Effective - 28 Aug 2009, 2 histories
43.060. Qualifications, patrol and radio personnel — limitations on activities, exceptions — school board membership permitted — secondary employment permitted. — 1. Patrolmen and radio personnel shall not be less than twenty-one years of age. No person shall be appointed as superintendent or member of the patrol or as a member of the radio personnel who has been convicted of a felony or any crime involving moral turpitude, or against whom any indictment or information may then be pending charging the person with having committed a crime, nor shall any person be appointed who is not of good character or who is not a citizen of the United States and who at the time of appointment is not a citizen of the state of Missouri; or who has not completed a high school program of education under chapter 167, or who has not obtained a General Educational Development (GED) certificate, and who has not obtained advanced education and experience as approved by the superintendent, or who does not possess ordinary physical strength, and who is not able to pass the physical and mental examination that the superintendent prescribes.
2. Except as provided in subsections 3 and 4 of this section, no member of the patrol shall hold any other commission or office, elective or appointive, while a member of the patrol, except that the superintendent may authorize specified members to accept federal commissions providing investigative and arrest authority to enforce federal statutes while working with or at the direction of a federal law enforcement agency. No member of the patrol shall accept any other employment, compensation, reward, or gift other than regular salary and expenses as herein provided except with the written permission of the superintendent. No member of the patrol shall perform any police duty connected with the conduct of any election, nor shall any member of the patrol at any time or in any manner electioneer for or against any party ticket, or any candidate for nomination or election to office on any party ticket, nor for or against any proposition of any kind or nature to be voted upon at any election.
3. Members of the patrol shall be permitted to be candidates for and members or directors of the school board in any school district where they meet the requirements for that position as set forth in chapter 162. Members of the patrol who become school board directors or members within the state shall be permitted to receive benefits or compensation for their service to the school board as provided by chapter 162.
4. The superintendent may, by general order, set forth the circumstances under which members of the patrol may, in addition to their duties as members of the patrol, be engaged in secondary employment.
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(RSMo 1939 § 8352, A.L. 1943 p. 652, A.L. 1949 p. 293, A.L. 1969 H.B. 173, A.L. 1983 H.B. 268, A.L. 1985 H.B. 671, A.L. 1992 S.B. 550, A.L. 1993 H.B. 198, A.L. 1994 H.B. 1037 merged with H.B. 1437 & 1148, A.L. 2004 S.B. 859, A.L. 2006 H.B. 1393 merged with S.B. 981, A.L. 2009 S.B. 47)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title V - Military Affairs and Police
Chapter 43 - Highway Patrol, State
Section 43.020 - State highway patrol created.
Section 43.025 - Primary purpose of highway patrol.
Section 43.030 - Superintendent — qualifications, appointment, powers.
Section 43.032 - Federal immigration law enforcement, patrol members to be designated for training.
Section 43.040 - Lieutenant colonel and majors — appointment, qualifications.
Section 43.090 - Clerical force — offices and equipment — radio station.
Section 43.100 - Salaries and expenses for highway work, how paid.
Section 43.110 - Travel expenses of patrol, how paid — fees.
Section 43.130 - Uniforms — allowance to members — vehicles and equipment.
Section 43.140 - Members' oaths.
Section 43.150 - Removal or discipline of members of patrol, procedure.
Section 43.160 - Duties of the patrol on highways.
Section 43.170 - Must stop on signal of member of patrol — penalty.
Section 43.180 - Powers of patrol members — investigation of crime, how paid for.
Section 43.190 - Authority to arrest, pursue violators.
Section 43.195 - Authority to arrest upon reasonable grounds for motor vehicle violations.
Section 43.210 - Person arrested to be dealt with according to law.
Section 43.220 - No authority to exceed duties authorized in this chapter.
Section 43.250 - Law enforcement officers to file accident reports with patrol, when.
Section 43.251 - Report forms — how provided, contents — approval by superintendent.
Section 43.252 - Highway patrol traffic records fund created, moneys to be deposited into fund.
Section 43.270 - Criminal justice network and technology revolving fund, purpose.
Section 43.300 - Division created.
Section 43.310 - Director, appointed by superintendent — responsibility.
Section 43.320 - Assignment of highway patrol members to division — allocation of costs.
Section 43.330 - Duties of director.
Section 43.350 - Division established.
Section 43.360 - Director — appointment, qualification, duties.
Section 43.370 - Personnel, compensation, expenses.
Section 43.380 - Investigations, powers, procedure.
Section 43.402 - Missing persons unit established, duties.
Section 43.403 - Responsibilities of other agencies.
Section 43.405 - False reports, penalty.
Section 43.407 - Birth certificate records of missing children to be flagged at request of patrol.
Section 43.408 - School records of missing children to be flagged at request of patrol.
Section 43.409 - Registrar and school to be notified when missing child is located.
Section 43.507 - Disclosure of criminal history information, who may receive.
Section 43.509 - Rulemaking authority, department of public safety — rulemaking procedure.
Section 43.512 - Charge code manual, publication, use.
Section 43.515 - Rulemaking authority, highway patrol criminal record division.
Section 43.524 - Requests for delayed compliance, how made, when.
Section 43.527 - Payment for records, exceptions.
Section 43.542 - Approval of National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact — execution of compact.
Section 43.544 - Intoxication — related traffic offenses, policies required for forwarding to MULES.
Section 43.545 - Highway patrol to include incidents of domestic violence in reporting system.
Section 43.547 - Gubernatorial appointees, fingerprint background checks required — procedure.
Section 43.550 - Revisor to make certain statutory reference changes.
Section 43.651 - Online identifiers, patrol to make information available, when.
Section 43.653 - Highway patrol to create and supervise — location of lab.