Missouri AG Opinions — 1963

Opinion letter to Mr. Wayne Freeman

No person can be candidate for election to a county board of education created by Senate Bill No. 327 of the General Assembly unless the person is a resident householder of the county in which the county board of education is created.

The cities of Clarksville , Bowling Green and Louisiana may cooperate with each other on industrial development projects.

Opinion letter to Dr. George A. Ulett

Opinion letter to E. V.

Expenses incurred by the Joint Committee on Correctional Institutions and Problems should be paid from the appropriation made under Section 8.020 in House Committee Substitute for House Bill No. 8 and cannot be paid from Section 8.010 of said bill.

Opinion letter to Mr. Maurice Schechter

Opinion letter to the Honorable Don F. Whitcraft

Opinion letter to the Honorable Ralph B. Nevins

Opinion letter to the Honorable Paul McGhee

Collector of St. Louis County does not have the power to invest County funds in his possession.

A Fourth Class City may legally continue to pay compensation to members of an existing zoning commission which was in existence before the effective date of House Bill 317, General Assembly, after the effective date of such bill.

Salt distributed to feed dealers which is either mixed in commercial foods or sold directly to farmers for feeding to animals is not a commercial feed under the Missouri Commercial Feed Law of 1959.

Opinion letter to the Honorable J. R. Eiser

Division of Commerce and Industrial Development has authority to provide planning assistance and to contract for and receive federal grants or financial assistance for counties, municipalities and metropolitan areas for planning purposes.

Persons residing on Federal military bases within the boundaries of county library district are residents of such district entitled to library services and are to be counted in determining county library district population for purposes of state aid.

Opinion letter to the Honorable James T. Riley

Opinion letter to the Honorable Ralph B. Nevins

Opinion letter to the Honorable E. J. Cantrell

Opinion letter to the Honorable J. Estep

The county court of any county is authorized to employ experts to replat and prepare maps, to locate and evaluate real estate in said county for purpose of aiding the county assessor in securing a full and accurate assessment of all taxable property in the county without submitting the question to the voters.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Don F. Whitcraft

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

Opinion letter to the Honorable Frank Conley

(1) Section 70.220, RSMo 1959, authorizes a municipality to enter into a contract with another municipal city or political subdivision for common police protection in accordance with the provisions of Sections 70.210 through 70.325.; (2) Section 70.220 requires that a state agency be authorized to enter into such a contract and to date the Highway Patrol has not received such authorization from the Legislature.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Charles P. Moll

Farmers Mutual Insurance Company may not receive its corporate existence after expiration of charter by limitation.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Harry Keller

Opinion letter to the Honorable Edward W. Speiser

Opinion letter to the Honorable Bill D. Burlison

Opinion letter to the Honorable Haskel Holman

Motor vehicles situated or held in Livingston Co. which are owned by a domestic or foreign corporation doing business in this state or which are leased to a corporate lessee doing business in this state or which are leased to an individual residing in Livingston Co., are subject to assessment or taxation in Livingston Co. even though taxes have been paid on such motor vehicle in another state. Such motor vehicles are assessable in Livingston Co. to the corporate lessor doing business in this state or to the corporate lessee doing business in this state or the individual lessee residing in Livingston Co.

Judge of police court of a fourth class city must hear case arising out of occurrence which he witnessed where no provision made for substitute judge.

Special road districts may not issue tax anticipation notes, but may issue warrants up to the amount of revenue anticipated for the year in which the warrants are issued.

Opinion letter to the Honorable James T. Riley

Opinion letter to the Honorable Paul Knudsen

A judgment-creditor need not proceed against the surety bond, given by the judgment-debtor as proof of financial responsibility before the Director can suspend the license and registration of said judgment is deemed satisfied when the amounts and conditions of payment have been met in Section 303.120, RSMo 1959.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Robert B. Mackey

Opinion letter to the Honorable Bill Crigler

Opinion letter to the Honorable Edgar J. Keating

Opinion letter to the Honorable Thomas G. Woolsey

1. When a vacancy occurs on the board of a six-director school board, a quorum of at least four members is necessary to fill the vacancy.; 2. When two members of the board absented themselves for the purpose of preventing a quorum during the course of the meeting, the vacancy was legally filled by three members who remained.

Articles of Incorporation of Modern American Life Insurance Company.

1. Mailing address of grantee or one of the grantees must be placed upon all deeds except deeds of trust or of easement or of right-of-way conveying any lands or tenements.; 2. Recorder of deeds shall not record any such instrument unless said required mailing address appears clearly thereon.; 3. Provisions of Sec. 442.390 & 442.400, RSMo 1959, are not affected by omission of said required names upon said deeds.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Edwin W. Mills

Opinion letter to the Honorable Charles D. Trigg

Opinion letter to the Honorable Jack K. Smith

The sheriff of a third class county may not legally accept and retain a fee for the taking of a bail bond in a criminal case.

Opinion letter to the Honorable Stewart E. Tatum

Opinion letter to the Honorable Smith N. Crowe