Missouri Attorney General Opinions

Opinion letter to the Honorable Charles G. Hyler

Articles of Incorporation of Jefferson Life Insurance Company

Articles of Incorporation of The Frontier Life Insurance Company

Opinion letter to the Honorable Granvil B. Vaughan

Marshal elected in April, 1963, in Fourth Class City of Grandview , Missouri, may not serve or be paid an additional salary as a patrolman member of the police department of such city. Such offices incompatible due to fact that office of patrolman is subordinate and accountable to office of marshal. Such marshal may not be paid an additional salary as chief of police.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Charles P. Moll

Opinion letter to the Honorable Thomas R. Beveridge

Article VI, Sec. 16, Constitution of Missouri, authorizes enactment of a law permitting one municipality to contract with another to furnish police services; but does not authorize enactment of a law permitting a contract for municipal judicial service.

Opinion letter to Mr. C. Lozier

Section 26.020, RSMo 1959, does not prohibit Lieutenant Governor from employing two secretaries.

Legislature may have authority to provide for amendment for charter of special charter city by vote.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Joe R. Ellis

Opinion letter to the Honorable Clarence P. Lehnen

Opinion letter to the Honorable Jack L. Clay

Opinion letter to the Honorable William J. Esely

Opinion letter to the Honorable Don Owens

Opinion letter to the Honorable James A.

Section 328.120, RSMo 1959, requires that there be one instructor directly supervising the practical training of not more than ten students in a barber school or college.

Neither the parents nor the husband of a married child under sixteen years of age have the charge, control or custody of such married child within the meaning of the compulsory school attendance law of Missouri.

After consolidation of two municipalities, the governing body has no authority to make any distinction, with respect to liability for taxes thereafter levied, between residents of the two former municipalities and may not legally forgive the payment or refund taxes so levied to the residents of one of such former municipalities.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Vance R. Frick

Opinion letter to the Honorable Tom Baker

Opinion letter to the Honorable Don E. Burrell

Opinion letter to the Honorable George H. Pace

An election must be held in Gasconade County on April 2, 1963 for the office of County Superintendent of Schools and it is the duty of the County Clerk of Gasconade County to cause sufficient ballots to be printed and delivered to the various school districts of the county; and this ballot should contain a place for write-in votes.

Opinion letter to the Honorable J. R. Fritz

Proceedings of board of directors of Shield Life and Accident Insurance Company, changing from stipulated premium life insurance company to regular life insurance company are in acceptable legal form.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Charles D. Trigg

No right of inspection of public records of the Kansas City Police Department exist either under Sec. 109.180, RSMo 1959, or a common law except for those records expressly required by law to be kept.

The County Collector may not sell for delinquent taxes land which has escheated to the State in accordance with Section 470.010 RSMo 1959. Title to such property vests in the State immediately upon the death of the former owner and Section 470.060 et seq. merely outlines the formal procedure necessary to secure a judicial determination that the title has in fact vested.

1) It is not mandatory that the defaulting parent be prosecuted as a condition precedent to the granting of A.D.C. benefits. 2) Support payments or other income should be deducted from the needs of the family as determined by the Division of Welfare and not from the maximum amount payable under Section 208.150.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Don E. Burrell

Opinion letter to the Honorable Gerald Kiser

Wife and minor children of a person in military service stationed in Missouri who have a valid operator’s license of the state of his residence are not required to obtain an operator’s license from this state.

Missouri credit unions are authorized to invest their funds in bonds of school districts.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Milton Carpenter, Honorable Charles Trigg , and Honorable Thomas C. Dunne

Opinion letter to the Honorable John A. Honssinger

Opinion letter to the Honorable Robert A. Bonney

Opinion letter to the Honorable Charles G. Hyler

Opinion letter to the Honorable John M. Dalton

Regular jurors who are required to and who actually travel each day for which such mileage is claimed from their place of residence to the courthouse are entitled to mileage as well as per diem for each day of service as such jurors.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Charles D. Trigg

Opinion letter to the Honorable Michael Kinney

Opinion letter to the Honorable William W. Hoertel

The State is not liable for any jury fees except such as are taxable as costs pursuant to express statutory authorization. Jurors on the regular panel receive $6 per day and mileage; jurors not on the regular panel who serve in a case also receive $6 per day and mileage; and jurors who are summoned in cases described in Sec. 494.120, but do not serve in the trial also receive $6 per day, and also receive mileage if they have traveled at least one mile. No part of such compensation may be taxed as costs. Jurors not on the regular panel who are summoned in all cases other than those described in Sec. 494.120, but do not serve in the trial receive $3 per day, and the fees allowed to such jurors are to be taxed as costs in the cases in which they were summoned.

Opinion letter to the Honorable John A. Honssinger

Opinion letter to the Honorable L. F. Cottey

Opinion letter to the Honorable William J. Cason

Articles of Incorporation of Old Reliable Insurance Company.

Plan whereby buyer of merchandise received commission on each purchase by persons to whom he refers salesman is a lottery.