Title XXXII COURTS Chapter 483 Effective - 28 Aug 1987 483.260. Clerk to employ attorney (St. Louis City). — The clerk of the circuit court of the city of St. Louis may employ an attorney or attorneys to aid and advise him in the discharge of his duties, to render independent legal advice and services and to represent him in court. The attorneys employed by the clerk shall receive in the aggregate as compensation for their services twenty-five thousand dollars per annum, payable out of the state treasury in installments as certified by the circuit clerk. -------- (L. 1945 p. 746 § 4, A.L. 1959 S.B. 164, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1266, A.L. 1987 S.B. 65, et al.) (1986) The small amount of pay allowed by this section indicates that it is intended as an allowance for extraordinary legal needs, not day-to-day staff attorneys. Bauer v. Bosley, 802 F.2d 1058 (8th Cir.).
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