Section 483.240

Title XXXII COURTS

Chapter 483

Effective - 02 Jan 1979, 3 histories, see footnote   

  483.240.  Circuit clerks, duties and responsibilities — exceptions. — 1.  Each circuit clerk shall have administrative control over, and be responsible for, the safekeeping of the records of the circuit court of each county or of the city of St. Louis, except for the following:

  (1)  Records in probate divisions;

  (2)  Records in cases while they are pending in divisions presided over by an associate circuit judge; provided, however, this subdivision (2) shall not apply to cases pending before associate circuit judges in the circuit court of the city of St. Louis;

  (3)  Records in cases while they are pending in the municipal divisions; and

  (4)  Records of the traffic violation bureaus.

  2.  Associate circuit judges and judges of the probate divisions who are authorized to appoint division clerks shall have administrative control over the division clerks they appoint and the records of their divisions.  With respect to divisions which are staffed by division clerks rather than by the circuit clerk or deputy circuit clerks, the judge appointing the division clerks for that division shall designate a chief division clerk who shall be primarily responsible for the safekeeping of the records of that division.

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(L. 1978 H.B. 1634)

Effective 1-02-79