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MO Rev Stat § 79.565 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.565 - Elected or appointed officials, no financial interest in authority operations (certain municipalities).

Effective - 12 Jul 1990   79.565. Elected or appointed officials, no financial interest in authority operations (certain municipalities). — No elected or appointed official or employee of the municipality or authority, and no spouse or dependent child of any official or employee shall have any financial or pecuniary interest whatsoever in any land, land development which is a part of a redevelopment project of the authority or any of the authority's operations including the issuance of bonds or other indebtedness. ­­-------- (L. 1988 H.B. 1738 § 6, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1564)  Effective 7-12-90
MO Rev Stat § 79.600 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.600 - Annexation of trash and recyclable material facilities, procedure (City of Eureka)

Effective - 28 Aug 2005   79.600. Annexation of trash and recyclable material facilities, procedure (City of Eureka) — Notwithstanding the annexation provisions of chapter 71, if the governing body of a city of the fourth classification with more than seven thousand five hundred but fewer than seven thousand six hundred eighty inhabitants and located in any county with a charter form of government and with more than one million inhabitants finds it is in the public interest that a parcel of land located in an unincorporated area of said county, which is proposed for use as a trash and recyclable material transfer facility or recyclable material reclamation facility, should be located in the city for purposes of ensuring that there is more local legislative consideration, building inspections, and monitoring of ongoing operations, the city may annex such parcel, provided that the city obtains the written consent of all the property owners located within the unincorporated area of such parcel. Further, both such city and county shall adopt reciprocal ordinances authorizing the annexation of such parcel by the city. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 71.012, the subject parcel shall be considered contiguous and compact with the city if it is located within two miles of the city by means of railroad line-owned property. ­­-------- (L. 2005 H.B. 58)
MO Rev Stat § 80.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 80 - Towns and Villages|Section 80.010 - Town construed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   80.010. Town construed. — When the word "town" is used in this chapter concerning the incorporation of towns and villages, it shall be construed to include village. In relation to corporations under this chapter, it shall be construed to mean village only. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 655, A. 1949 H.B. 2030)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 655; 1919 § 7058; 1909 § 8057
MO Rev Stat § 80.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 80 - Towns and Villages|Section 80.020 - Towns and villages — how incorporated.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   80.020. Towns and villages — how incorporated. — Whenever two-thirds of the taxable inhabitants of any town or village within this state shall present a petition to the county commission of the county, setting forth the metes and bounds of their village and commons, and praying that they may be incorporated under a police established for their local government, and for the preservation and regulation of any commons appertaining to such town and village, and the county commission shall be satisfied that two-thirds of the taxable inhabitants of such town or village have signed such petition, and that the prayer of such petition is reasonable, the county commission may declare such town or village incorporated, designating in such order the metes and bounds thereof, and thenceforth the inhabitants within such bounds shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "The town of ______" naming it and by that name they and their successors shall be known in law; have perpetual succession, unless disincorporated; sue and be sued; plead and be impleaded; defend and be defended in all courts and in all actions, pleas and matters whatsoever; may grant, purchase, hold and receive property, real and personal, within such town and no other, burial grounds and cemeteries excepted; and may lease, sell and dispose of the same for the benefit of the town, and may have a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7242)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7091; 1919 § 8541; 1909 § 9430  (1971) Where vast majority of six square mile area included within proposed incorporation was being used for agricultural purposes and was not within the boundaries of the existing village, nor an integral part thereof and had no logical relationship to the existence and function of the village as a municipality, the judgment affirming the order incorporating the village was reversed. In re Incorporation of Village of Lone Jack (A.), 471 S.W.2d 513. (1976) Held, that while incorporation was improper, the state was barred by laches (22 years in this case) from challenging validity of incorporation. State ex rel. King v. Village of Praethersville (A.), 542 S.W.2d 578.
MO Rev Stat § 80.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 80 - Towns and Villages|Section 80.040 - Board of trustees — corporate powers vested in — terms of office.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   80.040. Board of trustees — corporate powers vested in — terms of office. — The corporate powers and duties of every village so incorporated shall be vested in a board of trustees, to consist of five members, unless such town shall contain more than twenty-five hundred inhabitants, in which case such board may consist of nine members, the number to be determined by a vote of the voters of such village. The first board of trustees shall be appointed by the county commission at the time of declaring such town incorporated. If the board consists of five members the county commission shall designate two members who shall serve for terms of two years and three members who shall serve for terms of one year. If the board consists of nine members the county commission shall designate four members who shall serve for terms of two years and five members who shall serve for terms of one year. Thereafter all members shall serve for terms of two years and until their successors are elected and qualified. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7243, A.L. 1957 p. 274, A.L. 1961 p. 201, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7092; 1919 § 8542; 1909 § 9431
MO Rev Stat § 80.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 80 - Towns and Villages|Section 80.050 - Trustees — qualifications.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   80.050. Trustees — qualifications. — No person shall be a trustee who has not attained the age of twenty-one years; who is not a citizen of the United States; who is not an inhabitant of the town at the time of his election, and has not resided therein for one whole year next preceding the time of his election. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7244, A. 1949 H.B. 2030, A.L. 1957 p. 274, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7093; 1919 § 8543; 1909 § 9432
MO Rev Stat § 80.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 80 - Towns and Villages|Section 80.060 - Trustees — oath — organization — meetings.

Effective - 28 Aug 1957   80.060. Trustees — oath — organization — meetings. — Every trustee, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take the oath prescribed by the constitution of this state, and that he will faithfully demean himself in office. Every board of trustees shall assemble within twenty days after their appointment or election, and choose a chairman of their number, and some other person as clerk. The chairman may vote on any proposition before the board. The board of trustees, by ordinance, shall fix the time and place of holding their stated meetings, and may be convened by the chairman at any time. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7245, A.L. 1957 p. 274)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7094; 1919 § 8544; 1909 § 9433
MO Rev Stat § 80.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 80 - Towns and Villages|Section 80.070 - Trustees — quorum.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   80.070. Trustees — quorum. — At all meetings of the board, a majority of the trustees shall constitute a quorum to do business; a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as the board of trustees previously, by ordinance, may have prescribed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7246)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7095; 1919 § 8545; 1909 § 9434
MO Rev Stat § 80.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 80 - Towns and Villages|Section 80.080 - Trustees — powers and duties as to members and meetings.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   80.080. Trustees — powers and duties as to members and meetings. — The board of trustees shall judge of the qualifications, elections and returns of their own members; they may determine rules of their own proceedings, punish any member or other person for disorderly behavior in their presence, and, with the concurrence of four of the trustees, expel any member, but not a second time for the same cause; they shall keep a journal of their proceedings, and, at the desire of any member, shall cause the yeas and nays to be taken and entered on the journal, on any question, resolution or ordinance; and their proceedings shall be public. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7247, A. 1949 H.B. 2030)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7096; 1919 § 8546; 1909 § 9435  (1962) Duty to maintain journal and to enter ordinances therein held mandatory and ordinances which are not properly entered in such record do not exist. Missouri Public Service Company v. Barton County Electric Cooperative (A.), 353 S.W.2d 818. (1995) Four trustees may expel any member from a meeting, but not for the remainder of the member's term. State ex rel. Foster v. Morris, 913 S.W.2d 85 (Mo.App.E.D.).
MO Rev Stat § 80.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 80 - Towns and Villages|Section 80.100 - Trustees — style of ordinances.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   80.100. Trustees — style of ordinances. — The style of ordinances of villages organized under the provisions of this chapter shall be: "Be it ordained by the board of trustees of the village of ______, as follows.". ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7283)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7132; 1919 § 8581; 1909 § 9469  (1954) Where journal did not show that chairman of board was present or absent at meeting nor that he voted either yea or nay, the yeas and nays were not entered on the journal and ordinance was void even though journal showed other four members voted for it. Krug v. Village of Mary Ridge (A.), 271 S.W.2d 867. (1962) Where the journal did not contain an entry showing the yeas and nays in the passage of an ordinance, the ordinance did not exist. Missouri Public Service Company v. Barton County Electric Cooperative (A.), 353 S.W.2d 818.
MO Rev Stat § 80.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 80 - Towns and Villages|Section 80.110 - Trustees — passage of ordinances.

Effective - 28 Aug 1996   80.110. Trustees — passage of ordinances. — No ordinance shall be passed except by bill, and no bill shall become an ordinance unless on its passage a majority of all the members of the board of trustees vote therefor, and the yeas and nays be entered upon the journal; every proposed ordinance shall be introduced to the board of trustees in writing and shall be read by title or in full two times prior to passage, both readings may occur at a single meeting of the board of trustees. If the proposed ordinance is read by title only, copies of the proposed ordinance shall be made available for public inspection prior to the time the bill is under consideration by the board of trustees. All ordinances shall be in full force and effect from and after their passage after being duly signed by the chairman of the board of trustees and attested by the village clerk. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7284, A.L. 1996 S.B. 811)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7133; 1919 § 8582; 1909 § 9470
MO Rev Stat § 80.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 80 - Towns and Villages|Section 80.120 - Trustees — publication of ordinances — chairman.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   80.120. Trustees — publication of ordinances — chairman. — The chairman of the board shall cause to be printed and published the bylaws and ordinances of the board, for the information of the inhabitants, and cause the same to be carried into effect. He shall remain in office for the term for which he is appointed or elected as a trustee; but in case of his absence at any meeting of the board, the board may appoint a chairman pro tempore, and in case he shall die, resign, be removed from office or remove from the town, the board of trustees shall appoint one of their number chairman, who shall hold the office for the unexpired term. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7285)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7134; 1919 § 8583; 1909 § 9471
MO Rev Stat § 80.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 80 - Towns and Villages|Section 80.130 - Trustees — sprinkling and oiling of streets.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   80.130. Trustees — sprinkling and oiling of streets. — Whenever the board of trustees of any town or village organized under the laws of the state of Missouri as such town or village shall, by resolution, declare that a necessity exists for the sprinkling, oiling or otherwise treating of any particular street, avenue, alley or streets, avenues, alleys and such public places within such town or village and whenever thereafter two-thirds of the resident taxpayers owning property adjoining and abutting on said street, or streets, avenues, alleys and such public places shall file with the board of trustees of such town or village a petition requesting that said street or streets, avenues, alleys and such public places so designated and set aside by resolution be sprinkled, oiled or otherwise treated, the board of trustees shall have power by ordinance to cause such sprinkling, oiling or treating to be done and the cost thereof to be provided for and defrayed by a special tax to be assessed in favor of town or village on the adjoining property fronting or bordering on the streets, avenues, alleys, and such public places, where such sprinkling, oiling or treating is proposed to be done in the proportion that the linear feet of each lot fronting or bordering on the street, avenue, alley and public place so to be sprinkled, oiled or treated bears to the total cost of such sprinkling, oiling or treating. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7249)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7098
MO Rev Stat § 80.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 80 - Towns and Villages|Section 80.140 - Sprinkling or oiling of streets — estimate of cost — notice of hearing.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   80.140. Sprinkling or oiling of streets — estimate of cost — notice of hearing. — Upon receipt of such petition, it shall be the duty of the board of trustees to make or cause to be made a careful estimate of the approximate cost in total of said sprinkling, oiling or treating and an average general cost per linear foot of each lot, fronting or bordering upon the streets, avenues, alleys and public places so outlined in the petition. Upon completion of said estimate a written report thereof shall be posted in one or more conspicuous places in or about the town or village, or cause to be published in at least one paper, if such paper be published in the town or village. Such report shall contain therein a notice of public hearing where persons may be heard either for or against granting the petition. Said hearing to be not less than fifteen days from date of posting of said notice of said publication. The time, date, and place of meeting shall be designated by the board of trustees. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7249)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7098
MO Rev Stat § 80.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 80 - Towns and Villages|Section 80.150 - Sprinkling or oiling of streets — special ordinance.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   80.150. Sprinkling or oiling of streets — special ordinance. — Upon completion of the hearing, in case the board of trustees shall determine that the petition contains the necessary number of signers sufficient to satisfy the statute, such decision and determination shall be final and a special ordinance shall be drafted by the board of trustees, in conformity with section 80.110; provided, that whenever the majority of the owners of the property liable to taxation therefor residing in such town or village shall remonstrate against the sprinkling, oiling, or otherwise treating of any street, avenue, alley, or streets, avenues, alleys and such public places, then the board of trustees shall have no power to let a contract therefor or to perform the work of sprinkling, oiling or otherwise treating on behalf of such town or village. The provisions of the said ordinance shall be executed by the board of trustees and an accurate account of the cost thereof kept by the town or village clerk, or shall be contracted for annually by the board of trustees at such time and under such terms as shall be provided for by ordinance or until such ordinance is repealed upon petition of seventy percent or more of resident property owners. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7249)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7098
MO Rev Stat § 80.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 80 - Towns and Villages|Section 80.160 - Sprinkling or oiling of streets — tax bill — limitation on cost.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   80.160. Sprinkling or oiling of streets — tax bill — limitation on cost. — The special tax bill issued under the provisions of sections 80.130 to 80.160 shall be and become a lien on the property charged therewith from and after the commencing of sprinkling, oiling or treating of such streets, avenues, alleys and such public places coming under the provisions of said ordinance provided therefor and shall be prima facie evidence of liability of the property charged therewith to the expense and the amount therein specified and may be collected on and from the owner of the land, in the name of and by the town or village in any court of competent jurisdiction with interest at the rate of eight percent per annum and such special tax bills shall be issued and collected in the manner provided by ordinance; provided, that in no case shall the cost of such sprinkling, oiling or treating exceed fifteen cents per front foot per annum on any residence property, nor thirty cents per annum per front foot on any business property abutting upon any street, avenue, alley or public place. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7249)  Prior revision: 1929 § 7098
MO Rev Stat § 80.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 80 - Towns and Villages|Section 80.170 - Trustees — restraint of domestic animals.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   80.170. Trustees — restraint of domestic animals. — In addition to the power already possessed by towns and villages under section 80.090 to restrain domestic animals from running at large within their corporate limits, such towns and villages may, through their board of trustees, regulate or prohibit the running at large of cattle, hogs, horses, sheep, goats, mules, asses and other domestic animals, and cause such as may be running at large to be impounded and sold in such manner and time as may be provided by ordinance; such trustees may provide fees for restraining and impounding such animals to be paid by the owners and may also provide penalties for the owners who allow or permit such animals to run at large. The said trustees may also provide for the erection of all needful pens, pounds and buildings for the use of such town or village, within or without the limits thereof, and appoint and compensate keepers thereof and establish and enforce rules governing the same. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7250)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7099; 1919 § 8548
MO Rev Stat § 80.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 80 - Towns and Villages|Section 80.180 - Trustees — powers as to sidewalks.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   80.180. Trustees — powers as to sidewalks. — Such board of trustees of any incorporated town or village in this state shall have power, by ordinance, to cause the owner or owners of any property or lot adjacent to any street or alley in said town or village to build, pave, construct, improve or repair any sidewalk along the side of said property or lot in such town or village. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7255)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7104; 1919 § 8553; 1909 § 9441
MO Rev Stat § 80.190 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 80 - Towns and Villages|Section 80.190 - Trustees — repair of sidewalks, procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   80.190. Trustees — repair of sidewalks, procedure. — Whenever the board of trustees of any town or village shall determine to have any sidewalk built or repaired, as contemplated by section 80.180, the said board of trustees shall cause at least ten days' notice, in writing, to be served on the owner or owners of any such property or lot in said town or village, which said notice shall require such owner or owners of such property or lot to begin to build, repair and complete the building and repairing of any such sidewalk in reasonable time thereafter; which said notice shall contain a description of each property or lot as aforesaid, and a general description of the character of such sidewalk, giving the length and breadth of such sidewalk and the material of which all or any part thereof shall be composed; and if, at the expiration of fifteen days after the service of said notice, if in writing, or if by publication, at the end of four weeks after said publication, said owner or owners as aforesaid shall not in good faith have commenced to build and repair any such sidewalk as aforesaid, and complete the same in reasonable time thereafter in the judgment of the board of trustees, said board of trustees shall cause such sidewalk to be built or repaired at the expense of such town or village, the cost and expense of which shall constitute a lien on the property or lot along which said sidewalk may be built or repaired as aforesaid, and the said town or village may enforce the said lien against such property or lot in any court of competent jurisdiction; and in such cases a certified copy of any special tax bill for such work, approved by the board of trustees, shall in all cases be prima facie evidence that the work therein stated was done along the property therein mentioned and the amount thereof as stated therein is due and correct and the provisions of the law and ordinances have been carried out; provided, the owner or owners of said property or lot may pay into the treasury of said town or village the cost and expense of building or repairing said sidewalk by the town or village, at any time before the sale of said property or lot for such cost and expense. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7256)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7105; 1919 § 8554; 1909 § 9442