SECOND REGULAR SESSION
94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE FRANZ.
Read 1st time January 10, 2008 and copies ordered printed.
D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 488.429, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to expanding the use of funds from surcharges in civil cases for courthouse security purposes.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 488.429, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 488.429, to read as follows:
488.429. 1. Moneys collected pursuant to section 488.426 shall be payable to the judges of the circuit court, en banc, of the county from which such surcharges were collected, or to such person as is designated by local circuit court rule as treasurer of said fund, and said fund shall be applied and expended under the direction and order of the judges of the circuit court, en banc, of any such county for the maintenance and upkeep of the law library maintained by the bar association in any such county, or such other law library in any such county as may be designated by the judges of the circuit court, en banc, of any such county; provided, that the judges of the circuit court, en banc, of any such county, and the officers of all courts of record of any such county, shall be entitled at all reasonable times to use the library to the support of which said funds are applied.
2. In addition, such fund may also be applied and expended for that county's or circuit's family services and justice fund.
3. In any county, other than a county on the nonpartisan court plan, such fund may also be applied and expended for courtroom renovation and technology enhancement, courthouse security, or for debt service on county bonds for such renovation or enhancement projects.
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