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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.275 - Annexation of contiguous land with a research, development, or office park project, procedure.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
Effective - 25 May 2010, see footnote
71.275. Annexation of contiguous land with a research, development, or office park project, procedure. —
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, if the governing body of any municipality finds it in the public interest that a parcel of land within a research, development, or office park project established under section 172.273, that is contiguous and compact to the existing corporate limits of the municipality and located in an unincorporated area of the county, should be located in the municipality, such municipality may annex such parcel, provided that the municipality obtains written consent of all the property owners located within the unincorporated area of such parcel.
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(L. 2010 H.B. 1806 merged with S.B. 942)
Effective 5-25-10 (H.B. 1806); 8-28-10 (S.B. 942)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.280 - Section 71.270 not applicable to state or county road.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.280. Section 71.270 not applicable to state or county road. —
The provisions of section 71.270 shall not apply to any state or county road established and opened prior to the filing of the plat of a subdivision; but such road, when marked on the plat, may be vacated by the county commission when it shall no longer be used and maintained as a state or county road, and the same, when vacated, shall vest in the person who may have the legal title thereof.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7321)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7170; 1919 § 8619; 1909 § 9507
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.283 - Residency for officers in certain villages, exceptions, appointed officers — acts prohibited for officers.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
Effective - 28 Aug 1994
71.283. Residency for officers in certain villages, exceptions, appointed officers — acts prohibited for officers. —
All officers elected to offices or appointed to fill a vacancy in any elective office in any village in any county of the first classification having a population of over nine hundred thousand shall be voters under the laws and constitution of this state and the ordinances of the village, except that appointed officers need not be voters of the village. No person shall be elected or appointed to any office who shall at the time be in arrears for any unpaid village taxes, or forfeiture or defalcation in office. All officers, except appointed officers, shall be residents of the village.
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(L. 1993 S.B. 31, A.L. 1994 S.B. 517)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.286 - Display of the United States flag, political subdivisions not to regulate.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
Effective - 28 Aug 2002
71.286. Display of the United States flag, political subdivisions not to regulate. —
Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, no state law, city, town or village ordinance shall regulate the exhibition of a properly displayed United States flag. For the purposes of this section, the term
"properly displayed"
shall mean that the flag contains no additional design or embellishment and is displayed consistent with the provisions of Title 4 U.S.C. Sections 1-10, pursuant to the normally accepted guidelines for the display of the United States flag.
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(L. 2002 S.B. 918)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.287 - Water usage, voluntary reports to division of geology and land survey, contents — city complying may charge fee on tax bill for improvements.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1983
71.287. Water usage, voluntary reports to division of geology and land survey, contents — city complying may charge fee on tax bill for improvements. —
1. Any city, town, or village in this state may make an annual voluntary report to the division on the water usage of the residents of such city, town, or village. Such report shall show:
(1) The name and location of the city, town, or village;
(2) The location, nature and type of the water source supplying the city, town, or village;
(3) The amount in gallons of water used by residents of the city, town, or village on a monthly and yearly basis, either actual usage or estimated usage;
(4) Anticipated water usage during the year next succeeding the date of the report.
2. Any city, town, or village in this state which makes voluntary reports as provided in this section may charge as a fee on any tax bill issued by it for improvements pursuant to section 88.812 or 88.816 a percentage of the tax bill which when added to the rate of interest permitted under section 88.812 or 88.816 will result in a figure which would be equal to an annual interest rate at the market rate as defined in section 408.030.
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(L. 1983 H.B. 271 § 9)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.288 - Restrictions on outdoor advertising — fee.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
Effective - 28 Aug 1998
71.288. Restrictions on outdoor advertising — fee. —
1. Any city or county shall have the authority to adopt regulations with respect to outdoor advertising that are more restrictive than the height, size, lighting and spacing provisions of sections 226.500 to 226.600.
2. No city or county shall have the authority to impose a fee of more than five hundred dollars for the initial inspection of an outdoor advertising structure, nor may the city or county impose a business tax on an outdoor advertising structure of more than two percent of the gross annual revenue produced by the outdoor advertising structure within that city or county.
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(L. 1997 H.B. 831 § 1, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1681 & 1342 merged with S.B. 883)
(2000) Bill enacting section met constitutional requirements of single subject and clear title. C.C. Dillon Co. v. City of Eureka, 12 S.W.3d 322 (Mo.banc).
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.300 - Courthouses and jails — erection and maintenance.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
Effective - 28 Aug 1945
71.300. Courthouses and jails — erection and maintenance. —
All county seats or other cities or towns which are duly incorporated are hereby authorized upon such terms as may be agreed upon, in conjunction with their respective counties, to erect and maintain courthouses and jails in such county seats and in such other towns or cities for the joint use of such county seats or other towns or cities and the county wherein they are located; and all authority now existing under the law or that may hereafter be conferred on the counties in this state for the purpose of providing the revenue for erecting and maintaining the buildings herein provided for, may be exercised by such counties jointly with such county seats or other towns or cities; provided, that for the purposes of this section, such county seats, towns or cities shall be authorized to issue and negotiate interest-bearing bonds.
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(RSMo 1939 § 13704, A.L. 1945 p. 1394)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 12045; 1919 § 9445; 1909 § 3666
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.310 - Armories — acquisition, maintenance.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.310. Armories — acquisition, maintenance. —
All cities, towns, villages and counties in this state are hereby given power and authority to build or acquire, by purchase, lease, gift or otherwise, suitable armories, drill halls and headquarters, and the land necessary therefor, for such organizations of the National Guard of Missouri as may be stationed or located therein, and to provide for the maintenance and repair of the same.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7364)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7213; 1919 § 8652; 1909 § 9540
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.320 - Armories, not owned or leased by cities — maintenance.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.320. Armories, not owned or leased by cities — maintenance. —
In case any organization of the National Guard of Missouri now or hereafter occupies any armory, drill hall or headquarters not owned or leased by the city, town, village or county wherein it is located, such city, town, village or county is hereby given power and authority to provide for the maintenance and repair of such armory, drill hall or headquarters.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7365)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7214; 1919 § 8653; 1909 § 9541
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.330 - Term maintenance defined.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.330. Term maintenance defined. —
The term
"maintenance"
, as used in sections 71.310 and 71.320, shall include light, water, heat, fuel, power, ice and the wages of janitors, armorers and other employees necessary for such armories, drill halls and headquarters.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7366)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7215; 1919 § 8654; 1909 § 9542
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.340 - Construction and repair of public roads — annual appropriation.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
Effective - 28 Aug 1945
71.340. Construction and repair of public roads — annual appropriation. —
The mayor and city council of any city or the chairman and board of trustees of any incorporated town or village shall have the power to annually appropriate and pay out of the treasury of such city or incorporated town or village a sum of money, not to exceed ten percent of the annual general revenue thereof, for the purpose of constructing, building, repairing, working, grading or macadamizing any public road, street and highway and any bridge thereon leading to and from such city or incorporated town or village; and such appropriation shall be made by ordinance and the money so appropriated shall be applied under the supervision and direction of the engineers of such city or incorporated town or village, and of the county highway engineer of the county in which such city, town or village is located, or of some competent person selected by such city, town or village and approved by the county highway engineer, who shall make a report thereof, in writing, to the mayor and city council of such city, or to the chairman and board of trustees of such incorporated town or village; but this privilege shall not extend to a greater distance than five miles from the corporate limits of such city, town or village, and shall not be construed so as to allow any obstruction to or interference with the free use of any such public road, street or highway by the public, except so far as may be necessary while such work is being done, and further shall not be construed to affect the liability of such city, town or village, which liability shall be the same as if such roads, streets and highways were inside the city limits.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7312, A.L. 1945 p. 1308)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7161; 1919 § 8610; 1909 § 9498
CROSS REFERENCE:
Township board may expend one-fourth of revenue on city streets, 65.295
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.350 - Parking facilities for motor vehicles, certain cities.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
Effective - 28 Aug 1959
71.350. Parking facilities for motor vehicles, certain cities. —
Any incorporated city or town in this state of not more than seven hundred thousand and not less than one thousand population, and any county in this state having a constitutional charter, may rent, lease and improve property, or acquire property by gift, purchase, exchange, or by the exercise of the power of eminent domain over unimproved property in the manner provided by law for the condemnation of land for street or road purposes in such municipality or county, except that nothing herein is construed to limit the right to the use of eminent domain in connection with improved property used for or devoted to commercial purposes; and may construct, install or equip buildings and facilities thereon for parking motor vehicles; and may own, manage, use or operate property and facilities thereon for parking motor vehicles, and make or authorize the making of a charge for the use of property and facilities for such purposes, except that the municipality or county shall not dispense or furnish or allow any lessee or occupant to dispense or furnish, upon or in connection with any property or facility acquired or operated pursuant to this section any product or service other than the parking of motor vehicles.
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(L. 1945 V. I p. 392 § 7411a, A.L. 1959 H.B. 328)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.360 - Parking facilities, how financed.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
Effective - 28 Aug 1959
71.360. Parking facilities, how financed. —
Any such incorporated city, town, or constitutional charter county may finance and pay for the planning, designing, acquisition, construction, equipment and improvement of property for parking motor vehicles by any one or combination of the following methods:
(1) General revenue funds, including any proceeds derived from the operation of such parking facilities;
(2) General obligation bonds within legal debt limitations;
(3) Negotiable interest-bearing revenue bonds, the principal and interest of which shall be payable solely from the revenue derived from the operation of such parking facilities, and from the proceeds, or any part thereof, from on-street parking meter receipts of any city or town, which proceeds or any part thereof may be pledged by the city, town or constitutional charter county to the retirement of negotiable interest-bearing revenue bonds, which revenue bonds may be issued and sold by such municipality or constitutional charter county when authorized by the city council, board of aldermen, county council or other legislative authority of the city, town or county.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 392 § 7411b, A.L. 1955 p. 300, A.L. 1959 H.B. 328)
(1956) Provision authorizing pledge of on-street parking meter receipts for payment of revenue bonds issued to enable city to acquire off-street parking facilities held constitutional. Petition of City of Liberty (Mo.), 296 S.W.2d 117.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.365 - Sidewalks to have wheelchair ramps — specifications for — when required.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1975
71.365. Sidewalks to have wheelchair ramps — specifications for — when required. —
The governing body of each municipality in this state may provide for and regulate crosswalks, curbs and gutters. However, after September 28, 1975, all new curbs which are constructed in any municipality, and all existing curbs which are a part of any reconstruction, shall comply with this section. In order to enable persons using wheelchairs to travel freely and without assistance, at each crosswalk a ramp shall be built into the curb so that the sidewalk and street blend to a common level. Such ramp shall be not less than thirty-six inches wide and shall not have a slope greater than one inch rise per twelve inches length (eight and three-tenths percent). Where because of surrounding buildings or other restrictions it is impossible to conform the slope with this requirement, the ramp shall contain a slope with as shallow a rise as possible under the circumstances not to exceed ten percent. In all ramps there shall be a gradual rounding at the bottom of the slope.
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(L. 1975 S.B. 217 § 1)
CROSS REFERENCE:
Public buildings and sidewalk handicap access requirements, 8.620.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.367 - Deviations authorized, when.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
Effective - 28 Aug 1975
71.367. Deviations authorized, when. —
Deviations from the standards set forth in section 71.365 may be permitted where conformance to such standards is impractical or physically impossible and where the method, material and dimension used in lieu thereof does not create a hazard. Such deviations must first be submitted to the governing body of the municipality for approval or rejection.
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(L. 1975 S.B. 217 § 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.370 - Contracts for fire protection between incorporated cities.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.370. Contracts for fire protection between incorporated cities. —
Any incorporated city in this state having a fire department may contract to furnish fire protection to any other incorporated city or cities in this state, whether or not such other incorporated city or cities have a fire department.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7405)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7253
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.380 - Fire protection contracts.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
71.380. Fire protection contracts. —
Any two or more incorporated cities wishing to take advantage of sections 71.370 to 71.390 may, by ordinance duly enacted in each of such cities, agree upon the terms upon which such fire protection shall be furnished, and such agreement may, where two or more such cities have fire departments, include an interchange of the service of such fire departments upon such terms as are agreed upon; or such agreement may provide for the payment of a stated sum per month or per year, or a stated sum per fire, or any other method of compensation for such fire protection that is agreed upon by the two or more incorporated cities entering into such contract; provided, that any contract for a longer period than five years shall have no binding force until ratified by a majority of the voters voting on the question in each of the cities entering into such contract.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7406, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7254
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.390 - Payments under contracts.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.390. Payments under contracts. —
Payments contracted for under sections 71.370 and 71.380 shall be made from any funds of the city available for such purpose.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7407)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7255
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.400 - Cities may maintain joint fire departments.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.400. Cities may maintain joint fire departments. —
Any two or more cities, towns or incorporated villages, whether of the same class or not and whether contiguous or not, may enter into a joint contract to acquire, install and operate a fire department for the joint benefit and protection of the property situated in said contracting municipalities and the lives of the inhabitants thereof, and to erect and maintain at such place as may be agreed upon a building for the housing of said fire department.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7391)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7240
CROSS REFERENCE:
Cooperation with other political subdivisions, on public improvements or facilities, 70.210 to 70.325
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.410 - Joint contract — validity.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.410. Joint contract — validity. —
The contract mentioned in section 71.400, to be valid, shall be authorized by ordinance passed by the council, board of aldermen or board of trustees of the contracting parties, which ordinances shall be uniform in their provisions, and prescribe the cost of installing the fire department, including the erection or rental of a building for the use of the department, and the maximum cost of the maintenance thereof and the amount to be contributed by each of the contracting parties to the original cost incurred in installing the department and the maximum amount of the annual appropriation for the maintenance of said department.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7392)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7241
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.420 - Joint fire department committee — duties.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.420. Joint fire department committee — duties. —
The joint fire department so installed, as aforesaid, shall be managed by a joint fire department committee consisting of one member from each of the contracting parties, which shall prescribe such rules and regulations, and appoint and employ such officers, firemen and other persons as may be necessary to efficiently operate the fire department, and acquire the necessary apparatus for the installation of the department, the property on which the fire department is to be located and supervise the erection of the fire department building, as authorized by ordinance, all as herein provided.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7393)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7242
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.430 - Joint fire department — use of building.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.430. Joint fire department — use of building. —
The building to be erected as herein provided may be used jointly for such other municipal purposes as may be provided by ordinance passed by each of the contracting parties.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7394)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7243
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.440 - Joint fire department — cost of maintenance, how met.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
71.440. Joint fire department — cost of maintenance, how met. —
1. For the purpose of paying its share of the cost of any of the expenditures herein authorized, exclusive of annual cost of maintenance, any city, town or incorporated village which may have entered into a joint contract, as provided in sections 71.400 to 71.430, may become indebted to an amount exceeding, in any year, the income and revenue provided for such year, the amount of such indebtedness, including existing indebtedness at the time of incurring the same, not to exceed, in the aggregate, five percent on the value of the taxable property in said municipality, to be ascertained by the assessment next before the last assessment for state and county purposes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
2. To incur such indebtedness, the council, board of aldermen or board of trustees of the contracting parties, each acting separately, shall order that the question be submitted to the voters to determine whether or not bonds shall be issued by said municipality, as herein authorized. The notice shall state the amount of indebtedness to be incurred and of the increase in the rate of taxation, if any, necessary to discharge such indebtedness in the manner provided by law.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7395, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7244
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.450 - Joint fire department — bond election — tax increase.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
71.450. Joint fire department — bond election — tax increase. —
The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall the joint fire departments of ______ and ______ incur indebtedness, evidenced by the issuance of bonds, in the amount of ______ dollars, and increase taxes by ______ for the purpose of ______?
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(RSMo 1939 § 7396, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7245
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.470 - Joint fire department — issuance of bonds — imposition of tax.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1990
71.470. Joint fire department — issuance of bonds — imposition of tax. —
If it appears from the returns of such question that the constitutionally required percentage of the voters of such municipality were in favor of incurring such indebtedness, the council, board of aldermen or board of trustees shall pass an ordinance reciting the submission of the question and the result thereof, both for and against the question, and if the result, as certified, shall be in favor of the issuing of the bonds, then the council, board of aldermen or board of trustees in the same ordinance shall direct the issuance of such bonds to the amount of the debt so authorized to be incurred and shall, either before or at the time of doing so, provide for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such indebtedness as it falls due and also to create a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof within twenty years from the date of contracting the same.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7398, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1621)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7247
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.480 - Joint fire department — denomination and form of bonds.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.480. Joint fire department — denomination and form of bonds. —
The bonds to be issued, as provided in section 71.470, shall be in denominations of one hundred dollars or some multiple thereof, and shall be payable to bearer not later than twenty years from their date, and shall bear interest from their date at a rate not exceeding six percent per annum, payable annually or semiannually, such interest payments to be evidenced by annexed coupons, and said bonds shall not be sold for less than ninety-five percent of the face value thereof and shall not exceed in the aggregate the limit of indebtedness herein specified. Such bonds shall be signed by the mayor or chairman of the board of trustees and attested by the signature of the clerk of the municipality with the seal of his office affixed thereto. The interest coupons may be executed by affixing thereon the facsimile signature of said clerk.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7399)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7248
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.490 - Joint fire department — bonds, notice of sale.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.490. Joint fire department — bonds, notice of sale. —
The city treasurer of the municipality issuing such bonds, or such other officer as may be designated by ordinance, if there be no city treasurer, under the direction of the council, board of aldermen or board of trustees shall cause notice to be published in such manner as may be provided by ordinance that sealed proposals for the purchase of all or a part of said bonds will be received at his office and that the same will be opened by him in the presence of the council, board of aldermen or board of trustees on the day and hour mentioned in the notice. Any and all bids that the council, board of aldermen or board of trustees may not deem satisfactory as to price or otherwise shall be rejected, and in case of rejection the bonds may be again advertised for sale or they may be sold at not less than their face value at private sale.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7400)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7249
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.500 - Joint fire department — bonds to be registered.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.500. Joint fire department — bonds to be registered. —
The bonds to be issued under sections 71.400 to 71.510 shall be registered in the office of the state auditor in the manner prescribed by law.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7401)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7250
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.510 - Joint fire department — use of moneys from bonds.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.510. Joint fire department — use of moneys from bonds. —
The moneys derived from such bonds shall be deposited in the city treasury and be paid out for the purposes for which the bonds were issued in such manner as may be provided by ordinance.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7402)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7251
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.520 - Certain privileges granted to public utilities.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.520. Certain privileges granted to public utilities. —
Any city, town or village in this state may by ordinance authorize any person, or any company organized for the purpose of supplying light, heat, power, water, gas or sewage disposal facilities, and incorporated under the laws of this state, to set and maintain its poles, piers, abutments, wires and other fixtures, and to excavate for, install, and maintain water mains, sewage disposal lines, and necessary equipment for the operation and maintenance of electric light plants, heating plants, power plants, waterworks plants, gas plants and sewage disposal plants, and to maintain and operate the same along, across or under any of the public roads, streets, alleys, or public places within such city, town, or village, for a period of twenty years or less, subject to such rules, regulations and conditions as shall be expressed in such ordinance.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7828)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7683; 1919 § 9122; 1909 § 9947
CROSS REFERENCES:
Privileges, city to grant for laying conductors and erecting poles of utility companies, 393.010
Railroad right-of-way, city may grant through public lands, 388.380
Telegraph and telephone companies--privilege on constructing line--mode of construction directed by whom, 392.080, 392.090
(1973) Municipality may condition grant of franchise to require all electric lines be underground. Union Electric Co. v. City of Crestwood (Mo.), 499 S.W.2d 480.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.525 - Condemnation of property of public utility or rural electric cooperative, restrictions, conditions — limitation.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
Effective - 28 Aug 1994
71.525. Condemnation of property of public utility or rural electric cooperative, restrictions, conditions — limitation. —
1. Except as provided in subsection 2 of this section, no city, town or village may condemn the property of a public utility, as defined in section 386.020, or the property of a rural electric cooperative, as provided in chapter 394, if such property is used or useful in providing utility services and the city, town or village seeking to condemn such property, directly or indirectly, will use or proposes to use the property for the same purpose, or a purpose substantially similar to the purpose that the property is being used by the public utility or rural electric cooperative.
2. A city, town or village may only condemn the property of a public utility or the property of a rural electric cooperative, even if the property is used or useful in providing utility services by such utility or cooperative, if:
(1) The condemnation is necessary for the public purpose of acquiring a nonexclusive easement or right-of-way across the property of such utility or cooperative and only if the acquisition will not materially impair or interfere with the current use of such property by the utility or cooperative and will not prevent or materially impair the utility or cooperative from any future expansion of its facilities on such property; or
(2) The property is solely and exclusively devoted to the provision of street lighting or traffic signal service by such utility in a city having a population of at least three hundred fifty thousand inhabitants located wholly or partially within a county of the first classification with a charter form of government; or
(3) The property is owned by a water or sewer corporation, as defined in section 386.020, with less than five hundred hook-ups.
3. The provisions of this section shall apply to all cities, towns and villages in this state, incorporated or unincorporated and no matter whether any statutory classification, special charter or constitutional charter or any other provision of law appears to convey the power of condemnation of such property by implication.
4. If a city, town or village seeks to condemn the property of a public utility or rural electric cooperative, and the conditions in subsection 1 of this section do not apply, this section does not limit the condemnation powers otherwise possessed by such city, town or village.
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(L. 1994 S.B. 709)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.527 - Annexation, provision of cable television services.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
Effective - 28 Aug 1994
71.527. Annexation, provision of cable television services. —
Where a city annexes property which, prior to the annexation, was provided cable television services by any other party, such city or any person granted a franchise from the city to provide such services shall not prevent parties providing such services in the annexed area prior to the annexation from operating in the annexed area.
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(L. 1994 S.B. 709)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.530 - Municipalities may contract for utilities — approval by majority of voters required, when.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1989
71.530. Municipalities may contract for utilities — approval by majority of voters required, when. —
Any city, town or village may contract with any corporation organized under the laws of Missouri, or doing business as a foreign corporation in the state of Missouri, for the purpose of supplying it with gas, electricity or water. The contract may be for any length of time which shall be agreed upon between the city, town or village and the corporation, for a term not to exceed twenty years. Each contract may be renewed for another period or periods for a term of not more than twenty years per period. The provisions of this section shall apply to all cities, towns and villages in this state, whether organized by special charter or under the general laws of the state, any provisions in any special charter of any city, town or village in the state to the contrary notwithstanding. All renewal contracts entered into under the provisions of this section shall be subject to voter approval of the majority of the voters voting on the question, pursuant to the provisions of section 88.251. Every initial contract for such services shall be approved by a majority of the voters of the municipality voting on the question. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the governing body of any city, town or village from contracting with any person, association or corporation for furnishing the city, town or village with gas, electricity or water in municipalities where franchises have already been granted and where gas, electric or water plants and facilities already exist, without a vote of the people.
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(RSMo 1939 § 5370, A.L. 1943 p. 410 § 154, A. 1949 H.B. 2023, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1987 S.B. 412, A.L. 1989 H.B. 451)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 4963; 1919 § 10173; 1909 § 3368
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.540 - Municipal water supply — contracts.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.540. Municipal water supply — contracts. —
It shall be lawful for any incorporated city, town or village in this state to enter into a contract separately or in conjunction with any other incorporated city, town or village, or cities, towns or villages, or with any private corporation or corporations, or with any corporation now or hereafter engaged in pumping and delivering water at wholesale for domestic consumption. It shall also be lawful for any such incorporated city, town or village, or cities, towns and villages in this state to acquire, own and hold, separately or in conjunction with any other city, town or village, or cities, towns or villages, or any private corporation in this state, water mains or interests in water mains through which to procure an adequate supply of water for its inhabitants.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7389)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7238; 1919 § 8670
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.550 - Water supply contract — voter approval.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
71.550. Water supply contract — voter approval. —
Before any contract as authorized in section 71.540 shall be entered into with any private corporation by any incorporated city, town or village, or cities, towns and villages in this state, said contract shall be approved by a majority of all the voters voting thereon.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7390, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7239; 1919 § 8671
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.560 - Use of streets for railway purposes — petition of property owners.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.560. Use of streets for railway purposes — petition of property owners. —
The municipal assembly, city council or board of trustees of any incorporated city in this state shall have no power to grant the use of, or the right to lay down any tracks in any street of the city, to any railroad company, or to any steam, dummy, electric, cable, horse or other street car company, whether the same shall be incorporated under any general or special law of the state, now or hereafter in force, except upon the petition of the owners of the land representing more than one-half of the frontage of the street or so much thereof as is sought to be used for railroad or street car purposes; and when the street or part thereof as is sought to be used shall be more than one mile in extent, no petition of landowners shall be valid unless the same shall be signed by the owners of the land representing more than one-half of the frontage of each mile, and of the fraction of a mile, if any, in excess of the whole mile, measuring from the initial point named in such petition, of such street or part thereof sought to be used for such purpose; provided, that this section shall not be construed to prevent granting authority to a railroad company to lay a spur track or side track to any manufacturing establishment or wholesale house, when desired by the parties owning such manufacturing establishment or wholesale house; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed so as to prohibit the municipal assembly, city council or board of trustees of any such city from granting a renewal of any franchise now in force, to the extent of the present mileage granted for such franchise.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7311)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7160; 1919 § 8609; 1909 § 9497
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.570 - Street railways — powers of municipality limited.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.570. Street railways — powers of municipality limited. —
The legislative authority of no incorporated town or city of this state shall have the power to grant to any person or corporation the right to construct and operate on, over or under any street or alley of any incorporated town or city, any elevated, underground or other street railroad without compliance with the conditions named in sections 71.580 and 71.590.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7307)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7156; 1919 § 8605; 1909 § 9493
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.580 - Proceedings before granting of franchise to street railroads.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.580. Proceedings before granting of franchise to street railroads. —
Before granting any franchise for constructing and operating any elevated, underground or other street railroad on, over or under any street or alley of any incorporated town or city, the authorities of such town or city shall, by ordinance duly enacted, establish the route and clearly define the terms and conditions of such franchise, and locate all depots, stations, turnouts and switches of such railroad. The party to which said franchise may be granted shall be an incorporated company, organized under the laws of this state, to construct, maintain and operate a street railroad in the town or city by which such franchise is granted.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7308)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7157; 1919 § 8606; 1909 § 9494
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.600 - Damages defined.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.600. Damages defined. —
"Damages"
in sections 71.570 to 71.600 are hereby defined to be the depreciation in the value of the property that may result from the construction and operation of the proposed railroad.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7309)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7158; 1919 § 8607; 1909 § 9495
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.610 - Imposition of tax on business, when.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
71.610. Imposition of tax on business, when. —
No municipal corporation in this state shall have the power to impose a license tax upon any business, avocation, pursuit or calling, unless such business, avocation, pursuit or calling is specially named as taxable in the charter of such municipal corporation, or unless such power be conferred by statute.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7440)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7287; 1919 § 8702; 1909 § 9580
CROSS REFERENCES:
Liquor licenses, cost of, limited by state charges, 311.220
Plumbers, license in certain cities, 341.010 to 341.080
(1964) Constitutional charter city may satisfy the requirement of this section by incorporating into its charter by reference, provisions granting power to tax certain occupations and professions. General Installation Company v. University City (Mo.), 379 S.W.2d 601.
(1974) Power of St. Louis board of police commissioners to charge fees for private watchmen's licenses is not regulated by this section since police board is a state agency. ABC Security Service Inc. v. Miller (Mo.), 514 S.W.2d 521.
(2022) Provider of voice over internet protocol telephone services through a broadband cable network was "telephone company" providing "telephone service" subject to local ordinances imposing business license taxes on telephone service providers. Collector of Winchester v. Charter Communications, Inc., 660 S.W.3d 405 (Mo.App.E.D.).
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 71 - Provisions Relative to All Cities and Towns › Section 71.611 - Certain villages prohibited from imposing a license tax in excess of $10,000 per license.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 71
Effective - 28 Aug 2003
71.611. Certain villages prohibited from imposing a license tax in excess of $10,000 per license. —
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, after March 31, 2004, no village with less than one thousand three hundred inhabitants shall impose a license tax in excess of ten thousand dollars per license.
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(L. 2003 S.B. 11)