FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 345
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATORS JACOB AND VOGEL.
Read 1st time January 23, 2003, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
1214S.01I
AN ACT
To repeal section 478.610, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the number of circuit judges in the thirteenth judicial circuit.
Section A.Section 478.610, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 478.610, to read as follows:
478.610.1.There shall be three circuit judges in the thirteenth judicial circuit consisting of the counties of Boone and Callaway.These judges shall sit in divisions numbered one, two and three.Beginning on January 1, 2007, there shall be four circuit judges in the thirteenth judicial circuit and these judges shall sit in divisions numbered one, two, three, and four.
2.The circuit judge in division two shall be elected in 1980.The circuit judges in divisions one and three shall be elected in 1982.The circuit judge in division four shall be elected in 2006 for a two-year term and thereafter in 2008 for a full four-year term.
3.The authority for a majority of judges of the thirteenth judicial circuit to appoint or retain a commissioner pursuant to section 478.003 shall expire August 28, 2001.As of such date, there shall be one additional associate circuit judge position in Boone County than is provided pursuant to section 478.320.