HB 340 Modifies provisions relating to county jails and courthouses

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HB 340 - This act allows any county to build a jail outside the county seat. The act contains an emergency clause for this provision.

Also, it makes it optional for the circuit court in Cape Girardeau county to hold court and maintain an office of the probate division in both the courthouses in Jackson and in Cape Girardeau. Likewise, the circuit clerk may maintain offices in both the courthouses in Jackson and in Cape Girardeau.

This act contains provisions identical to HB 327 (2011), SB 186 (2011) and a provision of HCS/HB 889 (2011).

MEGHAN LUECKE

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