Missouri · statute · Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 180 · 11 active provisions
The librarian and assistant librarian shall hold their offices during the pleasure of the supreme court, and the said court shall exercise a general care and superintendence over the library.
The librarian shall have the custody, charge and safekeeping of all maps, charts and other things of every kind whatsoever, property belonging to the library, and shall take special care that none of them be lost or injured; and he shall cause the seal of the supreme court to be stamped on the outside of each volume. T…
Whenever any volumes in the supreme court library of the supreme court reports or of the court of appeals of this state, or of the revised statutes or session acts thereof, have become worn and defaced or unfit for use, the secretary of state, on the requisition of the supreme court librarian, shall exchange the volume…
The librarian shall cause all books, maps and charts now owned by the state, and such as may be hereafter acquired, to be appropriately arranged and kept in the rooms which are set apart for that purpose on the second floor of the supreme court building. He shall have the sole and entire control of said rooms, keep the…
When there shall be a want of continuity in any of the series of acts, journals or other books required to be placed in the library, it shall be the duty of the librarian to open a correspondence with the proper person, in order to obtain those which are wanting, and if they cannot otherwise be procured, he shall purch…
The librarian shall, under the direction of the judges of the supreme court, purchase such books as they may require, and place the same in the law library; and under the direction of such judges, he may sell or exchange any surplus or duplicate law books or reports.
All necessary expenses of stationery, lights, postage, fuel and keeping the library clean and in order, shall be allowed the librarian, and paid out of the general contingent fund.
The commissioner of administration shall certify the accounts of the librarian and assistant librarian and warrants shall be drawn on the treasury for the payment of the same.
The library shall be open to the public and operated under the rules, orders and supervision of the supreme court of Missouri; but no book shall be taken from the library except by the state officers, members of the general assembly or the judges of the supreme court, or an attorney of the supreme court on an order of…
The supreme court library is hereby made and constituted the medium for exchange of the official publications of the various departments, institutions and bureaus of the state government, to be exchanged with the other states of the union for their official state publications, and the officials of this state in charge…
The librarian may collect a reasonable fee for reproducing legal material. The librarian may make expenditures from these fees in order to secure legal material from other sources. A single expenditure from these fees shall not exceed twenty dollars. The aggregate of all expenditures from these fees during any fiscal y…