Effective – 28 Aug 1973 58.010. Office of coroner (certain counties). — In each county of the state, except in counties of the second class which prior to January 1, 1975, have a population of more than one hundred twenty thousand and less than two hundred thousand, and counties of the first class not having […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1973 58.020. Coroner, election — term of office (certain counties). — At the general election in the year 1948, and every four years thereafter, the qualified electors of the county at large in each county in this state in which a coroner is to be elected shall elect a coroner who […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1945 58.030. Qualifications. — No person shall be elected or appointed to the office of coroner unless he be a citizen of the United States, over the age of twenty-one years, and shall have resided within the state one whole year, and within the county for which he is elected, six […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2020 58.035. Coroner standards and training commission, members, terms, chairperson, meetings — duties — rulemaking authority — report. — 1. There is hereby established within the department of health and senior services a “Coroner Standards and Training Commission” which shall be composed of eight members, appointed by the governor, with the […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1945 58.040. Vacancy filled by governor. — When any vacancy shall occur in the office of coroner by death, resignation, removal, refusal to act, or in any other manner, it shall be the duty of the governor to fill such vacancy by appointing some eligible person to such office. The person […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 58.050. Oath — bond. — All coroners, before they enter upon the duties of their office, shall take the oath prescribed by the constitution, and shall give bond to the state of Missouri, in the penalty of at least one thousand dollars, with sufficient sureties, residents of the county, conditioned […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1973 58.060. Bond — sufficiency, how determined (certain counties). — The county commission shall, once in every year, in each county where a coroner is elected, examine into the sufficiency of the official bond given by the coroner, and the sureties thereto; and if it shall appear that the bond of […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 58.070. Failure to give bond — office vacated. — If a coroner neglect to give bond and qualify within twenty days after his election, or shall fail to give bond when required under the preceding section, his office shall be deemed vacant. ——– (RSMo 1939 § 13230) Prior revisions: 1929 […]
Effective – 01 Jan 1988 58.090. Salary in lieu of fees (certain second class counties). — In all counties of the second class in which a coroner is required by section 58.010, the coroner shall receive an annual salary in lieu of all fees, charges, emoluments, and money due to, or receivable by, the coroner, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2022, 3 histories 58.095. Compensation of county coroner — training program, attendance required, when, expenses, compensation (noncharter counties). — 1. The county coroner in any county not having a charter form of government shall receive an annual salary computed on a basis as set forth in the following schedule as well […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2003 58.096. Compensation of deputy coroner, additional — training program, certification. — Each deputy county coroner upon certification by the Missouri Coroners and Medical Examiners Association of attendance at a training program required by the provisions of subsection 2 of section 58.095 shall receive annual compensation, in addition to other compensation, […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1949 58.100. Fees (third and fourth class counties). — The coroner in counties of the third and fourth classes, shall charge and collect on behalf of the county every fee accruing to his office by law, except such fees as are chargeable to the county, and shall report and pay such […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1994 58.120. Travel expense (counties of third and fourth classification). — In each county of the third and fourth classifications, the county commission shall allow the coroner, payable at the end of each month out of the county treasury, the amount provided under section 50.333 for each mile actually and necessarily […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1994 58.160. Deputies, appointment, compensation. — The coroner, in all counties in this state in which a coroner is required by section 58.010 may have a deputy. In such counties which now contain or may hereafter contain a city of seventy-five thousand inhabitants and less than two hundred thousand inhabitants, may […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1989 58.180. To be conservator of the peace. — A coroner shall be a conservator of the peace throughout his county, and shall take inquests of violent and casual deaths happening in the same, or where the body of any person coming to his death shall be discovered in his county. […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1939 58.190. To execute process when sheriff disqualified. — Every coroner, within the county for which he is elected or appointed, shall serve and execute all writs and precepts, and perform all other duties of the sheriff, when the sheriff shall be a party, or when it shall appear to the […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2022, 2 histories 58.200. Coroner to perform duties of sheriff when office is vacant — additional compensation, when. — When the office of sheriff shall be vacant, by death or otherwise, the coroner of the county is authorized to perform all the duties which are by law required to be performed […]
Effective – 28 Aug 1986 58.205. Sheriff or chief deputy to perform coroner’s duties, when. — The sheriff of the proper county or his chief deputy shall, in the temporary absence of the coroner and deputy for any reason, perform all the duties imposed by law upon the coroner. ——– (L. 1951 p. 374 § […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2006 58.206. Special deputy coroner or special deputy medical examiner may be appointed, when — record-keeping requirements. — 1. The coroner or medical examiner of any county or any city not within a county may, for a period not to exceed thirty days, appoint a special deputy coroner or special deputy […]
Effective – 28 Aug 2020 58.208. Death certificate fees, deposit in training fund — use of moneys — fund created — state of emergency or disaster, request for reimbursement. — 1. One dollar of the fee collected for any death certificate issued under section 193.265 shall be deposited into the Missouri state coroners’ training fund […]
