Effective - 28 Aug 1939
107.070. Surety bond, officers may give, when — cost, how paid. — Whenever any officer of this state or of any department, board, bureau or commission of this state, or any deputy, appointee, agent or employee of any such officer; or any officer of any county of this state, or any deputy, appointee, agent or employee of any such officer, or any officer of any incorporated city, town, or village in this state, or any deputy, appointee, agent or employee of any such officer; or any officer of any department, bureau or commission of any county, city, town or village, or any deputy, appointee, agent or employee of any such officer; or any officer of any district, or other subdivision of any county, or any incorporated city, town or village, of this state, or any deputy, appointee, agent or employee of any such officer, shall be required by law of this state, or by charter, ordinance or resolution, or by any order of any court in this state, to enter into any official bond, or other bond, he may elect, with the consent and approval of the governing body of such state, department, board, bureau, commission, official, county, city, town, village, or other political subdivision, to enter into a surety bond, or bonds, with a surety company or surety companies, authorized to do business in the state of Missouri and the cost of every such surety bond shall be paid by the public body protected thereby.
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(RSMo 1939 § 3238)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title VIII - Public Officers and Employees, Bonds and Records
Chapter 107 - Bonds of Officers and Contractors for Public Works
Section 107.010 - Sureties of county officers to be residents of county.
Section 107.020 - Who shall not be taken as surety.
Section 107.030 - Court shall require additional security, when.
Section 107.040 - Time limit for additional security — default.
Section 107.050 - Discharge of former sureties.
Section 107.060 - Bond — cost paid by county (first class counties).
Section 107.070 - Surety bond, officers may give, when — cost, how paid.
Section 107.080 - Corporate surety accepted, when.
Section 107.090 - Foreign corporation in surety business.
Section 107.100 - Company executing bond as surety estopped to deny its corporate authority.
Section 107.110 - Sureties on certain bonds — evidence of solvency.
Section 107.120 - Additional testimony may be taken.
Section 107.130 - Duty of officer after approval.
Section 107.140 - Annual examination of official bonds.
Section 107.150 - Suits on official bond — duty of governor.