Bill Text: MO HB288 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows the sheriff of any county to employ an attorney to aid and advise him or her in the discharge of the sheriff's duties and to represent him or her in court

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-20 - Public Hearing Completed (H) [HB288 Detail]

Download: Missouri-2011-HB288-Introduced.html

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FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 288

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES LAIR (Sponsor), SHIVELY, LANT, GATSCHENBERGER AND FISHER (Co-sponsors).

0093L.01I                                                                                                                                                  D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 57.104, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to employment of an attorney by a sheriff.

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

            Section A. Section 57.104, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 57.104, to read as follows:

            57.104. 1. The sheriff of any county [of the first classification not having a charter form of government] may employ an attorney at law to aid and advise him or her in the discharge of his or her duties and to represent him or her in court. The sheriff shall set the compensation for an attorney hired pursuant to this section within the allocation made by the county commission to the sheriff's department for compensation of employees to be paid out of the general revenue fund of the county.

            2. The attorney employed by a sheriff pursuant to subsection 1 of this section shall be employed at the pleasure of the sheriff.

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