2017 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT
Chapter 65 Township Organization Counties
Section 65.480 Action to enforce penalties and forfeitures — employment of counsel.

Universal Citation: MO Rev Stat § 65.480 (2017)

Effective 28 Aug 1939

Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT

Chapter 65

65.480. Action to enforce penalties and forfeitures — employment of counsel. — The township trustee shall cause suit to be instituted in the name of the township for all penalties and forfeitures given by law to such township, in all cases where no other officer is specially directed to prosecute, and he may, with the consent of the township board, employ counsel to prosecute or defend any suit to which such township is a party such counsel fees to be paid out of the township funds not otherwise appropriated.

(RSMo 1939 § 13966)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 12289; 1919 § 13202; 1909 § 11690

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