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MO Rev Stat § 234.340 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 234 - Bridges|Section 234.340 - Cities having 100,000 population and over — power and authority.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   234.340. Cities having 100,000 population and over — power and authority. — All cities in this state having one hundred thousand inhabitants or over are hereby given the power and authority to build or acquire, by purchase, lease, gift or otherwise, within their corporate limits or within a reasonable distance outside thereof, a bridge or bridges, or a tunnel or tunnels, for public use by railroads, streetcars, vehicles of all kinds and pedestrians, over or under rivers and streams in Missouri or those forming a boundary between this and other states, and to acquire, hold, use and retain, by purchase, lease, gift or otherwise, land to be used for approaches for and in the construction, operation and maintenance of said bridge or bridges, tunnel or tunnels, in this and other states, and to maintain, use and operate said bridge or bridges, tunnel or tunnels, either as toll or free bridges or tunnels, as may by said cities be deemed expedient. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7574) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7431; 1919 § 8839; 1909 § 9688
MO Rev Stat § 234.370 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 234 - Bridges|Section 234.370 - Commissioners — appointment and qualifications.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   234.370. Commissioners — appointment and qualifications. — Within ninety days after this law becomes effective the governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint five commissioners of the Tennessee-Missouri Bridge Commission created by compact between the states of Missouri and Tennessee. If the senate is not in session at the time for making any appointment, the governor shall make a temporary appointment as in case of a vacancy. All commissioners so appointed shall be qualified voters of the state of Missouri and shall reside within the county of Pemiscot, Missouri, or counties adjacent thereto. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 625 § 1)   CROSS REFERENCE: Members to be appointed by the highways and transportation commission, 226.007
MO Rev Stat § 234.380 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 234 - Bridges|Section 234.380 - Terms of commissioners.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   234.380. Terms of commissioners. — Of the commissioners first appointed one shall be appointed to serve for a term of one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years and one for five years. At the expiration of the term of each commissioner and of each succeeding commissioner, the governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint a successor who shall hold office for a term of five years. Each commissioner shall hold office until his successor has been appointed and qualified. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 625 § 2)   CROSS REFERENCE:  Members to be appointed by the highways and transportation commission, 226.007
MO Rev Stat § 235.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.010 - Street light maintenance districts (first class counties).

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   235.010. Street light maintenance districts (first class counties). — A street light maintenance district may be organized as provided in this chapter in any county of class one. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 1)
MO Rev Stat § 235.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.020 - Purpose of district — location.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   235.020. Purpose of district — location. — A street light maintenance district shall have for its purpose the maintenance and operation of the street lights on the streets of the district. Such district must be wholly within a county of class one, must consist of contiguous tracts or parcels of property, and may be contiguous to but may not include any part of any incorporated city, town or village. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 2)  CROSS REFERENCE:  County planning commission powers over public improvement in class one counties, 64.010 to 64.295.
MO Rev Stat § 235.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.030 - Petition for organization, contents.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   235.030. Petition for organization, contents. — The organization of a district shall be initiated by a petition filed in the office of the clerk of the county commission in the county in which the real property in the proposed district is situated. The petition shall be signed by one hundred voters of the proposed district. The petition shall set forth the following:  (1) Proposed name of the street light maintenance district;  (2) An estimated number of the inhabitants;  (3) The assessed valuation of the taxable tangible property located in the district;  (4) The estimated annual cost of the operation of the district;  (5) A general description of the boundaries of the district or the territory to be included therein with such certainty as to enable a property owner to determine whether or not his property is within the district;  (6) The names of three voters who shall constitute the first board of directors of the district, one to hold office until the first biennial election, one until two years and one until four years after such election;  (7) Such other data and information as may be useful to the county commission in determining the necessity for the organization of the district. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 3, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 235.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.040 - Petition may be amended — filing fee.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   235.040. Petition may be amended — filing fee. — 1. No petition with the requisite signatures shall be declared null and void on account of alleged defects, but the county commission may at any time permit the petition to be amended to conform with the facts, by correcting any errors in the description of the territory, or in any other particular. Similar petitions or duplicate copies of the same petition for the organization of the same district, revising the boundaries of the proposed district, or recommending another chosen name for the district, or recommending other voters for the first board of directors, may be filed at any time before a hearing is had on the petition, and shall, together with the first petition, be regarded as one petition, and shall be considered by the county commission the same as though filed with the first petition placed on file.  2. There shall be filed with the petition, or petitions, a filing fee in the amount of one hundred dollars to be used by the county commission to pay for publication notices in connection with the hearing and for the submission of the question. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 4, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 235.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.050 - Notice to be published, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   235.050. Notice to be published, when. — Immediately after the filing of such petition, the county commission shall, by order, fix a time and place not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days after the petition is filed for a hearing thereon, and thereupon the county clerk shall cause notice by publication to be made of the filing of the petition and the pendency of the action and of the time and place of the hearing. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 5)
MO Rev Stat § 235.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.060 - Protesting petition.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   235.060. Protesting petition. — Any time after the filing of a petition for the organization of a district and before the day fixed for the hearing thereon, a petition may be filed in the office of the county clerk protesting against the creation of the proposed district. Such protesting petition shall be signed and filed by or on behalf of one or more qualified taxpaying electors of the district, and shall recite wherein the incorporation of the district will not promote the purposes as set forth in the petition, or wherein sufficient facts have not been related to justify the incorporation of such district, and any other facts which may be useful to the commission in determining whether or not such original petition shall be allowed. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 6)
MO Rev Stat § 235.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.070 - County commission to declare district organized — election to ratify organization — board of directors, how selected.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   235.070. County commission to declare district organized — election to ratify organization — board of directors, how selected. — 1. If it shall appear at the hearing that a petition for the organization of a district has been signed and presented, as provided in section 235.030, in conformity with this law, and that no protesting petition has been filed, or if one has been filed, that the facts adduced in behalf thereof at the hearing are insufficient to sustain such protesting petition, the county commission shall, by order duly entered of record, declare the district organized, define the boundaries thereof, making such changes in the boundaries thereof, making such changes in the boundary line as set forth in the petition, if any, as the county commission may deem proper, and give it a corporate name by which in all proceedings it shall thereafter be known, and thereupon the district, subject to the election provided in this section, shall be a political subdivision of the state of Missouri and a body corporate with all the powers of like or similar corporations.  2. The order of incorporation shall not become final and conclusive until it shall have been submitted to the voters residing within the boundaries described in such order, and until it shall have been assented to by a majority vote of the voters of the district voting on the question. The county commission shall order the submission of the question.  3. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form: Shall a street light maintenance district, to be known as the ______ street light maintenance district, be incorporated?  4. If a majority of the voters of the district voting on such question shall have voted in favor of the question to incorporate the district, then the commission shall enter its further order declaring the order of incorporation to be final and conclusive. In the event, however, that the commission shall find that a majority of the voters voting thereon shall not have voted in favor of the question to incorporate the district, then the commission shall enter its further order declaring said order of incorporation to be void and of no effect.  5. If the commission enters an order declaring the order of incorporation to be final and conclusive, it shall at the same time designate the first board of directors of said district from among the names of the voters who have been named in one or more petitions filed in said cause, one to hold office until the first biennial election of board members, one until two years and one until four years after such election. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 7, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 235.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.080 - County commission findings and orders to be filed, where.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   235.080. County commission findings and orders to be filed, where. — Within thirty days after the final order of the county commission in which said district has been declared a public corporation, the county clerk of said commission shall transmit to the recorder of deeds in the county in which the district is located copies of the findings and orders of the commission incorporating said district. The same shall be filed in the same manner as articles of incorporation are required to be filed under the general laws concerning corporations. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 8)
MO Rev Stat § 235.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.090 - Board members to qualify, how — bonds.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   235.090. Board members to qualify, how — bonds. — Whenever a district has been declared duly and finally organized, the members of the board shall qualify by filing with the county clerk their oaths of office, which shall be in the form prescribed by the constitution, and such board members shall also file with the county clerk corporate surety bonds to be furnished at the expense of the district, the form and amount thereof to be fixed and approved by the county commission, and said bonds to be conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties as directors. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 9)
MO Rev Stat § 235.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.100 - Selection of officers — seal — duties of secretary.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   235.100. Selection of officers — seal — duties of secretary. — After taking their oaths and filing their bonds, the board shall choose one of its members as chairman of the board and president of the district, and shall elect a secretary and a treasurer of the board and of the district, who may or may not be members of the board. The secretary and the treasurer may be one person. Such board shall adopt a seal, and the secretary shall keep in a well-bound book a record of all its proceedings, minutes of all meetings, certificates, contracts, bonds given by employees and a record of corporate acts, which shall be open to inspection of all owners of property in the district, as well as to all other interested parties. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 10)
MO Rev Stat § 235.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.110 - Treasurer's bond — financial statement.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   235.110. Treasurer's bond — financial statement. — The treasurer shall keep strict and accurate accounts of all money received by and disbursed for and on behalf of the district in permanent records. He shall file with the county clerk, at the expense of the district, a corporate surety bond in an amount to be determined by the board, conditioned on the faithful performance of the duties of his office. He shall file in the office of the county clerk a detailed financial statement for the preceding fiscal year of the district on behalf of the board during the month of January. The fiscal year of the board shall be the same as the calendar year. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 11)
MO Rev Stat § 235.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.120 - Attendance fee — expenses — power of removal.

Effective - 28 Aug 1990   235.120. Attendance fee — expenses — power of removal. — Each member of the board shall receive an attendance fee in an amount not to exceed fifty dollars per diem for attending each regularly called board meeting, but shall not be paid for attending more than one in any calendar month. Each member of the board shall be reimbursed for his actual expenditures in the performance of his duties on behalf of the district. The county commission shall have power to remove directors or any of them for good cause shown upon a petition, notice and hearing. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 12, A.L. 1967 p. 352, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1548)
MO Rev Stat § 235.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.130 - Board meetings — quorum — vacancies, how filled.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   235.130. Board meetings — quorum — vacancies, how filled. — The board shall meet at the place to be designated by the board as often as the needs of the district require, on notice to each member of the board. Two members of the board shall constitute a quorum at any meeting. Any vacancy on the board shall be filled by the remaining member or members of the board, the appointee or appointees to act until the next biennial election at which directors are elected as provided in section 235.140, when the vacancy or vacancies shall be filled by election. If the board shall fail, neglect or refuse to fill any vacancy within thirty days after the same occurs, the county commission shall fill such vacancy. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 13)
MO Rev Stat § 235.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.140 - Election of new board members, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   235.140. Election of new board members, when. — 1. At the general election in the year after the first full calendar year after the organization of any district and at the general election thereafter, there shall be elected by the voters of the district one member of the board to serve for a term of six years. Nominations may be filed with the secretary of the board.  2. The candidates for board member shall be elected on a separate nonpartisan ballot. The candidate receiving the most votes shall be elected. Any new member of the board shall qualify in the same manner as members of the first board qualify. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 14, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 235.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.150 - Powers — authority and privileges of board.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   235.150. Powers — authority and privileges of board. — For the purpose of providing for the maintenance of street lighting within the district, the district and, on its behalf, the board, shall have the following powers, authority and privileges:  (1) To have perpetual existence;  (2) To have and use a corporate seal;  (3) To sue and be sued, and be a party to suits, actions and proceedings;  (4) To enter into contracts, franchises and agreements with any person, partnership, association or corporation, public or private, affecting the affairs of the district;  (5) To acquire, dispose of and encumber real and personal property and any interest therein, including leases and easements;  (6) To have the management, control and supervision of all the business and affairs of the district, and the construction, installation, operation and maintenance of district improvements therein;  (7) To hire and retain agents, employees, engineers and attorneys;  (8) To have and exercise the power of eminent domain and in the manner provided by law for the condemnation of private property for public use to take any property within the district necessary to the exercise of the powers herein granted;  (9) To receive and accept by bequest, gift or donation any kind of property;  (10) To adopt and amend bylaws and any other rules and regulations not in conflict with the constitution and laws of this state, necessary for the carrying on of the business, objects and affairs of the board and of the district, and to refer to the proper authorities for prosecution any infraction thereof detrimental to the district. Any person violating any such ordinance, rules and regulations is hereby declared to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as is provided by law therefor;  (11) To have and exercise all rights and powers necessary or incidental to or implied from the specific powers granted herein. Such specific powers shall not be considered as a limitation upon any power necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes and intent of this law. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 15)
MO Rev Stat § 235.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.160 - Power of taxation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1947   235.160. Power of taxation. — For the purpose of providing revenue for such districts, the board shall have the power and authority to order the levy and collection of ad valorem taxes on and against all taxable tangible property within the district, and to make timely demand for any and all other taxes or allocations to which the district may be entitled. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 16)
MO Rev Stat § 235.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.170 - Board to fix rate of taxation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1989   235.170. Board to fix rate of taxation. — To levy and collect taxes as provided in section 235.160, the board shall in each year determine the amount of money necessary to be raised by taxation, and shall fix a rate of levy which, when levied upon every dollar of the taxable tangible property within the district as shown by the last completed assessment, and with other revenues, will raise the amount required by the district annually to supply funds for paying the expenses of organization and the costs of the district, which rate of levy shall not exceed forty cents on the one hundred dollars assessed valuation. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 17, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1624, A.L. 1989 H.B. 197)
MO Rev Stat § 235.175 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XIV - Roads and Waterways|Chapter 235 - Street Light Maintenance Districts|Section 235.175 - Increase of tax rate — election — form of ballot — maximum rate.

Effective - 31 May 1978   235.175. Increase of tax rate — election — form of ballot — maximum rate. — 1. Before the board of directors of any street light maintenance district may increase the district's current tax levy, the proposed increase must be approved by a majority of the voters voting thereon.  2. The proposition to increase the tax levy may be submitted by the board of directors or upon petition of five hundred registered voters of the district. All propositions to increase the tax levy shall be submitted at the next election permitted by section 115.123.  3. A separate ballot containing the question shall read as follows:   Shall the board of directors of the ______ street light maintenance district be authorized to increase the current tax levy of ______ cents per one hundred dollars assessed valuation to ______ cents per one hundred dollars assessed valuation to provide funds for the support of the district?    ☐ YES   ☐ NO    (If you are in favor of the tax levy, place an X in the box opposite "YES". If you are opposed to the tax levy, place an X in the box opposite "NO".)    4. If a majority of the qualified voters casting votes thereon be in favor of the increased tax levy, the board of directors shall raise the tax levy to the level approved by the voters. If a majority of the voters casting votes thereon do not vote in favor of the increased tax levy, any levy previously authorized shall remain in effect.  5. No street light maintenance district shall fix a rate of levy which exceeds the maximum tax levy authorized by section 235.170. ­­-------- (L. 1978 H.B. 1624 § 2)  Effective 5-31-78