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MO Rev Stat § 91.710 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities|Section 91.710 - Ordinance or resolution — may contain what.

Effective - 28 Aug 1941   91.710. Ordinance or resolution — may contain what. — Any ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds under sections 91.620 to 91.770, to finance in whole or in part the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment or extension of an undertaking, may contain covenants (notwithstanding that such covenants may limit the exercise of powers conferred by sections 91.620 to 91.770) as to:  (1) The rates, fees, tolls, or charges to be charged for the services, facilities and commodities of said undertaking;  (2) The use and disposition of the revenue of said undertaking;  (3) The creation and maintenance of reserves or sinking funds and the regulation, use and disposition thereof;  (4) The purpose or purposes to which the proceeds of the sale of said bonds may be applied and the use and disposition of such proceeds;  (5) Events of default and the rights and liabilities arising thereupon, and the terms and conditions upon which bonds issued under sections 91.620 to 91.770 shall become or may be declared due before maturity, and the terms and conditions upon which such declaration and its consequences may be waived;  (6) A fair and reasonable payment by the municipality to the account of said undertaking for the services, facilities or commodities furnished said municipality or any of its departments by said undertaking;  (7) The issuance of other or additional bonds or instruments payable from or constituting a charge against the revenue of such undertaking;  (8) The insurance to be carried thereon and the use and disposition of insurance moneys;  (9) Books of account and the inspection and audit thereof;  (10) Events of default and terms and conditions upon which any or all of the bonds shall become or may be declared due before maturity and as to the terms and conditions upon which such declaration and its consequences may be waived;  (11) The rights, liabilities, powers and duties arising upon the breach by it of any covenants, conditions or obligations;  (12) The vesting in a trustee or trustees the rights to enforce any covenants made to secure, to pay, or in relation to the bonds, as to the powers and duties of such trustee or trustees, and the limitation of liabilities thereof, and as to the terms and conditions upon which the holders of the bonds or any proportion or percentage of them may enforce any covenants made under sections 91.620 to 91.770 or duties imposed hereby;  (13) A procedure by which the terms of any resolution authorizing bonds, or any other contract with bondholders, including but not limited to an indenture of trust or similar instrument, may be amended or abrogated and as to the amount of bonds the holders of which must consent thereto and the manner in which such consent may be given. ­­-------- (L. 1941 p. 493 § 9)
MO Rev Stat § 91.720 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities|Section 91.720 - Bonds — payable from what revenue, liability limited.

Effective - 28 Aug 1941   91.720. Bonds — payable from what revenue, liability limited. — Revenue bonds issued under sections 91.620 to 91.770 shall not be payable from or charged upon any funds, other than the revenue pledged to the payment thereof, nor shall the municipality issuing the same be subject to any pecuniary liability thereon. No holder or holders of any such bonds shall ever have the right to compel any exercise of the taxing power of the municipality to pay any such bonds or the interest thereon, nor to enforce payment thereof against any property of the municipality, nor shall any such bonds constitute a charge, lien or encumbrance, legal or equitable, upon any property of the municipality. Each bond issued under sections 91.620 to 91.770 shall recite in substance that said bond, including interest thereon, is payable solely from the revenue pledged to the payment thereof, and that said bond does not constitute a debt of the municipality within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation. ­­-------- (L. 1941 p. 493 § 10)
MO Rev Stat § 91.740 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities|Section 91.740 - Rights and powers of bondholders — shall be cumulative.

Effective - 28 Aug 1941   91.740. Rights and powers of bondholders — shall be cumulative. — 1. Subject to any contractual limitations binding upon the holders of any issue of bonds, or trustee therefor, including but not limited to the restriction of the exercise of any remedy to a specified proportion or percentage of such holders, any holder of bonds, or trustee therefor, shall have the right and power, for the equal benefit and protection of all holders of bonds similarly situated  (1) By mandamus or other suit, action or proceeding at law or in equity to enforce his rights against the municipality and its governing body and any of its officers, agents and employees and to require and compel such municipality or such governing body or any such officers, agents or employees to perform and carry out its and their duties and obligations under sections 91.620 to 91.770 and its and their covenants and agreements with bondholders;  (2) By action or suit in equity to require the municipality and the governing body thereof to account as if they were the trustee of an express trust;  (3) By action or suit in equity to enjoin any acts or things which may be unlawful or in violation of the rights of the bondholders;  (4) Bring suit upon the bonds.  2. No right or remedy conferred by sections 91.620 to 91.770 upon any holder of bonds, or any trustee therefor, is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, but each such right or remedy is cumulative and in addition to every other right or remedy and may be exercised without exhausting and without regard to any other remedy conferred by sections 91.620 to 91.770 or by any other law. ­­-------- (L. 1941 p. 493 § 12)
MO Rev Stat § 91.750 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities|Section 91.750 - Sewage disposal and waterworks — operators authorized to enter into contracts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1941   91.750. Sewage disposal and waterworks — operators authorized to enter into contracts. — Any governing body operating sewage disposal or waterworks as defined in sections 91.620 to 91.770 or which as herein provided has ordered the construction or acquisition of such works (in this section called the owner) is hereby authorized to contract with one or more other cities, towns or political subdivisions within the state (in this section called the lessee), and such lessees are hereby authorized to enter into such contracts with such owners, for the use of such works by such lessee and their inhabitants, but only to the extent of the capacity of the works without impairing the usefulness thereof to the owners, upon such terms and conditions as may be fixed by the boards and approved by ordinances of the respective contracting parties; provided, however, that no such contract shall be made for a period of more than fifteen years or in violation of the provisions of said ordinance authorizing bonds hereunder or in violation of the provisions of said trust indenture. The lessee shall by ordinance have power to establish, change and adjust rates and charges for the service rendered therein by the works against the owners of the premises served, in the manner herein provided for establishing, changing and adjusting rates and charges for the service rendered in the city or town where the works are owned and operated, and such rates or charges shall be collectible and shall be a lien as herein provided for rates and charges made by the owner. The necessary intercepting sewers and appurtenant works for connecting the works of the owner with the sewerage system of the lessee shall be constructed by the owner or the lessee upon such terms and conditions as may be set forth in said contract, and the cost or that part of the cost thereof which is to be borne by the owner may be paid as a part of the cost of the works from the proceeds of bonds issued under sections 91.620 to 91.770 unless otherwise provided by said ordinance or trust indenture prior to the issuance of the bonds. The income received by the owner under any such contract shall, if so provided in said ordinance or trust indenture, be deemed to be a part of the revenues of the works as in sections 91.620 to 91.770 defined and be applied as herein provided for the application of such revenues. ­­-------- (L. 1941 p. 493 § 13)
MO Rev Stat § 91.760 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities|Section 91.760 - Powers are additional and supplemental — law shall be controlling.

Effective - 28 Aug 1941   91.760. Powers are additional and supplemental — law shall be controlling. — The powers conferred by sections 91.620 to 91.770 shall be in addition and supplemental to, and not in substitution for, and the limitations imposed by sections 91.620 to 91.770 shall not affect the powers conferred by any other general, special or local law or charter. Bonds may be issued under sections 91.620 to 91.770 without regard to the provisions of any other general, special or local law or charter. The undertaking may be leased, acquired, purchased, constructed, reconstructed, improved, bettered, and extended, and bonds may be issued under sections 91.620 to 91.770 for said purposes, notwithstanding that any general, special or local law or charter may provide for the leasing, acquisition, purchase, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment, and extension of a like undertaking, or the issuance of bonds for like purposes, and without regard to the requirements, restrictions, debt or other limitations or other provisions contained in any other general, special or local law, or charter, including, but not limited to, any requirement for the approval by the electors, taxpayers, or voters of any municipality and any restriction or limitation on the incurring of indebtedness or the issuance of bonds. Insofar as the provisions of sections 91.620 to 91.770 are inconsistent with the provisions of any other general, special, or local law, the provisions of sections 91.620 to 91.770 shall be controlling. ­­-------- (L. 1941 p. 493 § 14)
MO Rev Stat § 91.770 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities|Section 91.770 - Municipalities — power to acquire lands and other property, limitation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1941   91.770. Municipalities — power to acquire lands and other property, limitation. — Any municipality as herein defined shall have power to purchase, lease or condemn lands or other property, or interests therein, in the name of the state, necessary and proper to enable it to carry out the purposes of sections 91.620 to 91.770. If condemnation becomes necessary, the municipalities shall have power to proceed to condemn such lands or other property, or interests therein, in the name of the state, in accordance with the provisions of law relating to condemnation proceedings by railroad corporations insofar as same are applicable; provided, however, that any municipality shall have power to require any publicly or privately owned water system or sewer system service which is now or may hereafter be authorized or ordered by the public service commission only by contract with the owner thereof and with the approval of the public service commission, and the provisions of sections 91.620 to 91.770 shall not be construed to authorize any such municipality to acquire, by condemnation proceedings, any such water system or sewer system service, or any other public utility service, now or hereafter authorized or ordered by the public service commission. ­­-------- (L. 1941 p. 493 § 14a)
MO Rev Stat § 91.780 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities|Section 91.780 - Defining term rapid transit improvement.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   91.780. Defining term rapid transit improvement. — The term "rapid transit improvement", as used in sections 91.780 to 91.840, shall include every improvement for local public use in connection with the transportation or movements of persons and, or property, so designed as to eliminate interference with or by ordinary travel upon the public highways and in public places, and located upon, over, above, below, across, through or along any street, avenue, road, highway, bridge, viaduct, public place, or private property within or without the municipal corporate limits, including all subways, tunnels, elevated highways and structures, walks, bridges, viaducts, surface construction, approaches, loops, stations, entrances, exits, yards, buildings, lands, rights-of-way or other easements, estates or interests of land, which may be necessary, convenient or expedient for the proper construction, equipment, maintenance or use of such rapid transit improvement. Such rapid transit improvement, when municipally owned or controlled, shall be deemed to be a public work and a local improvement. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7774)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7634
MO Rev Stat § 91.790 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities|Section 91.790 - Authorized to establish, construct and own rapid transit improvement.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   91.790. Authorized to establish, construct and own rapid transit improvement. — All cities in this state having six hundred thousand or more inhabitants are hereby authorized and empowered by ordinance to establish, construct and own, to acquire by condemnation, purchase, lease, or otherwise, and to contract for the construction, purchase, lease or other acquisition, within and/or without their respective corporate limits, and along such routes, and upon such terms and conditions as they may deem best, of a rapid transit improvement as herein defined, or any part thereof; and to use such rapid transit improvement, or permit the same to be used, for the transportation or movement of persons and/or property, and for the operation of cars, motorbuses and other vehicles or means of transportation, public or private, and for the laying of tracks, pipes, wires, cables, conduits, and other equipment and appurtenances necessary and incident thereto, used for public or private transportation. In all cases the use of streets, avenues, roads, highways, places and lands, and the rights-of-way through and interest in the same, for any of the purposes of a rapid transit improvement as herein authorized and provided, shall be considered, and is hereby declared to be a public use, consistent with the uses for which the streets, avenues, roads, highways and public places are publicly held. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7775)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7635
MO Rev Stat § 91.800 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities|Section 91.800 - May assess benefits and damages, and collect and pay therefor.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   91.800. May assess benefits and damages, and collect and pay therefor. — All such cities are hereby authorized and empowered to acquire such rapid transit improvement, in whole or in part, by condemnation, and shall have the power to assess benefits and damages, and collect and pay therefor, in the manner that such cities may now or hereafter be authorized to acquire real estate or other property, or rights of interest therein, for public purposes. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7776)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7636
MO Rev Stat § 91.810 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities|Section 91.810 - May provide for payment by special assessment.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   91.810. May provide for payment by special assessment. — All such cities are hereby authorized and empowered to construct such rapid transit improvement, or any part thereof, or cause the same to be constructed, and to provide for the payment thereof, in part, by special assessment, in the manner and to the effect that such cities may now or hereafter be authorized to provide for special assessments for local improvements. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7777)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7637
MO Rev Stat § 91.820 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities|Section 91.820 - May issue and sell public utility improvement and general bonds.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   91.820. May issue and sell public utility improvement and general bonds. — All such cities are hereby authorized and empowered, for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, equipping, maintaining and extending such rapid transit improvement, and paying therefor, in whole or in part, to issue and sell public utility, public improvement, and general bonds. The form and denomination of such bonds; the date of maturity or maturities thereof; the rate of interest thereon and date and place of payment; by what officers and in what manner they shall be executed and attested; the place and method of payment, and the fund or funds out of which payment shall be made, together with other provisions and regulations concerning such bonds and not inconsistent herewith or contrary to law, shall be prescribed by the ordinance authorizing the particular issue. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7778)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7638
MO Rev Stat § 91.830 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities|Section 91.830 - May grant rights and interests in rapid transit improvements.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   91.830. May grant rights and interests in rapid transit improvements. — All such cities are hereby authorized and empowered to maintain such rapid transit improvement so constructed or acquired, and every part thereof; and to grant rights and interests in said rapid transit improvement, or in any part thereof, for public use, to such parties and upon such terms, and for such rentals and considerations, as such cities may deem best. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7779)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7639
MO Rev Stat § 91.840 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities|Section 91.840 - May establish rapid transit commission, or commissioner.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   91.840. May establish rapid transit commission, or commissioner. — All such cities are hereby authorized and empowered by ordinance to create and establish a rapid transit commission and determine the number of members thereof, or, in lieu of such commission, create the office of rapid transit commissioner; provide for the appointment and removal of such commission or commissioner, prescribe their qualifications, fix their term of office and compensation, define their powers and duties, provide for the employment of assistants, and do all other things necessary for the proper and efficient functioning of such commissioner or commission, and for carrying out effectively the provisions of sections 91.780 to 91.840. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7780)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7640
MO Rev Stat § 92.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 92 - Taxation in St. Louis, Kansas City, and Certain Other Cities|Section 92.010 - Maximum rate of levy for general purposes — method of increase (St. Louis).

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   92.010. Maximum rate of levy for general purposes — method of increase (St. Louis). — 1. Any constitutional charter cities in this state which may now have or hereafter acquire seven hundred thousand or more inhabitants may levy upon all subjects and objects of taxation a rate for general municipal purposes not to exceed the annual rate of one dollar on the one hundred dollars assessed valuation; provided, that the city of St. Louis may levy for county purposes, in addition to the municipal rate of taxation above provided, a rate not exceeding the rate which would be allowed for county purposes if said city of St. Louis were a county; provided, however, that the rate of taxation for general municipal purposes herein limited may be increased for not to exceed four years, when the rate and purpose of the increase are submitted to a vote and two-thirds of the voters voting thereon shall vote therefor, but such increase so voted shall be limited to a maximum rate of taxation not to exceed thirty cents on the one hundred dollars assessed valuation. The legislative body of any of said cities may submit the question of an increase of levy when, in the opinion of such legislative body, necessity therefor arises, and such question shall be submitted by such legislative body when petitioned therefor by the voters equaling in number one percent or more of the voters of the city voting for mayor at the last city election at which a mayor was elected.  2. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form: Shall there be a ______ cent increase in tax levy on one hundred dollars valuation for general municipal purposes for ______ years?  3. If such increase in levy shall be voted, then such increased levy shall be effective for the number of years designated, and no longer, but said cities, through their legislative bodies, may submit any such proposal for continuing such increase of levy at any time for like periods not to exceed four years each. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 1296 § 1, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 92.012 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 92 - Taxation in St. Louis, Kansas City, and Certain Other Cities|Section 92.012 - Sewer lateral lines connected to public lines, fee added to general tax levy bill (St. Louis).

Effective - 28 Aug 1992   92.012. Sewer lateral lines connected to public lines, fee added to general tax levy bill (St. Louis). — 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the collector of revenue in the city of St. Louis, who now or hereafter collects any fee to provide for, ensure or guarantee the repair of lateral sewer lines connected to public sewer lines, may add such fee to the general tax levy bills of property owners within the city. All revenues received on such combined bill which are for the purpose of providing for, ensuring or guaranteeing the repair of lateral sewer lines, shall be separated from all other revenues so collected and credited to the appropriate fund or account.  2. The collector of revenue in the city of St. Louis may collect such fee in the same manner and to the same extent as he now or hereafter may collect delinquent real estate taxes and tax bills. ­­-------- (L. 1992 H.B. 973 § 1)