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MO Rev Stat § 77.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.090 - Proceedings of, how kept.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   77.090. Proceedings of, how kept. — The council shall cause to be kept a journal of its proceedings, and the ayes and nays of the members shall be entered on any question at the desire of any two members. The council may prescribe and enforce such rules as may be necessary to secure the attendance of its members and the expeditious transactions of its business. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6886)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6740; 1919 § 8227; 1909 § 9164
MO Rev Stat § 77.100 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.100 - Powers of council — witnesses, papers.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   77.100. Powers of council — witnesses, papers. — The council shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers relating to any subject under consideration in which the interest of the city is involved, and shall have power to call on the proper officer of the city, or of the county in which such city is located, to execute such process. The officer making such service shall be entitled to receive therefor such fees as are allowed by law for similar service, to be paid by the city. The president of the council, or president pro tem, shall have power to administer oaths to witnesses. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6885)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6739; 1919 § 8226; 1909 § 9163
MO Rev Stat § 77.105 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.105 - Budget and expenditures, approval by ordinance, motion, or resolution required.

Effective - 28 Aug 2008   77.105. Budget and expenditures, approval by ordinance, motion, or resolution required. — The budget or any authorization to expend funds shall be approved by an ordinance, motion, or resolution that is approved by a majority of all the members elected to the governing body. ­­-------- (L. 2008 H.B. 1804)
MO Rev Stat § 77.110 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.110 - Council to publish semiannual statements.

Effective - 28 Aug 1989   77.110. Council to publish semiannual statements. — The council shall publish a full and detailed statement of the receipts and expenditures and indebtedness of the city at the end of each fiscal year and six months after the end of each fiscal year in a newspaper of general circulation in the city. Each such statement shall be for the six-month period preceding the date of the statement. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6884, A.L. 1989 H.B. 308)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6738; 1919 § 8225; 1909 § 9162
MO Rev Stat § 77.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.120 - Council may acquire land for and maintain cemetery.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   77.120. Council may acquire land for and maintain cemetery. — The city council shall have power to purchase, receive and hold real estate, as herein mentioned, for public cemetery purposes, either within the city or within three miles thereof; provided, that no such cemetery shall exceed more than one hundred and sixty acres in one body. The council 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 therein, and provide for paying the expenses therefor. The council may make rules and pass ordinances imposing penalties and fines, not exceeding one hundred dollars, regulating, protecting and governing city cemeteries, the owners of lots therein, visitors thereto, and punishing 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 § 6972)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6826; 1919 § 8308; 1909 § 9244
MO Rev Stat § 77.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.130 - Cemetery lots, how conveyed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   77.130. Cemetery lots, how conveyed. — The cemetery lots shall be conveyed by certificates, signed by the mayor and 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 or lots described therein by numbers, as laid down on such map or plat, for the purpose of interment, and such certificates shall vest in the purchaser, his or her heirs and assigns, a right in fee simple to such lot for the sole purpose of interment, under the regulations of the council; and such certificates shall be entitled to be recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds of the proper county without further acknowledgment; and such descriptions of lots shall be deemed and recognized as sufficient description thereof. The council may limit the number of lots to be 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 burials therein, or for the ornamentation of graves or lots. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6973)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6827; 1919 § 8309; 1909 § 9245
MO Rev Stat § 77.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.140 - May control watercourses, establish water reservoirs, market houses, city hall and parks.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   77.140. May control watercourses, establish water reservoirs, market houses, city hall and parks. — The council may establish, alter and change the channel of watercourses, and wall them and cover them over, and prevent obstructions thereon, and may establish, make and regulate public wells, cisterns and reservoirs of water, and provide for filling the same. The council may purchase grounds and erect and establish market houses and marketplaces, and regulate and govern the same; and also contract with any person or persons, association or corporation for the erection, maintenance and regulation of market houses and marketplaces, on such terms and conditions and in such manner as the council may prescribe. The council may also provide for the erection, purchase or renting of a city hall, workhouses, houses of correction, prisons, engine houses and any and all other necessary buildings for the city; and may sell, lease, abolish or otherwise dispose of the same, and may enclose, improve, regulate, purchase or sell all public parks or other public grounds belonging to the city, and may purchase and hold grounds for public parks within the city, or within three miles thereof. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6954)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6808; 1919 § 8295; 1909 § 9232  (1979) The exercise by a municipality of its powers to acquire land for parks outside but within one mile of the city limits is not subject to zoning regulations of any host county or municipality restricting use of land which would result in prohibiting its use for park purposes. City of Kirkwood v. City of Sunset Hills (A.), 589 S.W.2d 31.
MO Rev Stat § 77.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.150 - Cities may acquire property for dams, flood protection, bathhouses.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   77.150. Cities may acquire property for dams, flood protection, bathhouses. — In addition to other powers, the mayor and council of cities of the third class are hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by gift, devise, purchase or condemnation, within such cities or within a mile thereof, such real and personal property as may be necessary or desirable for the purpose of the erection or construction of dams, lake and flood protection systems, bathhouses, therapeutic bathhouses, mineral water vending houses and in connection therewith, auditoriums and lecture rooms and for the laying of pipelines for the distribution of mineral waters and to so acquire, improve and operate mineral springs and wells, and to construct all necessary and appropriate buildings and works therefor, and to do any and all things necessary to maintain and operate said properties so acquired and constructed as a self-liquidating revenue producing public project, and for that purpose to lease or convey the same; provided such properties shall be so acquired, constructed and thereafter maintained and operated without increasing the indebtedness of such city and shall not be paid for, maintained or operated by taxes, either general or special. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7045)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Water mains, special assessments for, certain cities, 88.650 to 88.663
MO Rev Stat § 77.160 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.160 - Payment for property acquired — issuance of bonds.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   77.160. Payment for property acquired — issuance of bonds. — The mayor and council of said cities are authorized to accept gifts and grants and to borrow money and execute, issue and negotiate bonds or other securities, for the purpose of paying the cost of acquiring said property or the construction of said buildings or works thereon, and to secure same by mortgages or deeds of trust on said properties and the income and revenue derived therefrom; which said mortgage or deeds of trust shall be a first lien on all said property and all revenues or income therefrom and shall be enforceable as provided therein but shall not be a debt of said city or payable out of any revenue not derived from said property. Said bonds issued under the provisions of this section and sections 77.150, 77.170 and 77.180 shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding six percent per annum, payable annually or semiannually, shall be executed in such manner and be payable serially in annual installments beginning not later than three years and extending not more than forty years from the date thereof, and at such place or places as the mayor and council shall determine. Any income, receipts, collections and profits from any properties on which such a mortgage or deed of trust has been so executed, shall be held and kept in the city treasury as a separate fund, and payments therefrom shall be made only as provided by said mortgage or deed of trust. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7046)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Improvements, special tax bills and bonds issued in payment of, 88.497 to 88.647
MO Rev Stat § 77.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.170 - Manner of purchasing and condemning lands.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   77.170. Manner of purchasing and condemning lands. — The mayor and common council, in proceeding by ordinance to purchase and condemn lands for the purpose stated in section 77.160, may proceed in the manner provided by law for the establishment of streets, avenues, alleys or marketplaces or public squares, but it shall not be necessary to establish a benefit district or assess benefits, or, unless there are nonresident or unknown defendants, to give notice by publication as therein provided; and on such condemnation and the payment of the appraisement as therein provided, the title of such lands shall vest in such city for the uses and purposes for which taken. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7047, A. 1949 H.B. 2027)
MO Rev Stat § 77.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.180 - Election to be held for issuance of bonds.

Effective - 28 Aug 1978   77.180. Election to be held for issuance of bonds. — Before any such bonds shall be issued the mayor and council shall, by ordinance, provide that said bonds shall be issued, which said ordinance shall fix the maximum amount of said bonds and in a general way the purposes for which said money shall be expended and shall submit the question to issue bonds to the voters of the city. The ballots shall state the maximum amount of bonds proposed to be issued and the fact that such bonds are not to be payable from taxation and will not be a debt of said city and the general purpose for which they are to be issued. If the majority of voters voting on the question assent, the mayor and city council may, by ordinance, cause such bonds of such municipality not exceeding the maximum amount submitted to the voters to be issued for the purpose set out in said ordinance and secure the same as herein provided. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7048, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
MO Rev Stat § 77.190 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.190 - May purchase fire-fighting equipment.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   77.190. May purchase fire-fighting equipment. — The council 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, 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. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6950)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6804; 1919 § 8291; 1909 § 9228  CROSS REFERENCE:  Information to be filed annually with state fire marshal, 320.271
MO Rev Stat § 77.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.200 - Railroads or street railroads — powers of council.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   77.200. Railroads or street railroads — powers of council. — The council shall have sole authority, by ordinance, to grant the right to any person or persons, or corporation, to make and construct railroads or street railroads in any street or highway of the city, and to control and regulate the use thereof; provided, that no such railroad or street railroad shall be located on any street or highway in the city, or any portion of such street or highway, until a majority of the residents, owners of land abutting on said street or highway, or such portion thereof, shall first assent thereto in writing; and provided further, that no such railroad or street railroad shall be constructed or operated until all damages to such abutting lands shall have been first ascertained and paid to the owners thereof by the person, persons or corporation constructing said railroad or street railroad, and the city council shall pass suitable ordinances providing the manner and way of ascertaining any damages contemplated by this section. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6978)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6832; 1919 § 8314; 1909 § 9250
MO Rev Stat § 77.210 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.210 - Thirty-year franchises and extensions may be granted for supplying heat — voter approval required, procedure.

Effective - 28 Aug 1987   77.210. Thirty-year franchises and extensions may be granted for supplying heat — voter approval required, procedure. — All cities of the third class may grant to any person or corporation formed under the laws of this state or doing business as a foreign corporation under the laws of this state, the privilege and franchise for a period of thirty years, to use the streets, alleys and other public places of such cities, for the purpose of laying pipes, conduits or other heating apparatus thereon and therein, and connecting same with the heating plant of such person or corporation, to furnish heat to the inhabitants of the city at a reasonable rate to be agreed upon by the person or corporation furnishing the heat and the person using the same. Such privilege and franchise may be renewed for another period or periods not to exceed thirty years per period. The plant to heat the city may be by means of hot water, steam, hot air or electricity, or in any other mode that may be advisable, but the person or corporation, to which the franchise or privilege is granted, shall commence operation under its franchise or right within two years after the granting of such franchise or right, or the same shall be forfeited. Such franchise or privilege may be extended or renewed by the city council of such city for another period or periods of not more than thirty years per period, and the extensions or renewals of such franchise or privilege shall be subject to voter approval of the majority of the voters voting on the question, pursuant to the provisions of section 88.251. An initial privilege or franchise must be approved by a majority of the voters of the municipality voting on the question. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6979, A.L. 1987 S.B. 412)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6833; 1919 § 8315; 1909 § 9251
MO Rev Stat § 77.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.220 - May change names of streets, how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   77.220. May change names of streets, how. — Whenever it is deemed necessary by the council to change the name of any street or avenue, the council shall, by resolution, declare such proposed change of name necessary to be made, and shall cause such resolution to be published at least one week in some newspaper published in the city; and if, within four weeks after such publication, a majority of the resident property owners along the line of such street or avenue do not file with the city clerk their written protest against such proposed change of name, then the council shall have power by ordinance to change the name of such street or avenue in accordance with the terms of such resolution; and upon the passage and approval of such ordinance, the city clerk shall file with the recorder of deeds of the proper county a certified copy of such ordinance, and such recorder shall enter the same upon the records of such county. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7013)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6867; 1919 § 8349; 1909 § 9276
MO Rev Stat § 77.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.230 - Qualifications of mayor.

Effective - 28 Aug 1949   77.230. Qualifications of mayor. — No person shall be mayor unless he be at least thirty years of age, a citizen of the United States and a resident of such city at the time of and for two years next preceding his election. When two or more persons shall have an equal number of votes for the office of mayor, the matter shall be determined by the council. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6870, A. 1949 H.B. 2027)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6724; 1919 § 8211; 1909 § 9148
MO Rev Stat § 77.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.240 - Vacancy in office of mayor, how filled, exceptions — president pro tem, duties of.

Effective - 28 Aug 1999   77.240. Vacancy in office of mayor, how filled, exceptions — president pro tem, duties of. — When any vacancy shall happen in the office of mayor, by death, resignation, removal from the city, removal from office, refusal to qualify or otherwise, nominations of a successor may be made by any member of the council and selected with the consent of a majority of the members of the council, except in counties of the first classification with a charter form of government which have a population of at least nine hundred thousand inhabitants. The council may adopt procedures to fill any such vacancy consistent with this section. In the case of a temporary absence of the mayor or disability to perform the duties of his or her office, the president pro tem of the council shall perform the duties of mayor until the mayor shall return or such disability be removed; and during the time the president pro tem of the council shall act as mayor, the president pro tem shall receive the same compensation that the mayor would be entitled to. In counties of the first classification with a charter form of government and which do not contain a city with a population of at least four hundred thousand, in case of vacancy other than a temporary absence or disability, the person exercising the office of mayor shall cause a new election to be held; provided, when a vacancy occurs within six months of a municipal election, no election shall be called to fill such vacancy. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6880, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1982 S.B. 526, A.L. 1991 S.B. 34, A.L. 1999 S.B. 214)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6734; 1919 § 8221; 1909 § 9158
MO Rev Stat § 77.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.250 - Mayor to be president of council — vote.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   77.250. Mayor to be president of council — vote. — The mayor shall be president of the council and shall preside over same, but shall not vote except in case of a tie in said council, when he shall cast the deciding vote; but provided, however, that he shall have no such power to vote in cases when he is an interested party. He shall have the superintending control of all the officers and affairs of the city, and shall take care that the ordinances of the city and the state laws relating to such city are complied with. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6871)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6725; 1919 § 8212; 1909 § 9149
MO Rev Stat § 77.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages|Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification|Section 77.260 - Powers and duties of mayor and council generally.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   77.260. Powers and duties of mayor and council generally. — The mayor and council of each city governed by this chapter shall have the care, management and control of the city and its finances, and shall have power to enact and ordain any and all ordinances not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this state, and such as they shall deem expedient for the good government of the city, the preservation of peace and good order, the benefit of trade and commerce, and the health of the inhabitants thereof, and such other ordinances, rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary to carry such powers into effect, and to alter, modify or repeal the same. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 6949)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 6803; 1919 § 8290; 1909 § 9227  CROSS REFERENCES:  Assessment, special tax bills for sprinkling and cleaning streets, 88.640, 88.811  County roads, adjoining corporate limits, benefits how assessed, 88.647  License taxes, authorized, on what, 94.110  Policemen, appointment and removal, 85.541, 85.551  Street lighting, council may provide, approval of electorate, 88.613 to 88.630  Taxation, 94.010 to 94.180  Water, council may contract for service, 88.633  (1966) City council in third class city is primarily a legislative body elected by people, and wards from which councilmen are elected must be substantially equal in population. Armentrout v. Schooler (Mo.), 409 S.W.2d 138. (1969) Ordinance of a city of the third class which purported to grant to the city administrator the power to promulgate necessary rules and regulations to carry out city ordinances was an unconstitutional delegation of city council's legislative power. Pearson v. City of Washington (Mo.), 439 S.W.2d 756 (1975) This section does not give a third class city the power to regulate real estate brokers. Anderson v. City of Olivette (Mo.), 518 S.W.2d 29.