21.220. Expenses paid out of what fund.
Expenses paid out of what fund.
21.220. All costs and expenses of proceedings, including thenecessary expenses of any officer in executing any writ orprocess of either house or of a joint meeting, and all witnessfees, shall be paid:
(1) By the party charged, if so adjudged, and payment may beenforced by execution; or
(2) Out of the contingent fund of the house in which theproceedings are held; or
(3) In case of a joint meeting out of the contingent fundsof both houses as the houses by concurrent resolution provide.
(RSMo 1939 § 12871, A.L. 1957 p. 595)Prior revisions: 1929 § 11246; 1919 § 7129; 1909 § 8125