FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 84
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE RICHARDSON.
Pre-filed December 5, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 50.334, RSMo 2000, relating to recorders of deeds, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 50.334, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 50.334, to read as follows:
50.334. 1. In all counties, except counties of the first classification having a charter form of government and counties of the first classification not having a charter form of government and not containing any part of a city with a population of three hundred thousand or more, each recorder of deeds, if the recorder's office is separate from that of the circuit clerk, shall receive as total compensation for all services performed by the recorder, except as provided pursuant to section 50.333, an annual salary which shall be computed on an assessed valuation basis as set forth in the following schedule. The assessed valuation factor shall be the amount thereof as computed for the year next preceding the computation. The county recorder of deeds whose office is separate from that of the circuit clerk in any county, other than a county of the first classification having a charter form of government or a county of the first classification not having a charter form of government and not containing any part of a city with a population of three hundred thousand or more, shall not, except upon two-thirds vote of all the members of the salary commission, receive an annual compensation in an amount less than the total compensation being received for the office of county recorder of deeds in the particular county for services rendered or performed on January 1, 1997.
Assessed Valuation Salary
$ 8,000,000 to 40,999,999 $29,000
41,000,000 to 53,999,999 30,000
54,000,000 to 65,999,999 32,000
66,000,000 to 85,999,999 34,000
86,000,000 to 99,999,999 36,000
100,000,000 to 130,999,999 38,000
131,000,000 to 159,999,999 40,000
160,000,000 to 189,999,999 41,000
190,000,000 to 249,999,999 41,500
250,000,000 to 299,999,999 43,000
300,000,000 or more 45,000
2. Two thousand dollars of the salary authorized in this section shall be payable to the recorder only if he has
completed at least twenty hours of classroom instruction each calendar year relating to the operations of the
recorder's office when approved by a professional association of the county recorders of deeds of Missouri unless
exempted from the training by the professional association. The professional association approving the program
shall provide a certificate of completion to each recorder who completes the training program and shall send a list
of certified recorders to the treasurer of each county. Expenses incurred for attending the training session [may]
shall be reimbursed to the county recorder in the same manner as other expenses as may be appropriated for that
purpose.
Missouri
House of Representatives