If any person whose office has become vacated, or his executors or administrators, shall fail to deliver any record, book or paper to the person entitled to the same, the circuit judge, upon the affidavit of any credible person, setting forth the facts, may issue a warrant, directed to the sheriff, or coroner, commanding him to seize all the records, books and papers appertaining to such office, and deliver them to the proper officer named in such warrant.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 109.040
Vacated office — seizure of records by warrant
Known as the The State and Local Records Law
The act spans §§ 109–109 (44 sections).
Effective: 02 Jan 1979, see footnote; (RSMo 1939 § 3626, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634); Prior revisions: 1929 § 3236; 1919 § 10598; 1909 § 10409
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.