Bill Text: MO HB1825 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows Springfield to charge an additional $10 for each municipal ordinance violation case to pay for courthouse upkeep
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-27 - Voted Do Pass (H) [HB1825 Detail]
Download: Missouri-2014-HB1825-Introduced.html
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE AUSTIN.
5993H.02I D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 488, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to additional court costs for maintenance of the Springfield municipal courthouse.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 488, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 488.2240, to read as follows:
488.2240. 1. In addition to all other court costs for municipal ordinance violations, any home rule city with more than one hundred fifty-five thousand but fewer than two hundred thousand inhabitants may provide for additional court costs in an amount up to ten dollars per case for each municipal ordinance violation case filed before a municipal division judge or associate circuit judge.
2. Such cost shall be collected by the clerk and disbursed to the city at least monthly. The city shall use such additional costs only for the land assemblage and purchase, construction, maintenance, and upkeep of a municipal courthouse. The costs collected may be pledged to directly or indirectly secure bonds for the cost of land assemblage and purchase, construction, maintenance, and upkeep of the courthouse.
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