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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.560 - Special charter cities may enact certain ordinances.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1944
91.560. Special charter cities may enact certain ordinances. —
All cities within this state having less than ten thousand inhabitants, and having a special charter, in their corporate capacity are authorized and empowered to enact ordinances for the following purposes and to have the following rights and powers, in addition to the powers now conferred on such cities by law.
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(L. 1944 p. 42 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.570 - Cities are authorized to acquire all necessary lands and easements.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1961
91.570. Cities are authorized to acquire all necessary lands and easements. —
All such cities are hereby granted the right and power to acquire by purchase, condemnation or gift all necessary land and easements within and without the city for the purpose of waterworks, electrical power plants to supply the inhabitants of such cities with water and electrical energy, for the construction, maintenance and alteration of levees to protect the inhabitants of such cities and towns and for any other public use.
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(L. 1944 p. 42 § 2, A.L. 1961 p. 219)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.580 - May condemn private property for public use.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1944
91.580. May condemn private property for public use. —
All such cities may condemn private property for public use for such purposes, either within or without said city, and shall pay just compensation for all private property taken or damaged for public use for the purposes of said waterworks and such condemnation proceedings and ascertainment of compensation, as far as practicable, shall be governed and regulated in all respects as the condemnation of property for railroad purposes is at the time regulated by law.
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(L. 1944 p. 42 § 3)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.590 - Rights and powers granted herein shall be in addition to all rights and powers of such cities under laws of state.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1944
91.590. Rights and powers granted herein shall be in addition to all rights and powers of such cities under laws of state. —
All rights and powers granted by sections 91.560 to 91.590 shall be in addition to all rights and powers of such cities under the laws of this state and all such cities shall have the rights and powers herein granted, irrespective of any provision in the charter of such cities.
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(L. 1944 p. 42 § 4)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.593 - Waterworks — authority to acquire property and furnish services outside city limits.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
Effective - 28 Aug 1951
91.593. Waterworks — authority to acquire property and furnish services outside city limits. —
All cities in the state under special charter which have or may hereafter have a population of not less than three thousand and not more than ten thousand inhabitants, which now own and operate or may hereafter own and operate a waterworks system shall have the right to purchase, install and maintain pipes, mains, machinery, buildings, easements, rights-of-way and real estate necessarily connected therewith outside the limits of any such city including the right of condemnation and the right to purchase and maintain any such facilities now existing from any person, firm, corporation or governmental unit authorized to sell the same, whenever in the opinion of its board of public works any such facilities are reasonably necessary for the purpose of connecting with another water supply system capable of furnishing emergency water to such city or whenever in the opinion of the board there is sufficient need and demand from persons outside the limits of such city for water from the water supply system thereof to justify, make profitable and advantageous the purchase, installation and maintenance of such facilities as a part of the water supply system of such city.
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(L. 1951 p. 348 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.595 - Waterworks — revenue bonds, issuance — authorization for.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1951
91.595. Waterworks — revenue bonds, issuance — authorization for. —
All cities in the state under special charter and which have or may hereafter have a population of not less than three thousand and not more than ten thousand inhabitants and which now own and operate or may hereafter own and operate a waterworks system may, and are hereby authorized and empowered to, issue revenue bonds, which shall be payable solely from the revenues derived from the operation of such utility by the municipality and not a general obligation of such city, for the purpose of providing funds for the repair or improvement of any such system, including the pumping and distribution facilities thereof, or the replacement of any part thereof, or for the extension of any such system within or without such city as such expenditures are now or may hereafter be allowed by law, and for the acquisition of all necessary easements and rights-of-way which such extension or improvement may require, and for the purchase and installation of all necessary equipment and materials for adding additional pumping or distributional facilities to any such system including the purchase of any existing distributional facilities now or hereafter allowed by law.
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(L. 1951 p. 349 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.596 - Revenue bonds — election — form of ballot.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
91.596. Revenue bonds — election — form of ballot. —
1. Whenever the board of public works of any such city shall desire to issue such revenue bonds for any or all of the purposes enumerated in section 91.595 it shall make written request, authorized by majority vote of its members, to the mayor and council of such city requesting the submission of the question of authorizing the issuance of said bonds which request shall set forth the amount of funds required and the purposes for which the same is to be expended.
2. The council may then by ordinance submit the proposition to the voters of the city.
3. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall the city of ______ issue revenue bonds, in the amount of ______ dollars to be payable solely from the revenues derived from the operation of ______ (utility) by the city and not a general or personal obligation of the city, for the purpose of ______ (here state purpose)?
4. If a majority of the voters of such city voting on the question shall vote "YES" then the board of public works of such city shall be authorized to issue waterworks revenue bonds not to exceed the amount approved by the voters.
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(L. 1951 p. 349 § 2, A.L. 1975 H.B. 947, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.597 - Bonds, how signed — term — rate of interest.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
Effective - 28 Aug 1951
91.597. Bonds, how signed — term — rate of interest. —
The bonds authorized by section 91.596 shall be signed by each member of the board, attested by the secretary under the seal of the board. Said bonds shall run for a period not to exceed twenty years and draw interest at a rate to be designated by the board of public works, interest to be payable semiannually and to be evidenced by the coupons attached. The bonds and coupons shall be negotiable in form; the coupons may be signed only by the lithographed signatures of the president of the board and the secretary thereof.
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(L. 1951 p. 349 § 3)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.600 - Waterworks property, how acquired — may issue bonds, make contracts (certain cities).

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
91.600. Waterworks property, how acquired — may issue bonds, make contracts (certain cities). —
Every city organized and existing under the provisions of Section 16 of Article IX of the Constitution of Missouri of 1875, or Section 19 of Article VI of the Constitution of Missouri of 1945, shall have the right and power to construct, maintain and operate waterworks to supply the city and all persons and parties therein with water and may for such purpose, take, hold, use and dispose of real estate and personal property whether within or outside of the city, or whether within or outside of the state of Missouri, necessary to accomplish such object. It may acquire such property by purchase, donation or an exercise of the power of eminent domain, and may do whatever may be necessary to the exercise of the powers herein granted. Every such city shall have the power to issue its bonds for such purpose to an amount not exceeding the constitutional limitations. Every such city shall have power to make at any time a contract with any such person, corporation, or company, for a period not exceeding twenty years, to furnish water to the city, or to the city and its inhabitants, and to authorize such corporation, person or company, during the existence of such contract, to construct, maintain and operate waterworks in the city. Such contract shall contain a provision reserving to such city the right at its option at any time to acquire and become the sole owner of such portion of the waterworks of such corporation, person or company as may at the time of such purchase be situated in the state of Missouri, on paying a fair and equitable value therefor, to be ascertained, if the parties thereto cannot agree, by the circuit court of the county in which such city is situated, upon the petition of the city, and in such manner as the court may determine; a copy of such petition shall be served upon the corporation, person or company at least fifteen days before the same is presented to the court. The contract above mentioned shall not take effect until an ordinance fully setting forth its terms is submitted to a vote of the voters of the city and approved by two-thirds of the voters voting on the proposition.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7794, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7649; 1919 § 9087; 1909 § 9909
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.610 - Compensation for private property taken.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
91.610. Compensation for private property taken. —
Every such city shall pay just compensation for all private property taken or damages for public use for the purposes necessary for the construction or extension or efficient operation of its waterworks, and such compensation may be ascertained in proceedings therefor, as far as practicable, in the same manner as is prescribed in the general law of this state for the appropriation and valuation of lands taken for telegraph, telephone, gravel and plank or railroad purposes, being chapter 523. Upon paying to the clerk of the circuit court the amount of damages awarded to the party in whose favor the same may be assessed, the city shall have the right to enter upon and take possession of the property, notwithstanding the filing of exceptions to such award; and any subsequent proceedings shall only affect the amount of compensation to be allowed.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7795)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7650; 1919 § 9088; 1909 § 9913
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.620 - Citation of law.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
91.620. Citation of law. —
Sections 91.620 to 91.770 may be cited as "The National Defense Cooperation Law of 1941".
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(L. 1941 p. 493 § 16)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.630 - Definitions.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
91.630. Definitions. —
Wherever used in sections 91.620 to 91.770, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
(1) The term
"board"
shall mean the board of public works set up by sections 91.620 to 91.770 to control, manage and operate the undertakings herein described.
(2) A
"defense area"
shall constitute the territory within a radius of fifty miles of a camp, encampment, cantonment, fort, depot, or other establishment of the Armed Forces of the United States of America within which not less than ten thousand persons are stationed, except the territory contained in any county now or hereafter having a population of not less than two hundred thousand nor more than four hundred thousand inhabitants.
(3) The term
"government"
shall mean the United States of America, or any department, agency or instrumentality thereof now in existence or hereafter created.
(4) The term
"governing body"
shall mean the bodies and boards, by whatever names they may be known, charged with the governing of a municipality as herein defined.
(5) The term
"municipality"
shall mean any county, school district, city, town, village, township, road district, public water supply district or drainage district located in whole or in part within a defense area, except any county now or hereafter having a population of not less than two hundred thousand nor more than four hundred thousand inhabitants and also except any school district, city, town, village, township, road district, public water supply district or drainage district or other political subdivision or public corporation located within any such county.
(6) The term
"undertaking"
shall include the following undertakings or any combination of two or more of such undertakings, whether now existing or hereafter acquired or constructed: Hospitals, water systems, and sewer systems (both sanitary and storm); together with all parts of any such undertaking and all appurtenances thereto and equipment therefor including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, lands, easements, rights in land, water rights, contract rights, franchises, approaches, dams, reservoirs, sewage disposal plants, intercepting sewers, trunk, connecting and other sewer and water mains, filtration works, pumping stations and equipment.
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(L. 1941 p. 493 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.650 - Preliminary expenses — how met and paid.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
91.650. Preliminary expenses — how met and paid. —
All necessary preliminary expenses actually incurred by the governing body in the making of surveys, estimates of costs and revenues, employment of engineers or other employees, the giving of notices, taking of options and all other expenses of whatsoever nature, necessary to be paid prior to the issue and delivery of the revenue bonds pursuant to the provisions of sections 91.620 to 91.770, may be met and paid in the following manner: Said board or governing body may from time to time certify such items of expense to the governing body, directing the payments of the several amounts thereof, and thereupon the proper officer shall at once draw a warrant or warrants upon the governing body, which warrant or warrants shall be paid out of the general funds of said governing body not theretofore appropriated, without a special appropriation being made therefor; or, in case there are no general funds of such city not otherwise appropriated, the governing body may temporarily transfer from other funds of such governing body a sufficient amount to meet such items of expense, or the making of a temporary loan for such purpose, and such governing body shall thereupon at once make such transfer of funds, or authorize such temporary loan in the same manner that other temporary loans are made by the governing body; provided, however, that the fund or funds of such governing body from which such payments are made shall be fully reimbursed and repaid by said board out of the first proceeds of the sale of revenue bonds herein provided for, and before any other disbursements are made therefrom, and the amount so advanced to pay such preliminary expenses shall be a first charge against the proceeds resulting from the sale of such revenue bonds until the same has been repaid as herein provided.
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(L. 1941 p. 493 § 4)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.660 - Bond issues — authorization, approval.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
91.660. Bond issues — authorization, approval. —
The acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment or extension of any undertaking and the issuance in anticipation of the collection of the revenues of such undertaking of bonds to provide funds to pay the cost thereof may be authorized under this law by ordinance or resolution of the governing body which may be adopted at a regular or special meeting by a vote of a majority of the members elected to the governing body. Unless otherwise provided therein, such ordinance or resolution shall take effect immediately and need not be laid over or published or posted. The governing body, in determining such cost, may include all costs and estimated costs of the issuance of said bonds, all engineering, inspection, fiscal and legal expenses, and interest which it is estimated will accrue during the construction period and for six months thereafter on money borrowed or which it is estimated will be borrowed pursuant to this law. The approval of the voters of such municipality shall be required and on such approval such bonds may be so issued and sold, notwithstanding any provisions of any law of the state of Missouri or the charter, bylaws or other regulations of any municipality, or any limitations upon the incurring of bonded indebtedness prescribed by law of the state of Missouri or the charter, bylaws or other regulations of such municipality. A four-sevenths majority of the voters voting for the proposition shall constitute an approval as herein provided; except that, if the bonds are to be issued for any of the purposes set out in Article VI, Section 27 of the Constitution of Missouri, a simple majority shall constitute approval.
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(L. 1941 p. 493 § 3, A. 1949 H.B. 2039, A.L. 1975 H.B. 947, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.670 - Revenue bonds — rate of interest, sale.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
91.670. Revenue bonds — rate of interest, sale. —
Revenue bonds issued under sections 91.620 to 91.770 shall bear interest at such rate or rates not exceeding six percent per annum, payable semiannually, may be in one or more series, may bear such date or dates, may mature at such time or times not exceeding forty years from their respective dates, may be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places, may carry such registration privileges, may be subject to such terms of redemption, may be executed in such manner, may contain such terms, covenants and conditions, and may be in such form, either coupon or registered, as such ordinance or resolution or subsequent ordinances or resolutions may provide. Such bonds shall be deemed valid and negotiable without being presented to the state auditor for registration and certification. Sections 108.240 and 108.250 shall not apply to bonds issued hereunder, and said bonds shall be sold at not less than par. Said bonds may be sold at private sale to the United States of America or any agency, instrumentality or corporation thereof. Unless sold to the United States of America or any agency, instrumentality or corporation thereof, said bonds shall be sold at public sale after notice of such sale published once at least five days prior to such sale in a newspaper circulating in the municipality and in a financial newspaper published in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, or Kansas City, Missouri. Pending the preparation of the definitive bonds, interim receipts or certificates in such form and with such provisions as the governing body may determine may be issued to the purchaser or purchasers of bonds sold pursuant to sections 91.620 to 91.770. Said bonds and interim receipts or certificates shall be fully negotiable for all the purposes.
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(L. 1941 p. 493 § 5)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.680 - Moneys received — how expended.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
91.680. Moneys received — how expended. —
All moneys received from any bonds issued and all other income pursuant to sections 91.620 to 91.770, after reimbursements and repayment to said city or town of all amounts advanced for preliminary expenses, shall be applied solely to the payment of the costs of the works, extensions, operation, maintenance, improvements or betterments or to the appurtenant sinking fund and there shall be and hereby is created and granted a lien upon such moneys, until so applied, in favor of the holders of the bonds or the trustees herein provided for.
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(L. 1941 p. 493 § 6)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.690 - Sinking fund.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
91.690. Sinking fund. —
1. At or before the issuance of any such bonds the governing body shall by ordinance create a sinking fund for the payment of the bonds and the interest thereon and the payment of the charges of banks or trust companies for making payment of such bonds or interest, and shall set aside and pledge a sufficient amount of the net revenues of the works, hereby defined to mean the revenues of the works remaining after the payment of the reasonable expense of operation, repair and maintenance, such amount to be paid by the board into said sinking fund at intervals to be determined by ordinance prior to issuance of the bonds, for
(1) The interest upon such bonds as such interest shall fall due; and
(2) The necessary fiscal agency charges for paying bonds and interest;
(3) The payment of the bonds as they fall due, or, if all bonds mature at one time, the proper maintenance of a sinking fund sufficient for the payment thereof at such time; and
(4) A margin for safety and for the payment of premiums upon bonds retired by call or purchase as herein provided, which margin, together with any unused surplus of such margin carried forward from the preceding year, shall equal ten percent of all other amounts so required to be paid into the sinking fund.
2. Such required payments shall constitute a first charge upon all the net revenues of the undertakings. Prior to the issuance of the bonds, the board may by ordinance be given the right to use such sinking fund or any part thereof in the purchase of any of the outstanding bonds payable therefrom at the market price thereof, but not exceeding the price, if any, at which the same shall in the same year be payable or redeemable and all bonds redeemed or purchased shall forthwith be cancelled and shall not again be issued. After the payment into the sinking fund as herein required, the board may at any time in its discretion transfer all or any part of the balance of the net revenue, after reserving an amount deemed by the board sufficient for operation, repair and maintenance for an ensuing period of not less than twelve months and for depreciation, into the sinking fund or into a fund for extensions, betterments and additions to the works.
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(L. 1941 p. 493 § 7)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.700 - Bonds shall not be invalidated for certain reasons.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
91.700. Bonds shall not be invalidated for certain reasons. —
Said bonds bearing the signatures of officers in office on the date of the signing thereof shall be valid and binding obligations, notwithstanding that before the delivery thereof and payment therefor any or all the persons whose signatures appear thereon shall have ceased to be officers of the municipality issuing the same. The validity of said bonds shall not be dependent or not affected by the validity or regularity of any proceedings relating to the acquisition, purchase, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment, or extension of the undertaking for which said bonds are issued. The ordinance or resolution authorizing said bonds may provide that the bonds shall contain a recital that they are issued pursuant to sections 91.620 to 91.770, which recital shall be conclusive evidence of their validity and of the regularity of their issuance.
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(L. 1941 p. 493 § 8)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.710 - Ordinance or resolution — may contain what.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
91.710. Ordinance or resolution — may contain what. —
Any ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds under sections 91.620 to 91.770, to finance in whole or in part the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment or extension of an undertaking, may contain covenants (notwithstanding that such covenants may limit the exercise of powers conferred by sections 91.620 to 91.770) as to:
(1) The rates, fees, tolls, or charges to be charged for the services, facilities and commodities of said undertaking;
(2) The use and disposition of the revenue of said undertaking;
(3) The creation and maintenance of reserves or sinking funds and the regulation, use and disposition thereof;
(4) The purpose or purposes to which the proceeds of the sale of said bonds may be applied and the use and disposition of such proceeds;
(5) Events of default and the rights and liabilities arising thereupon, and the terms and conditions upon which bonds issued under sections 91.620 to 91.770 shall become or may be declared due before maturity, and the terms and conditions upon which such declaration and its consequences may be waived;
(6) A fair and reasonable payment by the municipality to the account of said undertaking for the services, facilities or commodities furnished said municipality or any of its departments by said undertaking;
(7) The issuance of other or additional bonds or instruments payable from or constituting a charge against the revenue of such undertaking;
(8) The insurance to be carried thereon and the use and disposition of insurance moneys;
(9) Books of account and the inspection and audit thereof;
(10) Events of default and terms and conditions upon which any or all of the bonds shall become or may be declared due before maturity and as to the terms and conditions upon which such declaration and its consequences may be waived;
(11) The rights, liabilities, powers and duties arising upon the breach by it of any covenants, conditions or obligations;
(12) The vesting in a trustee or trustees the rights to enforce any covenants made to secure, to pay, or in relation to the bonds, as to the powers and duties of such trustee or trustees, and the limitation of liabilities thereof, and as to the terms and conditions upon which the holders of the bonds or any proportion or percentage of them may enforce any covenants made under sections 91.620 to 91.770 or duties imposed hereby;
(13) A procedure by which the terms of any resolution authorizing bonds, or any other contract with bondholders, including but not limited to an indenture of trust or similar instrument, may be amended or abrogated and as to the amount of bonds the holders of which must consent thereto and the manner in which such consent may be given.
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(L. 1941 p. 493 § 9)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.720 - Bonds — payable from what revenue, liability limited.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
91.720. Bonds — payable from what revenue, liability limited. —
Revenue bonds issued under sections 91.620 to 91.770 shall not be payable from or charged upon any funds, other than the revenue pledged to the payment thereof, nor shall the municipality issuing the same be subject to any pecuniary liability thereon. No holder or holders of any such bonds shall ever have the right to compel any exercise of the taxing power of the municipality to pay any such bonds or the interest thereon, nor to enforce payment thereof against any property of the municipality, nor shall any such bonds constitute a charge, lien or encumbrance, legal or equitable, upon any property of the municipality. Each bond issued under sections 91.620 to 91.770 shall recite in substance that said bond, including interest thereon, is payable solely from the revenue pledged to the payment thereof, and that said bond does not constitute a debt of the municipality within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation.
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(L. 1941 p. 493 § 10)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.740 - Rights and powers of bondholders — shall be cumulative.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
91.740. Rights and powers of bondholders — shall be cumulative. —
1. Subject to any contractual limitations binding upon the holders of any issue of bonds, or trustee therefor, including but not limited to the restriction of the exercise of any remedy to a specified proportion or percentage of such holders, any holder of bonds, or trustee therefor, shall have the right and power, for the equal benefit and protection of all holders of bonds similarly situated
(1) By mandamus or other suit, action or proceeding at law or in equity to enforce his rights against the municipality and its governing body and any of its officers, agents and employees and to require and compel such municipality or such governing body or any such officers, agents or employees to perform and carry out its and their duties and obligations under sections 91.620 to 91.770 and its and their covenants and agreements with bondholders;
(2) By action or suit in equity to require the municipality and the governing body thereof to account as if they were the trustee of an express trust;
(3) By action or suit in equity to enjoin any acts or things which may be unlawful or in violation of the rights of the bondholders;
(4) Bring suit upon the bonds.
2. No right or remedy conferred by sections 91.620 to 91.770 upon any holder of bonds, or any trustee therefor, is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, but each such right or remedy is cumulative and in addition to every other right or remedy and may be exercised without exhausting and without regard to any other remedy conferred by sections 91.620 to 91.770 or by any other law.
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(L. 1941 p. 493 § 12)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.750 - Sewage disposal and waterworks — operators authorized to enter into contracts.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
91.750. Sewage disposal and waterworks — operators authorized to enter into contracts. —
Any governing body operating sewage disposal or waterworks as defined in sections 91.620 to 91.770 or which as herein provided has ordered the construction or acquisition of such works (in this section called the owner) is hereby authorized to contract with one or more other cities, towns or political subdivisions within the state (in this section called the lessee), and such lessees are hereby authorized to enter into such contracts with such owners, for the use of such works by such lessee and their inhabitants, but only to the extent of the capacity of the works without impairing the usefulness thereof to the owners, upon such terms and conditions as may be fixed by the boards and approved by ordinances of the respective contracting parties; provided, however, that no such contract shall be made for a period of more than fifteen years or in violation of the provisions of said ordinance authorizing bonds hereunder or in violation of the provisions of said trust indenture. The lessee shall by ordinance have power to establish, change and adjust rates and charges for the service rendered therein by the works against the owners of the premises served, in the manner herein provided for establishing, changing and adjusting rates and charges for the service rendered in the city or town where the works are owned and operated, and such rates or charges shall be collectible and shall be a lien as herein provided for rates and charges made by the owner. The necessary intercepting sewers and appurtenant works for connecting the works of the owner with the sewerage system of the lessee shall be constructed by the owner or the lessee upon such terms and conditions as may be set forth in said contract, and the cost or that part of the cost thereof which is to be borne by the owner may be paid as a part of the cost of the works from the proceeds of bonds issued under sections 91.620 to 91.770 unless otherwise provided by said ordinance or trust indenture prior to the issuance of the bonds. The income received by the owner under any such contract shall, if so provided in said ordinance or trust indenture, be deemed to be a part of the revenues of the works as in sections 91.620 to 91.770 defined and be applied as herein provided for the application of such revenues.
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(L. 1941 p. 493 § 13)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.760 - Powers are additional and supplemental — law shall be controlling.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
91.760. Powers are additional and supplemental — law shall be controlling. —
The powers conferred by sections 91.620 to 91.770 shall be in addition and supplemental to, and not in substitution for, and the limitations imposed by sections 91.620 to 91.770 shall not affect the powers conferred by any other general, special or local law or charter. Bonds may be issued under sections 91.620 to 91.770 without regard to the provisions of any other general, special or local law or charter. The undertaking may be leased, acquired, purchased, constructed, reconstructed, improved, bettered, and extended, and bonds may be issued under sections 91.620 to 91.770 for said purposes, notwithstanding that any general, special or local law or charter may provide for the leasing, acquisition, purchase, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment, and extension of a like undertaking, or the issuance of bonds for like purposes, and without regard to the requirements, restrictions, debt or other limitations or other provisions contained in any other general, special or local law, or charter, including, but not limited to, any requirement for the approval by the electors, taxpayers, or voters of any municipality and any restriction or limitation on the incurring of indebtedness or the issuance of bonds. Insofar as the provisions of sections 91.620 to 91.770 are inconsistent with the provisions of any other general, special, or local law, the provisions of sections 91.620 to 91.770 shall be controlling.
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(L. 1941 p. 493 § 14)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.770 - Municipalities — power to acquire lands and other property, limitation.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1941
91.770. Municipalities — power to acquire lands and other property, limitation. —
Any municipality as herein defined shall have power to purchase, lease or condemn lands or other property, or interests therein, in the name of the state, necessary and proper to enable it to carry out the purposes of sections 91.620 to 91.770. If condemnation becomes necessary, the municipalities shall have power to proceed to condemn such lands or other property, or interests therein, in the name of the state, in accordance with the provisions of law relating to condemnation proceedings by railroad corporations insofar as same are applicable; provided, however, that any municipality shall have power to require any publicly or privately owned water system or sewer system service which is now or may hereafter be authorized or ordered by the public service commission only by contract with the owner thereof and with the approval of the public service commission, and the provisions of sections 91.620 to 91.770 shall not be construed to authorize any such municipality to acquire, by condemnation proceedings, any such water system or sewer system service, or any other public utility service, now or hereafter authorized or ordered by the public service commission.
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(L. 1941 p. 493 § 14a)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.780 - Defining term rapid transit improvement.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
91.780. Defining term rapid transit improvement. —
The term
"rapid transit improvement"
, as used in sections 91.780 to 91.840, shall include every improvement for local public use in connection with the transportation or movements of persons and, or property, so designed as to eliminate interference with or by ordinary travel upon the public highways and in public places, and located upon, over, above, below, across, through or along any street, avenue, road, highway, bridge, viaduct, public place, or private property within or without the municipal corporate limits, including all subways, tunnels, elevated highways and structures, walks, bridges, viaducts, surface construction, approaches, loops, stations, entrances, exits, yards, buildings, lands, rights-of-way or other easements, estates or interests of land, which may be necessary, convenient or expedient for the proper construction, equipment, maintenance or use of such rapid transit improvement. Such rapid transit improvement, when municipally owned or controlled, shall be deemed to be a public work and a local improvement.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7774)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7634
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.790 - Authorized to establish, construct and own rapid transit improvement.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
91.790. Authorized to establish, construct and own rapid transit improvement. —
All cities in this state having six hundred thousand or more inhabitants are hereby authorized and empowered by ordinance to establish, construct and own, to acquire by condemnation, purchase, lease, or otherwise, and to contract for the construction, purchase, lease or other acquisition, within and/or without their respective corporate limits, and along such routes, and upon such terms and conditions as they may deem best, of a rapid transit improvement as herein defined, or any part thereof; and to use such rapid transit improvement, or permit the same to be used, for the transportation or movement of persons and/or property, and for the operation of cars, motorbuses and other vehicles or means of transportation, public or private, and for the laying of tracks, pipes, wires, cables, conduits, and other equipment and appurtenances necessary and incident thereto, used for public or private transportation. In all cases the use of streets, avenues, roads, highways, places and lands, and the rights-of-way through and interest in the same, for any of the purposes of a rapid transit improvement as herein authorized and provided, shall be considered, and is hereby declared to be a public use, consistent with the uses for which the streets, avenues, roads, highways and public places are publicly held.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7775)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7635
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.800 - May assess benefits and damages, and collect and pay therefor.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
91.800. May assess benefits and damages, and collect and pay therefor. —
All such cities are hereby authorized and empowered to acquire such rapid transit improvement, in whole or in part, by condemnation, and shall have the power to assess benefits and damages, and collect and pay therefor, in the manner that such cities may now or hereafter be authorized to acquire real estate or other property, or rights of interest therein, for public purposes.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7776)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7636
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.810 - May provide for payment by special assessment.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
91.810. May provide for payment by special assessment. —
All such cities are hereby authorized and empowered to construct such rapid transit improvement, or any part thereof, or cause the same to be constructed, and to provide for the payment thereof, in part, by special assessment, in the manner and to the effect that such cities may now or hereafter be authorized to provide for special assessments for local improvements.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7777)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7637
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.820 - May issue and sell public utility improvement and general bonds.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
91.820. May issue and sell public utility improvement and general bonds. —
All such cities are hereby authorized and empowered, for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, equipping, maintaining and extending such rapid transit improvement, and paying therefor, in whole or in part, to issue and sell public utility, public improvement, and general bonds. The form and denomination of such bonds; the date of maturity or maturities thereof; the rate of interest thereon and date and place of payment; by what officers and in what manner they shall be executed and attested; the place and method of payment, and the fund or funds out of which payment shall be made, together with other provisions and regulations concerning such bonds and not inconsistent herewith or contrary to law, shall be prescribed by the ordinance authorizing the particular issue.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7778)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7638
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.830 - May grant rights and interests in rapid transit improvements.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
91.830. May grant rights and interests in rapid transit improvements. —
All such cities are hereby authorized and empowered to maintain such rapid transit improvement so constructed or acquired, and every part thereof; and to grant rights and interests in said rapid transit improvement, or in any part thereof, for public use, to such parties and upon such terms, and for such rentals and considerations, as such cities may deem best.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7779)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7639
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 91 - Municipally Owned Utilities › Section 91.840 - May establish rapid transit commission, or commissioner.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 91
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
91.840. May establish rapid transit commission, or commissioner. —
All such cities are hereby authorized and empowered by ordinance to create and establish a rapid transit commission and determine the number of members thereof, or, in lieu of such commission, create the office of rapid transit commissioner; provide for the appointment and removal of such commission or commissioner, prescribe their qualifications, fix their term of office and compensation, define their powers and duties, provide for the employment of assistants, and do all other things necessary for the proper and efficient functioning of such commissioner or commission, and for carrying out effectively the provisions of sections 91.780 to 91.840.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7780)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7640
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 92 - Taxation in St. Louis, Kansas City, and Certain Other Cities › Section 92.010 - Maximum rate of levy for general purposes — method of increase (St. Louis).

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 92
Effective - 28 Aug 1978
92.010. Maximum rate of levy for general purposes — method of increase (St. Louis). —
1. Any constitutional charter cities in this state which may now have or hereafter acquire seven hundred thousand or more inhabitants may levy upon all subjects and objects of taxation a rate for general municipal purposes not to exceed the annual rate of one dollar on the one hundred dollars assessed valuation; provided, that the city of St. Louis may levy for county purposes, in addition to the municipal rate of taxation above provided, a rate not exceeding the rate which would be allowed for county purposes if said city of St. Louis were a county; provided, however, that the rate of taxation for general municipal purposes herein limited may be increased for not to exceed four years, when the rate and purpose of the increase are submitted to a vote and two-thirds of the voters voting thereon shall vote therefor, but such increase so voted shall be limited to a maximum rate of taxation not to exceed thirty cents on the one hundred dollars assessed valuation. The legislative body of any of said cities may submit the question of an increase of levy when, in the opinion of such legislative body, necessity therefor arises, and such question shall be submitted by such legislative body when petitioned therefor by the voters equaling in number one percent or more of the voters of the city voting for mayor at the last city election at which a mayor was elected.
2. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall there be a ______ cent increase in tax levy on one hundred dollars valuation for general municipal purposes for ______ years?
3. If such increase in levy shall be voted, then such increased levy shall be effective for the number of years designated, and no longer, but said cities, through their legislative bodies, may submit any such proposal for continuing such increase of levy at any time for like periods not to exceed four years each.
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(L. 1945 p. 1296 § 1, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)