386.280. Orders to be written--recording--effect--utility office, where kept.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

386.280. Orders to be written--recording--effect--utility office, where kept.

Orders to be written--recording--effect--utility office, where kept.

386.280. 1. Every order, authorization or certificateissued or approved by the commission under any provision of thischapter shall be in writing and entered on the records of thecommission. Any such order, authorization or certificate, or anypart thereof, or a copy of the record of any such order,authorization or certificate, certified by a commissioner or bythe secretary under the seal of the commission to be a true copyof the original order, authorization, certificate or entry, maybe recorded in the office of the recorder of any county or city,in which is located the principal office and place of business ofany corporation, person or public utility affected thereby, or inwhich is situated any property of any such corporation, person orpublic utility, and such record shall impart notice of itsprovisions to all persons. A certificate under the seal of thecommission that any such order, authorization or certificate hasnot been modified, stayed, suspended or revoked may also berecorded in the same offices in the same manner and with the sameeffect.

2. Every public utility shall have an office in this state,in which all accounts, records, memoranda, books and paperscarried in pursuance of the requirements of law shall be kept.No such accounts, records, memoranda, books or papers shall atany time be removed from the state except upon such conditions asmay be prescribed by the commission.