Effective - 28 Aug 2007
50.565. County law enforcement restitution fund may be established, proceeds designated for deposit in, use of moneys — audit of fund. — 1. A county commission may establish by ordinance or order a fund whose proceeds may be expended only for the purposes provided for in subsection 3 of this section. The fund shall be designated as a county law enforcement restitution fund and shall be under the supervision of a board of trustees consisting of two citizens of the county appointed by the presiding commissioner of the county, two citizens of the county appointed by the sheriff of the county, and one citizen of the county appointed by the county coroner or medical examiner. The citizens so appointed shall not be current or former elected officials, current or former employees of the sheriff's department, the office of the prosecuting attorney for the county, office of the county commissioners, or the county treasurer's office. If a county does not have a coroner or medical examiner, the county treasurer shall appoint one citizen to the board of trustees.
2. Money from the county law enforcement restitution fund shall only be expended upon the approval of a majority of the members of the county law enforcement restitution fund's board of trustees and only for the purposes provided for by subsection 3 of this section.
3. Money from the county law enforcement restitution fund shall only be expended for the following purposes:
(1) Narcotics investigation, prevention, and intervention;
(2) Purchase of law enforcement-related equipment and supplies for the sheriff's office;
(3) Matching funds for federal or state law enforcement grants;
(4) Funding for the reporting of all state and federal crime statistics or information; and
(5) Any county law enforcement-related expense, including those of the prosecuting attorney, approved by the board of trustees for the county law enforcement restitution fund that is reasonably related to investigation, charging, preparation, trial, and disposition of criminal cases before the courts of the state of Missouri.
4. The county commission may not reduce any law enforcement agency's budget as a result of funds the law enforcement agency receives from the county law enforcement restitution fund. The restitution fund is to be used only as a supplement to the law enforcement agency's funding received from other county, state, or federal funds.
5. County law enforcement restitution funds shall be audited as are all other county funds.
6. No court may order the assessment and payment authorized by this section if the plea of guilty or the finding of guilt is to the charge of speeding, careless and imprudent driving, any charge of violating a traffic control signal or sign, or any charge which is a class C misdemeanor or an infraction. No assessment and payment ordered pursuant to this section may exceed three hundred dollars for any charged offense.
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(L. 2004 H.B. 1055, A.L. 2007 S.B. 22)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government
Chapter 50 - County Finances, Budget and Retirement Systems
Section 50.010 - Fiscal year in counties.
Section 50.020 - Transfer of county funds.
Section 50.030 - Section 50.020 construed.
Section 50.032 - Mediation of disputes necessary for receipt of state funds.
Section 50.040 - County commission may invest school funds, when and how.
Section 50.050 - County treasurer to report.
Section 50.055 - Accounts of county may be audited (counties of the second classification).
Section 50.057 - Audit, when, by whom (certain counties of the first classification).
Section 50.060 - County commission may borrow money — amount (first and second class counties).
Section 50.070 - Tax anticipation notes may be issued in counties of first, third and fourth class.
Section 50.080 - Tax anticipation notes — how made, signed and attested.
Section 50.090 - Estimate of county revenue to be basis for issuing anticipated notes.
Section 50.100 - Note provisions.
Section 50.110 - Board of estimate of anticipated revenue.
Section 50.120 - County treasurer to sell notes — publication — private sale.
Section 50.130 - Registration of notes.
Section 50.150 - County warrants may be pledged — for what purpose — redemption.
Section 50.320 - Penalty for clerk or treasurer violating section 50.160, 50.166 or 50.172.
Section 50.330 - Salaries of county officers and assistants, how paid.
Section 50.350 - Salaried officer to collect fees (second class counties).
Section 50.390 - Officers to settle with county commission.
Section 50.400 - Refusal to settle — commission may estimate amount due.
Section 50.410 - Penalty of defaulting officer.
Section 50.420 - Damages against delinquents.
Section 50.430 - Commission determination final, when — interest — misdemeanor.
Section 50.440 - Penalties may be remitted, when.
Section 50.450 - County clerk to make abstract of settlement — record of.
Section 50.460 - Abstract to be a lien, when — execution.
Section 50.470 - Officers to keep an account of fees collected for others.
Section 50.490 - Treasurer to keep an account of such fees.
Section 50.510 - Books and fees to be turned over to successor.
Section 50.525 - County budget law.
Section 50.527 - Revenue defined.
Section 50.590 - Budget document — contents.
Section 50.600 - Form of budget documents — public hearing.
Section 50.610 - Commission may revise budget — adoption and appropriation order.
Section 50.620 - Appropriations (first and second class counties).
Section 50.650 - Liability of certain officers.
Section 50.660 - Rules governing contracts.
Section 50.745 - State auditor to develop, approve forms (third and fourth class counties).
Section 50.750 - Missouri products to be purchased by officers.
Section 50.753 - Purchasing agent, how appointed, compensation, assistants.
Section 50.755 - Purchasing agent to investigate need for supplies requested by officers.
Section 50.757 - Purchasing agent, duties — bids rejected, when.
Section 50.770 - Supplies defined (second class and certain first class counties).
Section 50.784 - Procurement authority delegation permitted, when — accepting department's duties.
Section 50.820 - Statement, how published — duties of state auditor.
Section 50.1000 - Definitions.
Section 50.1010 - Fund authorized, management — apportionment of benefits.
Section 50.1032 - Board to adopt rules for administration of retirement system.
Section 50.1036 - Errors, false statements, false records, consequences.
Section 50.1050 - Normal annuity, qualifications.
Section 50.1060 - Normal annuity, amount, limitation — board to recommend adjustments to formula.
Section 50.1070 - Increase in benefits, limitation — determination — waiver of increase.
Section 50.1080 - What calculators apply.
Section 50.1110 - Options in lieu of normal annuity, election — survivorship benefit.
Section 50.1120 - Death of beneficiary, reversion of normal annuity.
Section 50.1130 - Death benefit.
Section 50.1150 - Law not to affect certain rights — discrimination prohibited.
Section 50.1160 - Effect upon eligibility for other retirement systems.
Section 50.1170 - Applicability.
Section 50.1180 - Law not to apply to certain political subdivisions.
Section 50.1190 - Recorder of deeds, extra fees, deposit.
Section 50.1200 - Ex officio collector, fees, deposit.
Section 50.1220 - NonLAGERS member contribution, amount.
Section 50.1240 - Bookkeeping account established.
Section 50.1260 - Direct rollover permitted, when.
Section 50.1300 - Deferred compensation plan authorized — consolidation permitted, when.