Missouri § 26.215 - Transition funds and facilities for governor and lieutenant governor.
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§ 26.215. Transition funds and facilities for governor and lieutenant governor.
1. In each year in which a governor or lieutenant governor of this state is elected and the governor or the lieutenant governor so elected is not the incumbent at the time of the election, funds and facilities for that governor-elect and lieutenant governor-elect, to be used by each of them in preparing an orderly transition of administrations, shall be provided.
2. The legislature shall appropriate to the commissioner of administration funds to be used only for the purpose of these transitions and to be expended during the transition period, but in no event shall the amount so appropriated exceed one hundred thousand dollars for the governor-elect and five thousand dollars for the lieutenant governor-elect for any such transition and all funds not expended for this purpose during the transition period shall revert to general revenue.
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(L. 1977 H.B. 493 & 458)
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