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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 320 - Fire Protection › Section 320.371 - Fund created, use of moneys.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 320
• Effective - 01 Jan 2011, see footnote
320.371. Fund created, use of moneys. —
1. There is hereby created in the state treasury the "Cigarette Fire Safety Standard and Firefighter Protection Act Fund" which shall consist of moneys collected under sections 320.350 to 320.374. The fund shall be administered by the state fire marshal. Upon appropriation, moneys in the fund shall be made available to the state fire marshal to support fire safety and prevention programs.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080 to the contrary, any moneys remaining in the fund at the end of the biennium shall not revert to the credit of the general revenue fund.
3. The state treasurer shall invest moneys in the fund in the same manner as other funds are invested. Any interest and moneys earned on such investments shall be credited to the fund.
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(L. 2009 H.B. 205)
Effective 1-01-11
Contingent termination date, see section 320.374
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 320 - Fire Protection › Section 320.374 - Sale of cigarettes outside state or United States, requirements not to apply — termination of requirements, when — state preemption.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 320
• Effective - 01 Jan 2011, see footnote
320.374. Sale of cigarettes outside state or United States, requirements not to apply — termination of requirements, when — state preemption. —
1. Nothing in sections 320.350 to 320.374 shall be construed to prohibit any person or entity from manufacturing or selling cigarettes that do not meet the requirements of section 320.353 if the cigarettes are or will be stamped for sale in another state or are packaged for sale outside the United States and such person or entity has taken reasonable steps to ensure that such cigarettes will not be sold or offered for sale to persons located in this state.
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2. Sections 320.350 to 320.374 shall terminate if a federal cigarette ignition propensity standard is enacted.
3. Sections 320.350 to 320.374 preempt any local law, ordinance, or regulation that conflicts with any provision of sections 320.350 to 320.374 or any policy of the state implemented in accordance with sections 320.350 to 320.374. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the local governmental units of this state may neither enact nor enforce any ordinance or other local law or regulation conflicting with, or preempted by, any provision of sections 320.350 to 320.374 or with any policy of this state expressed by sections 320.350 to 320.374 whether that policy is expressed by inclusion of a provision in such sections or by exclusion of that subject from such sections.
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(L. 2009 H.B. 205)
Effective 1-01-11
*Contingent termination date
*Revisor's Note: To date, no federal cigarette ignition propensity standard has been enacted.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 320 - Fire Protection › Section 320.380 - Compliance with applicable laws required.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 320
Effective - 28 Aug 2009
320.380. Compliance with applicable laws required. —
Nothing in sections 320.350 to 320.374 shall be interpreted or applied to permit noncompliance with other applicable statutes and case law.
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(L. 2009 H.B. 481 § 4)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.010 - Definitions — election procedure.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 15 Jun 1979, see footnote
321.010. Definitions — election procedure. —
1. A
"fire protection district"
is a political subdivision which is organized and empowered to supply protection by any available means to persons and property against injuries and damage from fire and from hazards which do or may cause fire, and which is also empowered to render first aid for the purpose of saving lives, and to give assistance in the event of an accident or emergency of any kind. The district must consist of contiguous tracts or parcels of property containing all or parts of one or more counties, and may include within its boundaries, or may be contiguous with, any city, town or village.
2. The word
"board"
as used in this chapter shall mean the board of directors of a fire protection district.
3. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all elections herein provided for shall be held and conducted and the returns thereof made, examined, and cast up in the same manner and in all respects as in elections for state and county officers.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 2, A.L. 1965 p. 509, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, S.B. 628, A.L. 1979 S.B. 236)
Effective 6-15-79
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.015 - District director not to hold other lucrative employment — exemptions certain counties and employment — lucrative office or employment, defined.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 2013
321.015. District director not to hold other lucrative employment — exemptions certain counties and employment — lucrative office or employment, defined. —
1. No person holding any lucrative office or employment under this state, or any political subdivision thereof as defined in section 70.120, shall hold the office of fire protection district director under this chapter. When any fire protection district director accepts any office or employment under this state or any political subdivision thereof, his office shall thereby be vacated and he shall thereafter perform no duty and receive no salary or expenses as fire protection district director.
2. This section shall not apply to:
(1) Members of the organized militia, of the reserve corps, public school employees and notaries public;
(2) Fire protection districts located wholly within counties of the second, third or fourth classification;
(3) Fire protection districts in counties of the first classification with less than eighty-five thousand inhabitants;
(4) Fire protection districts located within counties of the first classification not adjoining any other county of the first classification;
(5) Fire protection districts located within any county of the first or second classification not having more than nine hundred thousand inhabitants which borders any three counties of the first classification;
(6) Fire protection districts located within any county of the first classification which adjoins both a county with a charter form of government with more than nine hundred fifty thousand inhabitants, and adjoins at least four other counties;
(7) Fire protection districts located within any county of the first classification with more than one hundred fifty thousand but fewer than two hundred thousand inhabitants.
3. For the purposes of this section, the term
"lucrative office or employment"
does not include receiving retirement benefits, compensation for expenses, or a stipend or per diem, in an amount not to exceed seventy-five dollars for each day of service, for service rendered to a fire protection district, the state or any political subdivision thereof.
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(L. 1978 S.B. 628, A.L. 1984 H.B. 924, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1149, A.L. 1991 H.B. 116, A.L. 2013 H.B. 307 merged with H.B. 336)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.017 - Employee of fire protection district or ambulance district not to be member of board, exception — former board members ineligible for employment by the board for twelve months.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 2016, 2 histories
321.017. Employee of fire protection district or ambulance district not to be member of board, exception — former board members ineligible for employment by the board for twelve months. —
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 321.015, no employee of any fire protection district or ambulance district shall serve as a member of any fire district or ambulance district board while such person is employed by any fire district or ambulance district, except that an employee of a fire protection district or an ambulance district may serve as a member of a voluntary fire protection district board or a voluntary ambulance district board.
2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, individual board members shall not be eligible for employment by the board within twelve months of termination of service as a member of the board unless such employment is on a volunteer basis or without compensation.
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(L. 1991 S.B. 262 § 11, A.L. 1993 H.B. 196, A.L. 2016 S.B. 732)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.020 - Circuit court may establish districts.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 15 Jun 1979, see footnote
321.020. Circuit court may establish districts. —
The circuit court sitting in and for any county of this state, containing all or part of a proposed district, may, as provided in this chapter, establish fire protection districts.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 3, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, S.B. 628, A.L. 1979 S.B. 236)
Effective 6-15-79
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.030 - Petition required for organization of fire district — who to sign.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
321.030. Petition required for organization of fire district — who to sign. —
The organization of a district shall be initiated by a petition filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court vested with jurisdiction in any county in which all or part of the real property in the proposed district is situated. The petition shall be signed by one hundred voters or more of the district.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 4, 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 321.040 - Contents of petition.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1947
321.040. Contents of petition. —
The petition shall set forth:
(1) The name of the proposed district consisting of a chosen name preceding the words "fire protection district";
(2) An estimate of the number of inhabitants and of the assessed valuation of the taxable tangible property of the district, and of the yield from the intangible personal property located in the district;
(3) The estimated cost of the proposed improvements;
(4) A general description of the boundaries of the district or the territory to be included therein, with such certainty as to enable a property owner to determine whether or not his property is within the district, and a plat of the proposed district;
(5) Such other data and information as may be useful to the court in determining the necessity for the organization of the district;
(6) A prayer for the organization of the district.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 5)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.050 - Amendment of petition — similar petitions or duplicates.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1947
321.050. Amendment of petition — similar petitions or duplicates. —
No petition with the requisite signatures shall be declared null and void on account of alleged defects, but the court may at any time permit the petition to be amended to conform with the facts, by correcting any errors in the description of the territory, or in any other particular, except that the boundaries of the district may not be enlarged by taking in additional territory, without notice to the owners of the property thus affected, which notice may be made by publication or service of such pleadings and orders on the owners so affected. Similar petitions or duplicate copies of the same petition for the organization of the same district, revising the boundaries of the proposed district, or recommending another chosen name for the district, may be filed at any time before a hearing is had on the petition, and shall, together with the first petition, be regarded as one petition, and shall be considered by the court the same as though filed with the first petition placed on file.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 6)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.060 - Filing fee.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1947
321.060. Filing fee. —
There shall be filed with the petition, or petitions, a filing fee in the amount of one hundred dollars to cover the payment of court costs.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 7)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.070 - Publication of notice of hearing — fixing time and place.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
321.070. Publication of notice of hearing — fixing time and place. —
Immediately after the filing of such petition or any amended petition changing the boundaries, the court wherein such petition is filed or the judge thereof in vacation shall, by order, fix a time and place not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days after the petition is filed for a hearing thereon, and thereupon the circuit clerk shall cause notice by publication to be made of the filing of the petition and the pendency of the action and of the time and place of the hearing thereon. The circuit clerk shall also forthwith cause a copy of the notice to be mailed by United States registered mail to the governing body of each municipality having territory within the proposed boundaries of the proposed district, and to the county commission of each county in which the proposed district lies.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 8, A.L. 1978 S.B. 628)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.080 - Jurisdiction of proceedings — judge owning property not disqualified.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1969
321.080. Jurisdiction of proceedings — judge owning property not disqualified. —
The circuit court in and for the county in which the petition for the organization of a district has been filed shall thereafter for all purposes of this chapter, except as otherwise provided, maintain and have original and exclusive jurisdiction over all matters connected with or affected by said district. No judge of the circuit court wherein such petition is filed shall be disqualified to perform any duty imposed by this chapter by reason of ownership of property within the proposed district.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 9, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.090 - Protesting petition may be filed — who to sign — contents.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
321.090. Protesting petition may be filed — who to sign — contents. —
Any time after the filing of a petition for the organization of a district and before the day fixed for the hearing thereon, a petition may be filed in the office of the circuit clerk, wherein the petition for the organization of such district is pending, protesting against the creation of the proposed district. Such protesting petition shall be signed and filed by or on behalf of one or more voters of the district, and shall recite wherein the incorporation of the district will not promote the purposes as set forth in the petition, or wherein sufficient facts have not been related to justify the incorporation of such district, and any other facts which may be useful to the court in determining whether or not such original petition shall be allowed.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 10, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.100 - Hearing — adjudication — corporate powers.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1969
321.100. Hearing — adjudication — corporate powers. —
Upon the hearing if it shall appear that a petition for the organization of a district has been signed and presented pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, and that the allegations of the petition are true and that no protesting petition has been filed, or if one has been filed, that the facts adduced in behalf thereof at the hearing are insufficient to sustain the protesting petition, the court shall, by order duly entered of record, adjudicate all questions of jurisdiction, declare the district organized, define the boundaries thereof, and give it a corporate name by which in all proceedings it shall thereafter be known, and thereupon the district, subject to the election herein provided, shall be a political subdivision of the state of Missouri and a body corporate with all the powers of like or similar corporations.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 11, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.110 - Dismissal of proceedings — costs — review.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1969
321.110. Dismissal of proceedings — costs — review. —
Upon the hearing if the court finds that the petition has not been signed, filed and presented pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, or that the material facts are not as set forth in the petition filed, or that sufficient facts have not been presented to justify the incorporation of the district, it shall dismiss the proceedings and adjudge the costs against the signers of the petition, or petitions, in such proportion as it deems just and equitable. No appeal or writ of error shall lie from an order dismissing the proceeding; but nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the filing of a subsequent petition, or petitions, for similar improvements or for a similar district, and the right so to renew such proceeding is hereby expressly granted and authorized.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 14, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.130 - Directors, qualifications — candidate filing fee, oath.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 2016, 4 histories
321.130. Directors, qualifications — candidate filing fee, oath. —
A person, to be qualified to serve as a director, shall be a resident and voter of the district for at least one year before the election or appointment and be over the age of twenty-four years. In the event the person is no longer a resident of the district, the person's office shall be vacated, and the vacancy shall be filled as provided in section 321.200. Nominations and declarations of candidacy shall be filed at the headquarters of the fire protection district by paying a filing fee equal to the amount of a candidate for county office as set forth under section 115.357, and filing a statement under oath that such person possesses the required qualifications. Thereafter, such candidate shall have the candidate's name placed on the ballot as a candidate for director.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 13, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1981 S.B. 166, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1395 & 1448, A.L. 1993 H.B. 177 merged with S.B. 31 merged with S.B. 346, A.L. 1995 H.B. 484, et al., A.L. 2002 S.B. 1107, A.L. 2005 S.B. 210, A.L. 2007 S.B. 22, A.L. 2016 S.B. 732)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.140 - Final order establishing district deemed conclusive — quo warranto — collateral attack.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1947
321.140. Final order establishing district deemed conclusive — quo warranto — collateral attack. —
If a final order be entered establishing the district, such order shall be deemed final and conclusive, and no appeal or writ of error shall lie therefrom, and the entry of such order shall finally and conclusively establish the regular organization of said district against all persons except the state of Missouri, in an action in the nature of a writ of quo warranto, commenced by the attorney general within thirty days after said decree declaring such district finally organized as herein provided and not otherwise. The organization of such district shall not be directly or collaterally questioned in any suit, action or proceeding except as herein expressly authorized.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 15)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.150 - Filing of copies of findings and decrees incorporating district.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
321.150. Filing of copies of findings and decrees incorporating district. —
Within thirty days after the final order of the circuit court of the county in which the district has been declared a public corporation, 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 incorporating 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. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 16, A.L. 1978 S.B. 628)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.160 - Board members to file oaths of office — surety bonds.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1947
321.160. Board members to file oaths of office — surety bonds. —
Whenever a district has been declared duly and finally organized, the members of the board shall thereafter qualify within fifteen days by filing with the circuit clerk their oaths of office, which shall be in the form prescribed by the constitution, and such board members shall also file with the circuit clerk corporate surety bonds to be furnished at the expense of the district in an amount not to exceed one thousand dollars each, the form and amount thereof to be fixed and approved by the circuit court having jurisdiction, and said bonds to be conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties as directors.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 17)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.162 - Educational training required for board of directors.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
321.162. Educational training required for board of directors. —
1. All members of the board of directors of a fire protection district first elected on or after January 1, 2008, shall attend and complete an educational seminar or conference or other suitable training on the role and duties of a board member of a fire protection district. The training required under this section shall be conducted by an entity approved by the office of the state fire marshal. The office of the state fire marshal shall determine the content of the training to fulfill the requirements of this section. Such training shall include, at a minimum:
(1) Information relating to the roles and duties of a fire protection district director;
(2) A review of all state statutes and regulations relevant to fire protection districts;
(3) State ethics laws;
(4) State sunshine laws, chapter 610;
(5) Financial and fiduciary responsibility;
(6) State laws relating to the setting of tax rates; and
(7) State laws relating to revenue limitations.
2. If any fire protection district board member fails to attend a training session within twelve months after taking office, the board member shall not be compensated for attendance at meetings thereafter until the board member has completed such training session.
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(L. 2007 S.B. 22)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.170 - Board to select officers — seal — records.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1947
321.170. Board to select officers — seal — records. —
After taking their oaths and filing their bonds, the board shall choose one of its members as chairman of the board and president of the district, and shall elect a secretary and a treasurer of the board and of the district, who may or may not be members of the board. The secretary and the treasurer may be one person. Such board shall adopt a seal, and the secretary shall keep in a well-bound book a record of all its proceedings, minutes of all meetings, certificates, contracts, bonds given by employees and a record of corporate acts, which shall be open to inspection of all owners of property in the district, as well as to all other interested parties.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 18)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.180 - Treasurer's duties — file bond — make annual financial statement.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 2002
321.180. Treasurer's duties — file bond — make annual financial statement. —
The treasurer shall keep strict and accurate accounts of all money received by and disbursed for and on behalf of the district in permanent records. He shall file with the clerk of the court, at the expense of the district, a corporate fidelity bond in an amount to be determined by the board for not less than five thousand dollars, conditioned on the faithful performance of the duties of his office. He shall file in the office of the county clerk of each county in which all or part of the district lies a detailed financial statement for the preceding fiscal year of the district on behalf of the board, on or before April first of the following year.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 19, A.L. 1965 p. 509, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1115, S.B. 628, A.L. 2002 S.B. 1107)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.190 - Attendance fees authorized — reimbursement for expenses — secretary and treasurer, additional compensation, how set, limitation.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 2005
321.190. Attendance fees authorized — reimbursement for expenses — secretary and treasurer, additional compensation, how set, limitation. —
Each member of the board may receive an attendance fee not to exceed one hundred dollars for attending each regularly called board meeting, or special meeting, but shall not be paid for attending more than two in any calendar month, except that in a county of the first class having a charter form of government, he shall not be paid for attending more than four in any calendar month. However, no board member shall be paid more than one attendance fee if such member attends more than one board meeting in a calendar week. In addition, the chairman of the board of directors may receive fifty dollars for attending each regularly or specially called board meeting, but shall not be paid the additional fee for attending more than two meetings in any calendar month. Each member of the board shall be reimbursed for his or her actual expenditures in the performance of his or her duties on behalf of the district. The secretary and the treasurer, if members of the board of directors, may each receive such additional compensation for the performance of their respective duties as secretary and treasurer as the board shall deem reasonable and necessary, not to exceed one thousand dollars per year. The circuit court having jurisdiction over the district shall have power to remove directors or any of them for good cause shown upon a petition, notice and hearing.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 20, A.L. 1965 p. 509, A.L. 1971 H.B. 316, A.L. 1979 S.B. 224, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1395 & 1448, 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 321.210 - Election and terms of directors — filing fee.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 2016, 2 histories
321.210. Election and terms of directors — filing fee. —
On the first Tuesday in April after the expiration of at least two full calendar years from the date of the election of the first board of directors, and on the first Tuesday in April every two years thereafter, an election for members of the board of directors shall be held in the district. Nominations shall be filed at the headquarters of the fire protection district in which a majority of the district is located by paying a filing fee equal to the amount of a candidate for county office as set forth under section 115.357 and filing a statement under oath that the candidate possesses the required qualifications. The candidate receiving the most votes shall be elected. Any new member of the board shall qualify in the same manner as the members of the first board qualify.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 22, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322, A.L. 1975 H.B. 332, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1981 S.B. 166, A.L. 1995 H.B. 452, et al., A.L. 2013 H.B. 307 merged with H.B. 336, A.L. 2016 S.B. 732)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.221 - Municipality purchasing fire protection, annual payments, how computed.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1982
321.221. Municipality purchasing fire protection, annual payments, how computed. —
The amount to be paid annually by the municipality to the fire district pursuant to subdivision (16) of section 321.220 shall be the annual assessed value of all property subject to tax in the municipality determined from the tax assessment ledgers, and including public utilities and intangible property within such area, multiplied by the annual tax rate as certified by the fire protection district to the municipality (but not including any portion of the tax rate for ambulance service provided by the district) per one hundred dollars of assessed value in such area. The tax rate so computed shall include any tax on bonded indebtedness incurred by the district prior to entering into such contract, but shall not include any of the tax rate for bonded indebtedness incurred during the term that the contract is in force.
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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 321.223 - Fire protection districts may contract to provide fire protection to municipalities not in the district, certain counties (including St. Louis County) — may also provide ambulance service, when.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 27 Jun 2000, see footnote
321.223. Fire protection districts may contract to provide fire protection to municipalities not in the district, certain counties (including St. Louis County) — may also provide ambulance service, when. —
1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any fire protection district within a county of the first classification with a charter form of government with a population of at least nine hundred thousand may contract with any municipality or village that does not operate its
*
own fire department to provide fire protection services for a fee to any area of the municipality or village that does not belong to the fire protection district. In such event, the municipality and the fire protection district shall, by ordinance duly enacted by the governing board of each, agree upon the terms by
**
which such fire protection shall be furnished. The agreement may provide for the payment of a stated sum per year upon any method of compensation for such fire protection that is agreed upon by the fire district and the municipality entering into such contract; provided that any contract for a period longer than five years shall have no binding force until ratified by a majority of the voters in the fire district and the municipality entering into such a contract.
2. If the fire protection district is authorized to provide ambulance service within its district, the fire protection district may also provide ambulance service to the municipality, upon such terms as the fire district and the municipality may agree, which are not inconsistent with any requirement of subsection 1 of this section.
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(L. 2000 H.B. 1967)
Effective 6-27-00
*Word "their" appears in original rolls.
**Word "by" does not appear in original rolls.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.226 - Emergency ambulance service outside district — fee for services for all districts — emergency defined.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1985
321.226. Emergency ambulance service outside district — fee for services for all districts — emergency defined. —
1. Any fire protection district which is authorized to provide emergency ambulance service within its district may provide such emergency ambulance service outside its district. When providing emergency ambulance service for a person who does or does not reside within the district, a fire protection district may assess and collect from such person a usual and customary fee for such service.
2. As used in this section
"emergency"
means a situation resulting from a sudden or unforeseen situation or occurrence that requires immediate action to save life or prevent suffering or disability.
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(L. 1979 S.B. 237 § 1, A.L. 1985 H.B. 167, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.228 - Residential construction regulatory system, preemption of law by local governmental body over fire protection district, when, exceptions.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 2012
321.228. Residential construction regulatory system, preemption of law by local governmental body over fire protection district, when, exceptions. —
1. As used in this section, the following terms shall mean:
(1)
"Residential construction"
, new construction and erection of detached single-family or two-family dwellings or the development of land to be used for detached single-family or two-family dwellings;
(2)
"Residential construction regulatory system"
, any bylaw, ordinance, order, rule, or regulation adopted, implemented, or enforced by any city, town, village, or county that pertains to residential construction, to any permitting system, or program relating to residential construction, including but not limited to the use or occupancy by the initial occupant thereof, or to any system or program for the inspection of residential construction. Residential construction regulatory system also includes the whole or any part of a nationally recognized model
*
code, with or without amendments specific to such city, town, village, or county.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, if a city, town, village, or county adopts or has adopted, implements, and enforces a residential construction regulatory system applicable to residential construction within its jurisdiction, any fire protection districts wholly or partly located within such city, town, village, or county shall be without power, authority, or privilege to enforce or implement a residential construction regulatory system purporting to be applicable to any residential construction within such city, town, village, or county. Any such residential construction regulatory system adopted by a fire protection district or its board shall be treated as advisory only and shall not be enforced by such fire protection district or its board.
3. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, fire protection districts:
(1) Shall have final regulatory authority regarding the location and specifications of fire hydrants, fire hydrant flow rates, and fire lanes, all as it relates to residential construction. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to require the political subdivision supplying water to incur any costs to modify its water supply infrastructure; and
(2) May inspect the alteration, enlargement, replacement or repair of a detached single-family or two-family dwelling; and
(3) Shall not collect a fee for the services described in subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection.
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(L. 2012 H.B. 1647 merged with S.B. 769)
*Word "mode" appears in original rolls of S.B. 769, 2012.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.230 - Power to levy and collect ad valorem taxes.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1947
321.230. Power to levy and collect ad valorem taxes. —
For the purpose of providing revenue for such districts, the board shall have the power and authority to order the levy and collection of ad valorem taxes on and against all taxable tangible property within the district, and to make timely demand and to sue for and collect any and all other taxes, contributions or allocations to which the district may be entitled.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 24)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.240 - Tax levy, election, when — form of ballot.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1979
321.240. Tax levy, election, when — form of ballot. —
To levy and collect taxes as herein provided, the board shall in each year determine the amount of money necessary to be raised by taxation, and shall fix a rate of levy which, when levied upon every dollar of the taxable tangible property within the district as shown by the last completed assessment, and with other revenues, will raise the amount required by the district annually to supply funds for paying the expenses of organization and operation and the costs of acquiring, supplying and maintaining the property, works and equipment of the district, and maintain the necessary personnel, which rate of levy shall not exceed thirty cents on the one hundred dollars valuation; may fix an additional rate, not to exceed ten cents on the hundred dollars valuation, the revenues from which shall be deposited in a special fund and used only for the pension program of the district, by submitting the following question to the voters:
Shall the board of directors of ______ Fire Protection District be authorized to increase the annual tax rate from ______ cents to ______ cents per one hundred dollars valuation, the revenues from which shall be deposited in a special fund and used only for the pension program of the district?
­­provided, that if the question fails to receive a majority of the votes cast, it shall not be resubmitted to the voters within one year after the election; except, that any district may impose a tax not to exceed ten cents on the one hundred dollars valuation, in addition to the rate which the board may levy under this section, by submitting the following question to the voters at any election in such district at which a member of the board of directors is to be elected:
Shall the board of directors of ______ Fire Protection District be authorized to increase the annual tax rate from ______ cents to ______ cents on the hundred dollars assessed valuation?
­­and in addition thereto, to fix a rate of levy which will enable it to promptly pay in full when due all interest on and principal of bonds and other obligations of the district, and to pay any indebtedness authorized by a vote of the people as provided in this chapter; and in the event of accruing defaults or deficiencies in the bonded or contractual indebtedness, an additional levy may be made as provided in section 321.260.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 25, A.L. 1953 p. 665, A.L. 1965 pp. 513, 514, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322, A.L. 1977 H.B. 216, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1979 H.B. 322)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.244 - Reduced tax levy may be increased to maximum limits, by elections, ballot form.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 07 Jul 1997, see footnote
321.244. Reduced tax levy may be increased to maximum limits, by elections, ballot form. —
1. Any fire protection district which has revised or reduced any levy which it has been authorized to impose under the provisions of section 321.225, 321.240, 321.241, 321.243, 321.246, 321.610, or 321.620, under any provision of the constitution or laws of this state, may increase each such revised or reduced levy up to, but not in excess of, the maximum limits allowed under the section authorizing the rate of levy sought to be increased by submitting the following proposition to the voters of the district at any primary, general or special election:
Shall the board of directors of the ______ Fire Protection District be authorized to increase the rate of levy for ______ (insert purpose of which tax is levied) from ______ cents to ______ cents on each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation?
☐ YES
☐ NO
2. If any of the propositions submitted under subsection 1 of this section is approved by a majority of the voters of the district voting thereon, the board of directors may increase the levy which was the subject of such proposition to the amount authorized by such proposition.
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(L. 1986 H.B. 877, A.L. 1997 S.B. 21)
Effective 7-07-97
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.250 - Board to certify rate of levy to county commission.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 2010
321.250. Board to certify rate of levy to county commission. —
On or before the applicable date required under section 67.110 of each year, the board shall certify to the county commission of each county within which the district is located a rate of levy so fixed by the board as provided by law, with directions that at the time and in the manner required by law for levy of taxes for county purposes such county commissions shall levy a tax at the rate so fixed and determined upon the assessed valuation of all the taxable tangible property within the district, in addition to such other taxes as may be levied by such county commissions.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 26, A.L. 1978 S.B. 628, A.L. 1982 S.B. 649 & H.B. 1096, A.L. 2010 H.B. 1392)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.260 - Matters considered when certifying annual levies — additional levies.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1947
321.260. Matters considered when certifying annual levies — additional levies. —
The board in certifying annual levies as herein provided shall take into account, in addition to the amounts necessary for general purposes as herein provided, the maturing indebtedness for the ensuing year as provided in its bonds and the interest on bonds, and deficiencies and defaults of prior years and any contractual obligation and shall make ample provision for the payment thereof. In case the moneys produced from such levies, together with other revenues of the district are not sufficient to pay punctually the annual installments on its bonds and the interest thereon, and to pay any defaults and deficiencies on any such bonds or contracts duly approved by the voters of the district, then the board shall provide for such additional levying of taxes as may be necessary to pay for all such, and notwithstanding any limitations, such taxes shall be continued to be levied until the indebtedness of the district shall be fully and currently paid.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 27)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.270 - Duty to levy and collect taxes — delinquent taxes constitute a lien.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
321.270. Duty to levy and collect taxes — delinquent taxes constitute a lien. —
1. The body having authority to levy taxes within each county in which all or part of a district lies shall levy the taxes provided in this chapter, and all officials charged with the duty of collecting taxes in each such county shall collect such taxes at the time and in the manner and with like interest and penalties as other taxes are collected. When collected such taxes shall be paid to the district ordering the levy and collection, or entitled to the same, and the payment of such collections shall be made monthly to the treasurer of the district and paid into the depositary thereof to the credit of the district. All funds received by the district shall be deposited in a depositary and secured in the manner provided by law for the deposit of county funds.
2. All taxes levied under the provisions of this chapter, together with interest thereon and penalties for default in payment thereof, and all costs of collecting the same, shall, until paid, constitute a lien on and against the property taxed, and such lien shall be on a parity with the tax lien of general taxes, and no sale of such property to enforce any general tax or other lien shall extinguish the lien of district taxes.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 28, A.L. 1955 p. 756, A.L. 1969 H.B. 322, A.L. 1978 S.B. 628)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.280 - Property may be sold for nonpayment of taxes.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1947
321.280. Property may be sold for nonpayment of taxes. —
If the taxes levied are not paid as herein provided, then the delinquent real property shall be sold at the regular tax sale for the payment of said taxes, interest and penalties, in the manner provided by the statutes of the state of Missouri for selling property for the nonpayment of general taxes. If there are no bids at said tax sale for the property so offered, said property shall be struck off to the county or other agency provided by law, and the county or agency shall account to the district in the same manner as provided by law for accounting for school, town and city taxes. Delinquent personal property shall be distrained and sold as provided by general law.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 29)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXI - Public Safety and Morals › Chapter 321 - Fire Protection Districts › Section 321.290 - Reserve fund, taxes for.

Title XXI PUBLIC SAFETY AND MORALS
Chapter 321
• Effective - 28 Aug 1947
321.290. Reserve fund, taxes for. —
Whenever any bonded or contractual indebtedness has been incurred by a district, it shall be lawful for the board to levy taxes and collect revenue for the purpose of creating a reserve fund in such amount as the board may determine, to be used to meet the obligations of the district.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 432 § 30)