SECOND REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 1452

95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE LIPKE.

3997L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

AN ACT

To repeal section 491.170, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to recognizance for writs of attachment.

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

            Section A. Section 491.170, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 491.170, to read as follows:

            491.170. When a writ of attachment, authorized by section 491.160, shall be executed, the sheriff or other officer shall discharge such witness, on his entering into a recognizance to the state of Missouri, with sufficient security, [in the sum of] not less than one [hundred] thousand dollars, which the officer executing the writ is authorized to take, conditioned for the appearance and due attendance of such witness according to the exigency of such writ.

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