Except when authorized or directed under state law to immediately take a person before the municipal judge for the violation of any traffic laws, a police officer who halts a person for such violation other than for the purpose of giving him a warning or warning notice and does not take such person into custody under arrest, shall issue to him a uniform traffic ticket which shall be proceeded upon in accordance with supreme court rule no. 37.
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 300.580
Procedure of police officers
Effective: 28 Aug 1978; (L. 1965 p. 445 § 151, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)
Official source: Missouri Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Missouri statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.