FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 694

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES COOPER (Sponsor), JONES (117), POLLOCK, SCHAD AND SELF (Co-sponsors).

1572L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To repeal section 478.705, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the twenty-sixth judicial circuit.

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

            Section A. Section 478.705, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 478.705, to read as follows:

            478.705. 1. There shall be [two] three circuit judges in the twenty-sixth judicial circuit consisting of the counties of Camden, Laclede, Miller, Moniteau and Morgan. These judges shall sit in divisions numbered one [and] , two, and three.

            2. The circuit judge in division two shall be elected in 1980. The circuit judge in division one shall be elected in 1982. The governor shall appoint a judge for division three and notwithstanding the provisions of section 105.030, RSMo, that judge shall serve until January 1, 2011. A judge for division three shall be elected in 2010.

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