Bill Text: MO HB155 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires a coroner to notify the prosecuting attorney of the proper county instead of an associate circuit judge when he or she completes an inquisition regarding a death by a felonious act

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-10 - Public Hearing Completed (H) [HB155 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2011-HB155-Introduced.html

FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 155

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY


 

 

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES BLACK (Sponsor), KANDER, FALLERT, CASEY AND PACE (Co-sponsors).

0470L.01I                                                                                                                                                  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            Section A. Section 58.370, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 58.370, to read as follows: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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