2016 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE XXXII COURTS (476-488)
Chapter 483 Clerks of Courts of Record and Court Records
Section 483.160 Clerks of courts to deliver reports to successors.

MO Rev Stat § 483.160 (2016) What's This?

483.160. 1. Hereafter it shall be the duty of all court clerks to keep in their offices a catalogue of all reports belonging to their respective offices, and they shall deliver or account to their successors in office for all such reports.

2. And upon failure to so deliver the same, the prosecuting attorney of the proper city or county or the attorney general shall institute a suit, to the use of the state, against said clerk, or on the bond of said clerk, and in case of recovery in said suit, recovery shall be three times the value of said reports that said clerk shall have failed to deliver.

(RSMo 1939 § 2098, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1936; 1919 § 2434; 1909 § 3954

Effective 1-2-79

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