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MO Rev Stat § 78.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification|Section 78.180 - Itemized statement of receipts and expenses — accounts to be examined, how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   78.180. Itemized statement of receipts and expenses — accounts to be examined, how. — The council shall each month in cities having a population of ten thousand and less than thirty thousand, and every three months in cities having a population of three thousand and less than ten thousand, print in pamphlet form a detailed itemized statement of all receipts and expenses of the city and a summary of its proceedings during the preceding month or preceding three months, according to the population of such city, and furnish printed copies thereof to the city library, the daily and weekly newspapers of the city and to persons who shall apply therefor at the office of the city clerk. At the end of each year the council shall cause a full and complete examination of all the books and accounts of the city to be made by competent accountants and shall publish the result of such examination in the manner above provided for publication of statements of monthly or quarterly expenditures. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7071, A.L. 1983 H.B. 696)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6921; 1919 § 8388
MO Rev Stat § 78.190 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification|Section 78.190 - Ordinances to be on file with city clerk for inspection — franchises — extensions or renewal, to be voted on.

Effective - 28 Aug 1987   78.190. Ordinances to be on file with city clerk for inspection — franchises — extensions or renewal, to be voted on. — Every ordinance or resolution appropriating money or ordering any street improvement or sewer, or making or authorizing the making of any contract or granting any franchise or right to occupy or use the streets, highways, bridges or public places in the city for any purpose shall be complete in the form in which it is finally passed and shall remain on file with the city clerk for public inspection at least one week before the final passage or adoption thereof. No franchise or right to occupy or use the streets, highways, bridges, or public places in any city shall be granted, renewed or extended except by ordinances, and every initial franchise or grant for interurban or street railways, gas, or waterworks, electric light or power plants, telegraph or telephone systems or other public service utilities within said city, must be authorized or approved by a majority of the voters voting thereon. Any extension or renewal shall be subject to voter approval of the majority of the voters voting on the question, pursuant to the provisions of section 88.251. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7067, A.L. 1953 p. 268, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1987 S.B. 412)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6917; 1919 § 8384
MO Rev Stat § 78.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification|Section 78.200 - Ordinance by initiative — procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   78.200. Ordinance by initiative — procedure. — Any proposed ordinance may be submitted to the council by petition signed by voters of the city equal in number to the percentage hereafter required. The signatures, verification, authentication, inspection, certification, amendment and submission of such petition shall be the same as provided for petitions under sections 78.260 to 78.290. If the petition accompanying the proposed ordinance be signed by voters equal in number to twenty-five percent of the votes cast for all candidates for mayor at the last preceding election, and contains a request that the said ordinance be submitted to a vote of the people if not passed by the council, such council shall either:  (1) Pass said ordinance without alteration within twenty days after attachment of the clerk's certificate to the accompanying petition; or  (2) Forthwith after the clerk shall attach to the petition accompanying such ordinance his certificate of sufficiency, the council shall submit the question without alteration to the vote of the voters. But if the petition is signed by not less than ten and less than twenty-five percent of the voters, as above defined, then the council shall within twenty days pass said ordinance without change, or submit the same at the next municipal election. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7075, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6925; 1919 § 8392
MO Rev Stat § 78.210 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification|Section 78.210 - Ballots — such ordinance may be repealed, how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   78.210. Ballots — such ordinance may be repealed, how. — 1. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form: Shall the following ordinance be (adopted) (repealed)? (Set out ordinance)  2. If a majority of the voters voting on the proposed ordinance shall vote in favor thereof, such ordinance shall thereupon become a valid and binding ordinance of the city; and any ordinance proposed by petition, or which shall be adopted by a vote of the people, cannot be repealed or amended except by a vote of the people. Any number of proposed ordinances may be voted upon at the same election, in accordance with the provisions of this section. The council may submit a proposition for the repeal of any such ordinance or for amendments thereto, to be voted upon at any municipal election; and should such proposition so submitted receive a majority of the votes cast thereon, such ordinance shall thereby be repealed or amended accordingly. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7075, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6925; 1919 § 8392
MO Rev Stat § 78.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification|Section 78.220 - Proposed ordinance — effective, when — referendum.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   78.220. Proposed ordinance — effective, when — referendum. — No ordinance passed by the council, except when otherwise required by the general laws of the state, or by the provisions of sections 78.010 to 78.420, except an ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, which contains a statement of its urgency and is passed by a two-thirds vote of the council shall go into effect before ten days from the time of its final passage; and if during said ten days a petition signed by the voters of the city equal in number to at least twenty-five percent of the entire vote cast for all candidates for mayor at the last preceding municipal election at which a mayor was elected, protesting against the passage of such ordinance be presented to the council, the same shall thereupon be suspended from going into operation; and it shall be the duty of the council to reconsider such ordinance, and if the same is not entirely repealed, the council shall submit the ordinance as is provided by subdivision (2) of section 78.200, to the vote of the voters. Such ordinance shall not go into effect or become operative unless a majority of the voters voting on the same shall vote in favor thereof. Said petition shall be in all respects in accordance with the provisions of said sections 78.260 to 78.290 except as to the percentage of signers, and be examined and certified to by the clerk in all respects as therein provided. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7076, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6926; 1919 § 8393  (1969) A comprehensive zoning ordinance is subject to referendum; section 89.010 is not a preemption by the state in the field of zoning and does not operate as an exclusion of this section. State ex rel. Wahlmann v. Reim (Mo. en banc), 445 S.W.2d 336.
MO Rev Stat § 78.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification|Section 78.230 - Organization may be abandoned — charter may be resumed — procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   78.230. Organization may be abandoned — charter may be resumed — procedure. — Any city which shall have operated for more than six years under the provisions of sections 78.010 to 78.420 may abandon such organization hereunder, and accept the provisions of the general law of the state then applicable to the cities of its population, or if now organized under special charter, may resume said special charter by proceeding as follows: Upon the petition of not less than ten percent of the voters casting votes for governor in the last preceding general election of such city the following question shall be submitted: Shall the city of (name of city) abandon its organization under sections 78.010 to 78.420, and become a city under the general law governing cities of like population, or if now organized under special charter shall resume said special charter? If a majority of votes cast on the question be in favor of such question, the officers elected at the next election shall be those then prescribed by the general law of the state for cities of like population, and upon the qualification of such officers such city shall become a city under such general law of the state; but such change shall not in any manner or degree affect the property, right or liabilities of any nature of such city, but shall merely extend to such change in its form of government. The sufficiency of such petition shall be determined, the election ordered and conducted, and the results declared generally as provided by sections 78.260 to 78.290, insofar as the provisions thereof are applicable. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7077, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, S.B. 594)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6927; 1919 § 8394
MO Rev Stat § 78.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification|Section 78.240 - Contents of petition.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   78.240. Contents of petition. — Petitions provided for in sections 78.010 to 78.420 shall be signed by none but voters of the city. Each petition shall contain, in addition to the names of the petitioners, the street and house number in which the petitioner resides, his age and length of residence in the city. It shall be accompanied by an affidavit of one or more voters of the city stating that the signers thereof were at the time of signing voters of said city and the number of signers at the time the affidavit was made. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7078, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6928; 1919 § 8395
MO Rev Stat § 78.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification|Section 78.250 - Council may create and discontinue offices — may change compensation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   78.250. Council may create and discontinue offices — may change compensation. — The council shall have power from time to time to create, fill and discontinue offices and employments other than herein prescribed according to their judgment of the needs of the city; and may by majority vote of all the members remove any such officer or employee, except as otherwise provided for in sections 78.010 to 78.420; and may by resolution or otherwise prescribe, limit or change the compensation of such officers or employees. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7065)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6915; 1919 § 8382
MO Rev Stat § 78.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification|Section 78.260 - Officer may be removed — procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1998   78.260. Officer may be removed — procedure. — The holder of any elective office may be removed at any time by the voters qualified to vote for a successor of such incumbent. The procedure to effect the removal of an incumbent of an elective office shall be as follows: a petition signed by voters entitled to vote for a successor to the incumbent sought to be removed, equal in number to at least twenty-five percent of the total number of registered voters in such city entitled to vote for a successor to the incumbent sought to be removed, demanding an election of a successor of the person sought to be removed shall be filed with the city clerk which petition shall contain a general statement of the grounds for which the removal is sought. The signatures to the petition need not all be appended to one paper, but each signer shall add to his or her signature his or her place of residence, giving the street and number. One of the signers of each such paper shall make oath before an officer competent to administer oaths that the statements therein made are true as he or she believes and that each signature to the paper appended is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7074, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1807)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6924; 1919 § 8391
MO Rev Stat § 78.270 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification|Section 78.270 - Clerk to ascertain sufficiency of petition — council to order election.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   78.270. Clerk to ascertain sufficiency of petition — council to order election. — Within ten days from the date of filing such petition the city clerk shall examine and from the voters' register ascertain whether or not said petition is signed by the requisite number of voters, and if necessary, the council shall allow him extra help for the purpose; and he shall attach to said petition his certificate, showing the result of said examination. If by the clerk's certificate the petition is shown to be insufficient, it may be amended within ten days from the date of said certificate. The clerk shall, within ten days after such amendment, make like examination of the amended petition, and if his certificate shall show the same to be insufficient, it shall be returned to the person filing the same, without prejudice, however, to the filing of a new petition to the same effect. If the petition shall be deemed to be sufficient, the clerk shall submit the same to the council without delay. If the petition shall be found to be sufficient, the council shall order the question to be submitted to the voters of the city. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7074, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6924; 1919 § 8391
MO Rev Stat § 78.280 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification|Section 78.280 - Election — form of ballot.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   78.280. Election — form of ballot. — 1. Nominations hereunder shall be made without the intervention of a primary election by filing with the clerk a statement of candidacy accompanied by a petition signed by voters of the city, equal in number to at least ten percent of the entire vote for all candidates for the office of mayor at the last preceding municipal election.  2. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:   Election for the balance or the unexpired term of ______ as ______ for ______.   Vote for one only.   Names of candidates.   ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7074, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6924; 1919 § 8391
MO Rev Stat § 78.290 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification|Section 78.290 - Incumbent may be candidate.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   78.290. Incumbent may be candidate. — The successor of any officer so removed shall hold office during the unexpired term of his predecessor. Any person sought to be removed may be a candidate to succeed himself, and unless he requests otherwise in writing, the clerk shall place his name on the official ballot without nomination. In any such removal election the candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. At such election if some other person than the incumbent receives the highest number of votes, the incumbent shall thereupon be deemed removed from the office upon qualification of his successor. In case the party who receives the highest number of votes should fail to qualify within ten days after receiving notification of election, the office shall be deemed vacant. If the incumbent receives the highest number of votes he shall continue in office. The same method of removal shall be cumulative and additional to the methods heretofore provided by law. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7074)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6924; 1919 § 8391
MO Rev Stat § 78.300 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification|Section 78.300 - Qualifications of officers and employees — unlawful promises — statement of campaign expenses.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   78.300. Qualifications of officers and employees — unlawful promises — statement of campaign expenses. — All officers and employees in any such city shall be elected or appointed with reference to their qualifications and fitness and for the good of the public service, and without reference to their political faith or party affiliations. It shall be unlawful for any candidate for office or any officer in any such city directly or indirectly to give or promise any person or persons any office, position, employment, benefit, or any thing of value, for the purpose of influencing or obtaining the political support, aid or vote of any person or persons. Every elective officer in any such city shall, within thirty days after qualifying, file with the city clerk, and publish at least once in a daily newspaper of general circulation his sworn statement of all his election and campaign expenses, and by whom such funds were contributed. Any violations of the provisions of this section shall be a misdemeanor and be ground for removal from office. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7070)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6920; 1919 § 8387
MO Rev Stat § 78.310 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification|Section 78.310 - Civil service commissioners — appointment.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   78.310. Civil service commissioners — appointment. — In cities having a population of twenty thousand and less than thirty thousand the council shall, and in cities having a population of ten thousand and less than twenty thousand the council may immediately after organizing, by ordinance appoint two civil service commissioners, who shall hold office, one until the first Tuesday in April of the second year after his appointment, and one until the first Tuesday in April of the fourth year after his appointment; provided, however, that in all cases in which no civil commissioners are appointed by the council the council shall have the same powers and duties devolving upon such commissioners as provided for in sections 78.010 to 78.420. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7069)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6919; 1919 § 8386
MO Rev Stat § 78.320 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification|Section 78.320 - Tenure — qualifications.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   78.320. Tenure — qualifications. — In cities wherein civil service commissioners have been appointed under the provisions of sections 78.010 to 78.420, each succeeding council shall as soon as practicable after organizing appoint one commissioner for four years who shall take the place of the commissioner whose term of office expires. The chairman of the commission for each biennial period shall be the member whose term first expires. No person while on the said commission shall hold or be a candidate for any office of public trust. Two members shall constitute a quorum to transact business. The commissioners must be citizens of Missouri and residents of the city for more than three years next preceding their appointment. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7069)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6919; 1919 § 8386
MO Rev Stat § 78.330 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification|Section 78.330 - Removal — council to supply necessary equipment.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   78.330. Removal — council to supply necessary equipment. — The council may remove any of said commissioners during their term of office for cause and shall fill any vacancy that may occur in said commission for the unexpired term. The city council shall provide suitable rooms in which the said civil service commission may hold its meetings. They shall have a clerk who shall keep a record of all its meetings, such city to supply the said commission with all the necessary equipment to properly attend to such business. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7069)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6919; 1919 § 8386
MO Rev Stat § 78.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification|Section 78.340 - Oath.

Effective - 28 Aug 2013   78.340. Oath. — 1. Before entering upon the duties of their office each of said commissioners shall take and subscribe an oath, which shall be filed and kept in the office of the city clerk, to support the Constitution of the state of Missouri and to obey the laws and aim to secure and maintain an honest and efficient force free from partisan distinction or control, and to perform the duties of his office to the best of his ability.  2. Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the commissioners to remove or discharge any chief, as that term is defined in section 106.273. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7069, A.L. 2013 H.B. 307)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6919; 1919 § 8386
MO Rev Stat § 78.350 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification|Section 78.350 - Examination of applicants.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   78.350. Examination of applicants. — Said commission shall, on the first Tuesdays in April and October of each year, or oftener if it shall be deemed necessary, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the council, hold examinations for the purpose of determining the qualifications of applicants for positions, which examination shall be practical and shall fairly test the fitness of persons examined to discharge the duties of the position to which they seek to be appointed. Said commission shall as soon as possible after such examination certify to the council double the number of persons necessary to fill vacancies, who according to its records have the highest standing for the positions they seek to fill, and all vacancies which occur that come under the civil service prior to the date of the next regular examination shall be filled from said list so certified; provided, however, that should the list become exhausted, then the council or the head of the proper department may temporarily fill a vacancy, but not to exceed thirty days. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7069)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6919; 1919 § 8386