Section 311.21 | Fees in Cases Relating to Dower.
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The sheriff shall be allowed fees as follows for service relating to dower: For summoning and swearing the board of county commissioners, traveling fees, to be computed from the place of return of his proceedings to the place where the land lies […]
Section 311.22 | Service of Process.
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The court or judge may, for good cause, appoint a person to serve a particular process or order, and such person shall have the same power to execute such process or order which the sheriff has Such person may be appointed on […]
Section 311.23 | Adjournment of Court.
Effective: August 6, 1976 Latest Legislation: House Bill 390 – 111th General Assembly If the judge of the court of common pleas, or a quorum of the judges of the court of appeals, fails to attend at the time and place appointed for holding such court, or if, after the calling of the court, the […]
Section 311.25 | County Sheriffs’ Standard Car-Marking and Uniform Commission.
Effective: October 23, 1959 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 257 – 103rd General Assembly A commission is hereby established to be known as the county sheriffs’ standard car-marking and uniform commission. It shall consist of three members, not more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party. To be eligible for appointment […]
Section 311.26 | Organization of Commission.
Effective: September 27, 1963 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 127 – 105th General Assembly The county sheriffs’ standard car-marking and uniform commission shall elect one of its members as president, who shall preside at its meetings and who may call meetings. The commission may make its own bylaws.
Section 311.27 | Members Receive No Compensation.
Effective: September 27, 1963 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 127 – 105th General Assembly The members of the county sheriffs’ standard car-marking and uniform commission shall receive no compensation for their services.
Section 311.28 | Duties.
Effective: January 9, 1961 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 104th General Assembly The county sheriffs’ standard car-marking and uniform commission shall prescribe a uniform of standard design and color for the use of all county sheriffs and shall prescribe a standard color and design of car-marking for all motor vehicles used by county sheriffs. […]
Section 311.14 | Moneys, Books, and Papers to Be Delivered to Successor.
Effective: October 11, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Upon retiring from office, the sheriff shall pay over to his successor in office all moneys received by such sheriff and remaining in his hands. He shall deliver to his successor all evidences of indebtedness and all books, blanks, and stationery belonging […]
Section 311.281 | Use of Sheriff’s Uniform and Vehicle Markings Prohibited.
Effective: July 1, 1996 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 2 – 121st General Assembly (A) No person, except a county sheriff or the deputies of a county sheriff, shall wear the badge, the standard uniform, or any distinctive part of the standard uniform prescribed for county sheriffs and their deputies by the county sheriffs’ standard car-marking […]
Section 311.15 | Process, Goods, and Prisoners to Be Delivered to Successor.
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When the term of office for which a sheriff has been elected expires, or he resigns or moves outside the county, such sheriff shall deliver all writs of execution and all other processes, of whatever description, whether executed or not, and all […]