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| 2 | 2 | | EXPLANATION-Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in this bill is not enacted |
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| 3 | 3 | | and is intended to be omitted in the law. |
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| 4 | 4 | | SECOND REGULAR SESSION |
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| 5 | 5 | | SENATE BILL NO. 1085 |
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| 6 | 6 | | 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 7 | 7 | | INTRODUCED BY SENATOR RAZER. |
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| 8 | 8 | | 5240S.01I ADRIANE D. CROUSE, Secretary |
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| 9 | 9 | | AN ACT |
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| 10 | 10 | | To repeal section 58.200, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to coroners. |
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| 12 | 12 | | Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | Section A. Section 58.200, RSMo, is repealed and one new 1 |
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| 14 | 14 | | section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 58.200, 2 |
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| 15 | 15 | | to read as follows:3 |
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| 16 | 16 | | 58.200. When the office of sheri ff shall be vacant, by 1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | death or otherwise, the coroner of the county is authorized 2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | to perform all the duties which are by law required to be 3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | performed by the sheriff, until another sheriff for such 4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | county shall be appointed and qualified [,] and such coroner 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | shall have notice thereof [, and]. In such case, said 6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | coroner may appoint one or more deputies, with the 7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | approbation of the judge of the circuit court [;], and every 8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | such appointment, with the oath of office endorsed thereon, 9 |
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| 25 | 25 | | shall be filed in th e office of the clerk of the circuit 10 |
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| 26 | 26 | | court of the county. If the coroner becomes the acting 11 |
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| 27 | 27 | | sheriff and the sheriff is no longer receiving the sheriff's 12 |
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| 28 | 28 | | salary, the coroner shall be paid, in addition to the 13 |
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| 29 | 29 | | coroner's salary, the difference between the salaries of 14 |
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| 30 | 30 | | sheriff and coroner so that the coroner receives the 15 |
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| 31 | 31 | | equivalent of the sheriff's salary while serving as acting 16 |
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| 32 | 32 | | sheriff. 17 |
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