Bill Text: MO HB1535 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires a coroner to notify the appropriate prosecuting attorney instead of an associate circuit judge when he or she completes an inquisition regarding a death by a felonious act
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-22 - HCS Voted Do Pass (H) [HB1535 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2010-HB1535-Introduced.html
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES FISCHER (107) (Sponsor), TILLEY, ROORDA, ENGLUND, TALBOY AND CARTER (Co-sponsors).
4035L.02I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 58.370, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to coroner duties.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 58.370, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 58.370, to read as follows:
58.370. The coroner, upon an inquisition found before him of the death of any person by the felony of another, shall speedily inform [one or more associate circuit judges] the prosecuting attorney of the proper county[, or some judge or justice of some court of record, and it shall be the duty of such officer forthwith to issue his process for the apprehension and securing for trial of such person] of the result of the inquisition.
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