FIRST REGULAR SESSION

SENATE BILL NO. 342

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY


INTRODUCED BY SENATOR JACOB.

Read 1st time January 22, 2001, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.



TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

1243S.02I


AN ACT

To repeal section 478.610, RSMo 2000, relating to certain judges, 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Section A.  Section 478.610, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 478.610, to read as follows:

478.610.  1.  There shall be three circuit judges in the thirteenth judicial circuit consisting of the counties of Boone and Callaway.  These judges shall sit in divisions numbered one, two and three.

2.  The circuit judge in division two shall be elected in 1980.  The circuit judges in divisions one and three shall be elected in 1982.

3.  The authority for a majority of judges of the thirteenth judicial circuit to appoint or retain a commissioner pursuant to section 478.003 shall expire August 28, 2001.  As of such date, there shall be one additional associate circuit judge position in Boone County than is provided pursuant to section 478.320.  



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