FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 608
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE GAMBARO.
Read 1st time January 31, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 84.120, RSMo 2000, relating to the qualification and conditions of service of members of the St. Louis police department, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 84.120, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 84.120, to read as follows:
84.120. No person shall be appointed or employed as policeman, turnkey, or officer of police who shall have been
convicted of, or against whom any indictment may be pending, for any offense, the punishment of which may be
confinement in the penitentiary; nor shall any person be so appointed who is not of good character, or who is not a citizen
of the United States, or who is not able to read and write the English language, or who does not possess ordinary physical
strength and courage. The patrolmen and turnkeys hereafter appointed shall serve while they shall faithfully perform their
duties and possess mental and physical ability and be subject to removal only for cause after a hearing by the boards, who
are hereby invested with the exclusive jurisdiction in the premises; and no patrolman or turnkey shall be suspended
without pay or benefits, or receive reduced pay or benefits, pending a hearing before the board of police
commissioners, for more than thirty days.
Missouri House of Representatives