3.060. Powers of committee in preparing editions. — 1. The committee, in preparing editions of the statutes and supplements or pocket parts thereto, shall not alter the sense, meaning, or effect of any legislative act; but may renumber sections and parts of sections thereof, change the wording of headnotes, rearrange sections, change reference numbers or words to agree with renumbered chapters or sections, substitute the word "chapter" for "act" or "article" and the like, substitute figures for written words and vice versa and change capitalization for the purpose of uniformity and correct manifest clerical or typographical errors.
2. It may:
(1) Correct therein all words misspelled in enrollment;
(2) Correct all manifest clerical errors, including punctuation, but no correction shall constitute an alteration of or a departure from the enrollment;
(3) Transfer sections or divide or combine sections so as to give to distinct subject matters a section number but without changing the meaning;
(4) Substitute therein the name of any agency, officer or instrumentality of the state or of a county to which powers, duties and responsibilities have been transferred by law, for the name of any other agency, officer or instrumentality of the state or of a county previously vested with the same powers and charged with the same duties and responsibilities;
(5) Supply any obvious omission or inaccuracy, which shall be identified in the text. In any such case the committee shall add a footnote calling attention to such omission or correction and explaining the reason therefor; and
(6) Substitute therein the abbreviations: "RSMo" for "Missouri Revised Statutes", and "RSMo Supp." for any cumulative supplement to the Missouri Revised Statutes.
Notes of Decisions
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1 in the last 5 years), 1962–2022 · leading case:
State v. Wade, 421 S.W.3d 429 (Mo. 2013).
State v. Wade, 421 S.W.3d 429 (Mo. 2013).
· cites it 2× “” This process is governed by Chapter 3 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, including section 3.060, which provides: The [joint committee on legislative research], in preparing editions of the statutes and supplements or pocket parts thereto, shall not alter the sense, meaning,…”
In the Interest of T. P. S., 595 S.W.2d 320 (Mo. Ct. App. 1980).
· cites it 2× “261 only applies to appeals under the 1957 act and not to proceedings to terminate parental rights. The committee on legislative research in preparing the revised statutes “shall not alter the sense, meaning, or effect of any legislative act, but may renumber sections .”
State ex rel. Teasdale v. Spainhower, 580 S.W.2d 303 (Mo. 1979).
· cites it 8× “Section 3.060 thereof appropriated to the Department of Higher Education $1,775,000 to provide teacher training courses in all cities having 75,000 or more population maintaining a city teacher training school, “providing that in the event [sic] the funds appropriated herein…”
State ex rel. Ashcroft v. Blunt, 696 S.W.2d 329 (Mo. 1985).
· cites it 2× “" § 3.060, RSMo 1978. The bill signed by the governor disclosed no error on its face and contained no obvious omission or inaccuracy.”
State ex rel. Rybolt v. Easley, 600 S.W.2d 601 (Mo. Ct. App. 1980).
· cites it 2× “890 applies to commercial structures other than those attending to the operation of strip or open-cut mines, would impress upon this particular statute by judicial construction an intent or application neither expressly nor inferentially intended by the legislature.”
State v. Burgess, 359 S.W.2d 484 (Mo. Ct. App. 1962).
· cites it 2× “*487 The Revisor of Statutes, acting under authority granted in § 3.060 RSMo 1959, V.A.M.S., had no authority to alter the sense, meaning or effect of any legislative act but may renumber sections or parts of sections thereof, change the wording of headnotes, rearrange sections,…”
In Re M____________, 446 S.W.2d 508 (Mo. Ct. App. 1969).
“” The committee on legislative research (§ 3.060) renumbered and rearranged the sections as they appeared in the session acts, so that the sections contained in the Laws of 1957 are now numbered 211.”
State v. Durley, 603 S.W.2d 72 (Mo. Ct. App. 1980).
“The fact that the Committee on Legislative Research chose to renumber the manslaughter statutes and to place them in the proper section of the code enactments (Ch.”
State of Missouri v. Angela M. Pliemling (Mo. Ct. App. 2022).
· cites it 2× “With the authority granted by § 3.060 RSMo. (2000), the committee may renumber, rearrange, transfer, divide, or combine sections, but it cannot alter the sense, meaning, or effect of any legislative act.”
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