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MO Rev Stat § 321.380 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals|Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts|Section 321.380 - Percentage necessary to create indebtedness — subsequent submission.

Effective - 28 Aug 1990   321.380. Percentage necessary to create indebtedness — subsequent submission. — In the event that it shall appear from the returns that the constitutionally required percentage of the voters of the district who shall have voted on any such proposition submitted hereunder at such election voted in favor of such proposition, the district shall thereupon be authorized to incur such indebtedness or obligations, enter into such contract or issue and sell such bonds of the district, as the case may be, all for the purpose or purposes and object or objects provided for in the proposition or propositions submitted hereunder and in the resolution therefor, and in the amount so provided and at a rate of interest not exceeding the rate of interest recited in such resolution. Submission of the proposition of incurring such obligation or bonded or other indebtedness at such an election shall not prevent or prohibit submission of the same or other propositions at a subsequent election. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 38, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1621)
MO Rev Stat § 321.390 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals|Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts|Section 321.390 - Petition for dissolution of district — submission of question.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   321.390. Petition for dissolution of district — submission of question. — Whenever a petition signed by not less than one hundred voters in any district organized under the provisions of this chapter is filed with the circuit court having jurisdiction over the district, setting forth all the relevant facts pertaining to the district, and alleging that the further operation of the district is inimicable to the best interests of the inhabitants of the district, and that the district should, in the interest of the public welfare and safety, be dissolved, the circuit court shall have authority, after hearing evidence submitted on the aforesaid question, to order a submission of the question, after having caused publication of notice of a hearing on said petition, in substantially the following form: Shall ______ (Insert the name of the fire district.) ______ Fire Protection District be dissolved? ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 39, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, S.B. 628)  (1974) Proceeding to dissolve district must be conducted as provided by statute. Board of directors has no inherent power to order dissolution. State ex rel. Crites v. West (A.), 509 S.W.2d 482.
MO Rev Stat § 321.400 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals|Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts|Section 321.400 - Circuit court may call for an election to determine dissolution of district.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   321.400. Circuit court may call for an election to determine dissolution of district. — If the court shall find that it is to the best interest of the inhabitants of said district that such district be dissolved, it shall make an order reciting the same and providing for the submission of the proposition to dissolve such district to a vote of the voters of the district, setting forth such further details in its order as may be necessary to an orderly conduct of such election. Such election shall be held at the municipal election. Returns of said election shall be certified to the court. If the court finds that two-thirds of the voters voting thereon shall have voted in favor of the proposition to dissolve said district, the court shall make a final order dissolving said district, and the decree shall contain a proviso that said district shall continue in full force for the purpose of paying all outstanding and lawful obligations and disposing of property of the district; but no additional costs or obligations shall be created except such as are necessary to pay such costs, obligations and liabilities theretofore incurred, or necessary to the winding up of the district. If the court shall find that two-thirds of the voters of the district voting thereon shall not have voted favorably on the proposition to dissolve such district, then the court shall make a final order declaring such result dismissing the petition praying for the dissolution of said district; and the said district shall continue to operate in the same manner as though said petition asking for such dissolution has not been filed. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 40, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 321.410 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals|Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts|Section 321.410 - Effect of dissolution — appointment of trustee.

Effective - 28 Aug 1969   321.410. Effect of dissolution — appointment of trustee. — The dissolution of a fire protection district shall not invalidate or affect any right accruing to such fire district, or to any person, or invalidate or affect any contract or indebtedness entered into or imposed upon such fire protection district or person; and whenever the circuit court shall, under the provisions of section 321.400, dissolve a fire protection district, the said court shall appoint some competent person to act as trustee for the fire protection district so dissolved and such trustee before entering upon the discharge of his duties shall take and subscribe an oath that he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office, and shall give bond with sufficient security, to be approved by the court to the use of such dissolved fire protection district, for the faithful discharge of his duties, and shall proceed to liquidate the district under orders of the court, including the levying of any taxes provided for in this chapter. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 41, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322)
MO Rev Stat § 321.430 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals|Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts|Section 321.430 - Prior obligations remain valid.

Effective - 28 Aug 1969   321.430. Prior obligations remain valid. — Any and all taxable tangible property located within any such district already organized on September 10, 1947, shall continue to be subject to the levy of taxes for general purposes and for the payment of any indebtedness previously created, all as provided herein. The repeal of any acts herein shall not be held to affect or invalidate any claims, demands, acts, debts, contracts, obligations or indebtedness of any district created under the provisions of any such act. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 43, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322)
MO Rev Stat § 321.440 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals|Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts|Section 321.440 - When notice not given as required, procedure of court.

Effective - 28 Aug 1969   321.440. When notice not given as required, procedure of court. — In any and every case where a notice is provided for in this chapter, if the court finds for any reason that due notice was not given, the court shall not thereby lose jurisdiction, and the proceeding in question shall not thereby be void or be abated, but the court shall in that case order due notice to be given, and shall continue the hearing until such time as notice shall be properly given, and thereupon shall proceed as though notice had been properly given in the first instance. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 44, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322)
MO Rev Stat § 321.450 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals|Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts|Section 321.450 - Cases arising under this chapter to be advanced on docket — courts always open.

Effective - 28 Aug 1969   321.450. Cases arising under this chapter to be advanced on docket — courts always open. — All cases in which there may arise a question of the validity of the organization of a district, or a question of the validity of any proceeding under the provisions of this chapter, shall be advanced on the docket as a matter of immediate public interest and concern, and heard at the earliest practicable moment. The courts shall be open at all times for the purposes of this chapter. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 45, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322)
MO Rev Stat § 321.465 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals|Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts|Section 321.465 - Consolidated district, status — transfer of assets and liabilities.

Effective - 28 Aug 1969   321.465. Consolidated district, status — transfer of assets and liabilities. — If the vote prescribed by section 321.460 is in favor of the consolidation, then, upon the order of the court declaring the same, the consolidated district thereupon shall be a political subdivision of the state of Missouri and a body corporate, with all the powers of like or similar corporations, and with all the powers of fire protection districts under section 321.220, whose affairs shall be conducted as provided in this chapter, with all the powers, privileges and duties therein conferred and provided upon fire protection districts in the county. All properties, rights, assets, and liabilities of the several fire protection districts which are so consolidated, including outstanding bonds thereof if any, shall become forthwith and without any further procedure the properties, rights, assets, and liabilities of the consolidated fire protection district. The provisions of section 321.140 shall also apply to the election and order establishing the consolidated fire protection district. ­­-------- (L. 1961 p. 553 § 2, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322)
MO Rev Stat § 321.470 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals|Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts|Section 321.470 - Recording of order of consolidation — fee (constitutional charter counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   321.470. Recording of order of consolidation — fee (constitutional charter counties). — The order of the circuit court having jurisdiction, as well as finding and determining the votes of the election, shall direct the clerk of the court to transmit to the county clerk and to the recorder of deeds of each county in which the consolidated district is located a certified copy of such order, to be filed in the same manner as articles of incorporation are required to be filed under the general laws concerning corporations, and each recorder and each clerk shall each receive, for such filing, a fee of one dollar, to be charged as costs in the proceeding. ­­-------- (L. 1961 p. 553 § 3, A.L. 1978 S.B. 628)
MO Rev Stat § 321.490 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals|Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts|Section 321.490 - Initiative and referendum authorized.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   321.490. Initiative and referendum authorized. — All powers which may be exercised by the board of directors of a fire protection district may be exercised by the voters of that district by initiative or referendum. ­­-------- (L. 1969 H.B. 322, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 321.495 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals|Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts|Section 321.495 - Form of petition.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   321.495. Form of petition. — 1. A petition for a referendum shall be in substantially the following form:   WARNING   It is a felony for anyone to sign any initiative or referendum petition with any name other than his own, or to knowingly sign his name more than once for the measure, or to sign such petition when he is not a legal voter.   INITIATIVE PETITION   To the board of directors of the ______ Fire Protection District:   We the undersigned, citizens and voters of the state of Missouri and the ______ Fire Protection District, respectfully order that (describe the measure) shall be referred to the people of the district for their approval or rejection, at the regular (special) election to be held on the ______ day of ______, 20______, and each for himself says: I have personally signed this petition; I am a duly qualified elector of the state and district; my residence and post-office address are correctly written after my name.   Name ______ Residence ______ Post Office ______   (if in a city, street and number)   (Here follow numbered lines for signatures.)    2. Every sheet for petitioners' signatures shall be attached to a full and correct copy of the title and text of the measure proposed by the initiative petition. Referendum petitions shall be attached to a full and correct copy of the measure on which the referendum is demanded.  3. Each sheet of every petition containing signatures shall be verified in substantially the following form by the person who circulated the sheet, by his affidavit thereon:   State of Missouri   County of ______   I, ______, being first duly sworn, say that each person whose name appears on this sheet signed his name thereto in my presence; I believe that each has stated his name, post-office address and residence correctly, and that each signer is a voter of the state of Missouri and ______ Fire Protection District.   (signature and post-office address of affiant)   Subscribed and sworn to before me this ______ day of ______, 20______   (signature and title of officer before whom oath is made and his post-office address)   ­­-------- (L. 1969 H.B. 322, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 321.500 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals|Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts|Section 321.500 - Signatures required for referendum or initiative petition — submission of question — vote required.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   321.500. Signatures required for referendum or initiative petition — submission of question — vote required. — 1. If an initiative or referendum petition is presented to the secretary of the board of directors, which petition carries the names of voters of the district, equal in number of votes of the district who voted in the last regular district election, the board of directors shall submit the question pursuant to the order or demand of the petition.  2. The measure called for in the petition is adopted if it receives an affirmative majority vote of the voters voting at the district election. ­­-------- (L. 1969 H.B. 322, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 321.506 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals|Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts|Section 321.506 - Fire district may contract with private provider — ballot.

Effective - 28 Aug 1996   321.506. Fire district may contract with private provider — ballot. — 1. Fire districts in the state of Missouri may contract to a private company to provide fire service only if a majority of voters of the political subdivision authorize such a proposal at a public election.  2. The ballot shall be in the following form:   Shall the ______ (name of fire district) have the authority to contract the fire service of the district to a private company?    ☐ YES   ☐ NO    ­­If a majority of the votes cast on the proposal by the qualified voters voting thereon are in favor of the proposal, then the fire district board may have the authority to contract fire services to a private company. If a majority of the votes cast by the qualified voters voting are opposed to the proposal, then the fire district board shall have no authority to contract fire services to a private company. ­­-------- (L. 1996 S.B. 735 § 2)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Municipal fire departments may contract with private providers for fire protection, vote required, 85.012
MO Rev Stat § 321.556 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals|Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts|Section 321.556 - Repeal of sales tax, procedure, exceptions — ballot language.

Effective - 28 Aug 2004   321.556. Repeal of sales tax, procedure, exceptions — ballot language. — 1. Except in any county of the first classification with more than two hundred forty thousand three hundred but less than two hundred forty thousand four hundred inhabitants, or any county of the first classification with more than seventy-three thousand seven hundred but less than seventy-three thousand eight hundred inhabitants, or any county of the first classification with more than one hundred eighty-four thousand but less than one hundred eighty-eight thousand inhabitants, or any county with a charter form of government and with more than one million inhabitants, or any county with a charter form of government and with more than two hundred fifty thousand but less than three hundred fifty thousand inhabitants, the governing body of any ambulance or fire protection district, when presented with a petition signed by at least twenty percent of the registered voters in the ambulance or fire protection district that voted in the last gubernatorial election, calling for an election to repeal the tax pursuant to section 321.552, shall submit the question to the voters using the same procedure by which the imposition of the tax was voted. The ballot of submission shall be in substantially the following form:   Shall ______ (insert name of ambulance or fire protection district) repeal the ______ (insert amount up to one-half) of one percent sales tax now in effect in the ______ (insert name of ambulance or fire protection district) and reestablish the property tax levy in the district to the rate in existence prior to the enactment of the sales tax?    ☐ YES   ☐ NO    If you are in favor of the question, place an "X" in the box opposite "Yes". If you are opposed to the question, place an "X" in the box opposite "No".    2. If a majority of the votes cast on the proposal by the qualified voters of the district voting thereon are in favor of repeal, that repeal shall become effective December thirty-first of the calendar year in which such repeal was approved. ­­-------- (L. 2002 S.B. 1107, A.L. 2004 H.B. 795, et al.)
MO Rev Stat § 321.603 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals|Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts|Section 321.603 - Attendance fees permitted, fire district board members (first classification charter counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 2005   321.603. Attendance fees permitted, fire district board members (first classification charter counties). — In addition to the compensation provided pursuant to section 321.190 for fire protection districts located in a county of the first classification with a charter form of government, each member of any such fire protection district board may receive an attendance fee not to exceed one hundred dollars for attending a board meeting conducted pursuant to chapter 610, but such board member shall not be paid for attending more than four such meetings in any calendar month. However, no board member shall be paid more than one attendance fee if such member attends more than one meeting conducted under chapter 610 in a calendar week. ­­-------- (L. 1999 S.B. 436 § 1, A.L. 2005 H.B. 58 merged with H.B. 127 merged with S.B. 210)
MO Rev Stat § 321.622 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals|Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts|Section 321.622 - Responding to fires or emergencies beyond corporate boundaries, exception — liabilities for claims, death or injuries — charges for responding.

Effective - 28 Aug 1990   321.622. Responding to fires or emergencies beyond corporate boundaries, exception — liabilities for claims, death or injuries — charges for responding. — 1. Fire protection districts, when asked to respond to fires or other emergencies beyond its corporate boundaries may charge for those services rendered.  2. When formal mutual aid agreements are in place with adjoining areas and departments, this provision is not applicable except by formal agreement and contract with the adjoining department.  3. In responding to fires or other emergencies outside the corporate boundaries of a fire protection district, the fire protection district responding and its firefighters shall be subject to the same liabilities for claims for death or injury to persons or property as those subjected to when responding to fires or emergencies within their respective fire protection district.  4. In responding to fires or emergencies outside the corporate boundaries of the fire protection district, the fire protection district responding may charge up to the following fees:  (1) One hundred dollars for responding to each fire call or alarm;  (2) Five hundred dollars for each hour or a proportional sum for each quarter hour spent in combating a fire or emergency.  5. No property owner shall be liable for fees or charges under this section if the property owner has previously entered into an agreement with the fire protection district in writing, prior to the occurrence of the fire or emergency. ­­-------- (L. 1990 H.B. 1395 & 1448 § 2)
MO Rev Stat § 321.687 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals|Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts|Section 321.687 - Consolidation of two or more fire districts, procedure — board of directors, terms (St. Louis County).

Effective - 28 Aug 1993   321.687. Consolidation of two or more fire districts, procedure — board of directors, terms (St. Louis County). — In any county of the first class with a charter form of government containing a population of nine hundred thousand or more, if two or more fire districts consolidate as prescribed by sections 321.460 to 321.470, the new board of directors will consist of five members. If, upon canvass and declaration, it is found and determined that a majority of the voters of the districts voting on the propositions have voted in favor of the proposition to incorporate the consolidated district, then the court shall then further, in its order, designate the first board of directors of the consolidated district, who have been elected by the voters voting thereon as follows: The one receiving the fifth highest number of votes to hold office for a term of at least one year, the one receiving the fourth highest number of votes to hold office for a term of at least two years, the one receiving the third highest number of votes to hold office for a term of at least three years and the two receiving the second and first highest number of votes to hold office for a term of at least four years from the date of the election of the board of directors and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Thereafter, members of the board shall be elected to serve terms of four years and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. ­­-------- (L. 1993 H.B. 177)