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MO Rev Stat § 96.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 96 - Municipal Health and Welfare|Section 96.230 - Authorizing certain cities to create social welfare boards.

Effective - 28 Aug 1975   96.230. Authorizing certain cities to create social welfare boards. — In all cities of the third class in this state there is hereby created and established, at the option of the mayor and common council of any such city, a board which shall be styled "The Social Welfare Board of the City of ______". All powers and duties connected with and incident to the relief and prevention of dependency, relief and care of the indigent, and the care of sick dependents, with the exception of the insane and those suffering with contagious, infectious and transmissible diseases, and excepting those persons who may be admitted to the county poorhouses of the counties in which such cities are located, shall be exclusively invested in and exercised by the board. The board shall have power to receive and expend donations for social welfare purposes, and shall have exclusive control of the distribution and expenditure of any public funds set aside and appropriated by such cities for relief of the temporary dependent. The board shall have power to sue and be sued, complain and defend in all courts, to assume the care of or take by gift, grant, devise, bequest or otherwise, any money, real estate, personal property, right of property or other valuable things, and may use, enjoy, control, sell or convey the same for charitable purposes, to have and to use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure. The board may make bylaws for its own guidance, rules and regulations for the government of its agents, servants and employees, and for the distribution of the funds under its control. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7049, A.L. 1975 H.B. 398)  Prior revision: 1929 § 6899
MO Rev Stat § 96.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 96 - Municipal Health and Welfare|Section 96.240 - Board — powers and duties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   96.240. Board — powers and duties. — Said board shall have power to make all suitable provisions for the relief, maintenance and support of all indigent persons within said cities, and to make suitable provisions for the care and maintenance of the sick dependents and those who are unable to support themselves; to enforce the laws of the state, the ordinances of said cities, in regard to the indigent, and to make such rules and regulations in the conduct of its business not inconsistent with the laws of the state of Missouri, and the ordinances of said cities; to recommend to the common council of said cities the passage of such ordinances as said board may deem necessary for the welfare of the indigent of said cities. The board shall have the power to employ and discharge all persons or officers in their judgment necessary to carry on the work over which said board is given jurisdiction or control. Said board shall further have power to enter into cooperative arrangement with state or county agencies, or with charitable and philanthropic associations in order better to promote the objects of its work. Said board may act as agent for the county superintendent of public welfare within the limits of the city, under such arrangements as may be made jointly by them. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7050)  Prior revision: 1929 § 6900
MO Rev Stat § 96.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 96 - Municipal Health and Welfare|Section 96.250 - Personnel of board — terms.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   96.250. Personnel of board — terms. — Said board shall be nonpartisan and nonsectarian and the members and officers thereof shall receive no compensation as such. Said board shall consist of the mayor of such cities, who shall be ex officio a member thereof, and six other members, men or women, who shall be appointed by the mayor and the common council of such cities, who shall hold office, two for one year, two for two years, and two for three years, whose term of office shall be designated by the mayor. Whenever the term of office of any member so appointed expires, the appointment of his successor shall be for three years. All such appointments shall date from the first of June following their appointment. Vacancies from any causes shall be filled in like manner as original appointment. The mayor may, for misconduct or neglect of duty, remove any members appointed by him in the manner required for removal of officers of such cities. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7051)  Prior revision: 1929 § 6901
MO Rev Stat § 96.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 96 - Municipal Health and Welfare|Section 96.260 - Board shall meet and organize.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   96.260. Board shall meet and organize. — Said members shall, immediately after their appointment, and annually thereafter, meet and organize by electing out of their number a president, vice president, treasurer and secretary. All subordinate officers and employees appointed shall give such bonds for the faithful discharge of their duties as may be required by the board. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7052)  Prior revision: 1929 § 6902
MO Rev Stat § 96.270 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 96 - Municipal Health and Welfare|Section 96.270 - Money deposited with treasurer, who shall give bond.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   96.270. Money deposited with treasurer, who shall give bond. — All moneys received or appropriated for the use of said board shall be deposited with the treasurer, who shall give good and sufficient bond to said board for the safekeeping and proper expenditure of all funds placed in his hands, by or for the use of said board. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7053)  Prior revision: 1929 § 6903
MO Rev Stat § 96.280 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 96 - Municipal Health and Welfare|Section 96.280 - Record of proceedings — annual report.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   96.280. Record of proceedings — annual report. — It shall be the duty of said board to keep a record of its proceedings and its receipts, expenditures and operations, and to annually render a full and complete itemized report, stating the condition of their trust, together with such other matters as they may deem of general interest to the mayor and common council of said cities; provided said board shall render reports concerning receipts, expenditures, operations, etc., whenever called for by the common council of said cities. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7054)  Prior revision: 1929 § 6904
MO Rev Stat § 96.290 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 96 - Municipal Health and Welfare|Section 96.290 - Boards shall furnish relief, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   96.290. Boards shall furnish relief, when. — It shall be the duty of said board, when any person by himself or another applies for relief, to make immediate inquiry into the state and circumstances of the applicant, and if it shall appear that he or she is in such indigent circumstances as to require temporary relief, the said board shall furnish, out of the funds in its hands, such relief as the circumstances of the case may require; provided, that in all cases where the applicant for aid may be found dependent, and said applicant or member of said applicant's family is an able-bodied person, said board shall require such person to perform work to the value of the aid given. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7055)  Prior revision: 1929 § 6905
MO Rev Stat § 98.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 98 - Courts and Attorneys|Section 98.030 - Certain cities may elect police judges — jurisdiction.

Effective - 13 Aug 1978, 2 histories   *98.030. Certain cities may elect police judges — jurisdiction. — All cities and towns having a population of less than ten thousand and acting under special charters, may, by ordinance, provide for the election of police judges in such cities, who shall be elected at the municipal election, and shall, when so elected, have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine all offenses against the ordinances of such cities; provided, that when such police judge shall be elected, then the jurisdiction conferred on the mayor to hear and determine cases for the violation of city ordinances by the charter of such city shall be held to refer to the police judge elected under this section. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7437, A.L. 1947 V. I p. 404, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971 and H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7284; 1919 § 8699; 1909 § 9577  Effective 8-13-78 (H.B. 971); 1-02-79 (H.B. 1634)  *This section was repealed and reenacted by H.B. 971, 1978; it was also repealed by H.B. 1634, 1978. House Bill 971 became effective 8-13-78; H.B. 1634 became effective 1-2-79.
MO Rev Stat § 98.330 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 98 - Courts and Attorneys|Section 98.330 - Attorney, duties of.

Effective - 01 Jul 1997   98.330. Attorney, duties of. — It shall be the duty of the city attorney to prosecute and defend all actions originating or pending in any court in this state to which the city is a party, or in which the interests of the city are involved, and shall, generally, perform all legal services required in behalf of the city. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6923, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1996 S.B. 869)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6777; 1919 § 8264; 1909 § 9201  Effective 7-01-97
MO Rev Stat § 98.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 98 - Courts and Attorneys|Section 98.340 - Attorneys employed, when, how.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   98.340. Attorneys employed, when, how. — In any suit or action at law or in equity brought by or against the city except in prosecutions for violations of municipal ordinances, the city council may, by resolution, employ an attorney or attorneys, and pay him or them a reasonable fee therefor; provided, that any city may, by ordinance, provide for the office of city counselor and his duties and compensation. Such city counselor, when so provided for, shall represent the city in all other cases in all courts of record in this state; shall draft all ordinances and contracts and all legal forms of every kind, and give legal advice to the council and other officers of the city, and perform such other duties as shall be prescribed by ordinance or shall be ordered by the council or the mayor. In any city where there is a city counselor, the duties of the city attorney shall be such as may be prescribed by ordinance. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6924, A. 1949 H.B. 2045, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6778; 1919 § 8265; 1909 § 9202  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 99.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 99 - Municipal Housing|Section 99.010 - Designation of law.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   99.010. Designation of law. — Sections 99.010 to 99.230 may be referred to as "The Housing Authorities Law". ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7853)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Urban redevelopment corporations law, chapter 353
MO Rev Stat § 99.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 99 - Municipal Housing|Section 99.030 - Declaration and purpose of law.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   99.030. Declaration and purpose of law. — It is hereby declared  (1) That there exist in the state insanitary or unsafe dwelling accommodations and that persons of low income are forced to reside in such insanitary or unsafe accommodations; that within the state there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations available at rents which persons of low income can afford and that such persons are forced to occupy overcrowded and congested dwelling accommodations; that the aforesaid conditions cause an increase in and spread of disease and crime and constitute a menace to the health, safety, morals and welfare of the residents of the state and impair economic values; that these conditions necessitate excessive and disproportionate expenditures of public funds for crime prevention and punishment, public health and safety, fire and accident protection, and other public services and facilities;  (2) That these areas in the state cannot be cleared, nor can the shortage of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons of low income be relieved, through the operation of private enterprise, and that the construction of housing projects for persons of low income (as herein defined) would therefore not be competitive with private enterprise;  (3) That the clearance, replanning and reconstruction of the areas in which insanitary or unsafe housing conditions exist and the providing of safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations for persons of low income are public uses and purposes for which public money may be spent and private property acquired and are governmental functions of state concern;  (4) That it is in the public interest that work on projects for such purposes be commenced as soon as possible in order to relieve unemployment which now constitutes an emergency; and the necessity in the public interest for the provisions herein enacted, is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7854)
MO Rev Stat § 99.051 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 99 - Municipal Housing|Section 99.051 - Additional provisions, additional commissioners, St. Louis City — to be tenants of housing authority — qualifications, vacancies.

Effective - 28 Aug 1988   99.051. Additional provisions, additional commissioners, St. Louis City — to be tenants of housing authority — qualifications, vacancies. — 1. Notwithstanding any conflicting provisions of section 99.050, in cities not within a county the following provisions shall govern the composition of the housing authority commission and the selection of the members thereof:  (1) Appointive members of the housing authority commission shall be appointed by the mayor subject to the approval of the governing body of the city;  (2) Within one hundred days of the date the term of two appointed members is to expire, and every fourth year thereafter, an election shall be conducted by the housing authority commission, after ten days' written notice to each tenant of the housing authority, to elect from among the tenants in good standing of the housing authority two housing authority commissioners in addition to the five appointed members. The election shall be by written ballot and each tenant of the housing authority who has attained the age of eighteen years shall be entitled to one vote. The two persons, tenants of the housing authority, receiving the two highest numbers of votes cast at the election shall be elected to terms of four years and until their successors are elected and qualified. The elective members of the commission, in addition to being tenants in good standing of the housing authority, shall possess the other qualifications required for the office by the provisions of sections 99.010 to 99.230, and shall not be employed in any capacity by the authority.  2. Commissioners of the housing authority required by this section to be tenants of the housing authority shall not be construed, because of such tenancy, to have a direct or indirect interest in any housing authority project, or in any property included or planned to be included in any project, or in any proposed contract for materials or services within the meaning of section 99.060.  3. Any commissioner required by provisions of this section to be a tenant of the housing authority who ceases to be such shall thereby forfeit his office. In the event a tenant commissioner forfeits his office, a special election shall be held for the purpose of filling the vacancy. The election shall be conducted according to the procedures specified in subdivision (2) of subsection 1 of this section governing the conduct of regular elections of tenant commissioners. The successor elected at a special election shall serve only the remaining term of his predecessor. ­­-------- (L. 1985 H.B. 425, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1105)
MO Rev Stat § 99.052 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 99 - Municipal Housing|Section 99.052 - Commissioner may be employee of city or county.

Effective - 28 Aug 1995   99.052. Commissioner may be employee of city or county. — Notwithstanding any provision in section 99.050 to the contrary, one commissioner of an authority may be an officer or employee of the city or county for which the authority is created. ­­-------- (L. 1995 S.B. 16 § 1)
MO Rev Stat § 99.053 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 99 - Municipal Housing|Section 99.053 - Appointment of additional housing commissioner authorized where necessary to comply with federal law.

Effective - 28 Aug 2000   99.053. Appointment of additional housing commissioner authorized where necessary to comply with federal law. — 1. Notwithstanding any provision of section 99.050 to the contrary regarding the number of housing commissioners, in any political subdivision except those described in subsection 2 of this section, a sixth housing commissioner may be appointed. Such a commissioner may be appointed, in the same manner as other appointees pursuant to section 99.050, if the housing authority determines that such a commissioner is needed to fulfill any federal requirement stating that at least one person who receives direct assistance from the housing authority shall serve as a commissioner. Any commissioner appointed to serve as a commissioner for the purposes of meeting the requirement of having a person who is directly assisted by the housing authority shall forfeit such appointment if that person:  (1) Ceases to meet the requirements of housing commissioners pursuant to section 99.050; or  (2) Ceases receiving direct assistance from the housing authority for which he or she is a commissioner.  2. The provisions of this section shall not apply to those housing authorities:  (1) Located within a city not within a county;  (2) Located within a city with a population of over four hundred thousand inhabitants;  (3) Which are exempted, pursuant to federal law or regulation, from any federal requirement stating that at least one person who receives direct assistance from the housing authority shall serve as a commissioner. ­­-------- (L. 2000 H.B. 1238 merged with S.B. 557)
MO Rev Stat § 99.055 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 99 - Municipal Housing|Section 99.055 - Annual audit, content — annual hearings.

Effective - 28 Aug 1988   99.055. Annual audit, content — annual hearings. — The board of commissioners of each housing authority shall conduct an annual audit of all operations and activities undertaken by said housing authority pursuant to this chapter, including, but not limited to, reports of revenues and expenditures of said housing authority and such related entities as described in subsection 3 of section 99.080, divided and broken out by each project or undertaking as defined in paragraph (b) of subdivision (12)* of section 99.020. The board of commissioners shall issue a detailed report of said audit and shall make said report available to the public upon its completion. In connection therewith and after the final issuance of such audit, each board of commissioners shall conduct not less than one public hearing and, with respect to authorities which own and operate one thousand or more rental units prior to the final issuance of such audit as part of audit procedure not less than two hearings and after the final issuance of such audit not less than one hearing, at locations reasonably accessible to tenants of housing project, for the purposes of obtaining tenant and public responses regarding the activities of the authority during the preceding year and suggestions for future activities of the authority. ­­-------- (L. 1986 S.B. 767, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1105)  *"Subsection 11" appears in original rolls.
MO Rev Stat § 99.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 99 - Municipal Housing|Section 99.060 - Commissioner or employee of authority to have no interest in any housing project.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   99.060. Commissioner or employee of authority to have no interest in any housing project. — No commissioner or employee of an authority shall acquire any interest direct or indirect in any housing project or in any property included or planned to be included in any project, nor shall he have any interest direct or indirect in any contract or proposed contract for materials or services to be furnished or used in connection with any housing project. If any commissioner or employee of an authority owns or controls an interest direct or indirect in any property included or planned to be included in any housing project, he immediately shall disclose the same in writing to the authority and such disclosure shall be entered upon the minutes of the authority. Failure so to disclose such interest shall constitute misconduct in office. Upon such disclosure such commissioner or employee shall not participate in any action by the authority affecting such property. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7858)
MO Rev Stat § 99.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 99 - Municipal Housing|Section 99.070 - Commissioner, how removed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   99.070. Commissioner, how removed. — For inefficiency or neglect of duty or misconduct in office, a commissioner of an authority may be removed by the mayor (or in the case of an authority for a county, by the governing body of said county), but a commissioner shall be removed only after he shall have been given a copy of the charges at least ten days prior to the hearing thereon and had an opportunity to be heard in person or by counsel. In the event of the removal of any commissioner, a record of the proceedings, together with the charges and findings thereon, shall be filed in the office of the clerk. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7859)
MO Rev Stat § 99.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 99 - Municipal Housing|Section 99.090 - Rentals, how fixed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1986   99.090. Rentals, how fixed. — 1. It is hereby declared to be the policy of this state that each housing authority shall manage and operate housing projects owned by it in an efficient manner so as to enable it to fix the rentals for its very low and low-income tenants at the lowest possible rates consistent with providing decent, safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations, and at rates not higher than rental guidelines established by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development for such persons. To this end an authority shall fix the rentals for dwellings in its projects at no higher rates than it shall find to be necessary in order:  (1) To pay, as the same become due, the principal and interest on the bonds of the authority;  (2) To meet the cost of, and to provide for, maintaining and operating its projects, including the cost of any insurance and any other administrative expenses of the authority; and  (3) To create (during not less than the six years immediately succeeding its issuance of any bonds) a reserve sufficient to meet the largest principal and interest payments which will be due on such bonds in any one year and to maintain such reserve.  2. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any moderate income tenants of the authority. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7861, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1155, A.L. 1986 S.B. 767)