2012 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE IV EXECUTIVE BRANCH
Chapter 33 State Financial Administration
Section 33.150 Preserve all accounts and vouchers--destroy, when.

33.150. The original of all accounts, vouchers and documents approved or to be approved by the commissioner of administration shall be preserved in his office; and copies thereof shall be given without charge to any person, county, city, town, township and school or special road district interested therein, that may require the same for the purpose of being used as evidence in the trial of the cause, and like copies shall be furnished to any corporation or association requiring the same, under tender of the fees allowed by law; provided, that, during each biennial session of the general assembly, the commissioner of administration may, in the presence of a joint committee of the house of representatives and senate, destroy by burning or by any other method satisfactory to said joint committee all paid accounts, vouchers and duplicate receipts of the state treasurer and other documents which may have been on file in the office of the commissioner of administration or his predecessor as custodian of such documents for a period of five years or longer, except such documents as may at the time be the subject of litigation or dispute. Said joint committee shall consist of four members of the house of representatives, to be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, and two members of the senate, to be appointed by the president pro tem of the senate.

(RSMo 1939 13041, A.L. 1945 p. 1428 43)

Prior revisions: 1929 11419; 1919 13325; 1909 11826

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