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Section/Rule:
7.10
Subject:
Rule 7 - Rules Governing the Missouri Bar and the Judiciary - Establishing and Providing for the Government of the Missouri Bar
Publication / Adopted Date:
February 1, 1972
Topic:
Headquarters Building
Revised / Effective Date:
September 1, 1972
7.10. Headquarters Building
The Board of Trustees of The Missouri Bar, heretofore created, shall be continued. It shall consist of the President of The Missouri Bar ex officio and six members of The Missouri Bar, three appointed by this Court and three by the Board of Governors. Both this Court and the Board of Governors shall appoint persons for staggered terms of three years each, commencing October 16 of the year of appointment. It is declared to be the general policy of the Court that a member should not be called on to serve more than two successive terms.
The powers and duties of the Trustees of The Missouri Bar shall include the right to act for and in the name of The Missouri Bar or Chief Disciplinary Counsel with respect to all matters incident to the ownership, management and control of the Headquarters Building of The Missouri Bar or the Headquarters Building of the Chief Disciplinary Counsel located in Jefferson City, and for the purpose of carrying out such purposes, the right:
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a
) To hold the legal title to all real estate which has heretofore been acquired for the Headquarters Buildings, and to acquire and hold, by lease, purchase, gift, bequest or devise, such additional real estate as may reasonably be required for additions to or incident to the reasonable use of, the Headquarters Buildings.
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b
) To construct, purchase, lease or otherwise acquire such additions to the present Headquarters Buildings as may reasonably be required, to incur such indebtedness as may be required in the opinion of the Trustees in order to finance the acquisition of additional land for and additions to the Headquarters Buildings, and to secure the payment of such indebtedness by mortgage or pledge of the property, real and personal of the trust.
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c
) To control, manage, and maintain the Headquarters Buildings and all real and personal property incident thereto.
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d
) To receive and accept any gifts, devises and bequests of real and personal property, and to hold, sell, mortgage, expend, invest, reinvest and otherwise control and use the same or the proceeds thereof for any purposes incident to the Headquarters Buildings.
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e
) To accept and hold in trust real and personal property given, devised and bequeathed for any use and purpose germane to the acquisition, maintenance and expansion of the Headquarters Buildings, and to administer such trust in accordance with the terms thereof.
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f
) To institute, intervene in, or defend any action or proceeding at law or in equity in any state or Federal Court wherein any issue involving the Trustees, the real or personal property within their charge, or the trust is or may be presented.
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g
) The Trustees shall, annually, render to this Court and to the Board of Governors of The Missouri Bar, or more often if either shall so direct, a complete account of their administration and transactions.
(Adopted Feb. 1, 1972, eff. Sept. 1, 1972. Amended eff. Nov. 1, 1976; amended Nov. 20, 1981, eff. Jan. 1, 1982; amended Oct. 29, 1991; amended eff. Jan. 6, 2006.)
