Title VIII PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES, BONDS AND RECORDS Chapter 105 • Effective - 28 Aug 1939 105.240. Officers may break doors, when. — 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. -------- (RSMo 1939 § 12824) Prior revisions: 1929 § 11200; 1919 § 9173; 1909 § 10202
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