479.070. Duties and powers of municipal judge. — The municipal judge shall be a conservator of the peace. He shall keep a docket in which he shall enter every case commenced before him and the proceeding therein and he shall keep such other records as required. Such docket and records shall be records of the circuit court. The municipal judge shall deliver said docket and records and all books and papers pertaining to his office to his successor in office or to the presiding judge of the circuit. The municipal judge shall have the power to administer oaths and enforce due obedience to all orders, rules and judgments made by him, and may fine or imprison for contempt committed before such judge while holding court, in the same manner and to the same extent as a circuit judge.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in
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cases (
3 in the last 5 years), 1971–2022 · leading case:
State v. Allison, 466 S.W.2d 712 (Mo. 1971).
State v. Allison, 466 S.W.2d 712 (Mo. 1971).
· cites it 7× “Gollub be, and is hereby appointed provisional judge pursuant to Section 479.070, RSMo 1949, to act as such provisional judge from January 6, 1969, to January 26, 1969, inclusive.”
State v. Keith (Kan. Ct. App. 2021).
“Second, in defining the duties and powers of a municipal judge, Mo. Rev. Stat. § 479.070 clarifies that the docket and records kept by a municipal judge are records of the circuit court.”
State v. Herrelson (Kan. Ct. App. 2022).
“010 provides that "'[v]iolations of municipal ordinances shall be heard and determined only before divisions of the circuit court'"—making the municipal court a division of the Missouri circuit court; (2) Mo. Rev. Stat. § 479.070 says the docket and records kept by a municipal…”
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