FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 600

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES WETER (Sponsor), WASSON,  WOOD AND WALLACE (Co-sponsors).

1250L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To amend chapter 478, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to circuit judges and divisions in the thirty-eighth judicial circuit.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

            Section A. Chapter 478, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 478.575, to read as follows:

            478.575. 1. Beginning January 1, 2010, there shall be two circuit judges in the thirty-eighth judicial circuit consisting of the counties of Christian and Taney. These judges shall sit in divisions numbered one and two.

            2. The circuit judge who sat as the only circuit judge in the thirty-eighth judicial circuit on December 31, 2009, shall beginning January 1, 2010, be the circuit judge in Christian County in division one of the thirty-eighth judicial circuit and shall hold office for the remainder of the term to which he or she was elected or appointed, and until his or her successor is elected and qualified. The circuit judge in Taney County in division two shall be elected in 2010.

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