Title VIII PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES, BONDS AND RECORDS Chapter 109 Effective - 02 Jan 1979, see footnote 109.050. Authority of officer executing writ. — The officer executing such warrant may break open any doors, trunk or places in which any records, books or papers named in such warrant may be, or in which he may suspect them to be; and may arrest any person who shall resist the execution of such warrant, and carry him before some judge, to be dealt with for obstructing the execution of process. -------- (RSMo 1939 § 3627, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634) Prior revisions: 1929 § 3237; 1919 § 10599; 1909 § 10410 Effective 1-02-79
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