If a court decides that a public officer (like a state, county, or city official) is mentally incapacitated, that officer's job is automatically considered empty. The judge then notifies whoever is in charge of filling that position, and the job gets filled by someone else until the officer is no longer incapacitated.
475.350. public officer, proceedings. — If any person by the judge of the is, at the time of the , a of this state, or of any county in this state, or of any in this state, his office is vacant, and the judge of the court shall the fact of such adjudication to the officer or having power to fill the ; and the vacancy shall be filled during the of such officer.
(RSMo 1939 § 451, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 351, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 452; 1919 § 448; 1909 § 478
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