Section 56.067 Prosecuting attorney must devote full time to office or special prosecutions (certain counties).

MO Rev Stat § 56.067 (2019) (N/A)
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Effective 06 May 1999, see footnote

*56.067. Prosecuting attorney must devote full time to office or special prosecutions (certain counties). — In counties of the first classification not having a charter form of government, and counties which have passed the proposition authorized by section 56.363, the prosecuting attorney, except in the performance of special prosecutions or otherwise representing the state or its political subdivisions, shall devote full time to his office, and shall not engage in the practice of law.

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(L. 1967 p. 130, A.L. 1998 S.B. 819, A.L. 1999 S.B. 275)

Effective 5-06-99

*Revisor's Note: This section is reprinted in accordance with section 3.066. S.B. 672 in 2014 amended this section and was declared unconstitutional as a violation of Art. III, Sec. 23, of the Missouri Constitution (see 2016 annotation below), rendering the repeal and reenactment of this section ineffective.

(2016) Provisions of S.B. 672 from 2014 declared unconstitutional as violating the single subject rule of Article III, § 23; under the facts presented, those provisions cannot be severed and the bill is unconstitutional in its entirety. Calzone v. Koster, et al., Case No. 15AC-CC00247 (Cole County Cir. Ct., Feb. 9, 2016).