FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 358
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR SCHNEIDER.
Read 1st time January 23, 2001, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
0972S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 517.011, RSMo 2000, relating to procedure before certain associate circuit judges, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 517.011, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 517.011, to read as follows:
517.011. 1. The provisions of this chapter shall apply to the practice and procedure in civil cases originally filed before associate circuit judges in hearing and determining the following cases or classes of cases:
(1) Except as otherwise provided by law, all civil actions and proceedings for the recovery of money, whether such action be founded upon contract or tort, or upon a bond or undertaking given in pursuance of law in any civil action or proceeding, or for a penalty or forfeiture given by any statute of this state, when the sum demanded, exclusive of interest and costs, does not exceed [twenty-five] fifty thousand dollars;
(2) All actions against any railroad company in this state, to recover damages for killing or injuring horses, mules, cattle or other animals within their respective counties, without regard to the value of such animals, or the amount claimed for killing or injuring the same;
(3) All cases arising under chapter 213, 272, 302, 303, 388, 429, 430, 444, 482, 521, 533, 534, 535, or 577, RSMo;
(4) In counties of less than seventy thousand inhabitants, when a circuit judge is absent from the county, cases that a circuit judge can hear in chambers except where otherwise provided by law.
2. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the practice and procedure before associate circuit judges in hearing and determining cases, except as provided in subsection 1 of this section.