Terms Used In Missouri Laws 21.050

  • Joint meeting: An occasion, often ceremonial, when the House and Senate each adopt a unanimous consent agreement
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.

If any person, whether a member or not, is guilty of any disorder in the presence of either house, or a committee of the whole of either house, or in joint meeting of both houses, while in session, the presiding officer of the house or joint meeting, or chairman of the committee of the whole, may order the person into custody; and the sergeant at arms or the doorkeeper shall immediately take the person into custody and detain him until the further order of the house, joint meeting or the house to which the committee of the whole belongs.