{"data":{"id":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-57.117","jurisdiction":"us-mo","citation":"Mo. Rev. Stat. § 57.117","heading":"Deputy sheriff to be resident of state — or adjoining state — exception, Jackson County and City of St. Louis.","body":"Hereafter no sheriff in this state shall appoint any under sheriff or deputy sheriff unless the person so appointed shall be, at the time of his or her appointment, a bona fide resident of this state or of an adjoining state. The provisions of this section authorizing the appointment of a person as an under sheriff or deputy sheriff who is a bona fide resident of an adjoining state shall not apply to a sheriff of any county with a charter form of government and with more than six hundred thousand but fewer than seven hundred thousand inhabitants or any city not within a county.","path":["Title VI - COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT","Chapter 57 - Sheriffs"],"source_url":"https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=57.117","current_through":"2026 legislative session (floor)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T22:23:24Z","sha256":"bc8f0ab2af770f5e9cecbc24b4756490af0310484a26ef23f0ae2b2c3f322bfb","source_id":"us-mo","stale":false,"prev":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-57.115","next":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-57.119"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}