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As soon as possible after the final adjournment of the seventieth
general assembly and at least every ten years thereafter, the revised
statutes of Missouri shall be printed, published and distributed in as
many volumes as the committee on legislative research (herein called "the
committee") shall determine, and such publication shall be under the
direction and supervision of the committee. The annotations may be
printed separately. The cost of printing, binding and delivery of such
publication shall be paid from funds appropriated from the general
revenue for that purpose. (L. 1949 p. 545 § 3.01, A.L. 1959 S.B. 88)

The editions of the revised statutes hereby authorized shall
contain:

(1) The Constitution of the United States;

(2) The constitution of this state;

(3) All statute laws of a general nature which are in force in the state
of Missouri, including all general acts passed by the general assembly
during its 1959 regular session;

(4) A full and accurate index of the statute laws and constitution of
this state; and

(5) Such annotations, historical notes, supreme court rules and other
information as the committee deems appropriate to include. (L. 1949 p.
545 § 3.02, A.L. 1959 S.B. 88)

CROSS REFERENCES: Departmental organization plans to be published,
Reorganization Act of 1974, Appendix B, RSMo 1978 Reorganization of
executive agencies, RSMo 26.530

In preparing the revised statutes or any supplement or pocket part
thereto for publication, the committee may omit the enacting clause of
the several acts, and the titles of the several acts. Repealing,
emergency and severability clauses also may be omitted. (L. 1949 p. 545 §
3.03, A.L. 1959 S.B. 88)

CROSS REFERENCE: Severability of statutes, when portion of statutes found
unconstitutional remaining provisions remain valid, exceptions, RSMo 1.140

No law relating to the bonded indebtedness of the state, no law of
incorporation, no law for the appropriation of money, no memorial or
joint resolution, no law or part of law of a private, local or temporary
nature shall be published in the revised statutes or supplements or
pocket parts thereto, but all such laws and provisions not expressly
repealed shall continue in force or expire, according to their respective
provisions or limitations. (L. 1949 p. 545 § 3.04, A.L. 1959 S.B. 88)

The committee may prefix to the statutory law a table of contents
and shall prepare suitable headnotes or catch words to indicate briefly
the subject matter of the several sections. The sections shall be
numbered in such sequence as to permit insertion of additional
legislation without changing the numbers. Notes shall be inserted to
indicate the source of the various sections. The committee shall classify
and arrange the entire body of statute laws in a logical order throughout
the volumes, the arrangement to be such as will enable subjects of a
kindred nature to be placed under one general head with necessary cross
references. Notes of decisions of the courts, historical references and
other material included in editions of the revised statutes of Missouri
and supplements or pocket parts thereto shall be arranged in such manner
as the committee finds will promote the usefulness thereof. (L. 1949 p.
545 § 3.05, A.L. 1959 S.B. 88)

1. The committee, in preparing editions of the statutes and
supplements or pocket parts thereto, shall not alter the sense, meaning,
or effect of any legislative act; but may renumber sections and parts of
sections thereof, change the wording of headnotes, rearrange sections,
change reference numbers or words to agree with renumbered chapters or
sections, substitute the word "chapter" for "act" or "article" and the
like, substitute figures for written words and vice versa and change
capitalization for the purpose of uniformity and correct manifest
clerical or typographical errors.

2. It may

(1) Correct therein all words misspelled in enrollment;

(2) Correct all manifest clerical errors, including punctuation, but no
correction shall constitute an alteration of or a departure from the
enrollment;

(3) Transfer sections or divide or combine sections so as to give to
distinct subject matters a section number but without changing the
meaning;

(4) Substitute therein the name of any agency, officer or instrumentality
of the state or of a county to which powers, duties and responsibilities
have been transferred by law, for the name of any other agency, officer
or instrumentality of the state or of a county previously vested with the
same powers and charged with the same duties and responsibilities;

(5) Supply any obvious omission or inaccuracy, which shall be identified
in the text. In any such case the committee shall add a footnote calling
attention to such omission or correction and explaining the reason
therefor; and

(6) Substitute therein the abbreviations: "RSMo" for "Missouri Revised
Statutes", and "RSMo Supp." for any cumulative supplement to the Missouri
Revised Statutes. (L. 1949 p. 545 § 3.06, A.L. 1959 S.B. 88)

1. If any section of the revised statutes, supplement or pocket
part, or of any act of the general assembly is amended or reenacted by
more than one act at the same session of the general assembly, the
section may be incorporated in the revised statutes edition, supplement
or pocket part as amended or altered by the several acts if the
amendments, changes or alterations can be incorporated in the section in
such manner as to make the section intelligible. In any such case the
revisor of statutes shall insert a note at the end of the section
explaining the insertions or omissions accomplished by the various
enactments. If the section cannot be made intelligible by incorporation
of the amendments the section as enacted by each of the several acts
shall be published in full.

2. If any section of existing law affected by a revision act is amended,
reenacted or repealed by other acts passed at the same regular or extra
session of the general assembly, the revision act shall be given effect
only to the extent that its provisions do not conflict with the changes
made in the existing law by the other acts and, in accordance with this
provision, the section shall be shown as repealed or incorporated in the
statutes as amended or altered by the several acts passed affecting it.
The revisor of statutes, in such cases, shall insert an explanatory note
at the end of the section indicating the changes made in its provisions
by the several enactments. (L. 1959 S.B. 88, A.L. 1969 H.B. 685)

(1990) General rule in Missouri is that acts adopted in same session are
to be construed in harmony, and if they cannot be construed in harmony,
then more specific act takes precedence over general. Later in time rule
for laws adopted in same session does not apply unless there are
different effective dates. Date governor approves bill or date general
assembly passes bill is not legally significant. Berdella v. Pender, 821
S.W.2d 846 (Mo. en banc).

When the Missouri supreme court or a federal court with competent
jurisdiction makes a final ruling that a bill enacted by the Missouri
general assembly or a Missouri state statute or any portion of a Missouri
state statute contained in a bill enacted by the Missouri general
assembly is unconstitutional on procedural grounds, the Missouri revisor
of statutes shall:

(1) For a repealed statute or an amended statute contained in such bill,
reprint the statute as it existed in the revised statutes of Missouri
prior to the enactment of the bill that the court declared
unconstitutional;

(2) For a new statute contained in such bill, remove the new statute from
the revised statutes of Missouri, if necessary, and publish only a
footnote calling attention to the ruling of the court explaining the
reason for the removal of such statute from the revised statutes of
Missouri. (L. 2004 S.B. 884 § 3.075)

The committee shall appoint and fix the compensation of a revisor
of statutes and other attorneys and assistants necessary to the
performance of its duties under this chapter. The compensation of the
revisor of statutes and his assistants and expenses incurred in
connection with the performance of their duties shall be paid from
appropriations made for the committee on legislative research. The
revisor of statutes shall be duly licensed to practice law in this state
and serves at the pleasure of the committee. The revisor of statutes
shall perform all duties required by the committee in connection with its
duties under this chapter. He shall conform to all regulations prescribed
for the internal operation of the committee and shall render such
assistance to the general assembly in connection with pending or proposed
legislation as required by the committee or by any law imposing duties on
the committee. He is subject also in all respects to the law governing
other persons appointed or employed by the committee. The division of
design and construction shall provide adequate office space in the
capitol building for the revisor of statutes and the attorneys and
employees associated with him. (L. 1949 p. 545 § 3.07, A.L. 1959 S.B. 88)

CROSS REFERENCES:

Boilers, revision of state regulations relating to emissions
restrictions, director of department of natural resources to notify
revisor, RSMo 650.216

Sunday sales law exemptions for counties or areas, notation by revisor,
RSMo 578.100, 578.110

Sunday sales law exemption for St. Louis City, certain areas, notation by
revisor, RSMo 578.106

The secretary of state shall deliver to the revisor of statutes
the original rolls of all laws of a general nature which are necessary to
enable the committee to incorporate in editions of the revised statutes
or in supplements or pocket parts thereto all laws required to be
included therein by this chapter. The revisor of statutes is responsible
for the safekeeping of the original rolls while they are in his
possession and shall, as soon as the comparisons required by this chapter
are completed, return same to the secretary of state's office. (L. 1949
p. 545 § 3.08, A.L. 1959 S.B. 88)

1. The revisor of statutes shall supervise the printing and
publication of all editions of the revised statutes of Missouri and all
supplements and pocket parts thereto. He shall proofread and compare all
copies of laws appearing in the revised statutes of Missouri and
supplement or pocket parts thereto and supervise the correction thereof
to ensure that all such copies are true and correct copies of the
existing laws of this state according to the original rolls thereof with
only such variations in the language thereof as are authorized by section
3.060.

2. When any volume of any edition of the revised statutes of Missouri, or
any supplement or any edition of pocket parts thereto is printed and
published the revisor of statutes shall certify that all laws printed
therein have been examined and compared as required by this section and
that the same are true and correct copies thereof as passed and remaining
in the office of the secretary of state, and that the revised statutes,
supplement or pocket part thereto, as thus published, and all laws as
therein contained, are true copies of the existing laws of the state of
Missouri, of a general nature. He shall deposit a copy of each volume of
the revised statutes, supplement or pocket part, so certified, in the
secretary's office, which shall be prima facie evidence of such statutes.
The certificate shall be printed in each copy of the revised statutes,
supplement or pocket part, and every copy so printed containing the
certificate may be used in evidence without other or further proof of
authentication. (L. 1949 p. 545 § 3.09, A.L. 1959 S.B. 88)

(1974) Revised statutes are no more than prima facie evidence of a
statute, and revisors, absent a legislative act amending a section, have
no authority to change substantive meaning of a law. Protection Mutual
Insurance Co. v. Kansas City (Mo.), 504 S.W.2d 127.

The committee shall determine the style and size of type, the
grade of paper and the type and method of binding to be used in
publishing the revised statutes, annotations and all supplements and
pocket parts thereto. (L. 1949 p. 545 § 3.10, A.L. 1959 S.B. 88)

The printing and publication of the revised statutes of Missouri,
annotations thereto and supplements or pocket parts and the paper used
therefor, shall be obtained through the state director of the division of
purchasing, as otherwise provided by law. (L. 1949 p. 545 § 3.09a, A.L.
1959 S.B. 88)

1. After publication of the revised statutes for the year 1959,
the committee shall formulate and supervise plans and methods for the
future revision, clarification, classification, codification,
arrangement, annotation, indexing, printing, binding and publication of
the revised statutes of Missouri, including annotations, supplements and
pocket parts and all editions thereof, and make its report and
recommendations thereon to the general assembly.

2. The committee shall establish a subcommittee on revision which shall
conduct and supervise a continuing program of statute revision which is
designed to correct defectively enacted or worded statutes without
changing the substantive provisions thereof to the end that the statute
publication may become a more accurate and authentic statement of the
laws of the state. In connection with this program, the committee may
select an advisory committee on statute revision, composed of four
members of the Missouri Bar, who are known to be interested in the
improvement of statute laws and may authorize the payment of the expenses
incurred by such members while attending meetings with the committee, the
subcommittee on revision or with the revisor of statutes. The
subcommittee on revision shall present to each general assembly such
revision bills as it finds appropriate to accomplish its purposes. (L.
1949 p. 545 § 3.11, A.L. 1959 S.B. 88)

CROSS REFERENCE: Revision bill, content, RSMo 23.045

1. The committee may publish annual or biennial cumulative or
noncumulative supplements or pocket parts to the revised statutes of
Missouri in lieu of complete editions thereof except at such times as
complete editions are published. Any supplement or edition of pocket
parts is subject in all respects to the provisions of this law relating
to the publication of an edition of the revised statutes and the
committee has the same powers and duties with respect to the publication
thereof. When funds for the printing thereof are duly appropriated by the
general assembly, the committee shall cause to be classified, arranged,
numbered and printed in either an edition of the revised statutes or in
supplements or pocket parts thereto, in accordance with this chapter, all
laws of a general nature adopted at any session of the general assembly.

2. The committee shall report to the general assembly whenever called
upon, and shall prepare and submit to the general assembly such
consolidation, revision and other matters relating to the statutes as can
be completed from time to time. (L. 1959 S.B. 88, A.L. 1976 H.B. 1770)

Effective 5-12-76

1. Such number of copies of each volume of each edition of the
revised statutes of Missouri and annotations thereto and such number of
the supplements or pocket parts thereto as may be necessary to meet the
demand as determined by the committee shall be printed and bound, and
also produced in an electronic format, and delivered to the revisor of
statutes, who shall execute and file a receipt therefor with the director
of revenue. The revisor of statutes shall distribute the copies, in
either version or combination, without charge as follows:

(1) To each state department, and each division and bureau thereof, one
copy as requested in writing specifying the version;

(2) To each member of the general assembly when first elected, one bound
version and, if requested, one copy in the electronic version; and at
each general assembly thereafter, one printed version and one copy in the
electronic version if so requested in writing; each member to receive one
printed version and, if requested, one copy in the electronic version of
each supplement and of each new edition of the revised statutes when
published;

(3) To each judge of the supreme court, the court of appeals and to each
judge of the circuit courts, except municipal judges, one copy in either
version;

(4) To the probate divisions of the circuit courts of Jackson County, St.
Louis County and the city of St. Louis, four additional copies each in
either version or combination, and to the probate divisions of the
circuit courts of those counties where the judge of the probate division
sits in more than one city, one additional copy each in either version;

(5) To the law library of the supreme court, ten copies in either version
or combination;

(6) To the law libraries of each district of the court of appeals, six
copies each in either version or combination;

(7) To the library of the United States Supreme Court, one copy in either
version;

(8) To the United States district courts and circuit court of appeals for
Missouri, two copies each in either version or combination;

(9) To the state historical society, two copies in either version or
combination;

(10) To the libraries of the state university at Columbia, at St. Louis,
at Kansas City and at Rolla, one bound version and one electronic version
each;

(11) To the state colleges, Lincoln University, the community colleges,
Missouri Western State College, Linn State Technical College, and
Missouri Southern State College, one bound version and one electronic
version each;

(12) To the public school library of St. Louis, two copies in either
version or combination;

(13) To the Library of Congress, one copy in either version;

(14) To the Mercantile Library of St. Louis, one bound version and one
electronic version;

(15) To each public library in the state, if requested, one copy in
either version;

(16) To the law libraries of St. Louis, St. Louis County, Kansas City and
St. Joseph, one bound version and one electronic version each;

(17) To the law schools of the state university, St. Louis University,
and Washington University, one bound version and one electronic version
each;

(18) To the circuit clerk of each county of the state for distribution to
each county officer, to be by him or her delivered to his or her
successor in office, one copy in either version as requested in writing;

(19) To the director of the committee on legislative research, such
number of copies in either version or combination as may be required by
such committee for the performance of its duties;

(20) To any county law library, when requested by the circuit clerk, one
bound version and one electronic version;

(21) To each county library, one copy of either version, when requested
in writing;

(22) To any committee of the senate or house of representatives, as
designated and requested by the accounts committee of the respective
house.

2. The revisor of statutes shall also provide the librarians of the
supreme court library and the committee on legislative research such
copies in either version or combination as may be necessary, not
exceeding fifty-one each, to enable them to exchange the copies for like
compilations or revisions of the statute laws of other states and
territories. (L. 1949 p. 545 § 3.12, A.L. 1953 p. 549, A.L. 1959 S.B. 88,
A.L. 1971 S.B. 222, A.L. 1973 S.B. 263, A.L. 1976 H.B. 1770, A.L. 1978
H.B. 1634, A.L. 1992 H.B. 1849, A.L. 2004 S.B. 1211)

1. The committee on legislative research may, through the revisor
of statutes, sell copies of the revised statutes of Missouri, and any
supplement or edition of pocket parts thereto, not required by this
chapter to be distributed without charge, at a price to be determined by
the committee, taking into account the cost of printing and binding,
including the cost of delivery, and the money received therefor shall be
paid to the director of revenue and deposited in the state treasury to
the credit of the general revenue fund.

2. The revisor of statutes shall also supply to the clerk of the circuit
court of each county order blanks in a number sufficient to meet the
public demand. The blanks may be used by the public to order copies which
shall be sold by the committee as provided in subsection 1. (L. 1949 p.
545 § 3.13, A.L. 1953 p. 549, A.L. 1959 S.B. 88, A.L. 1961 p. 463, A.L.
1976 H.B. 1770, A.L. 1977 S.B. 419)

(1996) The committee has the power to determine the form and price, which
may include a profit, of the statutes, but cannot keep them from the
public. Deaton v. Kidd, 932 S.W.2d 804 (Mo.App. W.D. 1996).

1. There is hereby established in the state treasury a revolving
fund known as the "Statutory Revision Fund", and which shall receive
funds paid to the revisor of statutes for sales of the revised statutes
of Missouri or any supplement thereto, whether in printed, electronic,
magnetic, or other form and funds received for any other service for
which there is a fee charged by the committee on legislative research.
The committee on legislative research shall determine the form and any
fees or charges for the statutes or services. The state treasurer shall
be custodian of the fund and shall make disbursements from the fund for
enhancing or producing the electronic form of the revised statutes in a
computer readable form, enhancing the electronic* processing of
computerized legislative drafting and such other purposes authorized by
the joint committee on legislative research upon appropriation by the
general assembly. Moneys in the fund may also be used at the direction of
the committee on legislative research to provide the revised statutes of
Missouri and any supplement thereto to public libraries of this state in
a computer readable format for use by patrons of the libraries.

2. Any unexpended balance in the fund at the end of any biennium not to
exceed twice the cost of providing the annual supplement to the revised
statutes of Missouri is exempt from the provisions of section 33.080,
RSMo, relating to transfer of unexpended balances to the ordinary revenue
fund. (L. 1992 H.B. 1849 § 1)

Effective 5-28-92

*Word "electric" appears in original rolls.

The committee on legislative research, through the revisor of
statutes, shall cause all temporary laws to be printed in the revised
statutes, and all supplements, with the termination date clearly shown.
Appropriation bills shall not be printed. (L. 1977 S.B. 419)

Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter to the contrary the
revisor of statutes is hereby directed to codify all sections of law or
portions of sections of law imposing court costs, fees, miscellaneous
charges and surcharges imposed in connection with filing and prosecution
of judicial cases, both civil and criminal, into one chapter of the
revised statutes of Missouri. The revisor shall recodify those sections
or portions of sections of existing law which impose such court costs,
including, but not limited to, sections 56.310, 56.765, 57.280, 57.290,
57.955, 66.110, 67.133, 193.205, 193.265, 221.070, 221.120, 455.205*,
476.053*, 478.401*, 479.260, 479.261*, 482.345, 483.500, 483.505,
483.530, 483.535, 483.550, 483.580, 483.591*, 485.100*, 485.120*,
487.170*, 488.305, 488.605, 488.1005, 488.1010, 491.280, 491.420,
494.455, 494.480, 513.623, 517.151, 561.035*, 577.048*, 590.140* and
595.045, RSMo, chapters 514 and 550, RSMo, subsection 2 of sections
476.385, RSMo, and 488.2205, RSMo, and any other sections or portions of
sections of law which impose such court costs, both existing and future,
into one chapter of the revised statutes which deals with court costs,
which shall be titled to reflect that all sections relating to such court
costs are contained within said chapter. From time to time, the revisor
of statutes shall call upon the state courts administrator for assistance
in determining what sections, or portions of sections, of law impose
court costs for purposes of this section. (L. 1996 S.B. 869)

*Transferred 2000; 455.205 now 488.445 476.053 now 488.027 478.401 now
488.447 479.261 now 488.607 483.591 now 488.2275 485.100 now 488.2250
485.120 now 488.2253 487.170 now 488.2300 561.035 now 488.5332 577.048
now 488.5334 590.140 now 488.5336

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