HOUSE BILL NO. 1456 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE OEHLERKING.
3097H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT To repeal sections 57.010 and 57.530, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the sheriff of the City of St. Louis.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Sections 57.010 and 57.530, RSMo, are repealed and two new sections 2 enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 57.010 and 57.530, to read as follows: 57.010. 1. At the general election to be held in 1948, and at each general election 2 held every four years thereafter, the voters in every county in this state shall elect some 3 suitable person sheriff. No person shall be eligible for the office of sheriff who has been 4 convicted of a felony. Such person shall be a resident taxpayer and elector of said county, 5 shall have resided in said county for more than one whole year next before filing for said 6 office and shall be a person capable of efficient law enforcement. When any person shall be 7 elected sheriff, such person shall enter upon the discharge of the duties of such person's office 8 as chief law enforcement officer of that county on the first day of January next succeeding 9 said election. 10 2. No person shall be eligible for the office of sheriff who does not hold a valid peace 11 officer license pursuant to chapter 590. Any person filing for the office of sheriff shall have a 12 valid peace officer license at the time of filing for office. This subsection shall not apply to 13 the sheriff of any county of the first classification with a charter form of government with a 14 population over nine hundred thousand [or of any city not within a county]. 57.530. The sheriff of the City of St. Louis shall, with the approval of a majority of 2 the circuit judges of the circuit court of said city, appoint as many deputies and assistants as 3 may be necessary to perform the duties of his or her office[, and ]. The annual
EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language. HB 1456 2
4 compensation for sheriff's deputies shall be no less than fifty thousand dollars. The 5 sheriff shall fix the compensation for [their services] deputy assistants, which 6 compensation, however, shall not in any case exceed the annual rate of compensation 7 fixed by the board of aldermen of the City of St. Louis therefor. ✔
Statutes affected: