Title VI — COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT

58.452. Child's death under age eighteen, notice to coroner by persons having knowledge — referral to child fatality review panel, when — procedure for nonsuspicious death, form, duties — autopsy, child death pathologist, when — disagreement on need for autopsy, procedure — viola…

58.455. Death certificate, how furnished, form, where filed, when (certain counties). — The coroner, in all deaths supposed to have been caused by violence or in a suspicious or unusual manner or unusual circumstances by the action of chemical, thermal or electrical agents, or fo…

58.457. Penalty for failure to report death (certain counties). — Any person failing to supply the information required by section 58.451 is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not mo…

58.460. Disposition of body a duty of coroner, when. — Whenever an inquest shall be held, or any case in which the coroner is involved, if there be no relative or friend of the deceased, nor any person willing to bury the body, nor any person whose duty it is to attend to such bu…

58.470. Death by poisoning — coroner may have analysis and examination made. — Whenever an inquest shall be held, and the coroner shall have good reason to believe that the deceased came to his death by poison administered by the hand of some person other than the deceased, he ma…

58.490. Unclaimed money or property found on deceased, turned over to public administrator by coroner. — The coroner, within thirty days after an inquest upon a dead body, shall deliver to the county or city public administrator any money or other property that may be found upon …

58.500. Duty of public administrator on receipt of money or property. — Upon delivery of any money to the public administrator, he or she shall follow the procedures as set out in section 473.743. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13267, A.L. 2007 S.B. 22 merged with S.B. 497) Prior revisi…

58.520. Fees of coroners. — Coroners shall be allowed fees for their services as follows; provided, that when persons come to their death at the same time or by the same casualty, fees shall only be paid as for one examination: ­ ­ ­­ ­ ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13424) Prior revisi…

58.530. Additional fees, when allowed. — Whenever the coroner, being himself a physician or surgeon, shall conduct a postmortem examination of the dead body of a person who came to his death by violence or casualty, and it shall appear to the county commission that such examinati…

58.540. Compensation for taking testimony. — For taking down the testimony at an inquest, the coroner shall be allowed ten cents for every hundred words, and twenty-five cents for certifying the same. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13247) Prior revisions: 1929 § 11628; 1919 § 5936; 1909…

58.550. Liability for costs. — If an inquest is held over the body of a minor, the parent or conservator of the minor is liable for the costs and expenses of burial. If the person over whose body an inquest is held has any estate, the cost and expenses of burial shall be paid out…

58.560. Surgeon's fee for postmortem examination, how paid. — When a physician, surgeon or pathologist shall be called on by the coroner, or any associate circuit judge of the county acting as the coroner, to conduct a postmortem examination, the county commission of said county …

58.570. Coroner to certify costs to county commission. — The coroner or other officer holding an inquest, as provided for by this chapter, shall present to the county commission within thirty days of the termination of the inquest a certified statement of all the costs and expens…

[Repealed or reserved.]

58.590. When costs to be paid by relatives. — Whenever any known person shall have died from any cause other than violence or casualty, and a certificate of the cause of death is necessary for the burial of the body of such person, the coroner shall, at the request of the relativ…

58.600. Fraudulent charges — penalty. — Any coroner who shall knowingly charge to any person, or present to the county commission for allowance, any items of fees, costs and expenses not authorized by law, or for any service not actually performed, shall be deemed guilty of a mis…

58.610. Costs, when paid in advance. — The county commission may authorize and require the coroner to pay, at the view or inquest itself, the legal fees due to jurors, witnesses and interpreters at the same, out of money to be advanced to him, from time to time, out of the county…

58.620. Coroner's duties as to costs. — It shall be the duty of the coroner to execute any requirement of the county commission, made by virtue of section 58.610, for the payment of fees at views and inquests. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13256, A.L. 1955 p. 347) Prior revisions: 1929…

58.700. Medical examiner appointed, certain counties — option for certain counties with elected office of coroner to retain coroner or appoint a medical examiner, procedure, compensation. — 1. Except as provided in subsection 2 and subsection 3 of this section, the governing body…

58.705. Qualifications, tenure — vacancy, how filled (certain counties). — 1. The county medical examiner shall be a physician duly licensed to practice by the state board of the healing arts. 2. The county medical examiner shall serve at the pleasure of the governing body of the…

58.710. Assistant examiners and employees — appointment, compensation (certain counties). — 1. The county medical examiner may appoint, with the approval of the governing body of the county and subject to such terms and conditions and at such rates of compensation as the governin…

58.715. Duties of medical examiner — prosecuting attorney to act as sheriff, when (certain counties). — In addition to the duties prescribed by sections 58.010, 58.020, 58.060, 58.090, 58.160, 58.375, 58.451, 58.455 and 58.700 to 58.765 the medical examiner shall perform those du…

58.720. Medical examiner to investigate, certain counties, procedure — death certificate issued, when — place of death — two counties involved, how determined — efforts to accommodate organ donation. — 1. When any person dies within a county having a medical examiner as a result …

58.722. Child's death under age eighteen, notice to medical examiner by persons having knowledge — referral to child fatality review panel, when — procedure for nonsuspicious death, form, duties — autopsy, child death pathologist, when — disagreement on need for autopsy, procedur…

58.725. Autopsy, when — performed by whom — report filed (certain counties). — In cases in which, in the opinion of the medical examiner, an autopsy is necessary, the autopsy shall be performed by the medical examiner if he is a pathologist or by such competent pathologist as may…

58.730. Law enforcement officers to cooperate with medical examiner (certain counties). — All law enforcement officers and other officials shall cooperate fully with the department of the medical examiner and shall report immediately any death which comes to their knowledge under…

58.735. Dead body, how disposed of (certain counties). — After an investigation has been completed, including an autopsy if one is made, the dead body shall be delivered to the relatives or friends of the deceased person for burial. If no person claims the body, it shall be dispo…

58.740. Records, contents, how kept (certain counties) — The medical examiner shall keep full and complete records in his office, properly indexed, giving the name, if known, of each* deceased person investigated under sections 58.010, 58.020, 58.060, 58.090, 58.160, 58.375, 58.4…

58.745. Oaths, shall administer — examinations — affidavits (certain counties). — The medical examiners shall administer oaths and affirmations, take affidavits, and make examinations as to any matter within the jurisdiction of their respective offices, but the medical examiners …

58.750. Penalty for failing to supply information (certain counties). — Any person failing to supply the information required by section 58.720, subsection 6*, is guilty of misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by im…

58.760. Election to adopt, when — form of ballot — transition provisions (certain counties). — 1. The provisions of sections 58.010, 58.020, 58.060, 58.090, 58.160, 58.375, 58.451, 58.455 and 58.700 to 58.765 may be adopted by any other county of this state after approval by a vo…

58.765. Two or more counties may contract for medical examiner to serve them jointly (certain counties). — Any two or more counties adopting the provisions of sections 58.010, 58.020, 58.060, 58.090, 58.160, 58.375, 58.451, 58.455 and 58.700 to 58.765 or to whom sections 58.010, …

58.770. Pituitary gland to be retained when autopsy is performed unless decedent or next of kin has indicated a contrary intention. — When an autopsy is performed by a coroner's physician or medical examiner under authority granted by sections 58.451 and 58.725, the physician or …

58.775. Applicability of definitions. — For the purpose of sections 58.775 to 58.785, the definitions in section 194.210 are applicable. ­­-------- (L. 2008 S.B. 1139)

58.780. Cooperation with procurement organization required — postmortem examination requirements — removal of body parts permitted, when. — 1. A coroner or medical examiner shall cooperate with a procurement organization to maximize the opportunity to recover anatomical gifts for…

58.785. Release of decedent information to procurement organizations, when — medicolegal examination permitted — recovery of body parts, requirements. — 1. Upon request of a procurement organization, a coroner or medical examiner shall release to the procurement organization the …

59.003. Requests for records dated after December 31, 1969 to be made at original recorder's office. — All requests for records filed or recorded by the recorder of deeds under this chapter dated after December 31, 1969, shall be made to the office of the recorder of deeds in whi…

59.005. Definitions. — As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following terms mean: (1) "Copying" or "reproducing", any recorded instrument or document, the act of making a single reproduction in any medium of a recorded document or instrumen…

59.010. Office created. — There shall be an office of recorder in each county in the state to be styled "The Office of the Recorder of Deeds". ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13147, A.L. 1941 p. 524, A.L. 1945 p. 1424) Prior revisions: 1929 § 11526; 1919 § 10551; 1909 § 10364

59.020. Election — term of office (first, second and third class counties). — In all counties of the first and second classes, and in counties of the third class where the offices of clerk of the circuit court and recorder of deeds are separate, the qualified electors thereof, in…

59.021. Qualifications when offices of clerk of the court and recorder of deeds are separate. — A candidate for county recorder where the offices of the clerk of the court and recorder of deeds are separate, except in any city not within a county or any county having a charter fo…

59.022. Vacancy when offices of clerk of the court and recorder of deeds are separate, how filled. — In the event of a vacancy caused by death or resignation in the office of county recorder where the offices of the clerk of the court and recorder of deeds are separate, except in…

59.041. Separation of offices of circuit clerk and recorder of deeds (certain second class counties) — office to be placed on ballot, when. — 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter or chapter 478, or any other provision of law in conflict with the provisions of this se…

59.042. Vote required to separate offices of circuit court clerk and recorder of deeds, when. — In any county where the offices of clerk of the circuit court and the recorder of deeds are combined, the governing body of said county, by public vote, may authorize the separation of…

59.043. Circuit court clerk elected, when. — In all counties where the recorder of deeds and the clerk of the circuit court are separated after December 31, 2003, in the next November general election, and every four years thereafter, the qualified voters of such county shall ele…

59.044. Certain recorders to be paid statutory compensation. — In any county, except counties with a charter form of government, counties of the first classification, and any city not within a county, where the recorder of deeds is separate from that of the clerk of the circuit c…

59.080. Failure to give bond — penalty. — No recorder shall enter upon or officiate in his office before he has given such security, upon pain of forfeiting the sum of three hundred dollars, one-half to the county and the other half to him who shall sue for the same, to be recove…

59.090. Circuit clerk to be ex officio recorder, exceptions (fourth class counties). — 1. In all counties of the fourth class, the clerks of the circuit court shall be ex officio recorder for their respective counties, unless the governing body of such county has separated the tw…

59.100. Bond. — 1. Every recorder elected as provided in section 59.020, before entering upon the duties of the office as recorder, shall enter into bond to the state, in a sum set by the county commission, with sufficient sureties, not less than two, to be approved by the commis…

59.110. Bond of clerk — deposited, recorded (fourth class counties). — Such bonds shall be deposited in the office of the secretary of state, and by him recorded. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13151) Prior revisions: 1929 § 11530; 1919 § 10555; 1909 § 10368