60.010. 1. At the regular general election in the year 1948, and every four years thereafter, the voters of each county of this state in counties of the second, third, and fourth classification shall elect a registered land surveyor as county surveyor, who shall hold his office for four years and until his successor is duly elected, commissioned and qualified. The person elected shall be commissioned by the governor.
2. No person shall be elected or appointed surveyor unless he be a citizen of the United States, over the age of twenty-one years, be a registered land surveyor, and shall have resided within the state one whole year. An elected surveyor shall have resided within the county for which he is elected six months immediately prior to his election and shall after his election continue to reside within the county for which he is surveyor. An appointed surveyor need not reside within the county for which he is surveyor.
3. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1 of this section, or any other law to the contrary, the county commission of any county of the third or fourth classification may appoint a surveyor following a general election in which the office of surveyor is on the ballot, if no qualified candidate seeks said office. The appointed surveyor shall serve at the pleasure of the county commission, however, an appointed surveyor shall forfeit said office once a qualified individual, who has been duly elected at a regularly scheduled general election where the office of surveyor is on the ballot and who has been commissioned by the governor, takes office. The county commission shall fix appropriate compensation, which need not be equal to that of an elected surveyor.
(RSMo 1939 § 13190, A.L. 1945 p. 1759, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1983 H.B. 133, A.L. 2003 H.B. 267)Prior revisions: 1929 § 11571; 1919 § 12709; 1909 § 11291
Missouri General Assembly