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MO Rev Stat § 65.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.230 - Compensation of officers.

Effective - 28 Aug 2005   65.230. Compensation of officers. — The following township officers shall be entitled to compensation at the following rates for each day necessarily devoted by them to the services of the township in discharging the duties of their respective offices:  (1) The township clerk, as clerk, the township trustee, as trustee, members of the township board, shall each receive a maximum amount of fifty dollars per day for the first meeting each month and a maximum amount of twenty dollars for each meeting thereafter during the month;  (2) The township trustee as ex officio treasurer shall receive a compensation of two percent for receiving and disbursing all moneys coming into his hands for the first fifty thousand dollars received as ex officio treasurer when the same shall not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars and one percent of all sums over this amount; and  (3) Township officials may receive an hourly wage set by the township board for labor performed for the benefit of the township. Such wage shall not exceed the local prevailing wage limits and shall not include pay received for attending monthly meetings or pay received by the treasurer for performing duties required of his or her office. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 §§ 13986, 13987, A.L. 1955 p. 370, A.L. 1998 S.B. 917, A.L. 2005 H.B. 58)  Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 12309, 12310; 1919 §§ 13222, 13223; 1909 §§ 11710, 11711
MO Rev Stat § 65.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.250 - No fee for oath.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   65.250. No fee for oath. — No township officer shall be entitled to any fee from any officer for administering the oath of office. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13988, A. 1949 H.B. 2021)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12311; 1919 § 13224; 1909 § 11712
MO Rev Stat § 65.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.260 - Powers of townships.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   65.260. Powers of townships. — Each township, as a body corporate, shall have power and capacity:  (1) To sue and be sued, in the manner provided by the laws of this state;  (2) To purchase and hold real estate within its own limits for the use of its inhabitants, subject to the power of the general assembly;  (3) To make such contracts, purchase and hold personal property, and so much thereof as may be necessary to the exercise of its corporate or administrative powers;  (4) To make such orders for the disposition, regulation or use of its corporate property as may be conducive to the interest of the inhabitants thereof;  (5) To purchase at any public sale, for the use of said township, any real estate which may be necessary to secure any debt to said township, or the inhabitants thereof, in their corporate capacity, and to dispose of the same. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13933)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12256; 1919 § 13169; 1909 § 11657
MO Rev Stat § 65.270 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.270 - Corporate power, limitations of.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   65.270. Corporate power, limitations of. — No township shall possess any corporate powers, except such as are enumerated or granted by this chapter, or shall be specially given by law, or shall be necessary to the exercise of the powers so enumerated or granted. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13934)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12257; 1919 § 13170; 1909 § 11658
MO Rev Stat § 65.280 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.280 - Proceedings by or against township — conveyances.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   65.280. Proceedings by or against township — conveyances. — All acts or proceedings by or against a township in its corporate capacity shall be in the name of such township and county; but every conveyance of land within the limits of such township, made in any manner for the use and benefit of its inhabitants, shall have the same effect as if made to the township by name. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13935)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12258; 1919 § 13171; 1909 § 11659
MO Rev Stat § 65.290 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.290 - Board of directors — duties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1981   65.290. Board of directors — duties. — In each township in this state, organized under the provisions of this chapter, there shall be a board of directors, composed of the township trustee and members of the township board, whose duty it shall be:  (1) To audit all accounts of township officers for services rendered as such officers;  (2) To audit all other accounts or demands legally presented to them against the township;  (3) To levy all taxes for township, road and bridge purposes, and all other duties provided by this chapter for the township board of directors to perform. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13976, A.L. 1981 H.B. 114 & 146)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12299; 1919 § 13212; 1909 § 11700
MO Rev Stat § 65.295 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.295 - Board may expend one-fourth of revenue on city streets.

Effective - 28 Aug 1961   65.295. Board may expend one-fourth of revenue on city streets. — The board of directors of any township may expend not more than one-fourth of the revenue accruing to it from taxes levied upon property situated within the limits of any city, town or village within the township for the repair and improvement of existing roads, streets and bridges within the city, town, or village from which such moneys accrued, and for the purpose of constructing and maintaining macadam, gravel, rock or paved roads or streets within the corporate limits of any city within the township in conformity with the established grade of the roads and streets of such city; except that no part of the revenue of any township shall be expended outside of the county in which the township is located. ­­-------- (L. 1961 p. 307 § 1)
MO Rev Stat § 65.300 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.300 - Board of directors — meetings.

Effective - 28 Aug 2005   65.300. Board of directors — meetings. — The township board of directors shall meet on a quarterly basis, or more frequently as deemed necessary by the board, for the purpose of transacting township business. The meetings of the township board shall be held at a location within the township that is accessible to the public. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13977, A.L. 2005 H.B. 58)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12300; 1919 § 13213; 1909 § 11701
MO Rev Stat § 65.310 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.310 - Board of directors — president.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   65.310. Board of directors — president. — The township board of directors shall, at their first meeting in each year after they have been elected and qualified, appoint one of their number as president of said board, who shall sign all orders and official acts of said board. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13982)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12305; 1919 § 13218; 1909 § 11706
MO Rev Stat § 65.320 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.320 - Claims against township — procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   65.320. Claims against township — procedure. — Any person having a claim or account against the township may file such claim or account in the office of the township clerk, to be kept by the said clerk, and laid before the township board at their next meeting; provided, however, that any person having a claim against the township may present said claim to the township board himself, or by an agent, at any legally convened meeting of said board; said board shall have the power to determine the legality or illegality of any claim or account against the township, and to reject said claim, or any part thereof, as to them appears just and proper; but in no case shall the township board be authorized to allow any claim, or any part thereof, until the claimant makes out a statement, verified by affidavit to the amount and nature of his claim, setting forth that the same is correct and unpaid, or, if any part thereof has been paid, setting forth how much. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13978)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12301; 1919 § 13214; 1909 § 11702
MO Rev Stat § 65.330 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.330 - Audited accounts to be on file.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   65.330. Audited accounts to be on file. — The accounts so audited, and those rejected, if any, shall be delivered to the township clerk, to be by him kept on file, and subject to the examination of anyone desiring so to do. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13979)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12302; 1919 § 13215; 1909 § 11703
MO Rev Stat § 65.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.340 - Claims against township, collection.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   65.340. Claims against township, collection. — When any claim or account, or any part thereof, shall be allowed by the township board of directors, they shall draw an order upon the township trustee in favor of the claimant for the amount so allowed said order to be signed by the president of said board, and attested by the township clerk and delivered to said claimant. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13983)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12306; 1919 § 13219; 1909 § 11707
MO Rev Stat § 65.350 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.350 - Board compelled to allow appeal, when.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   65.350. Board compelled to allow appeal, when. — In all counties in this state that have adopted or that may hereafter adopt township organization, if any township board, clerk or other officer thereof fail to allow an appeal in the cause when the same ought to be allowed, or if by absence, sickness or any other cause on his part, an appeal cannot be taken within time, the circuit court on such fact satisfactorily appearing, may, by rule and attachment, compel such board or other officer to allow the same, and to return his proceedings in the suit, together with the papers required to be returned by him. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14024, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12347; 1919 § 13260; 1909 § 11746  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 65.360 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.360 - Township charges.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   65.360. Township charges. — The following shall be deemed township charges:  (1) The compensation of township officers for their services rendered in their respective townships;  (2) Contingent expenses necessarily incurred for the use and benefit of the township;  (3) The moneys authorized to be raised by the township board of directors for any purpose, for the use of the township. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13980)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12303; 1919 § 13216; 1909 § 11704
MO Rev Stat § 65.370 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.370 - Moneys to be collected, how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   65.370. Moneys to be collected, how. — The moneys necessary to defray the township charges of each township shall be levied on the taxable property in such township, in the manner prescribed in the general revenue law for state and county purposes. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13981)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12304; 1919 § 13217; 1909 § 11705
MO Rev Stat § 65.380 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.380 - Estimate of expenses.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   65.380. Estimate of expenses. — The township board of directors shall, annually, not less than twenty nor more than sixty days prior to the first day of September, make out and file with the clerk of the county commission of their county an estimate of the amount of money required to defray the expenses of said township during the next ensuing year. Said estimates shall be signed by the president and attested by the clerk of the board. The clerk of the county commission shall cause the same to be placed on the tax books of said township; provided that the amount of such expenses shall not exceed in any one year twenty cents on the hundred dollars assessed valuation of the taxable property within said township. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13985, A.L. 1945 p. 1974)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12308; 1919 § 13221; 1909 § 11709
MO Rev Stat § 65.390 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.390 - Division of townships into road districts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   65.390. Division of townships into road districts. — The township board of directors shall have power to divide their townships into convenient road districts, and may, at their April meeting, change the same in such manner as the interest of the township may demand. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13984)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12307; 1919 § 13220; 1909 § 11708
MO Rev Stat § 65.400 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.400 - Missouri products — purchase of.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   65.400. Missouri products — purchase of. — Every commission, board, committee, officer or other governing body of any township in this state authorized to make purchases for the use of their township, shall purchase and use only those materials, products, supplies, provisions and other needed articles produced, manufactured, compounded, made or grown within the state of Missouri, when they are found in marketable quantities in the state and are of a quality suited to the purpose intended, and can be secured without additional cost over foreign products or products of other states; provided, however, that quality and fitness of articles shall be considered in purchasing or letting contracts for articles herein mentioned. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 14616, A. 1949 H.B. 2021)  Prior revision: 1929 § 13320
MO Rev Stat § 65.410 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.410 - Clerk — general powers and duties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1981   65.410. Clerk — general powers and duties. — The township clerk of each township shall have the custody and care of all records, books and papers belonging to his office; and he shall file in his office all certificates, oaths or other instruments of writing required by law to be filed in his office, and he shall have power to administer the oath of office to all township officers; and it is hereby made the duty of the township clerk to administer all necessary oaths which may be required in the transaction of any township business in the township of which he is clerk; provided, that nothing herein shall be so construed as to deprive any other officer from administering any oath, as may be otherwise provided by law. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13970, A.L. 1981 H.B. 114 & 146)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12293; 1919 § 13206; 1909 § 11694
MO Rev Stat § 65.420 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.420 - Township clerk to be clerk of township board.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   65.420. Township clerk to be clerk of township board. — The township clerk shall be the clerk of the township board of directors, and shall keep a true and correct record of all official acts and proceedings of said board of directors, in a book provided for that purpose at the expense of the township, and to be kept in the office of the township clerk, subject to the inspection of anyone desiring so to do, under the direction of the township clerk. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13971)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12294; 1919 § 13207; 1909 § 11695
MO Rev Stat § 65.440 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.440 - Copies of papers to be evidence in courts of record.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   65.440. Copies of papers to be evidence in courts of record. — Copies of all papers, duly filed in the office of the township clerk, and certified to be true and correct, shall be evidence in all courts of record in this state, and in all courts of inferior jurisdiction within this state, in like effect and manner as if the original were produced. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13974)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12297; 1919 § 13210; 1909 § 11698
MO Rev Stat § 65.450 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.450 - Procurement of books and stationery.

Effective - 28 Aug 1957   65.450. Procurement of books and stationery. — The township clerk shall procure, under the direction of the township board, and at the expense of the township, all necessary record books and other books and stationery for the use of the township. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13975, A.L. 1957 p. 322)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12298; 1919 § 13211; 1909 § 11699
MO Rev Stat § 65.460 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.460 - Township trustee, collector.

Effective - 28 Aug 2005   65.460. Township trustee, collector. — Every person elected or appointed to the office of township trustee and ex officio treasurer, before such person enters on the duties of his or her office, and within ten days after such person's election or appointment, shall execute and deliver to the township clerk a bond with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the township clerk payable to the township board, equal to one-half the largest amount on deposit at any one time during the year preceding his or her election or appointment of all the township funds, including school moneys, that may come into his or her hands; and every such bond, when deposited with the township clerk as aforesaid, shall constitute a lien upon all the real estate within the county belonging to such trustee and ex officio treasurer at the time of filing thereof, and shall continue to be a lien until its conditions, together with all costs and charges which may accrue by reason of any prosecution thereon, shall be satisfied. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13956, A.L. 1945 p. 1968, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1464, A.L. 2005 H.B. 58 merged with S.B. 210)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12279; 1919 § 13192; 1909 § 11680
MO Rev Stat § 65.470 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.470 - Trustee to receive and pay over moneys — suits on default.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   65.470. Trustee to receive and pay over moneys — suits on default. — The township trustee and ex officio treasurer of each township shall receive and pay over all moneys raised therein for defraying township expenses; provided, that before entering on the duties of his office he shall execute such bond as is required in section 65.460; and in case of default, it is hereby made the duty of the township clerk to institute suit thereon, in the name of the township, in any court of competent jurisdiction. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13965)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12288; 1919 § 13201; 1909 § 11689
MO Rev Stat § 65.480 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.480 - Action to enforce penalties and forfeitures — employment of counsel.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   65.480. Action to enforce penalties and forfeitures — employment of counsel. — The township trustee shall cause suit to be instituted in the name of the township for all penalties and forfeitures given by law to such township, in all cases where no other officer is specially directed to prosecute, and he may, with the consent of the township board, employ counsel to prosecute or defend any suit to which such township is a party such counsel fees to be paid out of the township funds not otherwise appropriated. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13966)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12289; 1919 § 13202; 1909 § 11690
MO Rev Stat § 65.490 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VI - County, Township and Political Subdivision Government|Chapter 65 - Township Organization Counties|Section 65.490 - Township funds, how paid out — school district funds, duties of trustees.

Effective - 28 Aug 2005   65.490. Township funds, how paid out — school district funds, duties of trustees. — The township trustee and ex officio treasurer shall not pay out any moneys belonging to the township for any purpose whatever, except upon the order of the township board of directors, signed by the chairman of said board and attested by the township clerk; provided, that nothing in this chapter shall be so construed as to change or interfere with any school district, the boundary lines of which are different from that of the municipal township as organized under the provisions of this chapter, nor with the payment of any school moneys upon proper vouchers. The township trustee and ex officio treasurer shall receive from the collector-treasurer all road and bridge and other taxes due the township when collected by such officers, and shall receipt for the same, and shall account therefor in like manner as for other moneys in his or her hands belonging to the township. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13968, A.L. 2005 H.B. 58 merged with S.B. 210)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12291; 1919 § 13204; 1909 § 11692