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MO Rev Stat § 77.510 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.510 - May regulate lumber yards — running at large of animals and fowls — provide pounds and impose penalties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   77.510. May regulate lumber yards — running at large of animals and fowls — provide pounds and impose penalties. — The council may prescribe limits within the city within which no lumber yard or wood yard or coal yard shall be kept, and may regulate, restrain and prohibit the erection or maintenance of any fence, composed in whole or in part of barbed wire, along or adjacent to any public street, avenue, alley, park, cemetery or other public place. The council may also regulate or prohibit the running at large of cattle, hogs, horses, mules, sheep, goats and other animals and domestic geese, ducks, chickens and turkeys, and cause such as may be running at large to be impounded and sold in such manner and time as may be provided by ordinance. The council may also provide penalties for the owners or keepers who shall permit such animals or geese, ducks, chickens or turkeys to run at large. The council may also provide for the erection of all needful pounds, pens and buildings for the use of the city within or without the city limits, and appoint and compensate keepers thereof, and establish and enforce rules governing the same. The council may also tax, restrain and prohibit the running at large of dogs, and provide for their destruction when at large contrary to ordinance, and impose penalties on the owners or keepers thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6951)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6805; 1919 § 8292; 1909 § 9229
MO Rev Stat § 77.520 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.520 - May control streets, sidewalks, amusements.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   77.520. May control streets, sidewalks, amusements. — The council may prohibit and prevent all encroachments into and upon the sidewalks, streets, avenues, alleys and other public places of the city, and may provide for the removal of all obstructions from the sidewalks, curbstones, gutters and crosswalks at the expense of the owners or occupants of the ground fronting thereon, or at the expense of the person causing the same; the council may also regulate the planting of shade trees, erecting of awnings, hitching posts, lamp posts, awning posts, telephone, telegraph and electric light poles, and the making of excavations through and under the sidewalks or in any public street, avenue, alley or other public place within the city. The council may prevent and punish for all horseracing or other racing, fast driving or training in the streets, highways, avenues, alleys, or over bridges or through tunnels in the city, and all games, practices or amusements therein likely to result in damage to any person or property, and to regulate, prevent and punish for the riding, driving, leading, standing, hitching or passing of horses, mules, oxen or other teams or stock or animals or any vehicle over or upon or across or along any sidewalk, street, avenue or alley of the city. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6952)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6806; 1919 § 8293; 1909 § 9230  (1975) City has power to grant use of streets for cable television even though not expressly named in statute. City has right to reserve power to approve rates as a condition of grant to cable television service. Cablevision, Inc. v. City of Sedalia (Mo.), 518 S.W.2d 48.
MO Rev Stat § 77.530 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.530 - Powers of council, quarantine, condemnation, police power outside city.

Effective - 28 Aug 1998   77.530. Powers of council, quarantine, condemnation, police power outside city. — The council may make regulations and pass ordinances for the prevention of the introduction of contagious diseases into the city, and for the abatement of the same, and may make quarantine laws and enforce the same within five miles of the city. The council may purchase or condemn and hold for the city, within or without the city limits, within ten miles therefrom, all necessary lands for hospital purposes, waterworks, sewer carriage and outfall, and erect, establish and regulate hospitals, workhouses, poorhouses, police stations, fire stations and provide for the government and support of the same, and make regulations to secure the general health of the city, and to prevent and remove nuisances; provided, however, that the condemnation of any property outside of the city limits shall be regulated in all respects as the condemnation of property or railroad purposes is regulated by law; and provided further, that the police jurisdiction of the city shall extend over such lands and property to the same extent as over public cemeteries, as provided in this chapter. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6953, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1352)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6807; 1919 § 8294; 1909 § 9231  CROSS REFERENCES:  Hospital, established, adoption for tax, board of trustees to govern, 96.150 to 96.229 Parks, city may acquire, tax to maintain, 90.010
MO Rev Stat § 77.550 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.550 - Inspection, weighing.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   77.550. Inspection, weighing. — The council may prescribe rules and provide methods by ordinance for the inspection, weighing and measuring of any commodity sold in the city in all cases not otherwise provided for by law, and may provide for the selling, weighing and inspecting of meats, poultry and vegetables, of butter, lard and other provisions and articles of food; and may provide for the inspecting and measuring of wood, coal and fuel, lumber, shingles, timber and all kinds of building material, and shall have power to appoint inspectors and measurers; and may make provisions for the inspection of steam boilers and all steam heating apparatus, and to license engineers using steam boilers in the city, and may regulate the place or places where hay, lime, lumber, timber, wood, coal and all kinds of fuel shall be exposed for sale, and fix the fees of the person or persons appointed to perform the duties named in this section. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6956)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6810; 1919 § 8297; 1909 § 9234  CROSS REFERENCE:  Farmers, selling own produce, not subject to license, 150.030
MO Rev Stat § 77.560 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.560 - Slaughterhouses, stockyards.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   77.560. Slaughterhouses, stockyards. — The council shall have power, by ordinance, to secure the general health of the inhabitants of the city by any measure to regulate, suppress or abate slaughterhouses, slaughtering animals, stockyards, soap and other factories, pigpens, cow stables and other stables and dairies, coal oil tanks and factories, and to remove the same; and to regulate or prevent the carrying on of any business which may be dangerous or detrimental to the public health, or the manufacturing or vending of articles obnoxious to the health of the inhabitants; to prevent, abate and remove nuisances in a summary manner at the cost of the occupant or owner of the premises where the nuisance or the cause thereof may be; provided, that the same was caused by the occupant or owner of the premises or his agent; and all costs and expenses incurred by the city in removing or abating any nuisance on private property within the city limits may be assessed against the occupant or owner, if caused by them or either of them or their agent, and the same shall be assessed by the council as a special tax bill against such private property, which shall be a special lien against such property in the same manner and with the same effect that special tax bills are for paving; or the cost of removing or abating such nuisance may be made a part of the judgment by the judge, in addition to the fine imposed, in case of conviction in court of the person causing or maintaining any such nuisance; and the power is hereby given the city council to provide punishments for persons causing or maintaining nuisances in the city, or within one mile thereof. The council may also provide for a health commissioner and board of health to perform such duties and such powers as may be prescribed by ordinance; and may provide for the condemnation of goods, merchandise, clothing, furniture and other personal property containing the germs of contagious or infectious dangerous disease, whenever the same is necessary for the health of the city; but in every case where private property is so condemned and destroyed, due compensation shall be made to the owner thereof, upon the appraisement of five disinterested commissioners appointed by the mayor. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6957, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6811; 1919 § 8298; 1909 § 9235  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 77.570 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.570 - Police regulations.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   77.570. Police regulations. — The council shall enact ordinances to prohibit and suppress houses of prostitution and other disorderly houses and practices, and gambling houses and all kinds of public indecencies, and may prohibit the selling or giving intoxicating liquors to any minor or habitual drunkard. The council shall also enact ordinances to restrain and prohibit riots, noises, assaults and battery, petit larceny, disturbances of the peace, disturbances of religious and other lawful assemblies, indecent shows, exhibitions or concerts in any street, house or place in the city, disorderly assemblies, and to regulate, restrain and prevent the discharge of firearms and the keeping and discharge of rockets, powder, fireworks or other dangerous combustible materials in the streets or in the limits of the city. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6950)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6804; 1919 § 8291; 1909 § 9228
MO Rev Stat § 77.590 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.590 - Council may make ordinances and rules and regulations and establish penalties for violation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1972   77.590. Council may make ordinances and rules and regulations and establish penalties for violation. — For any purpose or purposes mentioned in this chapter, the council may enact and make all necessary ordinances, rules and regulations; and they may enact and make all such ordinances and rules, not inconsistent with the laws of the state, as may be expedient for maintaining the peace and good government and welfare of the city and its trade and commerce; and all ordinances may be enforced by prescribing and inflicting upon its inhabitants, or other persons violating the same, such fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and such imprisonment not exceeding three months, or both such fine and imprisonment, as may be just for any offense, recoverable with costs of suit, together with judgment of imprisonment, until the fine and costs are paid or satisfied; and any person committed for the nonpayment of fine and costs, or either, may be compelled to work out the same as herein provided; but, in any case wherein the penalty for an offense is fixed by any statute, the council shall affix the same penalty by ordinance for the punishment of such offense, except that imprisonments, when made under city ordinances, may be in the city prison or workhouse instead of the county jail. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7014, A.L. 1972 S.B. 504)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6868; 1919 § 8350; 1909 § 9277  CROSS REFERENCE:  Ordinances, codification and revision procedure, 71.940 to 71.948
MO Rev Stat § 77.600 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.600 - Claims and suits for damages — notice.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   77.600. Claims and suits for damages — notice. — No action shall be maintained against any city organized under the laws of this state as a city of the third class on account of any injuries growing out of any defect or unsafe condition of or on any bridge, boulevard, street, sidewalk or thoroughfare in said city, until notice shall first have been given in writing to the mayor of said city, within ninety days of the occurrence for which such damage is claimed, stating the place where, the time when such injury was received, and the character and circumstances of the injury, and that the person so injured will claim damages therefor from such city. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7044)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6898; 1919 § 8372
MO Rev Stat § 77.610 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.610 - Shall give bond on appeal.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   77.610. Shall give bond on appeal. — Such city, in taking an appeal or prosecuting a writ of error in any judicial proceeding, shall give bonds as required by law; but it is hereby released from the obligation of law to furnish security therefor. All such bonds shall be executed by the mayor or chief magistrate of such city, and shall be taken in all courts of this state as full compliance with the law in such cases; and all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this provision are hereby repealed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7017)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6871; 1919 § 8353; 1909 § 9280
MO Rev Stat § 77.650 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.650 - Recall of elected officials — procedure — limitations.

Effective - 28 Aug 1997   77.650. Recall of elected officials — procedure — limitations. — 1. The holder of any elective office in a third class city may be removed by the qualified voters of such city by recall petition in accordance with the procedure set out in sections 77.650 to 77.660 subject to the following limitations:  (1) The officer has held office for at least six months;  (2) In the case of an office for a term of two years only, one recall petition may be filed during such term;  (3) For a term of office more than two years, additional recall petitions may be filed but not less than six months later after voter disapproval of the last recall petition;  (4) The recalled officer may not be a candidate to succeed himself at a special election held to fill the vacancy created by his recall, nor may he be appointed by the appointing authority to fill the vacancy.  2. A petition signed by voters entitled to vote for a successor to the incumbent sought to be removed, equal in number to at least twenty-five percent of the total number of registered voters in such city entitled to vote for a successor to the incumbent sought to be removed, demanding the recall of a person from elective office shall be filed with the county clerk which petition shall contain a statement of the reasons for which recall is sought which shall not be more than two hundred words in length. Such petition for recall shall be filed with the appropriate county clerk or election authority within sixty days after the date of the earliest signature on the petition. The reasons for recall are misconduct in office, incompetence or failure to perform duties prescribed by law. The signatures to the petition need not all be appended to one paper, but each signer shall add to his signature his place of residence, giving the street and number and the date signed. One of the signers of each such paper shall make oath before an officer competent to administer oaths that the statements therein made are true as he believes and that each signature to the paper appended is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. ­­-------- (L. 1982 H.B. 1120 § 2, A.L. 1983 H.B. 713 Revision, A.L. 1997 S.B. 395)
MO Rev Stat § 77.655 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.655 - Recall petitions, examination and certification by county clerk — amended, when — duties of clerk and council.

Effective - 28 Aug 1982   77.655. Recall petitions, examination and certification by county clerk — amended, when — duties of clerk and council. — Within ten days from the date of filing such petition, the county clerk of such third class city shall examine and from the voters' register ascertain whether or not said petition is signed by the requisite number of voters, and if necessary, the council shall allow him extra help for the purpose; and he shall attach to said petition his certificate, showing the result of said examination. If by the clerk's certificate the petition is shown to be insufficient, it may be amended within ten days from the date of said certificate. The clerk shall, within ten days after such amendment, make like examination of the amended petition, and if his certificate shall show the same to be insufficient, it shall be returned to the person filing the same, without prejudice, however, to the filing of a new petition to the same effect. If the petition shall be deemed to be sufficient, the clerk shall submit the same to the council without delay. If the petition shall be found to be sufficient, the council shall order the question to be submitted to the voters of the city. ­­-------- (L. 1982 H.B. 1120 § 3)
MO Rev Stat § 77.660 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.660 - Recall petition, election on, when, form of question — removal of official, when, vacancy created.

Effective - 28 Aug 1982   77.660. Recall petition, election on, when, form of question — removal of official, when, vacancy created. — 1. A special election shall be held on the recall petition as soon as practicable and as may be determined by the election authority of the county. The question to be presented to the voters at such election shall be in substantially the following form:    ☐   FOR the removal of ______ (name of officer) from the office of ______ (title of office)    ☐   AGAINST the removal of ______ (name of officer) from the office of ______ (title of office)    2. If a majority of the qualified electors voting on the question at such election shall vote FOR the removal of such officer, a vacancy shall exist in such office. If a majority of the qualified electors voting on the question at such election shall vote AGAINST the removal of such officer, such officer shall continue to serve during the term for which elected. ­­-------- (L. 1982 H.B. 1120 § 4)
MO Rev Stat § 77.670 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.670 - Reserve funds, certain third class cities may establish (including North Kansas City).

Effective - 28 Aug 2000   77.670. Reserve funds, certain third class cities may establish (including North Kansas City). — The governing body of any third class city with a population of more than four thousand but less than four thousand five hundred inhabitants that is located in a county of the first classification with a population of more than one hundred fifty thousand but less than one hundred seventy thousand inhabitants may establish, by ordinance, reserve funds. In the ordinance establishing the reserve funds, the city may either earmark the funds for a specific project, or for operations in general. The repeal or amendment of any such ordinance shall be approved by the qualified voters of the city. ­­-------- (L. 2000 H.B. 1647)
MO Rev Stat § 77.675 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.675 - Ordinances, adoption and repeal process (City of Farmington).

Effective - 28 Aug 2013   77.675. Ordinances, adoption and repeal process (City of Farmington). — 1. In addition to the process for passing ordinances provided in section 77.080, the council of any city of the third classification with more than fifteen thousand but fewer than seventeen thousand inhabitants and located in any county of the first classification with more than sixty-five thousand but fewer than seventy-five thousand inhabitants may adopt or repeal any ordinance by passage of a bill that sets forth the ordinance and specifies that the ordinance so proposed shall be submitted to the registered voters of the city at the next municipal election. The bill shall be passed under and pursuant to the procedures in section 77.080, except that it shall take effect upon approval of a majority of the voters rather than upon the approval and signature of the mayor.  2. If the mayor approves the bill and signs the bill*, the question shall be submitted to the voters in substantially the following form:   Shall the following ordinance be (adopted) (repealed)? (Set out ordinance.)    ☐ YES   ☐ NO     3. If a majority of the voters voting on the proposed ordinance vote in favor, such ordinance shall become a valid and binding ordinance of the city. ­­-------- (L. 2013 S.B. 23 merged with S.B. 58)  *Word "it" appears in original rolls of S.B. 58, 2013.
MO Rev Stat § 77.700 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.700 - Disincorporation procedure, election, ballot language.

Effective - 28 Aug 2016   77.700. Disincorporation procedure, election, ballot language. — 1. The county governing body of any county in which a city of the third classification is located shall disincorporate the city as provided in sections 77.700 to 77.715.  2. The county governing body shall order an election upon the question of disincorporation of a city of the third classification upon petition of twenty-five percent of the voters of the city.  3. The county governing body shall give notice of the election by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city or, if there is no such newspaper in the city, then in the newspaper in the county published nearest the city. The notice shall contain a copy of the petition and the names of the petitioners. No election on the question of disincorporation shall be held until the notice has been published for four weeks successively.  4. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:   Shall the city of ______ be dissolved?    5. Upon the affirmative vote of a majority of those persons voting on the question, the county governing body shall disincorporate the city. ­­-------- (L. 2016 S.B. 572)
MO Rev Stat § 77.703 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.703 - Contractual rights not invalidated by dissolution.

Effective - 28 Aug 2016   77.703. Contractual rights not invalidated by dissolution. — No dissolution of the corporation shall invalidate or affect any right accruing to the corporation or to any person or invalidate or affect any contract entered into or imposed on the corporation. ­­-------- (L. 2016 S.B. 572)