Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 43

Highway Patrol, State

←43.010

Section 43.020.1

43.025→

August 28, 2015

State highway patrol created.

43.020. There is hereby created a force consisting of a superintendent

and other officers, sergeants, corporals, patrolmen, and radio personnel, as

herein provided, to be known as "Missouri State Highway Patrol", which shall

be vested with the powers and duties specified in this chapter and all powers

necessary to enable the members of the patrol to fully and effectively carry

out the purposes of this chapter but the powers and duties hereby conferred on

the members of such patrol shall be supplementary to and in no way a

limitation on the powers and duties of sheriffs, police officers, or other

peace officers of this state.



(RSMo 1939 § 8346, A.L. 1949 p. 293, A.L. 1971 S.B. 163)







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