Officers and other personnel, numbers authorized — exceptions — enforcement of gaming activities, when — discrimination prohibited.

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Effective - 28 Aug 2010

43.050. Officers and other personnel, numbers authorized — exceptions — enforcement of gaming activities, when — discrimination prohibited. — 1. The superintendent may appoint not more than thirty-four captains and one director of radio, each of whom shall have the same qualifications as the superintendent, nor more than sixty-eight lieutenants, and such additional force of sergeants, corporals and patrolmen, so that the total number of members of the patrol shall not exceed one thousand sixty-four officers and patrolmen and such numbers of radio personnel as the superintendent deems necessary.

2. In case of a national emergency the superintendent may name additional patrolmen and radio personnel in a number sufficient to replace, temporarily, patrolmen and radio personnel called into military services.

3. The superintendent may enter into an agreement with the Missouri gaming commission to enforce any law, rule, or regulation, conduct background investigations under the laws of this state, and enforce the regulations of licensed gaming activities governed by chapter 313. A notice of either party to terminate or modify the provisions of such agreement shall be in writing and executed not less than one year from the effective date of the termination or modification, unless mutually agreed upon by the superintendent and the Missouri gaming commission. Members of the patrol hired in conjunction with any agreement with the Missouri gaming commission shall not be subject to the personnel cap referenced in subsection 1 of this section. If such agreement is subsequently terminated or modified to reduce the number of personnel used in such agreement, those members affected by such termination or modification shall not be subject to the personnel cap referenced in subsection 1 of this section for a period of five years.

4. Member positions of the patrol originally acquired in conjunction with the community-oriented policing services federal grant or members assigned to fulfill the duties established in sections 43.350 to 43.380 shall not be subject to the personnel cap referenced in subsection 1 of this section.

5. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national origin or sex.

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(RSMo 1939 § 8349, A.L. 1943 p. 652, A.L. 1945 p. 978, A.L. 1949 p. 293, A.L. 1951 p. 651, A.L. 1953 p. 565, A.L. 1955 p. 615, A.L. 1957 p. 619, A.L. 1961 p. 482, A.L. 1965 p. 149, A.L. 1967 pp. 120, 121, A.L. 1973 H.B. 539, A.L. 1975 H.B. 695, A.L. 1978 S.B. 772, A.L. 1985 H.B. 671, A.L. 1992 S.B. 550, A.L. 1993 H.B. 220, A.L. 1996 S.B. 578, A.L. 1999 S.B. 309, A.L. 2005 H.B. 618, A.L. 2007 H.B. 41, A.L. 2010 H.B. 1868)


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