Section 386.530

Title XXV INCORPORATION AND REGULATION OF CERTAIN UTILITIES AND CARRIERS

Chapter 386

Effective - 01 Jul 2011, see footnote   

  386.530.  Priority over other civil cases in court actions granted. — All actions or proceedings under this or any other chapter, and all actions and proceedings commenced or prosecuted by order of the commission, and all actions and proceedings to which the commission, the public counsel or the state may be parties, and in which any question arises under this or any other chapter, or under or concerning any order or decision or action of the commission, shall be preferred over all other civil causes except election contests in all the appellate courts of the state of Missouri, and shall be heard and determined in preference to all other civil business pending therein except election contests, irrespective of position on the calendar.  The same preference shall be granted upon application of the public counsel or the commission counsel in any action or proceeding in which either or both may be allowed to intervene.

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(RSMo 1939 § 5692, A.L. 1977 H.B. 42 & 157, A.L. 2011 S.B. 48)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 5236; 1919 § 10524

Effective 7-01-11