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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.301 - Extension of boundaries if petition does not include all required signatures, effect — election, ballot form.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1990
321.301. Extension of boundaries if petition does not include all required signatures, effect — election, ballot form. —
1. If the petition to add any territory or tract of land to the district contained fewer than all of the signatures required pursuant to subdivision (2) of subsection 2 of section 321.300, the decree of extension of boundaries shall not become final and conclusive until it has been submitted to an election of the voters residing within the boundaries described in such decree and until it has been assented to by a majority vote of the voters in the newly included area voting on the question. The decree shall also provide for the holding of the election to vote on the proposition of extending the boundaries of the district, and shall fix the date for holding the election.
2. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall the boundaries of the ______ Fire Protection District be extended to include the following described property? (Describe property.)
☐ YES
☐ NO
3. If a majority of the voters voting on the proposition vote in favor of the extension of the boundaries of the district, then the court shall enter its further order declaring the decree of extension of the boundaries to be final and conclusive. In the event, however, that the court finds that a majority of the voters voting thereon voted against the proposition to extend the boundaries of the district, then the court shall enter its further order declaring the decree of extension of boundaries to be void and of no effect.
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(L. 1982 H.B. 1096, A.L. 1989 H.B. 731, A.L. 1990 S.B. 862)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.302 - Recording of boundary extension, duties — fees.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1982
321.302. Recording of boundary extension, duties — fees. —
Within thirty days after the final order of the circuit court extending the boundaries of the district, the circuit clerk of that court shall transmit to the county clerk and to the recorder of deeds in each county in which the district is located copies of the findings and decrees of the court extending the boundaries of the 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, and each recorder and clerk shall receive a fee of one dollar for filing and preserving the same.
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(L. 1982 H.B. 1096)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.320 - Property in city of 40,000 inhabitants not wholly within district, to be excluded.

There are multiple enactments of 321.320
Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1969, 2 histories
*321.320. Property in city of 40,000 inhabitants not wholly within district, to be excluded. —
If any property, located within the boundaries of a fire protection district, is included within a city having a population of forty thousand inhabitants or more, which city is not wholly within the fire protection district, and which city maintains a city fire department, the property is excluded from the fire protection district.
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(L. 1949 p. 540 § 32a, A.L. 1957 p. 723, A.L. 1961 p. 553, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322)
*Revisor's Note: This section is reprinted in accordance with section 3.066. H.B. 1446 in 2018 amended this section and was declared unconstitutional as a violation of Art. III, Sec. 23, of the Missouri Constitution (see 2021 annotation below), rendering the repeal and reenactment of this section ineffective.
(2021) Provisions contained in HB 1446 from 2018 declared unconstitutional as that bill violated the single subject requirement of Article III, Section 23 of the Missouri Constitution. City of De Soto v. Parson, 625 S.W.3d 412 (Mo.banc).
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.330 - Property not to be subject to taxes, when.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1947
321.330. Property not to be subject to taxes, when. —
All real property included within, or excluded from, a district shall thereafter be subject to the levy of taxes for the payment of any indebtedness of the district outstanding at the time of inclusion or exclusion; provided, however, that after any real property shall have been excluded from a district, as herein provided, any buildings and improvements thereafter erected or constructed on said excluded real property, and all machinery and equipment thereafter installed or placed therein or thereon, and all tangible personal property not in said district at the time of the exclusion of said real property from said district which shall thereafter be situate on or used in connection with said real property, shall not be subject to any taxes levied by said district.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 33)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.340 - Bonds of district.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1947
321.340. Bonds of district. —
To carry out the purposes of this chapter, the board is hereby authorized to issue negotiable coupon bonds of the district as herein provided. Bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding six percent per annum, payable semiannually, and shall be due and payable serially, either annually or semiannually, commencing not later than three years and extending not more than twenty years from their date. The form and terms of said bonds, including provisions for their payment and redemption, shall be determined by the board. If the board so determines, such bonds may be redeemable prior to maturity upon payment of a premium, not exceeding three percent of the principal thereof. Said bonds shall be executed in the name of and on behalf of the district and signed by the chairman of the board, with the seal of the district affixed thereto and attested by the secretary of the board. Said bonds shall be in such denominations as the board shall determine and the bonds and coupons thereto attached shall be payable to bearer. Interest coupons shall bear the original or facsimile signature of the chairman of the board.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 34)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.350 - Election to vote on issuing bonds or creating indebtedness.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
321.350. Election to vote on issuing bonds or creating indebtedness. —
Whenever any board shall, by resolution, determine that the interest of said district and the public interest or necessity demand the acquisition, construction, installation or completion of any works or other improvements or facilities, or the making of any contract with the United States or other persons or corporations, to carry out the objects or purposes of said district, requiring the creation of an indebtedness in an amount exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for such year plus any unencumbered balances from previous years, said board shall order the submission of the proposition of issuing such obligations or bonds, or creating other indebtedness, to the voters of the election. The declaration of public interest or necessity herein required and the provision for holding of such election may be included within one and the same resolution, which resolution, in addition to such declaration of public interest or necessity, shall recite the objects and purposes for which the indebtedness is proposed to be incurred, the estimated cost of the works or improvements, as the case may be, the amount of principal of the indebtedness to be incurred therefor, and the maximum rate of interest to be paid on such indebtedness. Such resolution shall also fix the date upon which such election shall be held.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 35, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.360 - Form of ballot.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
321.360. Form of ballot. —
1. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall ______ (Insert name of district.) ______ Fire Protection District ______ (Here state the proposition to be submitted.) ______?
2. The proposition so submitted, if relating to bonds, shall set out the amount of the issue and the purpose.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 36, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, S.B. 628)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.370 - Results of election to be announced.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
321.370. Results of election to be announced. —
At any regular or special meeting of the board held within five days following the date of such election, the board shall declare the results.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 37, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.380 - Percentage necessary to create indebtedness — subsequent submission.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1990
321.380. Percentage necessary to create indebtedness — subsequent submission. —
In the event that it shall appear from the returns that the constitutionally required percentage of the voters of the district who shall have voted on any such proposition submitted hereunder at such election voted in favor of such proposition, the district shall thereupon be authorized to incur such indebtedness or obligations, enter into such contract or issue and sell such bonds of the district, as the case may be, all for the purpose or purposes and object or objects provided for in the proposition or propositions submitted hereunder and in the resolution therefor, and in the amount so provided and at a rate of interest not exceeding the rate of interest recited in such resolution. Submission of the proposition of incurring such obligation or bonded or other indebtedness at such an election shall not prevent or prohibit submission of the same or other propositions at a subsequent election.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 38, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1621)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.390 - Petition for dissolution of district — submission of question.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
321.390. Petition for dissolution of district — submission of question. —
Whenever a petition signed by not less than one hundred voters in any district organized under the provisions of this chapter is filed with the circuit court having jurisdiction over the district, setting forth all the relevant facts pertaining to the district, and alleging that the further operation of the district is inimicable to the best interests of the inhabitants of the district, and that the district should, in the interest of the public welfare and safety, be dissolved, the circuit court shall have authority, after hearing evidence submitted on the aforesaid question, to order a submission of the question, after having caused publication of notice of a hearing on said petition, in substantially the following form:
Shall ______ (Insert the name of the fire district.) ______ Fire Protection District be dissolved?
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 39, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, S.B. 628)
(1974) Proceeding to dissolve district must be conducted as provided by statute. Board of directors has no inherent power to order dissolution. State ex rel. Crites v. West (A.), 509 S.W.2d 482.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.400 - Circuit court may call for an election to determine dissolution of district.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
321.400. Circuit court may call for an election to determine dissolution of district. —
If the court shall find that it is to the best interest of the inhabitants of said district that such district be dissolved, it shall make an order reciting the same and providing for the submission of the proposition to dissolve such district to a vote of the voters of the district, setting forth such further details in its order as may be necessary to an orderly conduct of such election. Such election shall be held at the municipal election. Returns of said election shall be certified to the court. If the court finds that two-thirds of the voters voting thereon shall have voted in favor of the proposition to dissolve said district, the court shall make a final order dissolving said district, and the decree shall contain a proviso that said district shall continue in full force for the purpose of paying all outstanding and lawful obligations and disposing of property of the district; but no additional costs or obligations shall be created except such as are necessary to pay such costs, obligations and liabilities theretofore incurred, or necessary to the winding up of the district. If the court shall find that two-thirds of the voters of the district voting thereon shall not have voted favorably on the proposition to dissolve such district, then the court shall make a final order declaring such result dismissing the petition praying for the dissolution of said district; and the said district shall continue to operate in the same manner as though said petition asking for such dissolution has not been filed.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 40, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.410 - Effect of dissolution — appointment of trustee.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1969
321.410. Effect of dissolution — appointment of trustee. —
The dissolution of a fire protection district shall not invalidate or affect any right accruing to such fire district, or to any person, or invalidate or affect any contract or indebtedness entered into or imposed upon such fire protection district or person; and whenever the circuit court shall, under the provisions of section 321.400, dissolve a fire protection district, the said court shall appoint some competent person to act as trustee for the fire protection district so dissolved and such trustee before entering upon the discharge of his duties shall take and subscribe an oath that he will faithfully discharge the duties of his office, and shall give bond with sufficient security, to be approved by the court to the use of such dissolved fire protection district, for the faithful discharge of his duties, and shall proceed to liquidate the district under orders of the court, including the levying of any taxes provided for in this chapter.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 41, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.430 - Prior obligations remain valid.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1969
321.430. Prior obligations remain valid. —
Any and all taxable tangible property located within any such district already organized on September 10, 1947, shall continue to be subject to the levy of taxes for general purposes and for the payment of any indebtedness previously created, all as provided herein. The repeal of any acts herein shall not be held to affect or invalidate any claims, demands, acts, debts, contracts, obligations or indebtedness of any district created under the provisions of any such act.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 43, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.440 - When notice not given as required, procedure of court.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1969
321.440. When notice not given as required, procedure of court. —
In any and every case where a notice is provided for in this chapter, if the court finds for any reason that due notice was not given, the court shall not thereby lose jurisdiction, and the proceeding in question shall not thereby be void or be abated, but the court shall in that case order due notice to be given, and shall continue the hearing until such time as notice shall be properly given, and thereupon shall proceed as though notice had been properly given in the first instance.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 44, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.450 - Cases arising under this chapter to be advanced on docket — courts always open.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1969
321.450. Cases arising under this chapter to be advanced on docket — courts always open. —
All cases in which there may arise a question of the validity of the organization of a district, or a question of the validity of any proceeding under the provisions of this chapter, shall be advanced on the docket as a matter of immediate public interest and concern, and heard at the earliest practicable moment. The courts shall be open at all times for the purposes of this chapter.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 45, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.465 - Consolidated district, status — transfer of assets and liabilities.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1969
321.465. Consolidated district, status — transfer of assets and liabilities. —
If the vote prescribed by section 321.460 is in favor of the consolidation, then, upon the order of the court declaring the same, the consolidated district thereupon shall be a political subdivision of the state of Missouri and a body corporate, with all the powers of like or similar corporations, and with all the powers of fire protection districts under section 321.220, whose affairs shall be conducted as provided in this chapter, with all the powers, privileges and duties therein conferred and provided upon fire protection districts in the county. All properties, rights, assets, and liabilities of the several fire protection districts which are so consolidated, including outstanding bonds thereof if any, shall become forthwith and without any further procedure the properties, rights, assets, and liabilities of the consolidated fire protection district. The provisions of section 321.140 shall also apply to the election and order establishing the consolidated fire protection district.
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(L. 1961 p. 553 § 2, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.470 - Recording of order of consolidation — fee (constitutional charter counties).

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
321.470. Recording of order of consolidation — fee (constitutional charter counties). —
The order of the circuit court having jurisdiction, as well as finding and determining the votes of the election, shall direct the clerk of the court to transmit to the county clerk and to the recorder of deeds of each county in which the consolidated district is located a certified copy of such order, to be filed in the same manner as articles of incorporation are required to be filed under the general laws concerning corporations, and each recorder and each clerk shall each receive, for such filing, a fee of one dollar, to be charged as costs in the proceeding.
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(L. 1961 p. 553 § 3, A.L. 1978 S.B. 628)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.490 - Initiative and referendum authorized.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
Effective - 28 Aug 1978
321.490. Initiative and referendum authorized. —
All powers which may be exercised by the board of directors of a fire protection district may be exercised by the voters of that district by initiative or referendum.
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(L. 1969 H.B. 322, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.495 - Form of petition.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
321.495. Form of petition. —
1. A petition for a referendum shall be in substantially the following form:
WARNING
It is a felony for anyone to sign any initiative or referendum petition with any name other than his own, or to knowingly sign his name more than once for the measure, or to sign such petition when he is not a legal voter.
INITIATIVE PETITION
To the board of directors of the ______ Fire Protection District:
We the undersigned, citizens and voters of the state of Missouri and the ______ Fire Protection District, respectfully order that (describe the measure) shall be referred to the people of the district for their approval or rejection, at the regular (special) election to be held on the ______ day of ______, 20______, and each for himself says: I have personally signed this petition; I am a duly qualified elector of the state and district; my residence and post-office address are correctly written after my name.
Name ______ Residence ______ Post Office ______
(if in a city, street and number)
(Here follow numbered lines for signatures.)
2. Every sheet for petitioners' signatures shall be attached to a full and correct copy of the title and text of the measure proposed by the initiative petition. Referendum petitions shall be attached to a full and correct copy of the measure on which the referendum is demanded.
3. Each sheet of every petition containing signatures shall be verified in substantially the following form by the person who circulated the sheet, by his affidavit thereon:
State of Missouri
County of ______
I, ______, being first duly sworn, say that each person whose name appears on this sheet signed his name thereto in my presence; I believe that each has stated his name, post-office address and residence correctly, and that each signer is a voter of the state of Missouri and ______ Fire Protection District.
(signature and post-office address of affiant)
Subscribed and sworn to before me this ______ day of ______, 20______
(signature and title of officer before whom oath is made and his post-office address)
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(L. 1969 H.B. 322, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.500 - Signatures required for referendum or initiative petition — submission of question — vote required.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
Effective - 28 Aug 1978
321.500. Signatures required for referendum or initiative petition — submission of question — vote required. —
1. If an initiative or referendum petition is presented to the secretary of the board of directors, which petition carries the names of voters of the district, equal in number of votes of the district who voted in the last regular district election, the board of directors shall submit the question pursuant to the order or demand of the petition.
2. The measure called for in the petition is adopted if it receives an affirmative majority vote of the voters voting at the district election.
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(L. 1969 H.B. 322, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.506 - Fire district may contract with private provider — ballot.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
Effective - 28 Aug 1996
321.506. Fire district may contract with private provider — ballot. —
1. Fire districts in the state of Missouri may contract to a private company to provide fire service only if a majority of voters of the political subdivision authorize such a proposal at a public election.
2. The ballot shall be in the following form:
Shall the ______ (name of fire district) have the authority to contract the fire service of the district to a private company?
☐ YES
☐ NO
­­If a majority of the votes cast on the proposal by the qualified voters voting thereon are in favor of the proposal, then the fire district board may have the authority to contract fire services to a private company. If a majority of the votes cast by the qualified voters voting are opposed to the proposal, then the fire district board shall have no authority to contract fire services to a private company.
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(L. 1996 S.B. 735 § 2)
CROSS REFERENCE:
Municipal fire departments may contract with private providers for fire protection, vote required, 85.012
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.556 - Repeal of sales tax, procedure, exceptions — ballot language.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
Effective - 28 Aug 2004, 2 histories
321.556. Repeal of sales tax, procedure, exceptions — ballot language. —
1. Except in any county of the first classification with more than two hundred forty thousand three hundred but less than two hundred forty thousand four hundred inhabitants, or any county of the first classification with more than seventy-three thousand seven hundred but less than seventy-three thousand eight hundred inhabitants, or any county of the first classification with more than one hundred eighty-four thousand but less than one hundred eighty-eight thousand inhabitants, or any county with a charter form of government and with more than one million inhabitants, or any county with a charter form of government and with more than two hundred fifty thousand but less than three hundred fifty thousand inhabitants, the governing body of any ambulance or fire protection district, when presented with a petition signed by at least twenty percent of the registered voters in the ambulance or fire protection district that voted in the last gubernatorial election, calling for an election to repeal the tax pursuant to section 321.552, shall submit the question to the voters using the same procedure by which the imposition of the tax was voted. The ballot of submission shall be in substantially the following form:
Shall ______ (insert name of ambulance or fire protection district) repeal the ______ (insert amount up to one-half) of one percent sales tax now in effect in the ______ (insert name of ambulance or fire protection district) and reestablish the property tax levy in the district to the rate in existence prior to the enactment of the sales tax?
☐ YES
☐ NO
If you are in favor of the question, place an "X" in the box opposite "Yes". If you are opposed to the question, place an "X" in the box opposite "No".
2. If a majority of the votes cast on the proposal by the qualified voters of the district voting thereon are in favor of repeal, that repeal shall become effective December thirty-first of the calendar year in which such repeal was approved.
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(L. 2002 S.B. 1107, A.L. 2004 H.B. 795, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.603 - Attendance fees permitted, fire district board members (first classification charter counties).

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
Effective - 28 Aug 2005
321.603. Attendance fees permitted, fire district board members (first classification charter counties). —
In addition to the compensation provided pursuant to section 321.190 for fire protection districts located in a county of the first classification with a charter form of government, each member of any such fire protection district board may receive an attendance fee not to exceed one hundred dollars for attending a board meeting conducted pursuant to chapter 610, but such board member shall not be paid for attending more than four such meetings in any calendar month. However, no board member shall be paid more than one attendance fee if such member attends more than one meeting conducted under chapter 610 in a calendar week.
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(L. 1999 S.B. 436 § 1, A.L. 2005 H.B. 58 merged with H.B. 127 merged with S.B. 210)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.622 - Responding to fires or emergencies beyond corporate boundaries, exception — liabilities for claims, death or injuries — charges for responding.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
Effective - 28 Aug 1990
321.622. Responding to fires or emergencies beyond corporate boundaries, exception — liabilities for claims, death or injuries — charges for responding. —
1. Fire protection districts, when asked to respond to fires or other emergencies beyond its corporate boundaries may charge for those services rendered.
2. When formal mutual aid agreements are in place with adjoining areas and departments, this provision is not applicable except by formal agreement and contract with the adjoining department.
3. In responding to fires or other emergencies outside the corporate boundaries of a fire protection district, the fire protection district responding and its firefighters shall be subject to the same liabilities for claims for death or injury to persons or property as those subjected to when responding to fires or emergencies within their respective fire protection district.
4. In responding to fires or emergencies outside the corporate boundaries of the fire protection district, the fire protection district responding may charge up to the following fees:
(1) One hundred dollars for responding to each fire call or alarm;
(2) Five hundred dollars for each hour or a proportional sum for each quarter hour spent in combating a fire or emergency.
5. No property owner shall be liable for fees or charges under this section if the property owner has previously entered into an agreement with the fire protection district in writing, prior to the occurrence of the fire or emergency.
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(L. 1990 H.B. 1395 & 1448 § 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.687 - Consolidation of two or more fire districts, procedure — board of directors, terms (St. Louis County).

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
Effective - 28 Aug 1993
321.687. Consolidation of two or more fire districts, procedure — board of directors, terms (St. Louis County). —
In any county of the first class with a charter form of government containing a population of nine hundred thousand or more, if two or more fire districts consolidate as prescribed by sections 321.460 to 321.470, the new board of directors will consist of five members. If, upon canvass and declaration, it is found and determined that a majority of the voters of the districts voting on the propositions have voted in favor of the proposition to incorporate the consolidated district, then the court shall then further, in its order, designate the first board of directors of the consolidated district, who have been elected by the voters voting thereon as follows: The one receiving the fifth highest number of votes to hold office for a term of at least one year, the one receiving the fourth highest number of votes to hold office for a term of at least two years, the one receiving the third highest number of votes to hold office for a term of at least three years and the two receiving the second and first highest number of votes to hold office for a term of at least four years from the date of the election of the board of directors and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Thereafter, members of the board shall be elected to serve terms of four years and until their successors are duly elected and qualified.
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(L. 1993 H.B. 177)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.690 - Audits to be performed, when — rules established by state auditor (Christian County fire protection districts exempt from audits).

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
Effective - 28 Aug 1998, 2 histories
321.690. Audits to be performed, when — rules established by state auditor (Christian County fire protection districts exempt from audits). —
1. In counties of the first classification having a charter form of government and having more than nine hundred thousand inhabitants and in counties of the first classification which contain a city with a population of one hundred thousand or more inhabitants which adjoins no other county of the first classification, the governing body of each fire protection district shall cause an audit to be performed consistent with rules and regulations promulgated by the state auditor.
2. (1) All such districts shall cause an audit to be performed biennially. Each such audit shall cover the period of the two previous fiscal years.
(2) Any fire protection district with less than fifty thousand dollars in annual revenues may, with the approval of the state auditor, be exempted from the audit requirement of this section if it files appropriate reports on its affairs with the state auditor within five months after the close of each fiscal year and if these reports comply with the provisions of section 105.145. These reports shall be reviewed, approved and signed by a majority of the members of the governing body of the fire protection district seeking exemption.
3. Copies of each audit report must be completed and submitted to the fire protection district and the state auditor within six months after the close of the audit period. One copy of the audit report and accompanying comments shall be maintained by the governing body of the fire protection district for public inspection at reasonable times in the principal office of the district. The state auditor shall also maintain a copy of the audit report and comment. If any audit report fails to comply with the rules promulgated by the state auditor, that official shall notify the fire protection district and specify the defects. If the defects specified are not corrected within ninety days from the date of the state auditor's notice to the district, or if a copy of the required audit report and accompanying comments have not been received by the state auditor within six months after the end of the audit period, the state auditor shall make, or cause to be made, the required audit at the expense of the fire protection district.
4. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any fire protection district based and substantially located in a county of the third classification with a population of at least thirty-one thousand five hundred but not greater than thirty-three thousand.
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(L. 1977 H.B. 216, A.L. 1981 S.B. 200, A.L. 1986 H.B. 877, A.L. 1991 S.B. 34, A.L. 1993 H.B. 177 merged with S.B. 346, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1847)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.700 - Dissolution of district, funds distributed to city, when.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
Effective - 28 Aug 1995, 2 histories
321.700. Dissolution of district, funds distributed to city, when. —
If a property tax has been approved and is being collected for the purpose of supporting a fire protection district and such fire protection district is dissolved, such tax shall continue to be collected and the proceeds of such tax shall be distributed to the governing body of the city formerly containing the dissolved fire protection district, provided that the boundaries of the fire protection district are the same as the city and the tax is used only for providing fire protection services within such city.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 452, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.701 - Members of board subject to recall — exceptions.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
321.701. Members of board subject to recall — exceptions. —
1. Each member of a fire protection district board shall be subject to recall from office by the registered voters of the district from which he was elected. Proceedings may be commenced for the recall of any fire protection district board member by the filing of a notice of intention to circulate a recall petition pursuant to sections 321.701 to 321.716.
2. Proceedings may not be commenced against any member if, at the time of commencement, that member:
(1) Has not held office during his current term for a period of more than one hundred eighty days; or
(2) Has one hundred eighty days or less remaining in his term; or
(3) Has had a recall election determined in his favor within the current term of office.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 452, et al. and L. 1995 H.B. 484, et al., A.L. 2011 H.B. 315)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.703 - Notice of intent to circulate recall petition, service, contents — answer — purpose.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
321.703. Notice of intent to circulate recall petition, service, contents — answer — purpose. —
1. The notice of intention to circulate a recall petition shall be served personally, or by certified mail, on the board member sought to be recalled. A copy thereof shall be filed, along with an affidavit of the time and manner of service, with the election authority, as defined in chapter 115. A separate notice shall be filed for each board member sought to be recalled and shall contain all of the following:
(1) The name of the board member sought to be recalled;
(2) A statement, not exceeding two hundred words in length, of the reasons for the proposed recall;
(3) The name(s) and business or residence address(es) of at least one, and not more than five, proponent(s) of the recall.
2. Within seven days after the filing of the notice of intention, the board member may file with the election authority a statement, not exceeding two hundred words in length, in answer to the statement of the proponents. If an answer is filed, the board member shall also serve a copy of it, personally or by certified mail, on one of the proponents named in the notice of intention.
3. The statement and answer are intended solely for the information of the voters. No insufficiency in form or substance thereof shall affect the validity of the election proceedings.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 452, et al. merged with H.B. 484, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.707 - Petition for recall, content.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
321.707. Petition for recall, content. —
Before any signature may be affixed to a recall petition, the petition must bear all of the following:
(1) A request that an election be called to elect a successor to the board member;
(2) A copy of the notice of intention, including the statement of grounds for recall;
(3) The answer of the board member sought to be recalled, if any. If the board member has not answered, the petition shall so state;
(4) A place for each signer to affix his or her signature, printed name and residence address including city or unincorporated community.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 452, et al. merged with H.B. 484, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.709 - Affidavit to be attached to each section of the petition — content.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
321.709. Affidavit to be attached to each section of the petition — content. —
Each section of the petition, when submitted to the election authority, shall have attached to it an affidavit signed by the circulator of that section, setting forth all of the following:
(1) The printed name of the affiant;
(2) The residence address of the affiant;
(3) That the affiant circulated that section and saw the appended signatures be written;
(4) That according to the best information and belief of the affiant, each signature is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be;
(5) That the affiant is a registered voter of the fire protection district of the board member sought to be recalled; and
(6) The dates between which all the signatures to the petition were obtained.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 452, et al. merged with H.B. 484, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.711 - Recall petition, number of signatures required, time limitation — petition found insufficient, supplemental petition may be filed, when — supplemental petition insufficient, effect.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
321.711. Recall petition, number of signatures required, time limitation — petition found insufficient, supplemental petition may be filed, when — supplemental petition insufficient, effect. —
1. A recall petition shall be filed with the election authority not more than one hundred eighty days after the filing of the notice of intention.
2. The number of qualified signatures required in order to recall an officer shall be equal in number to at least twenty-five percent of the number of voters who voted in the most recent gubernatorial election in that district.
3. Within twenty days from the filing of the recall petition the election authority shall determine whether or not the petition was signed by the required number of qualified signatures. The election authority shall file with the petition a certificate showing the results of the examination. The authority shall give the proponents a copy of the certificate upon their request.
4. If the election authority certifies the petition to be insufficient, it may be supplemented within ten days of the date of certificate by filing additional petition sections containing all of the information required by section 321.709 and this section. Within ten days after the supplemental copies are filed, the election authority shall file with it a certificate stating whether or not the petition as supplemented is sufficient.
5. If the certificate shows that the petition as supplemented is insufficient, no action shall be taken on it; however, the petition shall remain on file.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 452, et al. merged with H.B. 484, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.714 - Certification of petition by election authority, content, election to be held — candidacy nomination filed — resignation by board member, recall to be removed from ballot — resigned board member may not fill vacancy.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
321.714. Certification of petition by election authority, content, election to be held — candidacy nomination filed — resignation by board member, recall to be removed from ballot — resigned board member may not fill vacancy. —
1. If the election authority finds the signatures on the petition, together with the supplementary petition sections if any, to be sufficient, it shall submit its certificate as to the sufficiency of the petition to the fire protection district board prior to its next meeting. The certificate shall contain:
(1) The name of the member whose recall is sought;
(2) The number of signatures required by law;
(3) The total number of signatures on the petition;
(4) The number of valid signatures on the petition.
2. Following the fire protection board's receipt of the certificate, the county election authority shall order an election to be held on one of the election days specified in section 115.123. The election shall be held not less than forty-five days nor more than one hundred twenty days after the fire protection district board receives the petition. Nominations hereunder shall be made by filing a statement of candidacy with the election authority.
3. At any time prior to forty-two days before the election, the member sought to be recalled may offer his resignation. If his resignation is offered, the recall question shall be removed from the ballot and the office declared vacant. The member who resigned may not fill the vacancy which shall be filled as provided by law.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 452, et al. and L. 1995 H.B. 484, et al., A.L. 2011 H.B. 315)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.716 - Laws governing recall election, costs, how paid.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1995
321.716. Laws governing recall election, costs, how paid. —
The provisions of chapter 115 governing the conduct of elections shall apply, where appropriate, to recall elections held under sections 321.701 to 321.716. The costs of the election shall be paid as provided in chapter 115.
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(L. 1995 H.B. 452, et al. merged with H.B. 484, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.800 - Retirement plan, board may establish.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
Effective - 28 Aug 2007
321.800. Retirement plan, board may establish. —
Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any board of directors established under the provisions of this chapter administering its own retirement or other benefits-related plan shall administer such plan by a separate five-member pension board of trustees. Pension plan participants shall elect three such participants to be submitted to the board of directors. The board of directors shall select two of the three participants to serve on the five-member pension board of trustees. The board of directors shall be the other three members of the five-member pension board of trustees.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 406)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 322 - Protection Against Rabies › Section 322.010 - Definitions.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 322
• Effective - 28 Aug 2001
322.010. Definitions. —
For the purpose of sections 322.010 to 322.145, the following words and following phrases shall be considered and held to mean the following:
(1)
"Affected with rabies"
, infected with the rabies virus as determined by standard laboratory testing;
(2)
"Exposed to rabies"
, when bitten by, or fought with, or has come in close contact with a dog or other animal shown to be infected with the rabies virus as determined by standard laboratory testing;
(3)
"Immunized"
, immunized against rabies at the expense of the owner or custodian by the administration of antirabic virus by a licensed veterinarian;
(4)
"Rabies"
, hydrophobia; and
(5)
"Zoonotic disease"
, a dangerous disease communicable from animals to humans as determined by the department of health and senior services.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14539, repealed L. 1953 p. 662 § A, again enacted L. 1955 p. 754, A.L. 2001 S.B. 462)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12865