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MO Rev Stat § 79.410 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.410 - Powers — regulations governing.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   79.410. Powers — regulations governing. — The board of aldermen may prohibit and prevent all encroachments into and upon sidewalks, streets, avenues, alleys and other public places of the city, and may provide for the removal of obstructions from the sidewalks, curbstones, gutters and crosswalks, at the expense of the owners or occupants of the ground fronting thereon, or at the expense of the person causing the same; they may also regulate the planting of shade trees, erecting of awnings, hitching posts, lamp posts, awning posts, telephone, telegraph and electric light poles, and making of excavations through and under the sidewalks or in any public street, avenue, alley or other public place within the city. They may prevent and punish for all horseracing, or other racing, fast riding or driving or training in the streets, highways, avenues, alleys, or over bridges or through tunnels in the city, and all games, practices or amusements therein likely to result in damage to any person or property, and to regulate, prevent and punish for the riding, driving, leading, standing, hitching or passing of horses, mules, oxen or other teams or stock or animals or any vehicle over or upon or across or along any sidewalk, street, avenue or alley of the city. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7172)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7022; 1919 § 8473; 1909 § 9375  (1973) This section does not authorize city to prohibit all overhead transmission or distribution lines whether on public or private property. Union Electric Co. v. City of Crestwood (Mo.), 499 S.W.2d 480.
MO Rev Stat § 79.430 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.430 - Board may provide public cemeteries and regulate same.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   79.430. Board may provide public cemeteries and regulate same. — The board of aldermen shall have power to purchase, receive, and to hold real estate, as herein mentioned, for public cemeteries, either within or without the city, within a distance of three miles thereof, and the city and its officers shall have jurisdiction over the said cemeteries wherever located; provided, that no such cemetery shall exceed eighty acres in one body. The board of aldermen shall provide for the survey, platting, grading, fencing, ornamenting and improving of all the cemetery ground, and the avenues leading thereto, owned by the city, and may construct walks and protect ornamental trees, and provide for paying the expenses therefor. The board of aldermen may make rules and pass ordinances imposing penalties and fines, regulating, protecting and governing city cemeteries, the owners of lots therein, visitors thereto, and punish trespassers therein, and the officers of such city shall have as full jurisdiction and power in the enforcing of such rules and ordinances as though they related to the city itself. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7190)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7040; 1919 § 8491; 1909 § 9393
MO Rev Stat § 79.440 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.440 - Cemetery lots, how sold.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   79.440. Cemetery lots, how sold. — The cemetery lots shall be conveyed by certificates, signed by the mayor, countersigned by the clerk, under the seal of the city, specifying that the purchaser to whom the same is issued is the owner of the lot described therein by numbers, as laid down upon the official map or plat of such cemetery made by the city, for the purpose of interment, and such certificate shall vest in the purchaser, his or her heirs or assigns, a right in fee simple to such lots, for the sole purpose of interment, under the regulations of the board of aldermen. Such certificates shall be entitled to be recorded in the office of recorder of deeds of the proper county without further acknowledgment, and such description of lots shall be deemed and recognized as sufficient description thereof. The board of aldermen may limit the number of lots owned by the same person at the same time, and may prescribe rules for enclosing, adorning and erecting monuments, tombstones and ornaments on cemetery lots, and prohibit any improper adornment thereof; but no religious test shall be made to the ownership of the lots, or the burials had therein, or for the ornamentation of graves or lots. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7191)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7041; 1919 § 8492; 1909 § 9394
MO Rev Stat § 79.450 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.450 - Certain activities to be prohibited and suppressed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1971   79.450. Certain activities to be prohibited and suppressed. — 1. The board of aldermen shall enact ordinances to prohibit and suppress houses of prostitution and other disorderly houses and practices, including gambling and gambling houses, and all kinds of public indecencies, and may prohibit the selling or giving of intoxicating liquors to any minor or habitual drunkard.  2. The board of aldermen shall also enact ordinances to restrain and prohibit riots, noises, assaults and batteries, disturbances of the peace, disturbances of religious and other lawful assemblies, indecent shows, exhibitions or concerts in any street, house or place in the city, disorderly assemblies, and to regulate, restrain and prevent the discharge of firearms, and the keeping and discharge of rockets, powder, fireworks or other dangerous combustible materials in the streets or in limits of the city.  3. The board of aldermen may also regulate and control the construction of buildings, the construction and cleaning of fireplaces, chimneys, stoves and stovepipes, ovens, boilers, kettles, forges or any apparatus used in any building, manufactory or business which may be dangerous in causing or promoting fires, and may provide for the inspection of the same.  4. The board of aldermen may also provide by ordinance limits within which no building shall be constructed except of brick or stone or other incombustible materials, with fireproof roofs, and impose a penalty for the violation of such ordinance, and may cause buildings commenced, put up or removed into such limits in violation of such ordinance, to be removed or abated.  5. The board of aldermen may also purchase fire engines, hook and ladder outfits, hose and hose carts, buckets and all other apparatus useful in the extinguishing of fires, and organize fire companies and prescribe rules of duty for the government thereof, with such penalties for the violation thereof as they may deem proper, and not exceeding one hundred dollars and to make all necessary expenditures for the purchase of such fire apparatus and the payment of such fire companies.  6. The board of aldermen may enact or make all ordinances, rules and regulations necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.  7. The board of aldermen may enact or make all ordinances, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of the state, expedient for maintaining the peace, good government and welfare of the city and its trade and commerce. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7169, A.L. 1971 S.B. 299)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7019; 1919 § 8470; 1909 § 9372  (1979) The general police power of a municipality does not authorize a municipality to restrict or limit use of public property for public purposes. City of Kirkwood v. City of Sunset Hills (A.), 589 S.W.2d 31.
MO Rev Stat § 79.460 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.460 - Board may prohibit carrying concealed weapons.

Effective - 02 Jan 1979   79.460. Board may prohibit carrying concealed weapons. — The board of aldermen may adopt ordinances providing for the prohibition of and punishment for the carrying of concealed deadly weapons, and may also adopt ordinances providing for the prohibition of vagrancy and providing that upon conviction one adjudged guilty may be imprisoned, fined or set to work. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7177, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7027; 1919 § 8478; 1909 § 9380  Effective 1-02-79
MO Rev Stat § 79.470 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.470 - Board to set penalties, limitation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1971   79.470. Board to set penalties, limitation. — For all ordinance violations the board of aldermen may impose penalties not exceeding a fine of five hundred dollars and costs, or ninety days' imprisonment, or both the fine and imprisonment. Where the city and state have a penalty for the same offense, the board shall set the same penalty by ordinance as is set by statute, except that imprisonments, when made under city ordinances, may be in the city prison or workhouse instead of the county jail. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7221, A.L. 1971 S.B. 299)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7071; 1919 § 8521; 1909 § 9422
MO Rev Stat § 79.480 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.480 - Notice of action shall be given — when — contents.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   79.480. Notice of action shall be given — when — contents. — No action shall be maintained against any city organized under the laws of this state as a city of the fourth class on account of any injuries growing out of any defect or unsafe condition of or on any bridge, boulevard, street, sidewalk or thoroughfare, in said city until notice shall first have been given in writing to the mayor of said city, within ninety days of the occurrence for which said damage is claimed, stating the place where, the time when such injury was received, and the character and circumstances of the injury, and that the person so injured will claim damages therefor from such city. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7241)
MO Rev Stat § 79.490 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.490 - Fourth class city disincorporated, how — election, notice.

Effective - 28 Aug 2016, 2 histories   79.490. Fourth class city disincorporated, how — election, notice. — 1. The county governing body of any county in which a city of the fourth class is located shall disincorporate such city as provided in this section.  2. The county governing body shall order an election upon the question of disincorporation of a fourth class city upon petition of twenty-five percent of the voters of the city.  3. The county governing body shall give notice of the election by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city or, if there is no such newspaper in the city, then in the newspaper in the county published nearest the city. The notice shall contain a copy of the petition and the names of the petitioners. No election on the question of disincorporation shall be held until the notice has been published for four weeks successively.  4. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:   Shall the city of ______ be dissolved?    5. Upon the affirmative vote of a majority of those persons voting on the question, the county governing body shall disincorporate the city. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7215, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1987 H.B. 160, A.L. 2016 S.B. 572) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7065; 1919 § 8515; 1909 § 9416
MO Rev Stat § 79.495 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.495 - Disincorporation without election allowed, when — diminishing city limits (certain fourth class cities).

Effective - 28 Aug 2007   79.495. Disincorporation without election allowed, when — diminishing city limits (certain fourth class cities). — 1. The county governing body of any county in which a city of the fourth class is located shall have the power to disincorporate such city upon petition of two-thirds of the voters of such city, without an election in such city, provided that the petition requests disincorporation without an election, and provided that the population of such city is less than one hundred.  2. Upon the application of any person or persons owning a tract of land containing five acres or more in a city of the fourth class with a population less than one hundred in any county, the governing body of such county may, in its discretion, diminish the limits of such city by excluding any such tract of land from said corporate limits without an election in such city; provided that such application shall be accompanied by a petition asking for such change without an election and signed by a majority of the registered voters in such city and to the extent there are no such registered voters available in such city, then such petition shall be signed by the parties owning a majority of the land area to be excluded from such city limits. Thereafter, such tract of land so excluded shall not be deemed or held to be any part of such city. ­­-------- (L. 1987 H.B. 160 § 1, A.L. 2007 S.B. 22)
MO Rev Stat § 79.500 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.500 - Contracts not affected by disincorporation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   79.500. Contracts not affected by disincorporation. — No dissolution of such corporation shall invalidate or affect any right accruing to such corporation or to any person, or invalidate or affect any contract entered into or imposed on such corporation. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7216)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7066; 1919 § 8516; 1909 § 9417
MO Rev Stat § 79.510 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.510 - County commission shall appoint trustee.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   79.510. County commission shall appoint trustee. — Whenever the county commission shall dissolve any such city of the fourth class, the said county commission shall appoint some competent person to act as trustee for the corporation 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 commission, to the use of such disincorporated city, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duty. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7217)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7067; 1919 § 8517; 1909 § 9418
MO Rev Stat § 79.520 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.520 - Trustee, duties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   79.520. Trustee, duties. — The trustee shall have power to prosecute and defend to final judgment all suits instituted by or against the corporation, collect all moneys due the same, liquidate all lawful demands against the same, and for that purpose shall sell any property belonging to such corporation, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and generally to do all acts requisite to bring to a speedy close all the affairs of the corporation. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7218)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7068; 1919 § 8518; 1909 § 9419
MO Rev Stat § 79.530 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.530 - Trustee may employ counsel — report to county commission.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   79.530. Trustee may employ counsel — report to county commission. — Such trustee shall employ counsel whenever necessary in the discharge of his duties, and shall make report of his proceedings to the county commission at each regular term thereof, and such trustee shall receive for his services such compensation as the commission shall think reasonable. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7219)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7069; 1919 § 8519; 1909 § 9420
MO Rev Stat § 79.540 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.540 - Trustee to make final settlement with county commission.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   79.540. Trustee to make final settlement with county commission. — When the trustee shall have closed the affairs of the corporation, and shall have paid all debts due by said corporation, he shall pay over to the county treasurer all money remaining in his hands, and take receipt therefor, and deliver to the clerk of such county commission all books, papers, records and deeds belonging to the dissolved corporation. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7220)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 7070; 1919 § 8520; 1909 § 9421
MO Rev Stat § 79.550 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.550 - Municipal redevelopment authority, governing body may establish (certain municipalities).

Effective - 12 Jul 1990, 2 histories   79.550. Municipal redevelopment authority, governing body may establish (certain municipalities). — Any fourth class city with a population of at least one thousand which is located within a first class county with a charter form of government adjoining a city not within a county and which has had, during four years prior to June 24, 1988, at least fifteen percent of the lands within the city limits of such city purchased under a federal noise abatement program designed to purchase residential property due to the high level of noise from a nearby airport, any municipality which adjoins a city not within a county and which contains an enterprise zone, and any municipality which has a population of less than seven thousand inhabitants which adjoins a city not within a county and also adjoins either a municipality containing an enterprise zone or a municipality which adjoins a municipality containing an enterprise zone may, upon the motion of the governing body of such municipality, establish a municipal redevelopment authority pursuant to sections 79.550 to 79.565. ­­-------- (L. 1988 H.B. 1738 § 1, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1564)  Effective 7-12-90
MO Rev Stat § 79.552 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.552 - Members, appointment, qualifications, terms — expenses (certain municipalities).

Effective - 28 Aug 1995   79.552. Members, appointment, qualifications, terms — expenses (certain municipalities). — 1. In any municipality eligible under section 79.550 to create a municipal redevelopment authority, upon the motion of the governing body of such municipality, there is hereby created a municipal redevelopment authority in such municipality, which shall consist of nine members appointed pursuant to this section. Three members of such authority shall be appointed by the mayor of such municipality, six members of such authority shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate.  2. The members of the authority shall be citizens and residents of the state. The members of the authority appointed by the mayor shall be residents of the municipality, or shall have previously been residents of the municipality for at least five years preceding the appointment. Of the members of the authority appointed by the governor, at least four members shall be residents of the county in which the municipality is located and such members may also be residents of the municipality.  3. Each member appointed shall serve for a term of two years, except that of the members first appointed, two of the members appointed by the mayor and three of the members appointed by the governor shall serve for a term of one year. The mayor shall designate one of the members as chairman. Vacancies in the authority shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as original appointments are made. Five members of the authority shall constitute a quorum, and any action or order of the authority shall require the approval of at least five members.  4. All members shall be reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties, except that the reimbursements for expenses incurred on any one day other than the cost of travel shall not exceed one hundred and fifty percent of the daily expense allowance established for members of the general assembly pursuant to section 21.145. Any member who is a resident of the county in which the municipality establishing the authority is located shall not be reimbursed for lodging. ­­-------- (L. 1988 H.B. 1738 § 2, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1564, A.L. 1995 H.B. 484, et al.)
MO Rev Stat § 79.557 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.557 - Bonds, interest and income tax exempt — recognized as securities (certain municipalities).

Effective - 24 Jun 1988   79.557. Bonds, interest and income tax exempt — recognized as securities (certain municipalities). — 1. All bonds, notes and other instruments of indebtedness issued by the authority and all interest thereon and income therefrom shall be tax exempt.  2. Any notes, bonds or other instruments in writing issued by the authority pursuant to the provisions of sections 79.550 to 79.565 are hereby recognized to be securities in which all state and municipal officers and bodies, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks, savings associations, building and loan associations, investment companies, and all other persons carrying on a banking business, all insurance companies, insurance associations, and other persons carrying on an insurance business, and all administrators, executors, guardians, trustees and other fiduciaries and all other persons whatsoever who are now or who may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds or other obligations of the state of Missouri may properly and legally invest any funds, including capital, belonging to them, or within their control and the obligations are hereby recognized as securities which may properly and legally be deposited with and shall be received by any state or municipal officer or agency for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or other obligations of this state is now or may hereafter be authorized. ­­-------- (L. 1988 H.B. 1738 § 4)  Effective 6-24-88
MO Rev Stat § 79.560 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification|Section 79.560 - Purchases of real property, cooperation of other political subdivisions — limitation of powers (certain municipalities).

Effective - 12 Jul 1990   79.560. Purchases of real property, cooperation of other political subdivisions — limitation of powers (certain municipalities). — 1. Where the authority attempts to purchase real property for fair market value from any political subdivision in this state, such political subdivision shall, if at all possible and if it would not incur undue hardship, assist the authority by selling such property.  2. The provisions of sections 79.550 to 79.565 shall apply only in the boundaries of the municipality which establishes a municipal redevelopment authority as such boundaries existed on January 1, 1988. If any such municipality disincorporates after establishing an authority, the authority shall be dissolved, except that the authority shall determine the method of retiring any bonds issued by the authority. ­­-------- (L. 1988 H.B. 1738 § 5, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1564)  Effective 7-12-90