Terms Used In Missouri Laws 84.640

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020

The members of the police force of any such city are hereby empowered to make arrests for the violation of any ordinance of such city for the protection, regulation and orderly government of parks, public grounds and other public property owned by any such city and situated outside of the limits thereof, and persons so arrested for the violation of any such ordinance may be brought within the city limits and tried before any court having jurisdiction of cases arising out of the ordinances of such city.