Effective - 28 Aug 1995
546.902. Municipalities in St. Louis County, authority to enact ordinances and enforce them with fines or imprisonment. — Any municipality located within any county of the first classification with a population in excess of nine hundred thousand, for any purpose or purposes mentioned in this chapter, may enact and make all necessary ordinances, rules and regulations; and they may enact and make all such ordinances and rules, not inconsistent with the laws of the state, as may be expedient for maintaining the peace and good government and welfare of the city and its trade and commerce; and all ordinances may be enforced by prescribing and inflicting upon its inhabitants, or other persons violating the same, such fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and such imprisonment not exceeding three months, or both such fine and imprisonment, as may be just for any offense, recoverable with costs of suit, together with judgment of imprisonment, until the fine and costs are paid or satisfied; and any person committed for the nonpayment of fine and costs, or either, may be compelled to work out the same as herein provided; but, in any case wherein the penalty for an offense is fixed by any statute, the council shall affix the same penalty by ordinance for the punishment of such offense, except that imprisonments, when made under city ordinances, may be in the city prison or workhouse instead of the county jail.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 424 § 8)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXVII - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 546 - Trials, Judgments and Executions in Criminal Cases
Section 546.010 - Proceedings upon information, how conducted.
Section 546.020 - Plea of not guilty, not formally tendered.
Section 546.030 - Prisoner must be present in court, when.
Section 546.040 - Issues of fact to be tried by jury.
Section 546.050 - Misdemeanors may be tried by court.
Section 546.060 - Practice in civil case to apply, when.
Section 546.070 - Order of trial — instructions, requirements.
Section 546.080 - Variance between charge and proof.
Section 546.090 - Court may amend record, when — clerk to certify corrections.
Section 546.095 - Offense not cognizable before associate circuit judge — procedure.
Section 546.250 - Person injured may testify.
Section 546.263 - Domestic assault, victim may testify by video conference — local court rules.
Section 546.270 - Failure to testify not to prejudice defendant.
Section 546.280 - Defendant may be discharged to testify for state.
Section 546.300 - Existence of corporation, how proved.
Section 546.360 - Defense of former jeopardy may be proved, when.
Section 546.370 - Exceptions may be taken as in civil cases.
Section 546.380 - Court not to charge, but may instruct jury.
Section 546.390 - Verdict of jury, how rendered.
Section 546.400 - Verdict must show degree of guilt.
Section 546.540 - Confinement of insane persons, costs paid, how.
Section 546.550 - Presence of prisoner at rendition of judgment.
Section 546.560 - Presence of prisoner in court.
Section 546.570 - Hearing before sentence.
Section 546.580 - Section 546.570 deemed directory, when.
Section 546.590 - Judgment to be entered by clerk.
Section 546.600 - Copy of judgment of conviction to sheriff.
Section 546.610 - Copy of commitment to sheriff — prisoner, how and where delivered.
Section 546.620 - Power of sheriff to summon aid.
Section 546.650 - Court may require security to keep the peace.
Section 546.660 - Section 546.650 construed.
Section 546.670 - Recognizance, when broken.
Section 546.680 - Capital cases, duty of court.
Section 546.690 - Statement of conviction and judgment to governor.
Section 546.700 - Sentence not executed, procedure.
Section 546.730 - Place of executing judgment of death, duties of director.
Section 546.740 - Execution, witnesses.
Section 546.750 - Warrant of execution, how returned.
Section 546.800 - Pregnancy of female convict under death sentence — proceedings.
Section 546.810 - If found pregnant — sentence suspended.
Section 546.820 - Execution ordered when causes for suspension cease.
Section 546.860 - All property bound for fine and costs.
Section 546.870 - Executions shall issue, when.
Section 546.880 - May be consigned to workhouse, when.
Section 546.881 - St. Louis City workhouse, commitment.
Section 546.890 - Persons committed to workhouse imprisoned for full term.