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MO Rev Stat § 251.500 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development|Chapter 251 - Community Affairs, Planning and Development|Section 251.500 - Definitions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1988   251.500. Definitions. — As used in sections 251.500 to 251.510, the following terms mean:  (1) "Board", an economic development district board, as created under the provisions of section 251.505;  (2) "Economic development district", a district formed by two or more adjoining counties in this state or by one or more counties and an adjoining city not within a county;  (3) "Governing body", a legislative body governing a county or a city not within a county. ­­-------- (L. 1988 H.B. 1201 § 1)
MO Rev Stat § 251.505 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development|Chapter 251 - Community Affairs, Planning and Development|Section 251.505 - Economic development district, established, how, purpose — board established, how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1988   251.505. Economic development district, established, how, purpose — board established, how. — 1. An economic development district may be established by the governing bodies of adjoining counties or the governing bodies of a county or counties and a city not within a county in order to plan, formulate, develop, promote, fund, conduct or cause to be conducted, programs to encourage the economic development of the district. The governing bodies may establish such districts by enactment of identical ordinances or by mutual agreement of the governing bodies.  2. The qualifications, terms and number of members of the economic development board for the district shall be determined by the enacting ordinances or the mutual agreement of the governing bodies, except as provided in this subsection. Each county and each city not within a county shall have equal representation on the board. The chief executive officer of a county or mayor of a city not within a county shall appoint residents of such county or city to be on the board, and such officers shall jointly appoint one additional member to the board. The board shall select a chairman and any other officers it deems necessary to conduct its business, and shall meet at least four times a year at a time and place designated by the chairman in order to make policy and administer the activities of the district. ­­-------- (L. 1988 H.B. 1201 § 2)
MO Rev Stat § 251.510 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development|Chapter 251 - Community Affairs, Planning and Development|Section 251.510 - Powers of board.

Effective - 28 Aug 1988   251.510. Powers of board. — The ordinances or mutual agreement which established the district shall specify the powers of the board which may include, but shall not be limited to, the following:  (1) Adoption of bylaws, rules and regulations for the conduct of its business;  (2) Maintenance of a principal office;  (3) The ability to sue and be sued;  (4) The making and executing of leases, contracts and other instruments necessary to exercise its powers;  (5) Contracting with the cities and counties for services, and with firms, corporations, persons, and governmental agencies in the necessary performance of its duties;  (6) The employment of personnel;  (7) Application for and acceptance of local and federal grants and appropriations;  (8) Performance of site improvements within the district. ­­-------- (L. 1988 H.B. 1201 § 3)
MO Rev Stat § 251.600 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development|Chapter 251 - Community Affairs, Planning and Development|Section 251.600 - Citation of law.

Effective - 28 Aug 2007   251.600. Citation of law. — Sections 251.600 to 251.630 shall be known and may be cited as the "Regional Economic Development District Law". ­­-------- (L. 2007 H.B. 741)
MO Rev Stat § 251.605 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development|Chapter 251 - Community Affairs, Planning and Development|Section 251.605 - District may be established — board, members, how appointed.

Effective - 28 Aug 2007   251.605. District may be established — board, members, how appointed. — 1. A regional economic development district may be established by two or more governing bodies in order to plan, formulate, develop, promote, fund, conduct or cause to be conducted programs to encourage the economic development of the district. The governing bodies may establish such districts by enactment of identical ordinances or by mutual agreement of the governing bodies.  2. The qualifications, terms, and number of members of the regional economic development district board for each district shall be determined by the enacting ordinances or the mutual agreement of the governing bodies, except as provided in this subsection. Each governing body located in the regional economic development district shall have equal representation on the board. The chief executive officer of a county in the regional economic development district or mayor of a city in the regional economic development district shall appoint one resident each of such county or city to be on the board, and such officers shall jointly appoint one additional member to the board. The board shall select a chairman, treasurer, and any other officers it deems necessary to conduct its business, and shall meet in open session at a time and place designated by the chairman in order to make policy and administer the activities of the district.  3. The regional economic development district shall be a public governmental body for the purposes of section 610.010 and shall comply with the provisions of chapter 610. ­­-------- (L. 2007 H.B. 741)
MO Rev Stat § 251.610 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development|Chapter 251 - Community Affairs, Planning and Development|Section 251.610 - Powers of the board.

Effective - 28 Aug 2007   251.610. Powers of the board. — The ordinances or mutual agreements which establish the district shall specify the powers of the board. The powers of the board shall not include the power of eminent domain. The powers of the board may include, but shall not be limited to, the following:  (1) Adoption of bylaws, rules and regulations for the conduct of its business;  (2) Maintenance of a principal office;  (3) The ability to sue and be sued;  (4) The creation of a regional economic development plan for a regional economic development district;  (5) The making and executing of leases, contracts, and other instruments necessary to exercise its powers;  (6) Contracting with cities and counties for services, and with firms, corporations, persons, and governmental agencies in the necessary performance of its duties;  (7) The employment of personnel;  (8) Application for and acceptance of local and federal grants and appropriations;  (9) Performance of site improvements within the regional economic development area;  (10) Entering into lease or lease-purchase agreements for any real or personal property necessary or convenient for the purposes of the regional economic development district;  (11) Borrowing money for regional economic development district purposes at such rates of interest as the district may determine;  (12) Issuance of bonds, notes, and other obligations, which may be secured by mortgage, pledge, assignment, or deed of trust of any or all of the property and income of the regional economic development district, subject to any restrictions provided in the regional economic development district law; except that the district shall not mortgage, pledge, or give a deed of trust on any real property or interests which it acquired from the state of Missouri or any agency or political subdivision thereof without the written consent of the state, agency or political subdivision from which it obtained the property;  (13) Submission of a regional economic development sales tax to district voters as provided in section 251.615; and  (14) Adoption of incremental tax financing as provided in section 251.618. ­­-------- (L. 2007 H.B. 741)
MO Rev Stat § 251.624 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development|Chapter 251 - Community Affairs, Planning and Development|Section 251.624 - Termination of incremental tax financing, when, procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 2007   251.624. Termination of incremental tax financing, when, procedure. — 1. When all regional economic development project costs and all obligations issued to finance regional economic development project costs have been paid in full, the regional economic development district shall adopt a resolution terminating incremental tax financing for all regional economic development project areas. Immediately upon the adoption of such resolution, all payments in lieu of taxes, all economic activity taxes, and other net new revenues then remaining in the special allocation fund shall be deemed to be surplus funds; thereafter, the rates of the taxing districts shall be extended, and taxes shall be levied, collected, and distributed in the manner applicable in the absence of the adoption of incremental tax financing. Surplus payments in lieu of taxes shall be paid to the county collector who shall immediately thereafter pay such funds to the taxing districts in the regional economic development area selected in the same manner and proportion as the most recent distribution by the collector to the affected taxing districts of real property taxes from real property in the regional economic development area. Surplus economic activity taxes shall be paid to the taxing districts in the regional economic development area in proportion to the then current levy rates of such taxing districts that are attributable to such economic activity taxes. Any other funds remaining in the special allocation fund following the adoption of a resolution terminating incremental tax financing in accordance with this section shall be deposited to the general fund of the municipalities or counties that originally formed the regional economic development district in a pro rata amount determined by the regional economic development district board.  2. Upon the payment of all regional economic development project costs, retirement of obligations, and the distribution of any surplus funds under this section, the regional economic development district shall adopt a resolution dissolving the special allocation fund and terminating the designation of the regional economic development area as a regional economic development area.  3. Nothing in the regional economic development district law shall be construed as relieving property in such areas from paying a uniform rate of taxes, as required by Article X, Section 3 of the Missouri Constitution. ­­-------- (L. 2007 H.B. 741)
MO Rev Stat § 251.627 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development|Chapter 251 - Community Affairs, Planning and Development|Section 251.627 - County clerk to annually ascertain amount of value of taxable property in the district.

Effective - 28 Aug 2007   251.627. County clerk to annually ascertain amount of value of taxable property in the district. — In each of the twenty-five calendar years following the adoption of a resolution adopting incremental tax financing for a regional economic development project area, unless and until incremental tax financing for such regional economic development project area is terminated by resolution of the regional economic development district board, then, in respect to every taxing district containing such regional economic development project area the county clerk or any other official required by law to ascertain the amount of the equalized assessed value of all taxable property within such regional economic development project area for the purpose of computing any debt service levies to be extended upon taxable property within such regional economic development project area shall in every year that incremental tax financing is in effect ascertain the amount of value of taxable property in such regional economic development project area by including in such amount the certified total initial equalized assessed value of all taxable real property in such regional economic development project area in lieu of the equalized assessed value of all taxable real property in such regional economic development project area. For the purpose of measuring the size of payments in lieu of taxes under the regional economic development district law, all tax levies shall then be extended to the current equalized assessed value of all property in the regional economic development project area in the same manner as the tax rate percentage is extended to all other taxable property in the taxing district. ­­-------- (L. 2007 H.B. 741)
MO Rev Stat § 251.650 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development|Chapter 251 - Community Affairs, Planning and Development|Section 251.650 - Securing of grants, departments to collaborate — consultation with private entities permitted — report to general assembly.

Effective - 28 Aug 2008   251.650. Securing of grants, departments to collaborate — consultation with private entities permitted — report to general assembly. — 1. Not less than twice each calendar year, representatives from the department of labor and industrial relations, the department of elementary and secondary education, the department of agriculture, the department of economic development, and the department of natural resources shall meet to discuss ways in which their respective agencies may collaborate in order to secure grants established in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, Public Law 110-140, or other such grants that would fund: green jobs; the production of renewable fuels; increasing energy efficiency of products, buildings and vehicles; and increasing research and development relating to the manufacturing of renewable energy technologies. The department of natural resources is hereby designated as the coordinating agency for the inter-agency collaboration under this section.  2. In fulfilling the goals under this section, any of the departments under subsection 1 of this section may confer with, or invite participation by, any other interested individual, agency, or organization, which shall include but not be limited to nonprofit organizations, private sector entities, institutions of higher education, and local governments. Such departments may enter into partnerships with, in accordance with federal grant requirements and as otherwise allowable by law, any individual, agency, or organization in securing a grant under this section.  3. No later than the first Wednesday after the first Monday of January each year, the departments outlined in subsection 1 of this section shall report jointly to the general assembly and to the governor the actions taken by their agencies in securing the grants outlined in this section. ­­-------- (L. 2008 S.B. 1181, et al.)
MO Rev Stat § 252.002 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development|Chapter 252 - Department of Conservation|Section 252.002 - Department of conservation created — commission appointment, qualifications — director, appointment.

Effective - 02 May 1974   252.002. Department of conservation created — commission appointment, qualifications — director, appointment. — 1. There is hereby created a department of conservation to be headed by a conservation commission of four members appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, not more than two of whom shall be of the same political party. The members shall have the qualifications, serve the terms and receive the expense reimbursement provided in Article IV, Constitution of Missouri. The commission shall appoint a director of the department of conservation who with its approval shall appoint assistants and other employees.  2. All the powers, duties and functions of the conservation commission, chapters 252, 254, and others, are transferred by type I transfer to the department of conservation. ­­-------- (L. 1973 1st Ex. Sess. S.B. 1 § 3)  Effective 5-02-74
MO Rev Stat § 252.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development|Chapter 252 - Department of Conservation|Section 252.010 - Citation of law.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   252.010. Citation of law. — This law shall be known and may be cited as "The Wildlife and Forestry Law". ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 664 § 2)
MO Rev Stat § 252.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development|Chapter 252 - Department of Conservation|Section 252.020 - Definitions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   252.020. Definitions. — As used in sections 252.010 to 252.240, unless the context otherwise requires:  (1) The word "commission" shall mean and include the conservation commission as established by the Constitution of Missouri; and the words "rules and regulations" shall mean those made by said commission pursuant thereto;  (2) The word "person" shall mean any individual, male or female, singular or plural, of whatever age, and this term shall include and refer to any owner, grantee, lessee, licensee, permittee, firm, association, copartnership, corporation, municipality or county, as the context may require;  (3) The word "wildlife" shall mean and include all wild birds, mammals, fish and other aquatic and amphibious forms, and all other wild animals, regardless of classification, whether resident, migratory or imported, protected or unprotected, dead or alive; and shall extend to and include any and every part of any individual species of wildlife. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 664 § 3)
MO Rev Stat § 252.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development|Chapter 252 - Department of Conservation|Section 252.030 - Wildlife of Missouri — ownership and title.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   252.030. Wildlife of Missouri — ownership and title. — The ownership of and title to all wildlife of and within the state, whether resident, migratory or imported, dead or alive, are hereby declared to be in the state of Missouri. Any person who fails to comply with or who violates this law or any such rules and regulations shall not acquire or enforce any title, ownership or possessory right in any such wildlife; and any person who pursues, takes, kills, possesses or disposes of any such wildlife or attempts to do so, shall be deemed to consent that the title of said wildlife shall be and remain in the state of Missouri, for the purpose of control, management, restoration, conservation and regulation thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 8883, A.L. 1945 p. 664 § 4)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 8224; 1919 § 5581; 1909 § 6508
MO Rev Stat § 252.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development|Chapter 252 - Department of Conservation|Section 252.040 - Taking of wildlife — violations, misdemeanor — fur dealers and buyers violating record keeping rules, fine.

Effective - 28 Aug 1989   252.040. Taking of wildlife — violations, misdemeanor — fur dealers and buyers violating record keeping rules, fine. — No wildlife shall be pursued, taken, killed, possessed or disposed of except in the manner, to the extent and at the time or times permitted by such rules and regulations; and any pursuit, taking, killing, possession or disposition thereof, except as permitted by such rules and regulations, are hereby prohibited. Any person violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor except that any person violating any of the rules and regulations pertaining to record-keeping requirements imposed on licensed fur buyers and fur dealers shall be guilty of an infraction and shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 664 § 26, A.L. 1989 H.B. 293)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Hunting or trapping on land without consent of owner, penalty, 569.140, 569.150  (1953) Shooting of dummy deer made of stuffed deer hide and placed in a field by conservation commission agents at time in which deer hunting was not permitted held not crime under this section. State v. Guffey (A.), 262 S.W.2d 152. (1954) Person holding fishing license had right to float, wade and fish in public waters of river which was non-navigable stream without being trespasser on lands of owner of the bed of the stream. Elder v. Delcour, 364 Mo. 835, 269 S.W.2d 17. (2001) Municipal ordinance requiring hunters and trappers to obtain permission from government owners of land and rights-of-way was not prohibited by section; Conservation Commission does not have exclusive authority to regulate location of allowable hunting, fishing, and trapping. Miller v. City of Town & Country, 62 S.W.3d 431 (Mo.App.E.D.).
MO Rev Stat § 252.041 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development|Chapter 252 - Department of Conservation|Section 252.041 - Deer hunting during deer-hunting season with firearms, orange colored clothing required, violation, penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 1993   252.041. Deer hunting during deer-hunting season with firearms, orange colored clothing required, violation, penalty. — Any person hunting deer during a firearms deer-hunting season shall wear a cap or hat, and a shirt, vest or coat with the outermost color of daylight fluorescent orange, blaze orange or hunter orange, which must be plainly visible from all sides while being worn. Any person violating rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this section shall be guilty of an infraction. ­­-------- (L. 1990 H.B. 1669 § 252.041 subsec. 1, A.L. 1993 H.B. 306)
MO Rev Stat § 252.042 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XVI - Conservation, Resources and Development|Chapter 252 - Department of Conservation|Section 252.042 - Additional penalties, when — moneys transferred to state school moneys fund.

Effective - 28 Aug 2019   252.042. Additional penalties, when — moneys transferred to state school moneys fund. — 1. In addition to the penalties provided in section 252.040, the court may order a person found guilty of chasing, pursuing, killing, processing, or disposing of wild turkey, paddlefish, antlered white-tailed deer, excluding does, black bear, or elk in violation of methods, seasons, and limits as defined and permitted by commission rules and regulations to make restitution to the state in an amount of:  (1) Not less than five hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars for each wild turkey;  (2) Not less than five hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars for each paddlefish;  (3) Not less than one thousand dollars and not more than five thousand dollars for each antlered white-tailed deer, excluding does; and  (4) Not less than ten thousand dollars and not more than fifteen thousand dollars for each black bear or elk.  2. Moneys collected under this section shall be transferred to the state school moneys fund established under section 166.051 and distributed to the public schools of this state in the manner provided under section 163.031. ­­-------- (L. 2019 H.B. 260)