent request to postpone jury service may be approved by a judicial officer only in the event of an extreme emergency, such as a death in the family, sudden grave illness, or a natural disaster or national emergency in which the prospective juror is personally involved, that could not have been anticipated at the time the initial postponement was granted. Prior to the grant of a second postponement, the prospective juror must fix a date certain on which the individual will appear for jury service within six months of the postponement on a date when the court will be in session.
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(L. 2004 S.B. 1211, A.L. 2005 S.B. 420 & 344)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIV - Juries › Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries › Section 494.435 - Panel exhausted, other jurors summoned.

Title XXXIV JURIES
Chapter 494
• Effective - 28 Aug 1989
494.435. Panel exhausted, other jurors summoned. —
Whenever there is an unanticipated shortage of available petit jurors drawn from a qualified jury list, the court may require the sheriff or a jury supervisor to summon a sufficient number of petit jurors from bystanders. If any party objects to bystanders being summoned, additional jurors shall be selected at random from the qualified jury list.
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(L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIV - Juries › Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries › Section 494.440 - Data processing devices may be used in compiling lists.

Title XXXIV JURIES
Chapter 494
• Effective - 28 Aug 1989
494.440. Data processing devices may be used in compiling lists. —
In compiling and maintaining a list of prospective and qualified jurors and in summoning qualified jurors for service, the board of jury commissioners may use such data processing or mechanical devices as it considers sufficient and efficient to carry out the declared policy of sections 494.400 to 494.505.
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(L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIV - Juries › Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries › Section 494.442 - List of licensed drivers to contain Social Security numbers — numbers to be provided to board of jury commissioners — election authority to provide numbers — effective date.

Title XXXIV JURIES
Chapter 494
• Effective - 01 Jan 1994, see footnote
494.442. List of licensed drivers to contain Social Security numbers — numbers to be provided to board of jury commissioners — election authority to provide numbers — effective date. —
1. The list required by section 302.110 to be kept by the director of revenue shall, in addition to the information required under section 302.110, contain the Social Security numbers of all licensed drivers, and the Social Security numbers for all drivers who provide such numbers to the director for use as their drivers' license numbers shall be provided to the board of jury commissioners of each county and of each city not within a county for the compilation of the master jury list pursuant to section 494.410. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, Social Security numbers provided to the board of jury commissioners shall not be made available for public inspection but may be used by the board of jury commissioners for official use.
2. The election authority shall include the Social Security numbers of all registered voters who have provided such numbers to the election authority in any lists provided to the board of jury commissioners of each county and of each city not within a county for the compilation of the master jury list pursuant to section 494.410.
3. This section shall become effective on January 1, 1994.
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(L. 1993 S.B. 88)
Effective 1-01-94
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIV - Juries › Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries › Section 494.445 - Petit jurors, maximum number of days required to serve, exception.

Title XXXIV JURIES
Chapter 494
• Effective - 28 Aug 2004
494.445. Petit jurors, maximum number of days required to serve, exception. —
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3, no petit juror shall be required to attend court for prospective jury service more than twenty days in any one-year period except as is necessary to complete service in a particular case.
2. Subsequent to January 1, 2005, in jurisdictions on the nonpartisan court plan, no petit juror shall be required to attend court for prospective jury service for more than two days pursuant to a jury summons unless selected to a panel of prospective jurors for jury service pursuant to subsection 2 of section 494.420, or selected to serve as a petit juror in one particular case.
3. In jurisdictions on the nonpartisan court plan, no petit juror shall be required to serve as a juror for more than twenty days in any one-year period except as is necessary to complete service in a particular case.
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(L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 1999 S.B. 1, et al., A.L. 2004 S.B. 1211)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIV - Juries › Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries › Section 494.450 - Juror nonattendance, criminal contempt, fine.

Title XXXIV JURIES
Chapter 494
• Effective - 28 Aug 2004
494.450. Juror nonattendance, criminal contempt, fine. —
A person who is summoned for jury service and who willfully fails to appear and who has failed to obtain a postponement in compliance with section 494.432 or as an excuse pursuant to section 494.430, or to respond to the juror qualification form shall be in civil contempt of court, enforceable by an order directing him or her to show cause for his or her failure to comply with the summons and the juror qualification form. Following an order to show cause hearing, the court may impose a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars. The prospective juror may be excused from paying sanctions for good cause shown or in the interests of justice. In addition to, or in lieu of, the fine, the court may order that the prospective juror complete a period of community service for a period of no less than if the prospective juror would have completed jury service, and require that he or she provide proof of completion of such community service to the court.
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(L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 2004 S.B. 1211)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIV - Juries › Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries › Section 494.460 - Employers prohibited from disciplining employees because of jury duty, action for damages, attorney fees — employees not required to use leave for jury duty — automatic postponement of jury duty, when.

Title XXXIV JURIES
Chapter 494
• Effective - 28 Aug 2004
494.460. Employers prohibited from disciplining employees because of jury duty, action for damages, attorney fees — employees not required to use leave for jury duty — automatic postponement of jury duty, when. —
1. An employer shall not terminate, discipline, threaten or take adverse actions against an employee on account of that employee's receipt of or response to a jury summons.
2. An employee discharged in violation of this section may bring civil action against his or her employer within ninety days of discharge for recovery of lost wages and other damages caused by the violation and for an order directing reinstatement of the employee. If the employee prevails, the employee shall be entitled to receive a reasonable attorney's fee.
3. An employee may not be required or requested to use annual, vacation, personal, or sick leave for time spent responding to a summons for jury duty, time spent participating in the jury selection process, or time spent actually serving on a jury. Nothing in this provision shall be construed to require an employer to provide annual, vacation, personal, or sick leave to employees under the provisions of this statute who otherwise are not entitled to such benefits under company policies.
4. A court shall automatically postpone and reschedule the service of a summoned juror of an employer with five or fewer full-time employees, or their equivalent, if another employee of that employer has been previously summoned to appear during the same period. Such postponement will not effect an individual's right to one automatic postponement pursuant to section 494.432.
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(L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 2004 S.B. 1211)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIV - Juries › Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries › Section 494.465 - Challenge of jury on grounds that it was not selected in conformity with sections 494.400 to 494.505.

Title XXXIV JURIES
Chapter 494
• Effective - 28 Aug 1989
494.465. Challenge of jury on grounds that it was not selected in conformity with sections 494.400 to 494.505. —
1. A party may move to stay the proceedings or for other appropriate relief including, in a criminal case, to quash the indictment if there has been a substantial failure to comply with the declared policy of sections 494.400 to 494.505 in selecting a grand jury, on the ground of substantial failure to comply with the provisions of sections 494.400 to 494.505. Such motion may be made at any time before the petit jury is sworn to try the case or within fourteen days after the moving party discovers or by the exercise of reasonable diligence could have discovered the grounds therefor, whichever occurs later.
2. Upon motion filed under subsection 1 of this section containing a sworn statement of facts which, if true, would constitute a substantial failure to comply with sections 494.400 to 494.505, the moving party is entitled to present in support of the motion the testimony of any competent witness or any relevant records and papers not public or otherwise available used by the board of jury commissioners and any other relevant evidence. If the court determines that in selecting either a grand jury or a petit jury there has been substantial failure to comply with the declared policy of sections 494.400 to 494.505, the court shall stay the proceedings pending the selection of the jury in conformity with the declared policy or grant other appropriate relief.
3. The procedures prescribed by this section are the exclusive means by which a party in a case may challenge a jury on the ground that the jury was not selected in conformity to sections 494.400 to 494.505.
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(L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIV - Juries › Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries › Section 494.470 - Challenges for cause, grounds for — juror on panel not summoned off as a witness, exception.

Title XXXIV JURIES
Chapter 494
• Effective - 28 Aug 1989
494.470. Challenges for cause, grounds for — juror on panel not summoned off as a witness, exception. —
1. No witness or person summoned as a witness in any cause, no person who has formed or expressed an opinion concerning the matter or any material fact in controversy in any case that may influence the judgment of such person, and no person who is kin to either party in a civil case or to the injured party, accused, or prosecuting or circuit attorney in a criminal case within the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity shall be sworn as a juror in the same cause.
2. Persons whose opinions or beliefs preclude them from following the law as declared by the court in its instructions are ineligible to serve as jurors on that case.
3. All challenges for cause may be tried by the court on the oath of the person challenged or on other evidence and such challenges shall be made before the juror is sworn. If the cause of challenge be discovered after the juror is sworn and before any part of the evidence is delivered, the juror may be discharged or not in the discretion of the court.
4. A prospective juror may be challenged for cause for any reason mentioned in this section and also for any causes authorized by the law.
5. It shall be unlawful for any party to any suit to have summoned off of the regular panel of any jury, qualified for the trial of any cause, any of such jurors, to be used as witnesses in any cause pending in the court, unless the party at whose instance such juror or jurors is summoned shall first show, to the satisfaction of the court, that such juror or jurors so to be summoned are material witnesses, whose evidence he should have in the trial of the cause, and unless he so shows, the court may refuse to allow such juror to be summoned as a juror may be summoned as a witness prior to the first day of the term without first showing to the court that such person is a material witness.
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(L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIV - Juries › Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries › Section 494.475 - Inhabitants of city or county not disqualified when city or county is a party.

Title XXXIV JURIES
Chapter 494
• Effective - 28 Aug 1989
494.475. Inhabitants of city or county not disqualified when city or county is a party. —
In all actions brought by or against any county or city, the inhabitants of the county or city so suing or being sued may be jurors, if otherwise competent and qualified.
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(L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIV - Juries › Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries › Section 494.480 - Peremptory challenges — civil cases, multiple parties, allocation — criminal cases — qualification of juror as basis for new trial — costs for impaneling jury to be paid, when.

Title XXXIV JURIES
Chapter 494
• Effective - 01 Jul 1997, see footnote
494.480. Peremptory challenges — civil cases, multiple parties, allocation — criminal cases — qualification of juror as basis for new trial — costs for impaneling jury to be paid, when. —
1. In trials of civil causes each party shall be entitled to peremptorily challenge three jurors. When there are multiple plaintiffs or defendants, all plaintiffs and all defendants shall join in their challenges as if there were one plaintiff and one defendant. The court in its discretion may allocate the allowable peremptory challenges among the parties plaintiff or defendant upon good cause shown and as the ends of justice require. In all cases, the plaintiff shall announce its challenges first.
2. In all criminal cases, the state and the defendant shall be entitled to a peremptory challenge of jurors as follows:
(1) If the offense charged is punishable by death, the state shall have the right to challenge nine and the defendant nine;
(2) In all other cases punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary, the state shall have the right to challenge six and the defendant six;
(3) In all cases not punishable by death or imprisonment in the penitentiary, the state and the defendant shall each have the right to challenge two.
3. In all criminal cases where several defendants are tried together, the following provisions shall apply:
(1) Each defendant then on trial shall be allowed separate peremptory challenges as provided in subsection 2 of this section;
(2) The number of peremptory challenges allowed the state by subsection 2 of this section shall be multiplied by the number of defendants then on trial in each case.
4. Within such time as may be ordered by the court, the state shall announce its peremptory challenges first and the defendants thereafter. The qualifications of a juror on the panel from which peremptory challenges by the defense are made shall not constitute a ground for the granting of a motion for new trial or the reversal of a conviction or sentence unless such juror served upon the jury at the defendant's trial and participated in the verdict rendered against the defendant.
5. If the defendant pleads guilty to a lesser or included offense other than the offense charged in the information or indictment in return for a specific lesser sentence than such defendant would likely have received if such defendant were found guilty of the crime charged, or makes any other plea bargaining arrangement, at any time after the jury is impaneled such defendant shall be liable to the county for the costs associated with impaneling the jury.
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(L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 1993 S.B. 180, A.L. 1996 S.B. 869)
Effective 7-01-97
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIV - Juries › Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries › Section 494.485 - Alternate jurors.

Title XXXIV JURIES
Chapter 494
• Effective - 28 Aug 1999
494.485. Alternate jurors. —
If in any case to be tried before a jury it appears to the court to be appropriate, the court may direct that a number of jurors in addition to the regular jury be called and impaneled to sit as alternate jurors. Alternate jurors, in the order in which they are called, shall replace jurors who, prior to the time the jury retires to consider its verdict, become or are found to be unable or disqualified to perform their duties. Alternate jurors shall be selected in the same manner, shall have the same qualifications, shall be subject to the same examination and challenges, shall take the same oath and shall have the same functions, powers, facilities and privileges as the principal jurors. Alternate jurors who do not replace principal jurors shall be discharged after the jury retires to consider its verdict. Each side is entitled to one peremptory challenge in addition to those otherwise allowed by law for each two alternate jurors to be impaneled. The additional peremptory challenge may be used against an alternate juror only, and the other peremptory challenges allowed by law shall not be used against the alternates.
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(L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 1999 S.B. 1, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIV - Juries › Chapter 494 - General Provisions as to Juries › Section 494.490 - Number of jurors — three-fourths or more jurors to return verdict in civil cases — how verdict is signed.

Title XXXIV JURIES
Chapter 494
• Effective - 28 Aug 1996
494.490. Number of jurors — three-fourths or more jurors to return verdict in civil cases — how verdict is signed. —
In all trials of civil actions before a circuit judge, or an associate circuit judge sitting as a circuit judge, a jury shall consist of twelve persons selected pursuant to sections 494.400 to 494.505, unless all parties agree on a lesser number, but not less than eight, in which case the number of veniremen shall be reduced accordingly. Three-fourths or more jurors may return a lawful verdict. All verdicts shall be signed by each juror who agrees to the verdict.
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(L. 1989 S.B. 127, et al., A.L. 1996 S.B. 869)