2014 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS (556-600)
Chapter 590 Peace Officers, Selection, Training and Discipline
Section 590.130 (Repealed L. 2001 H.B. 80 § A)

MO Rev Stat § 590.130 (2014) What's This?

590.130. No elected county peace officer or official shall be required to be certified under sections 590.100 to 590.180 to seek or hold such office, but all appointive deputies or assistants of such officer or official who are employed as peace officers, provided that such county has five or more full-time peace officers, shall be certified as a condition of appointment in the same manner as other peace officers are required to be certified. No arrest shall be deemed unlawful in any criminal or civil proceeding solely because the peace officer is not certified under the terms of sections 590.100 to 590.180. Evidence on the question cannot be received in any civil or criminal case.

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