FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 26
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR SINGLETON.
Pre-filed December 1, 1998, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
S0367.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 106.270, RSMo 1994, relating to county officials, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 106.270, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 106.270, to read as follows:
106.270. If any official against whom a proceeding has been filed, as provided for in sections 106.220 to 106.290, shall be found guilty of failing personally to devote his or her time to the performance of the duties of such office, or of any willful, corrupt or fraudulent violation or neglect of official duty, or of knowingly or willfully failing or refusing to do or perform any official act or duty which by law it is made his or her duty to do or perform with respect to the execution or enforcement of the criminal laws of the state, the court shall render judgment removing him or her from such office, and he or she shall not be elected or appointed to fill the vacancy thereby created, but the same shall be filled as provided by law for filling vacancies in other cases. Such removed official shall be prohibited from being elected, appointed or running for nomination for any county elective office for a period of eight years from the date of removal. All actions and proceedings under sections 106.220 to 106.290 shall be in the nature of civil actions, and tried as such.