FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 781

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

 

 

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE PRATT.

         Read 1st time March 14, 2005 and copies ordered printed.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 162, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to school police officers.




Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:


            Section A. Chapter 162, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 162.209, to read as follows:

            162.209. 1. Any district school board may appoint and employ as many police officers as it may deem necessary to protect persons, property, and to preserve peace and good order only in the public buildings, properties, grounds, and other facilities and locations over which the school district has charge or control.

            2. Before they enter upon their duties, police officers appointed under this section shall take and subscribe an oath of office before some officer authorized to administer oaths, to faithfully and impartially discharge the duties thereof, which oath shall be filed in the office of the school board, and the secretary of the school board shall give each officer so appointed and qualified a certificate of appointment, under the seal of the board, which certificate shall empower the officer with the same authority to maintain order, preserve peace, and make arrests as is now held by peace officers. The officer may in addition expel from the public buildings, campuses, and grounds, persons violating the rules and regulations that may be prescribed by the school board or others under the authority of the school board. Such officer or employee of the school district as may be designated by the board shall have immediate charge, control, and supervision of officers appointed by authority of this section. Such officers shall have satisfactorily completed before appointment a training course for police officers as prescribed by chapter 590, RSMo, for state peace officers or, by virtue of previous experience or training, have met the requirements of chapter 590, RSMo.