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2012 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 57 Sheriffs
Section 57.117 Deputy sheriff to be resident of state.


MO Rev Stat § 57.117 (2012) What's This?

Deputy sheriff to be resident of state.

57.117. Hereafter no sheriff in this state shall appoint any under sheriff or deputy sheriff except the person so appointed shall be, at the time of his appointment, a bona fide resident of the state.

(RSMo 1939 4627)

Prior revisions: 1929 4238; 1919 3485; 1909 4700

*Transferred 1978; formerly 562.210

CROSS REFERENCE:

Special deputies must be residents, 542.190

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