590.020. Peace officer license required, when--classes of officers established--no license required, when. - Missouri Statutes

Peace officer license required, when--classes of officersestablished--no license required, when.

590.020. 1. No person shall hold a commission as a peace officerwithout a valid peace officer license.

2. The director shall establish various classes of peace officerlicense and may provide that certain classes are not valid for commissionwithin counties of certain classifications, by certain state agencies, orfor commission as other than a reserve peace officer with police powersrestricted to the commissioning political subdivision.

3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no licenseshall be required:

(1) Of any person who has no power of arrest;

(2) To seek or hold an elected county office, subject to suchrequirements as chapter 57, RSMo, may impose;

(3) To be commissioned pursuant to section 64.335, RSMo, as a parkranger not carrying a firearm;

(4) To be commissioned as a peace officer by a political subdivisionhaving less than four full-time paid peace officers or a population lessthan two thousand, provided that such commission was in effect on August28, 2001, and continually since that date, and provided that this exceptionshall not apply to any commission within a county of the first class havinga charter form of government;

(5) Of any reserve officer continually holding the same commissionsince August 15, 1988; or

(6) For any person continually holding any commission as a full-timepeace officer since December 31, 1978.

4. Any political subdivision or law enforcement agency may requireits peace officers to meet standards more stringent than those required forlicensure pursuant to this chapter.

(L. 2001 H.B. 80)