Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 57 - Sheriffs
Section 57.290 - Charges in criminal cases.

Effective - 01 Jul 2006
57.290. Charges in criminal cases. — 1. In cities and counties having a population of three hundred thousand inhabitants and over, each deputy sheriff, not more than two, shall be allowed for each day during the term of court six dollars, to be paid by the city or county of three hundred thousand inhabitants or over.
2. For the services of taking convicted offenders to the reception and diagnostic center designated by the director of the department of corrections, the sheriff, county marshal or other officers shall receive the sum of eight dollars per day for the time actually and necessarily employed in traveling to and from the reception and diagnostic center, and each guard shall receive the sum of six dollars per day for the same, and the sheriff, county marshal or other officer and guard shall receive the mileage rate prescribed by this section for the distance necessarily traveled in going to and returning from the reception and diagnostic center, the time and distance to be estimated by the most usually traveled route from the place of departure to the reception and diagnostic center; the mileage rate prescribed by this section for each mile traveled shall be allowed to the sheriff to cover all expenses on each convicted offender while being taken to the reception and diagnostic center; and all persons convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in the department of corrections at any term or sitting of the court, shall be taken to the reception and diagnostic center at the same time, unless prevented by sickness or unavoidable accident. In cities having a population of two hundred thousand inhabitants or more, convicted offenders shall be taken to the reception and diagnostic center as often as the sheriff deems necessary. When three or more convicted offenders are being taken to the reception and diagnostic center at one time, a guard may be employed, but no guard shall be employed for a less number of convicted offenders except upon the order, entered of record, of the judge of the court in which the conviction was had, and any additional guards employed by order of the judge shall, in no event, exceed one for every three convicted offenders; and before any claim for taking convicted offenders to the reception and diagnostic center is allowed, the sheriff, or other officer conveying such convicted offender, shall file with the state director of the department of corrections an itemized statement of such sheriff's account, in which the sheriff shall give the name of each convicted offender conveyed and the name of each guard actually employed, with the number of miles necessarily traveled and the number of days required, which in no case shall exceed three days, and which account shall be signed and sworn to by such officer and accompanied by a certificate from the chief administrative officer or such officer's designee of the reception and diagnostic center, that such convicted offenders have been delivered at the reception and diagnostic center and were accompanied by each of the officers and guards named in the account.
3. The sheriff or other officer who shall take a person, charged with a criminal offense, from the county in which the offender is apprehended to that in which the offense was committed, or who may remove a prisoner from one county to another for any cause authorized by law, or who shall have in custody or under such sheriff's or officer's charge any person undergoing an examination preparatory to such person's commitment more than one day for transporting, safekeeping and maintaining any such person, shall be allowed by the court having cognizance of the offense, three dollars and fifty cents per day for every day such sheriff or officer may have such person under such sheriff's or officer's charge, when the number of days shall exceed one, and the mileage rate prescribed by this section for every mile necessarily traveled in going to and returning from one county to another, and the guard employed, who shall in no event exceed the number allowed the sheriff, marshal or other officer in transporting convicted offenders to the reception and diagnostic center, shall be allowed the same compensation as the officer. Three dollars and fifty cents per day, mileage same as officer, shall be allowed for board and all other expenses of each prisoner. No compensation shall be allowed under this section for taking the prisoner or prisoners from one place to another in the same county, excepting in counties which have two or more courts with general criminal jurisdiction. In such counties the sheriff shall have the same fees for conveying prisoners from the jail to place of trial as are allowed for conveying prisoners in like cases from one county to another, and the expenses incurred in transporting prisoners from one county to another, occasioned by the insufficiency of the county jail or threatened mob violence, shall be paid by the county in which such case may have originated; provided that the court is held at a place more than five miles from the jail; and no court shall allow the expense of a guard, although it may have actually been incurred, unless from the evidence of disinterested persons it shall be satisfied that a guard was necessary; provided, that when the place of conviction is remote from a railroad, upon which a convicted offender may be transported to the reception and diagnostic center, the court before which such convicted offender is sentenced may, for good cause shown, allow one guard for every two convicted offenders, such guard to receive three dollars a day and the mileage rate prescribed by this section for every mile necessarily traveled in going to and returning from the nearest depot on said railroad to the place where such convicted offender was sentenced.
4. Mileage shall be reimbursed to sheriffs, county marshals and guards for all services rendered pursuant to this section at the rate prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service for allowable expenses for motor vehicle use expressed as an amount per mile.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13413, A. 1949 H.B. 2015, A.L. 1953 p. 386, A.L. 1972 S.B. 516, A.L. 1974 S.B. 378, A.L. 1975 H.B. 734, A.L. 1979 H.B. 148, A.L. 1989 S.B. 196, A.L. 1990 H.B. 974, A.L. 1996 S.B. 869, A.L. 1997 S.B. 248, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1528, A.L. 2003 H.B. 613 merged with S.B. 466, A.L. 2006 S.B. 870)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 11791; 1919 § 10999; 1909 § 10702
Effective 7-01-06

Structure Missouri Revised Statutes

Missouri Revised Statutes

Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government

Chapter 57 - Sheriffs

Section 57.010 - Election — qualifications — certificate of election — sheriff to hold valid peace officer license, when.

Section 57.015 - Definitions.

Section 57.020 - Bond.

Section 57.030 - Reelected, new bond.

Section 57.040 - Failure to give bond, effect.

Section 57.050 - Approval of bond.

Section 57.060 - Bond valid until disapproved.

Section 57.070 - Certificate, bond and oath to be recorded.

Section 57.080 - Vacancy in office, how filled — private person may execute process, when.

Section 57.090 - To attend courts — when.

Section 57.095 - Service of process, immunity from liability for sheriffs and law enforcement officers, when.

Section 57.100 - Duties generally — concealed carry permits, duties.

Section 57.101 - Ordinances, city, town and villages, enforcement, requirements.

Section 57.102 - To report on jail and prisoners (second class counties).

Section 57.104 - Sheriff, all noncharter counties, employment of attorney.

Section 57.109 - May contract for services on federal water resources lands, limitation.

Section 57.110 - Duties as conservators of the peace — return of recognizance.

Section 57.111 - May act in adjoining county, when — deemed employee of sending county for purposes of benefits and compensation.

Section 57.113 - Duty to patrol certain highways (certain first and certain second class counties).

Section 57.115 - Sheriff may patrol roads and highways (third and fourth class counties).

Section 57.117 - Deputy sheriff to be resident of state — or adjoining state — exception, Jackson County and City of St. Louis.

Section 57.119 - Deputy sheriffs, temporary appointment.

Section 57.125 - Investigation of personnel for circuit court — jurors (certain first class counties).

Section 57.140 - Moneys collected on executions, to whom paid.

Section 57.150 - At expiration of term, to turn over funds to successor.

Section 57.160 - Failure to turn over — guilty of misdemeanor and subject to civil action on bond.

Section 57.170 - Summary proceedings against sureties.

Section 57.180 - Settlements of courts with sheriffs and marshals.

Section 57.190 - Penalty if sheriff or marshal fails to settle.

Section 57.201 - Deputies, appointment, compensation — serve at pleasure of sheriff (certain first class counties).

Section 57.220 - Appointment of deputies, provisions of law to apply (second class counties).

Section 57.230 - Salaries of deputies from county treasury.

Section 57.240 - Employment of other persons.

Section 57.250 - Appointment of deputies — compensation — duty of circuit judges — presiding judge may order additional deputies, when — provisions of law to apply (third and fourth class counties).

Section 57.251 - Sheriff to appoint deputies and assistants — compensation — provisions of law to apply — effective date (third and fourth class counties).

Section 57.260 - Duties — penalty for neglect (Marion County).

Section 57.270 - Powers of deputies.

Section 57.275 - Dismissal of deputies, procedure.

Section 57.278 - Deputy sheriff salary supplementation fund created, use of moneys.

Section 57.280 - Sheriff to receive charge, civil cases — service of process, fee.

Section 57.281 - Fingerprint background checks, sheriffs in counties of the third classification may provide service to certain persons and entities.

Section 57.290 - Charges in criminal cases.

Section 57.295 - Uniform allowance, county may pay.

Section 57.317 - Compensation of sheriff — training program, attendance required, when, expenses, compensation — minimum compensation (noncharter counties).

Section 57.320 - County may supply automobiles to sheriff and deputies (first class counties).

Section 57.349 - Sheriffs' motor vehicles, county commission to provide (second class counties).

Section 57.350 - Mileage expenses allowed (second class counties).

Section 57.355 - Additional duty, investigation of jurors (second class counties).

Section 57.360 - Additional travel expense (second class counties).

Section 57.380 - Collection of fees in civil and criminal matters, disposition (second class counties).

Section 57.395 - Sheriff to investigate identity of prospective jurors (third and fourth class counties).

Section 57.403 - Compensation for reporting to highway patrol (third and fourth class counties).

Section 57.407 - Additional duty, report on county jail, recommendations required (third class counties) — fees, civil, how paid, exception (third and fourth class counties).

Section 57.408 - Sheriff to establish personal property identification system (all noncharter counties and St. Louis City).

Section 57.410 - Sheriff to collect fees for county (third and fourth class counties).

Section 57.430 - Mileage — maximum amount — computed how — statement to be filed, contents (third and fourth class counties).

Section 57.440 - Travel expense to be paid monthly.

Section 57.445 - Living quarters (second, third and fourth class counties).

Section 57.450 - Laws applicable — enforcement of general criminal laws, when.

Section 57.452 - St. Louis City, sheriffs exempt from certification requirements.

Section 57.460 - Bond, by whom approved.

Section 57.470 - Process of courts in St. Louis City directed to sheriff of St. Louis City for service — exception.

Section 57.475 - To investigate certain deputies for circuit court.

Section 57.490 - To make itemized statement of fees.

Section 57.500 - Bondsmen liable, when.

Section 57.510 - Office and supplies furnished.

Section 57.520 - Expense paid out of city treasury.

Section 57.530 - May appoint deputies and fix compensation, limits.

Section 57.540 - Attorney — compensation.

Section 57.550 - Salary for sheriff and deputies.

Section 57.570 - Highway patrol authorized — rules.

Section 57.580 - Patrol to police highways and protect county employees.

Section 57.590 - Offices, clerical assistance, equipment, supplies, provided by county — cooperation with police.

Section 57.600 - Salaries and expenses paid from county aid road fund.

Section 57.949 - Definitions.

Section 57.952 - Sheriffs' retirement fund — management — source — effect of insufficient funds on benefits.

Section 57.955 - Sources of fund — remittances — disbursements.

Section 57.958 - Board of directors — powers and duties — election procedure — terms — expenses — annual report.

Section 57.961 - Membership in system — certain cities and counties may join, how.

Section 57.962 - Sheriffs' retirement system, election to be subject to system by counties and St. Louis City, surcharge imposed.

Section 57.964 - Retirement with normal annuity.

Section 57.967 - Normal annuity, calculation — medical insurance premiums for retired members — surviving spouse of member dying before retirement, benefits.

Section 57.968 - Annual increase in benefits — how calculated.

Section 57.970 - Years of service, calculation.

Section 57.973 - Credit for prior service.

Section 57.976 - Retirement, procedure — annuity begins, when.

Section 57.979 - Options that may be elected in lieu of normal annuity — surviving spouse to become special consultant, when, benefits.

Section 57.980 - Death benefits.

Section 57.982 - Disability benefits — effect of return to employment — disability beneficiary becomes normal retiree, when.

Section 57.985 - Deferred normal annuity — forfeiture of rights in fund — creditable service restored, when — absence counted as membership service, when — ineligible for benefits while in public employment.

Section 57.988 - Exemptions from taxes of state and political subdivisions, legal process and claims — rights unassignable, vested.

Section 57.991 - Effect of benefits on eligibility for benefits in other systems.

Section 57.994 - First payment of benefits under system available, when — vesting of rights.

Section 57.997 - Former sheriff may be employed as special advisor and purchase annuity.