FIRST REGULAR SESSION

SENATE BILL NO. 271

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY


INTRODUCED BY SENATOR SCHNEIDER.

Read 1st time January 10, 2001, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.



TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

0813S.02I


AN ACT

To repeal section 488.426, RSMo 2000, relating to law library funds, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.


Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

Section A.  Section 488.426, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 488.426, to read as follows:

488.426.  The judges of the circuit court, en banc, in any circuit in this state, by rule of court [adopted prior to January 1, 1997,] may require any party filing a civil case in the circuit court, at the time of filing the suit, to deposit with the clerk of the court a surcharge in the amount of [not to exceed] fifteen dollars in addition to all other deposits required by law or court rule.  Sections 488.426 to 488.432 shall not apply to proceedings when costs are waived or are to be paid by the county or state or any city.



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