138.350. Public meetings--access to records--certification of documents. - Missouri Statutes

Public meetings--access to records--certification of documents.

138.350. 1. All regular sessions of the commission shall beheld at the office of the commission in Jefferson City. Thecommission may from time to time at its discretion hold meetingsfor the accommodation of the public at other places in the stateand may incur obligations in respect to necessary rental of spaceand equipment therefor.

2. The commission, members and agents thereof, or any dulyauthorized representative, shall have access to all books,papers, documents, statements and accounts on file, or of record,in any of the departments of state, subject to all reasonablerules and regulations of the respective departments relative tothe care of public records, and to all books, papers, documents,statements, and accounts on file, or of record, in counties,townships, districts and municipalities.

3. Every public officer, without a charge or fee of anykind, shall furnish the commission, upon proper application, acertified copy of any document, or part thereof, on file in hisoffice, and no public officer shall be entitled to receive fromthe commission, or its duly authorized agents, any fee forentering, filing, docketing or recording any document required orauthorized by law to be filed in his office.

(RSMo 1939 § 11026, A.L. 1945 p. 1805 § 14, A. 1949 S.B. 1023)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 9853; 1919 § 12846