Title VI — COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT

50.641. Estimates — contents — covering circuit judges, associate circuit judges, staffs, juvenile officers and juvenile court personnel. — 1. The estimates of the circuit court referred to in section 50.640 which are to be included within the county budget by the budget officers…

50.642. Presiding judge of circuit court to meet with county budget officer and county commission to discuss budget before filing estimate. — 1. The presiding judge of each circuit court, or the presiding judge's designee, shall, not later than fifteen days prior to filing the bu…

50.650. Liability of certain officers. — The accounting officer is personally liable on his bond for the amount of any obligation incurred by his erroneous certification as to the sufficiency of an appropriation or of a cash balance, or for any warrant drawn when there is not a s…

50.660. Rules governing contracts. — All contracts shall be executed in the name of the county, or in the name of a township in a county with a township form of government, by the head of the department or officer concerned, except contracts for the purchase of supplies, material…

50.740. Commission to revise and amend estimates (counties of the third and fourth classification). — 1. It is hereby made the first duty of the county commission in counties of classes three and four at its regular January term to go over the estimates and revise and amend the s…

50.745. State auditor to develop, approve forms (third and fourth class counties). — The state auditor shall develop or approve adequate forms which will be used by counties of the third or fourth class in compliance with sections 50.525 to 50.745. The state auditor is authorized…

50.750. Missouri products to be purchased by officers. — Every county officer, agent or any governing body of any county in this state authorized to make purchases for use of their county shall purchase and use only those materials, products, supplies, provisions and other needed…

50.753. Purchasing agent, how appointed, compensation, assistants. — The county commission of any county may by order of the commission appoint some suitable person to the position of county purchasing agent. The purchasing agent shall serve at the pleasure of the county commissi…

50.755. Purchasing agent to investigate need for supplies requested by officers. — All county officers, officials or employees shall make known to the county purchasing agent, if one is appointed as herein provided, any and all requirements that may exist for the purchase of any …

50.757. Purchasing agent, duties — bids rejected, when. — 1. It shall be the duty of the county purchasing agent, if one is appointed, to purchase all supplies of whatever kind or nature necessary for the conduct of the business of the county in all its departments; and the count…

50.760. Advertisement for bids, procedure for — purchase at public auctions — purchase order required (second class and certain first class counties). — 1. It shall be the duty of the commissioners of the county commission in all counties of the second class, and in all counties …

50.770. Supplies defined (second class and certain first class counties). — The word "supplies", as used in sections 50.760 to 50.790, means materials, equipment, contractual services, and shall be held and construed to include every article or thing, excluding utility services r…

50.780. Commissions may permit officers to purchase supplies direct — liability therefor — preference in bids — waiver, when (second class and certain first class counties). — 1. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any county or township officer in any county to which sections 50.…

50.783. Waiver of competitive bid requirements, when — rescission of waiver, when — single feasible source purchases — exception for Boone and Greene counties. — 1. The county commission may waive the requirement of competitive bids or proposals for supplies when the commission h…

50.784. Procurement authority delegation permitted, when — accepting department's duties. — The county commission may, when in the commission's best judgment it is in the best interests of the county, delegate the commission's procurement authority under this chapter to an indivi…

50.790. Duties of commissioners — violation of law — penalty (second class and certain first class counties). — It shall hereafter be unlawful for the commissioners of the county commission of any county of this state to which sections 50.760 to 50.790 apply to draw, or authorize…

50.815. Financial statement of county, when published, contents — certificate, penalty (certain counties). — 1. On or before June thirtieth of each year, the county commission of each county of the first, second, third, or fourth classification shall, with the assistance of the c…

50.820. Statement, how published — duties of state auditor (certain counties). — 1. The statement required by section 50.815 shall be set in the standard column width measure which will take the least space and the publisher shall file two proofs of publication with the county co…

50.850. Counties reimbursed for expense of prosecuting crimes committed within state correctional facilities, how computed, limitation. — The office of administration may reimburse counties, out of funds appropriated by the general assembly, for expenses related to the prosecutio…

50.853. Counties, third and fourth class, reimbursed for expenses of prosecution in capital cases, requirements of negative financial situation — funding. — In addition the office of administration may reimburse counties of the third and fourth class, out of funds appropriated by…