Section 20 Records and Documents of the Agency

• Library: Administrative Law 2011

(5) Records and documents of the agency which are to be considered in the case shall be offered in evidence so as to become a part of the record, the same as any other evidence, but the records and documents may be considered as a part of the record by reference thereto when so offered.

Section 536.070(5), RSMo 2000.

Procedural requirements for an administrative hearing are “less formal,” and records and documents do not need to be offered into evidence in “ritualistic language.” Hilke v. Firemen’s Ret. Sys. of St. Louis,
441 S.W.2d 730, 733 (Mo. App. E.D. 1969). But see Moore v. State Tax Comm’n of Mo., 862 S.W.2d 407, 411 (Mo. App. E.D...