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MO Rev Stat § 71.280 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.280 - Section 71.270 not applicable to state or county road.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   71.280. Section 71.270 not applicable to state or county road. — The provisions of section 71.270 shall not apply to any state or county road established and opened prior to the filing of the plat of a subdivision; but such road, when marked on the plat, may be vacated by the county commission when it shall no longer be used and maintained as a state or county road, and the same, when vacated, shall vest in the person who may have the legal title thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7321)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7170; 1919 § 8619; 1909 § 9507
MO Rev Stat § 71.283 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.283 - Residency for officers in certain villages, exceptions, appointed officers — acts prohibited for officers.

Effective - 28 Aug 1994   71.283. Residency for officers in certain villages, exceptions, appointed officers — acts prohibited for officers. — All officers elected to offices or appointed to fill a vacancy in any elective office in any village in any county of the first classification having a population of over nine hundred thousand shall be voters under the laws and constitution of this state and the ordinances of the village, except that appointed officers need not be voters of the village. No person shall be elected or appointed to any office who shall at the time be in arrears for any unpaid village taxes, or forfeiture or defalcation in office. All officers, except appointed officers, shall be residents of the village. ­­-------- (L. 1993 S.B. 31, A.L. 1994 S.B. 517)
MO Rev Stat § 71.286 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.286 - Display of the United States flag, political subdivisions not to regulate.

Effective - 28 Aug 2002   71.286. Display of the United States flag, political subdivisions not to regulate. — Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, no state law, city, town or village ordinance shall regulate the exhibition of a properly displayed United States flag. For the purposes of this section, the term "properly displayed" shall mean that the flag contains no additional design or embellishment and is displayed consistent with the provisions of Title 4 U.S.C. Sections 1-10, pursuant to the normally accepted guidelines for the display of the United States flag. ­­-------- (L. 2002 S.B. 918)
MO Rev Stat § 71.287 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.287 - Water usage, voluntary reports to division of geology and land survey, contents — city complying may charge fee on tax bill for improvements.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   71.287. Water usage, voluntary reports to division of geology and land survey, contents — city complying may charge fee on tax bill for improvements. — 1. Any city, town, or village in this state may make an annual voluntary report to the division on the water usage of the residents of such city, town, or village. Such report shall show:  (1) The name and location of the city, town, or village;  (2) The location, nature and type of the water source supplying the city, town, or village;  (3) The amount in gallons of water used by residents of the city, town, or village on a monthly and yearly basis, either actual usage or estimated usage;  (4) Anticipated water usage during the year next succeeding the date of the report.  2. Any city, town, or village in this state which makes voluntary reports as provided in this section may charge as a fee on any tax bill issued by it for improvements pursuant to section 88.812 or 88.816 a percentage of the tax bill which when added to the rate of interest permitted under section 88.812 or 88.816 will result in a figure which would be equal to an annual interest rate at the market rate as defined in section 408.030. ­­-------- (L. 1983 H.B. 271 § 9)
MO Rev Stat § 71.288 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.288 - Restrictions on outdoor advertising — fee.

Effective - 28 Aug 1998   71.288. Restrictions on outdoor advertising — fee. — 1. Any city or county shall have the authority to adopt regulations with respect to outdoor advertising that are more restrictive than the height, size, lighting and spacing provisions of sections 226.500 to 226.600.  2. No city or county shall have the authority to impose a fee of more than five hundred dollars for the initial inspection of an outdoor advertising structure, nor may the city or county impose a business tax on an outdoor advertising structure of more than two percent of the gross annual revenue produced by the outdoor advertising structure within that city or county. ­­-------- (L. 1997 H.B. 831 § 1, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1681 & 1342 merged with S.B. 883)  (2000) Bill enacting section met constitutional requirements of single subject and clear title. C.C. Dillon Co. v. City of Eureka, 12 S.W.3d 322 (Mo.banc).
MO Rev Stat § 71.300 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.300 - Courthouses and jails — erection and maintenance.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   71.300. Courthouses and jails — erection and maintenance. — All county seats or other cities or towns which are duly incorporated are hereby authorized upon such terms as may be agreed upon, in conjunction with their respective counties, to erect and maintain courthouses and jails in such county seats and in such other towns or cities for the joint use of such county seats or other towns or cities and the county wherein they are located; and all authority now existing under the law or that may hereafter be conferred on the counties in this state for the purpose of providing the revenue for erecting and maintaining the buildings herein provided for, may be exercised by such counties jointly with such county seats or other towns or cities; provided, that for the purposes of this section, such county seats, towns or cities shall be authorized to issue and negotiate interest-bearing bonds. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 13704, A.L. 1945 p. 1394)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 12045; 1919 § 9445; 1909 § 3666
MO Rev Stat § 71.310 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.310 - Armories — acquisition, maintenance.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   71.310. Armories — acquisition, maintenance. — All cities, towns, villages and counties in this state are hereby given power and authority to build or acquire, by purchase, lease, gift or otherwise, suitable armories, drill halls and headquarters, and the land necessary therefor, for such organizations of the National Guard of Missouri as may be stationed or located therein, and to provide for the maintenance and repair of the same. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7364)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7213; 1919 § 8652; 1909 § 9540
MO Rev Stat § 71.320 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.320 - Armories, not owned or leased by cities — maintenance.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   71.320. Armories, not owned or leased by cities — maintenance. — In case any organization of the National Guard of Missouri now or hereafter occupies any armory, drill hall or headquarters not owned or leased by the city, town, village or county wherein it is located, such city, town, village or county is hereby given power and authority to provide for the maintenance and repair of such armory, drill hall or headquarters. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7365)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7214; 1919 § 8653; 1909 § 9541
MO Rev Stat § 71.330 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.330 - Term maintenance defined.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   71.330. Term maintenance defined. — The term "maintenance", as used in sections 71.310 and 71.320, shall include light, water, heat, fuel, power, ice and the wages of janitors, armorers and other employees necessary for such armories, drill halls and headquarters. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7366)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7215; 1919 § 8654; 1909 § 9542
MO Rev Stat § 71.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.340 - Construction and repair of public roads — annual appropriation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1945   71.340. Construction and repair of public roads — annual appropriation. — The mayor and city council of any city or the chairman and board of trustees of any incorporated town or village shall have the power to annually appropriate and pay out of the treasury of such city or incorporated town or village a sum of money, not to exceed ten percent of the annual general revenue thereof, for the purpose of constructing, building, repairing, working, grading or macadamizing any public road, street and highway and any bridge thereon leading to and from such city or incorporated town or village; and such appropriation shall be made by ordinance and the money so appropriated shall be applied under the supervision and direction of the engineers of such city or incorporated town or village, and of the county highway engineer of the county in which such city, town or village is located, or of some competent person selected by such city, town or village and approved by the county highway engineer, who shall make a report thereof, in writing, to the mayor and city council of such city, or to the chairman and board of trustees of such incorporated town or village; but this privilege shall not extend to a greater distance than five miles from the corporate limits of such city, town or village, and shall not be construed so as to allow any obstruction to or interference with the free use of any such public road, street or highway by the public, except so far as may be necessary while such work is being done, and further shall not be construed to affect the liability of such city, town or village, which liability shall be the same as if such roads, streets and highways were inside the city limits. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7312, A.L. 1945 p. 1308)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7161; 1919 § 8610; 1909 § 9498  CROSS REFERENCE:  Township board may expend one-fourth of revenue on city streets, 65.295
MO Rev Stat § 71.350 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.350 - Parking facilities for motor vehicles, certain cities.

Effective - 28 Aug 1959   71.350. Parking facilities for motor vehicles, certain cities. — Any incorporated city or town in this state of not more than seven hundred thousand and not less than one thousand population, and any county in this state having a constitutional charter, may rent, lease and improve property, or acquire property by gift, purchase, exchange, or by the exercise of the power of eminent domain over unimproved property in the manner provided by law for the condemnation of land for street or road purposes in such municipality or county, except that nothing herein is construed to limit the right to the use of eminent domain in connection with improved property used for or devoted to commercial purposes; and may construct, install or equip buildings and facilities thereon for parking motor vehicles; and may own, manage, use or operate property and facilities thereon for parking motor vehicles, and make or authorize the making of a charge for the use of property and facilities for such purposes, except that the municipality or county shall not dispense or furnish or allow any lessee or occupant to dispense or furnish, upon or in connection with any property or facility acquired or operated pursuant to this section any product or service other than the parking of motor vehicles. ­­-------- (L. 1945 V. I p. 392 § 7411a, A.L. 1959 H.B. 328)
MO Rev Stat § 71.360 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.360 - Parking facilities, how financed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1959   71.360. Parking facilities, how financed. — Any such incorporated city, town, or constitutional charter county may finance and pay for the planning, designing, acquisition, construction, equipment and improvement of property for parking motor vehicles by any one or combination of the following methods:  (1) General revenue funds, including any proceeds derived from the operation of such parking facilities;  (2) General obligation bonds within legal debt limitations;  (3) Negotiable interest-bearing revenue bonds, the principal and interest of which shall be payable solely from the revenue derived from the operation of such parking facilities, and from the proceeds, or any part thereof, from on-street parking meter receipts of any city or town, which proceeds or any part thereof may be pledged by the city, town or constitutional charter county to the retirement of negotiable interest-bearing revenue bonds, which revenue bonds may be issued and sold by such municipality or constitutional charter county when authorized by the city council, board of aldermen, county council or other legislative authority of the city, town or county. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 392 § 7411b, A.L. 1955 p. 300, A.L. 1959 H.B. 328)  (1956) Provision authorizing pledge of on-street parking meter receipts for payment of revenue bonds issued to enable city to acquire off-street parking facilities held constitutional. Petition of City of Liberty (Mo.), 296 S.W.2d 117.
MO Rev Stat § 71.365 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.365 - Sidewalks to have wheelchair ramps — specifications for — when required.

Effective - 28 Aug 1975   71.365. Sidewalks to have wheelchair ramps — specifications for — when required. — The governing body of each municipality in this state may provide for and regulate crosswalks, curbs and gutters. However, after September 28, 1975, all new curbs which are constructed in any municipality, and all existing curbs which are a part of any reconstruction, shall comply with this section. In order to enable persons using wheelchairs to travel freely and without assistance, at each crosswalk a ramp shall be built into the curb so that the sidewalk and street blend to a common level. Such ramp shall be not less than thirty-six inches wide and shall not have a slope greater than one inch rise per twelve inches length (eight and three-tenths percent). Where because of surrounding buildings or other restrictions it is impossible to conform the slope with this requirement, the ramp shall contain a slope with as shallow a rise as possible under the circumstances not to exceed ten percent. In all ramps there shall be a gradual rounding at the bottom of the slope. ­­-------- (L. 1975 S.B. 217 § 1)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Public buildings and sidewalk handicap access requirements, 8.620.
MO Rev Stat § 71.367 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.367 - Deviations authorized, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1975   71.367. Deviations authorized, when. — Deviations from the standards set forth in section 71.365 may be permitted where conformance to such standards is impractical or physically impossible and where the method, material and dimension used in lieu thereof does not create a hazard. Such deviations must first be submitted to the governing body of the municipality for approval or rejection. ­­-------- (L. 1975 S.B. 217 § 2)
MO Rev Stat § 71.370 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.370 - Contracts for fire protection between incorporated cities.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   71.370. Contracts for fire protection between incorporated cities. — Any incorporated city in this state having a fire department may contract to furnish fire protection to any other incorporated city or cities in this state, whether or not such other incorporated city or cities have a fire department. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7405)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7253
MO Rev Stat § 71.380 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.380 - Fire protection contracts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   71.380. Fire protection contracts. — Any two or more incorporated cities wishing to take advantage of sections 71.370 to 71.390 may, by ordinance duly enacted in each of such cities, agree upon the terms upon which such fire protection shall be furnished, and such agreement may, where two or more such cities have fire departments, include an interchange of the service of such fire departments upon such terms as are agreed upon; or such agreement may provide for the payment of a stated sum per month or per year, or a stated sum per fire, or any other method of compensation for such fire protection that is agreed upon by the two or more incorporated cities entering into such contract; provided, that any contract for a longer period than five years shall have no binding force until ratified by a majority of the voters voting on the question in each of the cities entering into such contract. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7406, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7254
MO Rev Stat § 71.390 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.390 - Payments under contracts.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   71.390. Payments under contracts. — Payments contracted for under sections 71.370 and 71.380 shall be made from any funds of the city available for such purpose. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7407)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7255
MO Rev Stat § 71.400 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.400 - Cities may maintain joint fire departments.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   71.400. Cities may maintain joint fire departments. — Any two or more cities, towns or incorporated villages, whether of the same class or not and whether contiguous or not, may enter into a joint contract to acquire, install and operate a fire department for the joint benefit and protection of the property situated in said contracting municipalities and the lives of the inhabitants thereof, and to erect and maintain at such place as may be agreed upon a building for the housing of said fire department. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7391)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7240  CROSS REFERENCE:  Cooperation with other political subdivisions, on public improvements or facilities, 70.210 to 70.325
MO Rev Stat § 71.410 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.410 - Joint contract — validity.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   71.410. Joint contract — validity. — The contract mentioned in section 71.400, to be valid, shall be authorized by ordinance passed by the council, board of aldermen or board of trustees of the contracting parties, which ordinances shall be uniform in their provisions, and prescribe the cost of installing the fire department, including the erection or rental of a building for the use of the department, and the maximum cost of the maintenance thereof and the amount to be contributed by each of the contracting parties to the original cost incurred in installing the department and the maximum amount of the annual appropriation for the maintenance of said department. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7392)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7241
MO Rev Stat § 71.420 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.420 - Joint fire department committee — duties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   71.420. Joint fire department committee — duties. — The joint fire department so installed, as aforesaid, shall be managed by a joint fire department committee consisting of one member from each of the contracting parties, which shall prescribe such rules and regulations, and appoint and employ such officers, firemen and other persons as may be necessary to efficiently operate the fire department, and acquire the necessary apparatus for the installation of the department, the property on which the fire department is to be located and supervise the erection of the fire department building, as authorized by ordinance, all as herein provided. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7393)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7242
MO Rev Stat § 71.430 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.430 - Joint fire department — use of building.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   71.430. Joint fire department — use of building. — The building to be erected as herein provided may be used jointly for such other municipal purposes as may be provided by ordinance passed by each of the contracting parties. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7394)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7243
MO Rev Stat § 71.440 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.440 - Joint fire department — cost of maintenance, how met.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   71.440. Joint fire department — cost of maintenance, how met. — 1. For the purpose of paying its share of the cost of any of the expenditures herein authorized, exclusive of annual cost of maintenance, any city, town or incorporated village which may have entered into a joint contract, as provided in sections 71.400 to 71.430, may become indebted to an amount exceeding, in any year, the income and revenue provided for such year, the amount of such indebtedness, including existing indebtedness at the time of incurring the same, not to exceed, in the aggregate, five percent on the value of the taxable property in said municipality, to be ascertained by the assessment next before the last assessment for state and county purposes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.  2. To incur such indebtedness, the council, board of aldermen or board of trustees of the contracting parties, each acting separately, shall order that the question be submitted to the voters to determine whether or not bonds shall be issued by said municipality, as herein authorized. The notice shall state the amount of indebtedness to be incurred and of the increase in the rate of taxation, if any, necessary to discharge such indebtedness in the manner provided by law. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7395, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7244
MO Rev Stat § 71.450 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns|Section 71.450 - Joint fire department — bond election — tax increase.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   71.450. Joint fire department — bond election — tax increase. — The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form: Shall the joint fire departments of ______ and ______ incur indebtedness, evidenced by the issuance of bonds, in the amount of ______ dollars, and increase taxes by ______ for the purpose of ______? ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7396, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7245