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MO Rev Stat § 81.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 81 - Special Charter Cities and Towns|Section 81.140 - Election and appointment of certain officers — tenure (cities of 10,000 to 30,000).

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   81.140. Election and appointment of certain officers — tenure (cities of 10,000 to 30,000). — At municipal elections in all cities and towns under special charters which have not less than ten thousand inhabitants nor more than thirty thousand inhabitants there shall be elected a mayor, a police judge or recorder, an attorney, a marshal or chief of police, and such other officers as the charter and ordinances of such city or town may provide, who shall hold their respective offices for a term of two years, provided, however, any such city may provide by ordinance that marshal, chief of police and attorney may be appointed by the mayor, subject to the approval of the city council, and such ordinance may further provide that all or any of such officers when so appointed and any of the other appointive officers of any such city, except the members of the board of public works, shall hold office for an indefinite term and during the pleasure of the mayor and city council of such cities. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7470, A.L. 1953 p. 297, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971 merged with H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7317; 1919 § 8732; 1909 § 9611  Effective 8-13-78 (H.B. 971); 1-02-79 (H.B. 1634)
MO Rev Stat § 81.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 81 - Special Charter Cities and Towns|Section 81.150 - Election of aldermen — tenure (cities of 10,000 to 30,000).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   81.150. Election of aldermen — tenure (cities of 10,000 to 30,000). — In all cities and towns under special charter which have not less than ten thousand inhabitants and not more than thirty thousand inhabitants, there shall be elected two aldermen from each ward, who shall hold office for a term of four years; provided, that at the next general election for municipal officers to be held in any such city or town there shall be elected one alderman from each ward, who shall serve for a term of four years, and in the year next following such election, at the time of holding the general election for municipal officers in such city or town, there shall be elected one alderman from each ward, who shall serve for a term of one year, after which election there shall be elected, at each succeeding general election for municipal officers in such city or town, one alderman from each ward, who shall serve for a term of four years. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7471)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7318; 1919 § 8733; 1909 § 9612
MO Rev Stat § 81.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 81 - Special Charter Cities and Towns|Section 81.160 - Enactment of ordinances — additional power (cities of 10,000 to 30,000).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   81.160. Enactment of ordinances — additional power (cities of 10,000 to 30,000). — All cities within this state having more than ten thousand and less than thirty thousand inhabitants, and having a special charter, in their corporate capacity are authorized and empowered to enact ordinances for the following purposes, in addition to the powers now conferred upon such cities by law. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7480)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7327; 1919 § 8741
MO Rev Stat § 81.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 81 - Special Charter Cities and Towns|Section 81.170 - Condemnation of private property (cities of 10,000 to 30,000).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   81.170. Condemnation of private property (cities of 10,000 to 30,000). — Any such city may condemn private property for public use for such purposes as they are now by law authorized to condemn the same and as provided by chapter 88. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7481)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7328; 1919 § 8742
MO Rev Stat § 81.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 81 - Special Charter Cities and Towns|Section 81.180 - Acquired property — management, regulation (cities of 10,000 to 30,000).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   81.180. Acquired property — management, regulation (cities of 10,000 to 30,000). — Any such city may procure by purchase, condemnation, gift or otherwise, within the city or beyond the limits thereof, property for the use of the city in and for the performance of its functions, and may manage and regulate the uses thereof and may sell, lease or otherwise dispose of the same. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7482)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7329; 1919 § 8743
MO Rev Stat § 81.190 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 81 - Special Charter Cities and Towns|Section 81.190 - Acquisition of property — regulation of business (cities of 10,000 to 30,000).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   81.190. Acquisition of property — regulation of business (cities of 10,000 to 30,000). — Any such city may acquire, by condemnation, purchase, gift, lease or otherwise, property, real and personal, within such city or beyond the limits thereof, and establish, construct, maintain, add to, equip, improve, own, control, regulate and operate libraries, art galleries, museums, parks, places of recreation, auditoriums, convention halls, refrigerating plants, fountains, bathing places, watering troughs, public toilets, markets, market houses, abattoirs, medical dispensaries, laboratories, infirmaries, hospitals, poorhouses, charitable institutions, employment agencies, pawnshops, jails, city halls, engine houses, houses of correction, reform schools, workhouses and work farms, detention homes, morgues, cemeteries, crematories, garbage collection and garbage disposal and reduction plants and equipments, street cleaning and sprinkling plants and equipment, gas plants, telephone systems, telegraph systems, electric light systems, electric or other heat systems, electric or other power systems, electric or other railways, ferries and transportation systems of any kind; waterworks, quarries, wharves, docks, waterways, canals, streets, avenues, alleys, lanes and all other public buildings, places, works, equipment and institutions, and all other public utilities, not herein enumerated and everything required therefor; and to sell, convey and encumber the same, to sell water, gas, electric current and all products of any utilities operated by the city; and to lease to corporations or to individuals when authorized by a vote of a two-thirds majority of the voters of the city, voting at any general city election, for the purpose of maintenance and operation and for a term not exceeding ten years, any public utility owned by the city, but no sale of any utility shall be made, unless the same shall be authorized by a two-thirds vote of the voters of said city at a general city election thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7483)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7330; 1919 § 8744  (1993) Where city's charter claimed any powers which general assembly had authority to confer, including power of eminent domain within or without its corporate boundaries, city had authority to condemn land outside its territorial municipal boundaries. City of Cape Girardeau v. Jett, 851 S.W.2d 114 (Mo. App. E.D.)
MO Rev Stat § 81.195 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 81 - Special Charter Cities and Towns|Section 81.195 - Officers, terms (cities of 30,000 to 250,000 in certain counties).

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   81.195. Officers, terms (cities of 30,000 to 250,000 in certain counties). — In all cities and towns under special charter, located in counties of the first class under a charter form of government, which have attained a population of more than thirty thousand inhabitants but less than two hundred fifty thousand inhabitants subsequent to the granting of their special charter, and every four years thereafter, there shall be elected a mayor, police judge and two councilmen from each ward, who shall hold their respective offices for a term of four years and until their successors are elected and qualified. ­­-------- (L. 1961 p. 202, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971 and 1634)  Effective 8-13-78 (H.B. 971); 1-02-79 (H.B. 1634)
MO Rev Stat § 81.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 81 - Special Charter Cities and Towns|Section 81.200 - Extension of limits (cities of 20,000 and less than 250,000).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   81.200. Extension of limits (cities of 20,000 and less than 250,000). — Any city now containing, or which may hereafter contain, more than twenty thousand and less than two hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, organized under special or local laws, may extend its limits by an ordinance specifying with accuracy the new line or lines to which it is proposed to extend such limits. All courts of this state shall take judicial notice of the limits of said city when thus extended, and of all the steps in the proceedings leading thereto. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7513)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7360; 1919 § 8774; 1909 § 9631
MO Rev Stat § 81.210 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 81 - Special Charter Cities and Towns|Section 81.210 - Changes of wards by ordinance (cities of 20,000 and less than 250,000).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   81.210. Changes of wards by ordinance (cities of 20,000 and less than 250,000). — Whenever the corporate limits of any city now coming or which may hereafter come under the operation of section 81.200 of this chapter shall hereafter be altered or extended, and whenever the population of any such city, or of any ward or wards thereof, has been or may be so increased or diminished as to render, in the opinion of the common council, a division or redistricting of the corporation into wards, or a change in the boundary of any ward or wards necessary, the same may be done by ordinance at some regular meeting of the common council. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7515)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7362; 1919 § 8776; 1909 § 9632
MO Rev Stat § 81.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 81 - Special Charter Cities and Towns|Section 81.220 - Notice of proposed change — when to take effect (cities of 20,000 and less than 250,000).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   81.220. Notice of proposed change — when to take effect (cities of 20,000 and less than 250,000). — Upon any ordinance for such purpose being introduced into the common council, the latter shall, before the passage thereof, by resolution, require the city clerk to publish a copy of the ordinance in at least one daily newspaper published in the city, to be designated in the resolution, for at least three weeks within the four weeks next after the passage of said resolution. After such publication, proof thereof shall be made and filed with the city clerk, and, if the common council shall be satisfied that such publication has been made, it shall, by vote, so find, and the city clerk shall make a record of such finding in the book for record of the current proceedings of the common council, which record shall be conclusive evidence of the truth of the facts so found. If such ordinance be passed by the common council at the first or second regular meeting after such publication and finding, and not later, and duly approved by the mayor, the same shall thereafter be in force until repealed or altered. Any such ordinance shall be subject to amendment before such publication, but not after. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7516)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7363; 1919 § 8777; 1909 § 9633
MO Rev Stat § 81.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 81 - Special Charter Cities and Towns|Section 81.230 - Disposition of acquired territory — qualified voters (cities of 20,000 and less than 250,000).

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   81.230. Disposition of acquired territory — qualified voters (cities of 20,000 and less than 250,000). — When territory is annexed to any city pursuant to section 81.200, the common council shall, by ordinance, organize the same into a new ward or wards, or attach the same to some existing ward or wards long enough before the next ensuing municipal election to enable voters in such annexed territory to register, and all other proper steps to be taken according to law, so that the voters of such annexed territory may have full opportunity to register and vote at such election. Actual residents of any territory at the time of annexation thereof to any city as provided in section 81.200 shall, if otherwise qualified, be voters of the city, and be eligible to any office therein at the next municipal election following such annexation. In case of redistricting or division of the city into wards, creation of any new ward or wards, or change of boundary in any ward or wards, every voter residing in any ward at any municipal election next thereafter, duly registered, shall be a voter of such ward, and nothing in this chapter contained shall be so construed as to prevent any voter from voting or being eligible to any office by reason merely of such redistricting or division or creation of any new ward or wards, or change in the boundary of any ward or wards. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7517, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7364; 1919 § 8778; 1909 § 9634
MO Rev Stat § 81.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 81 - Special Charter Cities and Towns|Section 81.240 - Change not to be made, when (cities of 20,000 and less than 250,000).

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   81.240. Change not to be made, when (cities of 20,000 and less than 250,000). — Territory shall not be annexed to any such city within four months next preceding any municipal election, nor shall there be a redistricting or division of the city into wards, or change of boundaries of any ward or wards, or creation of any new ward or wards, within two months next preceding any municipal election. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7518, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7365; 1919 § 8779; 1909 § 9635
MO Rev Stat § 81.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 81 - Special Charter Cities and Towns|Section 81.250 - Numbering wards — territory (cities of 20,000 and less than 250,000).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   81.250. Numbering wards — territory (cities of 20,000 and less than 250,000). — All wards which may hereafter be established shall be composed of adjacent and compact territory, and the several wards at the time of redistricting shall contain as nearly an equal number of inhabitants as may be practicable. The wards shall be numbered consecutively from one up to the highest number thus established. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7519)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7366; 1919 § 8780; 1909 § 9636
MO Rev Stat § 81.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 81 - Special Charter Cities and Towns|Section 81.260 - Election of aldermen (cities of 20,000 and less than 250,000).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   81.260. Election of aldermen (cities of 20,000 and less than 250,000). — Whenever any change in the number of wards or alteration in the boundaries of any ward shall be made, or new wards shall be established, there shall be no election of aldermen for such wards until the general election for corporation officers. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7520)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7367; 1919 § 8781; 1909 § 9637
MO Rev Stat § 81.270 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 81 - Special Charter Cities and Towns|Section 81.270 - Change in wards not to affect aldermen (cities of 20,000 and less than 250,000).

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   81.270. Change in wards not to affect aldermen (cities of 20,000 and less than 250,000). — Nothing in sections 81.200 to 81.260 contained shall be construed to limit or abridge the term of office which any alderman shall be elected to fill, but every alderman shall be deemed and taken to be for the residue of the term for which he may have been elected an alderman of that ward in which his actual residence and place of abode may be at the time of any division of the city into wards, creation of any new ward or wards, or change in the boundaries of any ward or wards. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7521)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7368; 1919 § 8782; 1909 § 9638
MO Rev Stat § 81.280 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 81 - Special Charter Cities and Towns|Section 81.280 - Elective officers — terms — appointment — offices combined — section to be effective after vote (cities of 7,500 to 100,000 in certain counties).

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   81.280. Elective officers — terms — appointment — offices combined — section to be effective after vote (cities of 7,500 to 100,000 in certain counties). — 1. At municipal elections in all cities and towns under special legislative charters, located in a county containing a city, or a part of a city, of over four hundred thousand population, which have attained a population of seven thousand five hundred inhabitants, and not more than one hundred thousand there shall be elected one alderman from each ward for a four-year term; at municipal elections there shall be elected a mayor for a four-year term; and there shall be elected an attorney, a treasurer, who shall be, by virtue of his office, collector of revenue of the city, an auditor, a municipal judge, and a clerk, each of whom shall hold his respective office for a term of two years, and their successors shall be elected accordingly, except that any such city may provide by ordinance that the attorney, treasurer, municipal judge, and clerk be appointed by the mayor, subject to the approval of the city council, and the ordinance may further provide that all or any of such officers when so appointed and any of the appointive officers of any such city, except the members of any board created by statute, shall hold office for an indefinite term and at the pleasure of the mayor and city council. In addition to the above officers the city council shall provide by ordinance for the appointment of an assessor and a chief of police, whose duties shall be prescribed by ordinance.  2. The city council may by ordinance combine the offices of clerk and treasurer. When so combined, this office may be filled by election at municipal elections or may be made appointive by ordinance under the same provisions applying to the offices separately.  3. The provisions of this section shall apply only after a majority of the voters voting thereon at a municipal election approve the effectiveness of this section for such city or town. The question shall be placed upon the ballot by a petition signed by a number of voters of the city or town equal to five percent of the total number of votes cast for mayor at the last election, or by a resolution of the board of aldermen of the city or town. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 194 § 1, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971 merged with H.B. 1634)  Effective 8-13-78 (H.B. 971); 1-02-79 (H.B. 1634)
MO Rev Stat § 82.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 82 - Constitutional Charter Cities (Home Rule)|Section 82.010 - Certain cities declared constitutional charter cities.

Effective - 28 Aug 1953   82.010. Certain cities declared constitutional charter cities. — 1. Any city of this state framing and adopting a charter for its own government, whether under the provisions of Section 19, Article VI of the Constitution of 1945, or under the provisions of Section 16 or Section 20, Article IX of the Constitution of 1875, is hereby defined and declared to be a constitutional charter city.  2. All laws now existing or which may hereafter be enacted relating or making reference to cities under constitutional charter or constitutional charter cities, shall be deemed to and shall apply and be valid only in relation to cities of this state defined and declared in this section to be cities under constitutional charter. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 1289 § 6215a, A.L. 1953 p. 268)
MO Rev Stat § 82.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 82 - Constitutional Charter Cities (Home Rule)|Section 82.020 - Constitutional charter, certain cities and towns may adopt or amend, procedure.

Effective - 25 Jun 2008   82.020. Constitutional charter, certain cities and towns may adopt or amend, procedure. — Any city or town under special charter, as defined in section 81.010, and any other city in this state which now has or which may hereafter have a population of more than five thousand inhabitants according to the last preceding federal decennial census may frame and adopt or amend a charter for its own government by complying with the provisions of Sections 19 and 20 of Article VI of the Constitution of this state, or any amendments thereof. ­­-------- (L. 1945 p. 1309 § 1, A.L. 1980 H.B. 991, A.L. 2008 H.B. 1804)  Effective 6-25-08
MO Rev Stat § 82.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 82 - Constitutional Charter Cities (Home Rule)|Section 82.040 - Officers, tenure upon adoption of charter — vacancy in office, how filled.

Effective - 28 Aug 1990   82.040. Officers, tenure upon adoption of charter — vacancy in office, how filled. — All persons in office in such city at the time of the ratification of such charter shall hold their offices until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified, as may be provided in such charter, but no longer. At any time there is a vacancy in any office in a city not within a county, where a person is to be appointed by the governor to fill such vacancy, the deputy officer for that particular office shall serve in the interim until such appointment is made. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7592, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1716)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7449; 1919 § 8860; 1909 § 9709
MO Rev Stat § 82.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 82 - Constitutional Charter Cities (Home Rule)|Section 82.050 - Consistent ordinances to remain in force.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   82.050. Consistent ordinances to remain in force. — All ordinances, regulations and resolutions in force at the time such charter takes effect, and not inconsistent with the provisions thereof, shall remain and be in force until altered, modified or repealed by the lawmaking authorities of such city. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7595)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7452; 1919 § 8863; 1909 § 9712
MO Rev Stat § 82.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 82 - Constitutional Charter Cities (Home Rule)|Section 82.060 - Adoption not to affect existing rights.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   82.060. Adoption not to affect existing rights. — Such charter, in superseding any previous charter and amendments thereof, shall not affect any right, lien or liability accrued, established or subsisting previous to the time when such charter takes effect, nor affect any action or proceeding pending when such charter takes effect; but such right, lien or liability shall be enforced, and such action or proceeding shall be carried on, in all respects, as if such charter had not taken effect; nor shall such charter be in any wise so construed as to affect any right or liability acquired or accrued under the previous charter and amendments superseded thereby, by or on the part of any city, or any person or body corporate. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7593)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7450; 1919 § 8861; 1909 § 9710