Missouri Attorney General Opinions

Restrictions imposed by city ordinance provide no basis for the Missouri Board of Pharmacy to refuse to license a pharmacy which is otherwise qualified for license.

Neither a county, an officer thereof nor a school district has a right to appeal to the State Tax Commission from a decision of a county board of equalization, determining the assessed valuation of an individual property.

Chapter 120, RSMo 1959, authorizes candidacy through the usual primary election process or by nominating petitions.

Purchase of real estate for addition to courthouse by second class county may be made out of emergency fund created under Section 50.540, RSMo. Purchase price may be paid over period of years if obligation at time it is incurred does not exceed annual revenue plus unencumbered balances from previous years.

Opinion letter to Major General A. D. Sheppard

It is incompatible for the same person to hold the office of county highway engineer of a county of the third class and to also be employed as a laborer by the same county road system.

State Chartered Banks have no authority to purchase stock in an Industrial Development Corporation.

Opinion letter to the Honorable James E. Conway

Opinion letter to the Honorable Daniel V. O’ Brien

1. Where all members of the county board of education (Section 165.657 et seq., RSMo) have actual knowledge of the time, place, and purpose of a meeting reasonably in advance, failure to mail written notice as prescribed by Section 165.663, RSMo 1959, does not invalidate the meeting. 2. If no notice (either that prescribed by Section 165.663 or any other) is given of a meeting of a county board of education and all of the members do not attend and the absent members could have attended if notified, then the meeting and any transactions thereat which require board action are invalid.

Opinion letter to Mr. Charles E. Cates

In counties governed by Chapter 114, local option registration law, county clerk should furnish registration forms to persons who cannot register in person because of illness, disability or absence from county only upon written application of such person, stating the facts relative to illness, disability or absence.

In all elections for the Board of Directors, voting shareholders are entitled to vote cumulatively for all directors to be elected and the Articles of Incorporation (or amendments), may not limit such voters to the election of only a certain number of directors.

Opinion letter to Dr. H. M. Hardwicke

Executors named in will may as natural persons become incorporators of a corporation to carry on the business of decedent by order of the Probate Court under Section 473.300.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Thomas D. Graham

County hospital, established under Section 205.350, can be operated only by county court, not by board of trustees or nonprofit corporation.

A proposition as to whether planning and zoning shall be continued or discontinued in third class county of Phelps , cannot be submitted to voters at next general election.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Gladys B. Stewart

Opinion letter to the Honorable Vernon C. Mayfield

Opinion letter to the Honorable Leon F. Burton

Division of Welfare may use its State appropriated administration funds together with funds granted by the Federal Government to carry out a staff development program involving full-time educational leave to its selected employees.

Fried chicken sold for consumption off premises and not part of complete meal must be sold by weight.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Thomas D. Graham

Corporate officer who makes or delivers insufficient fund check of corporation to pay corporate debt with intent to defraud and with knowledge of insufficient funds subject to prosecution under Section 561.460.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Harry E. Hatcher

A sheet metal worker is not required to have a chauffeur’s license to operate his employer’s trucks if the trips are so occasional and infrequent that they are not part of the employee’s duties.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Warren E. Hearnes

Opinion letter to the Honorable Paul D. , Jr.

Opinion letter to Dr. Ben Morton

A stock business corporation may not provide by its articles of incorporation for the distribution of its assets upon dissolution to organizations of a charitable or tax-exempt nature.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Daniel V. O’ Brien

Opinion letter to the Honorable Frank

Opinion letter to the Honorable Charles P. Moll

Opinion letter to the Honorable William H. Bruce, Jr.

A qualified voter has the right to cast a write-in ballot in the election under Section 165.657(4), RSMo 1963 Supp., of members of the county board of education of second, third, and fourth class counties, and that such ballots, if otherwise proper, must be counted for the persons written thereon.

Opinion letter to Representative Thomas A. Walsh

Opinion letter to the Honorable William E.

Sheriffs in Second Class counties may retain civil fees as prescribed in Section 57.280, RSMo 1959, only to amount allowed by Section 57.340, RSMo 1959, and are prohibited by Section 57.380, RSMo 1959, from retaining fees collected in criminal cases as outlined in Section 57.290, RSMo 1959. Sheriffs and their deputies in Second Class counties may be reimbursed for travel expense, incurred in making criminal investigations.

Articles of Incorporation of American Independence Life Insurance Company.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Brunson Hollingsworth

Articles of Incorporation of All American Life Insurance Company.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Galdys B. Stewart

Opinion letter to the Honorable Gladys B. Stewart

Articles of Incorporation of Country-Wide Life Insurance Company.

Opinion letter to Mr. John A. Owens

Opinion letter to the Honorable M. E. Morris

Opinion letter to Mr. Charles W. Kunderer

Opinion letter to the Honorable Don E. Burrell

Articles of Incorporation of Great Heritage Life Insurance Company.