2016 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XXXII COURTS (476-488)
Chapter 478 Circuit Courts

• Chapter Cross References

DRUG COURTS

• Section 478.001 Drug courts, establishment, purpose--referrals to certified treatment programs required, exceptions--completion of treatment program, effect--DWI docket permitted, certain circuits.
• Section 478.003 Administration--commissioners, appointment, term, removal, powers, duties, qualifications, compensation--orders of commissioners, confirmation or rejection by judges, effect.
• Section 478.005 Conditions for referral--statements by participant not to be used as evidence, when--records, access to staff, closed, when.
• Section 478.006 Jackson County, provisions of drug court law may apply, when.
• Section 478.007 DWI, alternative disposition of cases, docket or court may be established--private probation services, when (Jackson County).
• Section 478.008 Veterans treatment courts authorized, requirements.
• Section 478.009 Drug courts coordinating commission established, members, meetings--fund created.

JUDGES AND JURISDICTION

• Section 478.010 Election of circuit judges.
• Section 478.011 Number of judicial circuits
• Section 478.012 Circuit court defined.
• Section 478.013 Salaries of circuit judges--practice of or doing law business prohibited.
• Section 478.014 Judge of the circuit court, defined.
• Section 478.017 Travel allowance for circuit judges.
• Section 478.018 Associate judges, circuit court, compensation.
• Section 478.019 Judge of probate division, ex officio circuit or associate circuit judge, when, salary, how payable.
• Section 478.020 Expenses of judge when serving outside regular circuit.
• Section 478.023 Salary and expenses, how paid.
• Section 478.035 Circuit courts--counties and City of St. Louis to provide quarters.
• Section 478.038 Circuit number nine, election to maintain quarters for circuit court, form of question.
• Section 478.063 Juvenile divisions designated.
• Section 478.070 Jurisdiction of circuit courts.
• Section 478.072 Preserving record, case assigned to associate circuit judge, how, approval required--supreme court to prescribe procedures and forms.

DIVISION OF STATE INTO CIRCUITS

• Section 478.073 Circuit realignment plan authorized--judicial conference duties--effective date--minimum number of circuits--publication by the revisor.
• Section 478.075 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.075 Circuit No. 1.
• Section 478.077 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.077 Circuit No. 2.
• Section 478.080 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.080 Circuit No. 3.
• Section 478.085 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.085 Circuit No. 4.
• Section 478.087 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.087 Circuit No. 5.
• Section 478.090 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.090 Circuit No. 6.
• Section 478.093 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.093 Circuit No. 7.
• Section 478.095 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.095 Circuit No. 8.
• Section 478.097 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.097 Circuit No. 9.
• Section 478.100 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.100 Circuit No. 10.
• Section 478.103 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.103 Circuit No. 11.
• Section 478.105 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.105 Circuit No. 12.
• Section 478.107 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.107 Circuit No. 13.
• Section 478.110 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.110 Circuit No. 14.
• Section 478.113 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.113 Circuit No. 15.
• Section 478.115 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.115 Circuit No. 16.
• Section 478.117 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.117 Circuit No. 17.
• Section 478.120 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.120 Circuit No. 18.
• Section 478.123 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.123 Circuit No. 19.
• Section 478.125 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.125 Circuit No. 20.
• Section 478.127 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.127 Circuit No. 21.
• Section 478.130 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.130 Circuit No. 22.
• Section 478.133 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.133 Circuit No. 23.
• Section 478.135 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.135 Circuit No. 24.
• Section 478.137 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.137 Circuit No. 25.
• Section 478.140 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.140 Circuit No. 26.
• Section 478.143 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.143 Circuit No. 27.
• Section 478.145 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.145 Circuit No. 28.
• Section 478.147 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.147 Circuit No. 29.
• Section 478.150 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.150 Circuit No. 30.
• Section 478.153 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.153 Circuit No. 31.
• Section 478.155 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.155 Circuit No. 32.
• Section 478.157 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.157 Circuit No. 33.
• Section 478.160 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.160 Circuit No. 34.
• Section 478.163 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.163 Circuit No. 35.
• Section 478.165 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.165 Circuit No. 36.
• Section 478.167 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.167 Circuit No. 37.
• Section 478.170 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.170 Circuit No. 38.
• Section 478.173 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.173 Circuit No. 39.
• Section 478.175 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.175 Circuit No. 40.
• Section 478.177 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.177 Circuit No. 41.
• Section 478.180 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.180 Circuit No. 42.
• Section 478.183 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.183 Circuit No. 43.
• Section 478.185 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.185 Circuit No. 44.
• Section 478.186 (Repealed L. 2013 H.B. 374 & 434 § A)
• Section 478.186 Circuit No. 45.
• Section 478.188 (Repealed L. 2016 S.B. 585 § A)
• Section 478.188 Circuit No. 46.
• Section 478.191 Authority for establishment of circuits, repealed, effective when.

TERMS OF COURT

• Section 478.205 Circuit court, continual session--when term required, time commencing.
• Section 478.206 Writs and other processes returned to first term, when, effect.
• Section 478.220 Circuit and associate circuit judges, jurisdiction, restrictions.
• Section 478.230 Municipal judges, jurisdiction--cases subject to transfer.
• Section 478.240 Presiding judge, term, selection procedures--chief justice of supreme court may remove presiding judge, designate acting judge--authority to assign cases, exception--judge hears case not properly assigned, effect.
• Section 478.245 Circuit courts may adopt local court rules--procedure--restrictions--role of associate circuit judges.
• Section 478.248 Availability of a judge for bail purposes, when, local court rules to ensure.
• Section 478.250 Procedure for filing cases, docketing, assignment, hearing.
• Section 478.255 Disqualification of judge, reassignment procedure--applicability to probate judges.
• Section 478.260 Probate division of circuit court established, jurisdiction.
• Section 478.265 Commissioner of the probate division of circuit court, appointment, qualifications, powers, duties, compensation (counties over 400,000).
• Section 478.266 Probate division, commissioner authorized, certain counties, compensation, commissioner's orders, rejection or confirmation--deputy commissioner, certain counties and cities, appointment, term--powers and duties.
• Section 478.267 Probate division of circuit court, commissioner authorized, compensation, term--commissioner's orders, rejection or confirmation of (St. Louis County).
• Section 478.268 Probate division commissioner authorized, thirty-first judicial circuit, term, compensation--commissioner's orders, rejection or confirmation.
• Section 478.270 Judge or clerk not to prepare wills or settlements--letters revoked, when.
• Section 478.320 Associate circuit judges, authorized number--population determination--election--restrictions on practice of law or paid public appointment--residency requirement.

ADDITIONAL CIRCUIT JUDGES

• Section 478.330 Additional circuit judges authorized, when.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 5, BUCHANAN AND ANDREW COUNTIES

• Section 478.370 Divisions of Circuit No. 5, number--when judges elected.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 6, PLATTE COUNTY

• Section 478.375 6th Circuit--additional judge, when.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 7, CLAY COUNTY

• Section 478.385 Circuit No. 7, number of judges.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 22, ST. LOUIS CITY

• Section 478.387 Circuit No. 22, number of judges.
• Section 478.400 General term--business, how distributed and expedited.
• Section 478.401 (Transferred 2000; now 488.447)
• Section 478.422 Friend of court in child support matters, appointment, compensation (St. Louis County and St. Louis City).
• Section 478.428 Presiding judge and circuit clerk St. Louis City to meet with mayor and budget director to discuss court's estimate of expenditures for year--estimate to be filed when.
• Section 478.430 (Repealed L. 2016 S.B. 578 § A)
• Section 478.433 (Repealed L. 2016 S.B. 578 § A)
• Section 478.434 Fines, penalties and forfeitures, to be paid into city treasury, reports.
• Section 478.435 Register to furnish names of collectors to court.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 21, ST. LOUIS COUNTY

• Section 478.437 Circuit No. 21, number of judges.
• Section 478.450 To make rules for numbering, assignment and transfer of cases.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 16, JACKSON COUNTY

• Section 478.461 Division into eastern and western portions--jurisdiction--venue--actions against county, where filed--transfer of cases, when--cases commenced prior to division, effect--rules authorized.
• Section 478.462 Circuit No. 16, filing in improper division of circuit, venue--transfer of cases, when.
• Section 478.463 Circuit No. 16, number of judges, divisions--where divisions to sit.
• Section 478.464 Associate circuit divisions numbered--divisions to sit, where--(Jackson County).
• Section 478.465 Transfer of cases by local court rule, circuit court and probate division (Circuit No. 16).
• Section 478.466 Drug court commissioner, appointment, qualifications, compensation, powers and duties--surcharge (Jackson County).
• Section 478.467 Court may make rules for distribution of cases.
• Section 478.469 Appeals from municipal judges, where heard.
• Section 478.473 Letters where granted (Jackson County).
• Section 478.475 Sales of real estate at courthouse door.
• Section 478.483 Jurisdiction as to mechanic's liens.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 31, GREENE COUNTY

• Section 478.513 Circuit No. 31, number of judges, divisions--when judges elected.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 29, JASPER COUNTY

• Section 478.527 Circuit No. 29, number of judges, divisions--when judges elected.
• Section 478.528 Family court commissioner position.
• Section 478.530 Court may make rules for distribution, transfer of cases.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 23, JEFFERSON COUNTY

• Section 478.550 Circuit No. 23, number of judges, divisions--when judges elected--family court commissioner and drug court commissioner to become associate circuit judge positions, when.
• Section 478.551 Drug court commissioner position to be state funded.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 17, CASS AND JOHNSON COUNTIES

• Section 478.570 Circuit No. 17, number of judges, divisions--when judges elected.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 46, TANEY COUNTY

• Section 478.577 Circuit No. 46, number of judges--election, when.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 11, LINCOLN, PIKE AND ST. CHARLES COUNTIES

• Section 478.600 Circuit No. 11, number of judges, divisions--when judges elected--drug commissioner to become associate circuit judge position.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 13, BOONE AND CALLAWAY COUNTIES

• Section 478.610 Circuit No. 13, number of judges, divisions--when judges elected--additional associate circuit judge for Boone County, when.
• Section 478.620 Records of former Sturgeon court of common pleas, transfer and keeping of.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 19, COLE COUNTY

• Section 478.625 Circuit No. 19, number of judges, divisions--when judges elected.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 20, FRANKLIN, GASCONADE AND OSAGE COUNTIES

• Section 478.630 Circuit No. 20, number of judges, divisions--when judges elected.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 24, MADISON, PERRY, ST. FRANCOIS, STE. GENEVIEVE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES

• Section 478.690 Circuit No. 24, number of judges, divisions--when judges elected.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 25, MARIES, PHELPS, PULASKI AND TEXAS COUNTIES

• Section 478.700 Circuit No. 25, number of judges, divisions--when judges elected.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 26, CAMDEN, LACLEDE, MILLER, MONITEAU AND MORGAN COUNTIES

• Section 478.705 Circuit No. 26, number of judges, divisions--when judges elected.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 32, BOLLINGER AND CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTIES

• Section 478.710 Circuit No. 32, number of judges, divisions--when judges elected.
• Section 478.711 Circuit court, where may be held--probate division, where offices may be maintained.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 42, CRAWFORD, DENT, IRON, REYNOLDS AND WAYNE COUNTIES

• Section 478.715 Circuit No. 42, number of judges, divisions--when judges elected.
• Section 478.716 Drug court commissioner position.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 10, CIRCUIT COURT OF MARION COUNTY

• Section 478.720 Districts of Marion County circuit court--where court held--jurisdiction transfers.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 44, DOUGLAS, OZARK AND WRIGHT COUNTIES

• Section 478.730 Circuit No. 44, judge appointed, elected when.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 38

• Section 478.740 Circuit No. 38, number of judges--number of divisions--election dates.

JUDICIAL CIRCUIT NO. 43, CLINTON, CALDWELL, DAVIESS, LIVINGSTON AND DEKALB COUNTIES

• Section 478.750 Circuit No. 43, number of judges--divisions--election.

GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL CIRCUITS

• Section 478.1000 Criminal nonsupport courts authorized--referral of cases--allocation of resources--fund created, use of moneys.