Missouri Laws 436.221 – Director’s authority
1. The director shall administer the provisions of sections 436.215 to 436.272.
2. By engaging in the business of an athlete agent in this state, a nonresident individual appoints the director as the individual’s agent to accept service of process in any civil action related to the individual’s business as an athlete agent in this state.
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 436.221
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
- State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
- Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
- Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
3. The director may subpoena witnesses, issue subpoenas duces tecum and require production of documents and records. Subpoenas including subpoenas duces tecum shall be served by a person authorized to serve subpoenas of courts of record. In lieu of requiring attendance of a person to produce original documents in response to a subpoena duces tecum, the board may require sworn copies of such documents to be filed with it or delivered to its designated representative.
4. The director may enforce its subpoenas including subpoenas duces tecum by applying to a circuit court of Cole County, the county of the investigation, hearing or proceeding, or any county where the person resides or may be found for an order upon any person who shall fail to obey a subpoena to show cause why such subpoena should not be enforced, which such order and a copy of the application therefor shall be served upon the person in the same manner as a summons in a civil action and if the circuit court shall after a hearing determine that the subpoena should be sustained and enforced such court shall proceed to enforce the subpoena in the same manner as though the subpoena had been issued in a civil case in the circuit court.