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§ 104.012 — Spouse defined.

Missouri § 104.012
JurisdictionMissouri
Title VIIIPUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES, BONDS AND RECORDS
Ch. 104Retirement of State Officers and Employees

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Bluebook
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 104.012 (2026).

Text

For the purposes of public retirement systems administered pursuant to this chapter, any reference to the term "spouse" only recognizes marriage between a man and a woman.

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Legislative History

(L. 2001 S.B. 371 § 2) (2013) Same-sex partner of deceased highway patrolman lacked standing to challenge ban on survivor benefits for same-sex married couples, and creating an open-ended class of married couples was not a special law.  Glossip v. Missouri Dept. of Transp. and Highway Patrol Employees' Retirement System, 411 S.W.3d 796 (Mo.banc).

Nearby Sections

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§ 104.010
Definitions.
§ 104.012
Spouse defined.
§ 104.020
System created.
§ 104.030
Highway patrol uniformed members and civilian employees to be members of retirement system — credit for military service, when.
§ 104.035
Deferred normal annuity on termination of employment to be paid to employee, requirements — reemployment and member of system, prior service credit restored, when — transportation department and highway patrol, deferred normal annuity, when, requirements.
§ 104.040
Members to receive credit for prior service — military service to be considered — purchase of credit for service in the Armed Forces, cost, interest rate, computation — certain creditable prior service, purchase of, effect — nonfederal public employment, purchase of credit for service.
§ 104.050
Years of service used in calculating annuity — noncompensated absences for illness and injury, effect — withdrawal before entitled to deferred annuity, relinquishes all rights — reinstatement of forfeited creditable service, when.
§ 104.060
No payroll deductions — accumulated contributions refunded, when, to whom.
§ 104.070
Board to submit estimate of amounts to be contributed by state — included in appropriation request.
§ 104.080
Member may retire when — waiver of monthly annuity, when.
§ 104.081
Highway patrol retirement age.
§ 104.090
Normal annuity of retired member — additional allowance to patrolmen, qualifications — survivorship options — option selected prior to retirement, death of spouse, effect — spouse as beneficiary, effect — dissolution of marriage, cancellation of election, when.
§ 104.100
Early retirement and retirement, service credits required at age fifty-five — sixty — sixty-five, exception — computation.
§ 104.1003
Definitions.
§ 104.1006
Year 2000 plan, citation, applicability of other provisions.
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