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§ 105.240 — Officers may break doors, when.

Missouri § 105.240
JurisdictionMissouri
Title VIIIPUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES, BONDS AND RECORDS
Ch. 105Public Officers and Employees — Miscellaneous Provisions

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Mo. Rev. Stat. § 105.240 (2026).

Text

Every officer may break open doors and enclosures to execute a warrant or other process for the arrest of any person, or to levy an execution, or execute an order for the delivery of personal property, if, upon public demand and an announcement of his official character, they be not opened.

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Legislative History

(RSMo 1939 § 12824) Prior revisions: 1929 § 11200; 1919 § 9173; 1909 § 10202

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Terms of office.
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Officer-elect, how determined for certain purposes — expenditure of transition funds not invalidated, when.
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Governor to commission certain officers.
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Vacancies, how filled.
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United States senator — vacancy, how filled.
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Vacancy in certain offices — how filled.
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State agencies and officials not to prohibit communications between employees and the state auditor or legislators, exceptions.
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Settlement to be entered of record.
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Duplicate copies of record.
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