Missouri Attorney General Opinions

Right to exemption from taxation of real property belonging to German Saint Vincent Association.

School districts cannot issue bond to buy school busses.

Duties of County Collector with respect to acceptance of tender of payment upon separable items of property.

Not authorized to appropriate township funds to make deposit in county treasury of sum fixed by county court as probable amount of damages to landowners in a proceeding on petition of 12 freeholders of township to establish road ordered established at cost of petitioners.

Sentences to different institutions are cumulative and not concurrent.

Treasurer cannot receive extra compensation for taking care of accounts of county toll bridges.

Compensation controlled by statute.

Entitled to be reinstated under Section 14968, page 859, Laws of Missouri, 1943, by the fulfillment of the requirement of the statute. Publisher defined.

An attorney-in-fact may not swear to the registration and anti-trust affidavit of a corporation under Sec. 119, page 472, Laws of Mo., 1943. Exception found in this section not applicable under the facts presented.

Maximum age which boys can be committed to the Missouri Training School for Boys at Boonville, and the use of certified copies of birth certificates as proof of age.

Probate Judge shall be licensed to practice law in this state, except that probate judges in office at the time of the adoption of the Constitution of 1945, may succeed themselves without being so licensed.

The County Court of Adair County is not authorized to donate money for a building in which to locate a glove factory in the City of Kirksville, Missouri.

Method of assessing property of manufacturing corporations.

May transfer unexpended balance to road and bridge fund and building fund after all outstanding warrants have been paid.

Applicability of Sec. 7, Art. IX, of the Constitution of 1945 to outstanding school fund loans and to investments of the capital of county and township public school funds.

May recover money expended for necessary extra clerk hire.

Grant by the County Court of one thousand ($1,000) dollars or more to the American Legion Post of Vienna, Missouri, for the erection of a building in which to hold American Legion meetings.

(1) Cannot organize firm, partnership or corporation for purpose of operating convalescent home or poor farm; (2) may contract for care of poor with private individuals.

Children born in wedlock are presumed to be legitimate, but if person filling in standard certificate of live birth is informed that child is illegitimate it must be so recorded on certificate.

The provision in House Bill #361 passed by the 63rd General Assembly does not restrict the use of money appropriated for the tuition of students in out-state institutions to those institutions which are tax-supported.

Deputy probation officers in Jackson County may receive not to exceed $3,000.00 per annum; Clerks and stenographers may receive not less than $1500.00 nor more than $2400.00 per annum; all of said salaries to be set by the Circuit Court.

Consolidated district not required to furnish transportation for elementary pupil assigned to a school in another county when such other school is within 31/2 miles of the pupil’s home.

Changes in New Constitution will have no effect on the present school year’s income. The assessment now being made on merchants’ and manufacturers’ will be available for the fiscal school year of 1945-1946.

Taxing of raw materials and stocks on hand.

Certain parts of Senate Bill No. 32 unconstitutional.

Construction of Sec. 8485, R.S. Mo. 1939, in view of facts stated in request.

Member of General Assembly ineligible for appointment as a member of the local Board of Public Works for the City of Bowling Green, Missouri.

Notice of annual or semiannual meetings.

Authority of co-operative corporations organized under Art. 28, Chap. 102, R. S. Mo. 1939, to deal in the buying and selling of agricultural products.

(1) Necessity of appropriation by General Assembly for payment of salaries of members of Commission; (2) Right of Commission to reimbursement for outlays for necessary clerical help.

Cannot require licenses and assess taxes thereon unless empowered to do so by statute.

Discussion of sentences to Intermediate Reformatory and transfer to Penitentiary.

Townships may not divide among special road districts a surplus of taxes remaining after township expenses have been paid; that such townships may legally issue warrants in any year against anticipated taxes for that year.

Board of Jury Commissioners for Jackson County shall follow provisions of Sections 697 and 719, R. S. Mo. 1939, until July 1, 1946, unless sooner amended to conform to new Constitution.

Authority of coroner to send dead body to undertaker.

Applicability of Sec. 11, Art. X, Constitution of 1945 with respect to maximum levies which may be made by cities of less than 10,000 population for the year 1945.

Corporations and limited partnerships may both use the word “limited” or its abbreviation at the end of the names under which they transact business.

Construction of Sec. 3, Art. X, and Sec. 23, Art. IV, Constitution of Missouri of 1945, and of Secs. 2 and 5 of the Schedule appended thereto.

Township boards will be required to comply with the provisions of Section 8821, R. S. Mo. 1939, in fixing their maximum levy of tax for road and bridge purposes in the year 1945.

Person engaged exclusively in wholesale drug business is required to be registered pharmacist, or have registered pharmacist in his employ when he compounds or dispenses drugs in connection with his business.

Such bonds are not negotiable.

Members of General Assembly ineligible for appointment to office of City Attorney of city of the fourth class.

County officer may be ousted for willful neglect of duties or failure to personally devote his time to duties of his office.

Magistrate Courts law under New Constitution will not become effective until July 1, 1946, unless sooner implemented by legislation.

Power to waive penalties and interest.

(1) Authority of Missouri State Department of Resources and Development with respect to exhibits not in Museum and exhibits hereafter acquired; (2) suggested forms of agreements to be used in acquiring exhibits; (3) suggested form of agreement to be used in making loans of exhibits.

Right to receive funds arising from taxes levied on property within the boundaries of special road districts organized under the provisions of Art. 11, Chap. 46, R. S. Mo. 1939, in the year of incorporation and organization.

Applicability of Section 7, Article IX, of the new Constitution of Missouri to outstanding county school fund loans.

Public Service Commission does not have power to license and regulate a nonresident who owns and operates a store in neighboring state and regularly operates his own truck within the State of Missouri for the purpose of obtaining goods and supplies to be sold in his place of business in another state.

Department does not have sufficient statutory authority to enable it to act in the capacity of an Airport Agency within the meaning of H. R. 5024.