Section 477.087

Title XXXII COURTS

Chapter 477

Effective - 28 Aug 1999   

  477.087.  Official station of judges — office space to be provided — travel to and from official station to be a paid expense. — 1.  The official station of each judge of the supreme court and court of appeals may be the locus of the court of which the judge is a member or any circuit court county courthouse located where the judge maintains an actual abode in which the judge customarily lives or at any other office in that county.

  2.  The presiding judge of the judicial circuit in which a judge of the supreme court or court of appeals has his official station may provide suitable office space, if available, upon request by a judge of the supreme court or court of appeals for use by the judge and the judge's staff personnel.

  3.  Each judge of the supreme court and court of appeals, upon appointment and from time to time thereafter as changes occur, shall notify the state courts administrator in writing of the judge's official station, if other than the city of the locus of the court of which the judge is a member.

  4.  Judges of the supreme court and court of appeals and their staff shall be entitled to any state allowances for official travel and mileage to or from their official station and the locus of the court on which the judge sits.

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(L. 1988 S.B. 425 § 1, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1370, et al., A.L. 1999 S.B. 1, et al.)