SECOND REGULAR SESSION
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES CRAWFORD (Sponsor), REINHART, SMITH (14), BYRD,
QUINN, GUEST AND MOORE (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time January 15, 2004, and copies ordered printed.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 226.060, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the office of chief counsel for the department of transportation.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 226.060, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 226.060, to read as follows:
226.060. The [state highways and transportation commission] director of the department of transportation shall select and fix the salary of a chief counsel who shall possess the same qualifications as judges of the supreme court and who shall serve at the pleasure of the [commission] director and shall appear for and represent the commission in all actions and proceedings under chapters 226 and 227, RSMo, or any other law administered by the commission, or in any decision, order or proceeding of the commission, or of the director and shall commence, prosecute or defend all actions or proceedings authorized or requested by the commission or to which the commission is a party and shall advise the commission or the director, when requested, in all matters in connection with the organization, powers and duties of the commission or the powers and duties of the director. The chief counsel shall, with the consent of the [commission] director, appoint such assistant attorneys as the [commission] director may deem necessary and their salaries shall be fixed by the [commission] director. The chief counsel's office [of the commission] shall be furnished offices in the department of transportation building.