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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification › Section 77.675 - Ordinances, adoption and repeal process (City of Farmington).

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 77
Effective - 28 Aug 2013
77.675. Ordinances, adoption and repeal process (City of Farmington). —
1. In addition to the process for passing ordinances provided in section 77.080, the council of any city of the third classification with more than fifteen thousand but fewer than seventeen thousand inhabitants and located in any county of the first classification with more than sixty-five thousand but fewer than seventy-five thousand inhabitants may adopt or repeal any ordinance by passage of a bill that sets forth the ordinance and specifies that the ordinance so proposed shall be submitted to the registered voters of the city at the next municipal election. The bill shall be passed under and pursuant to the procedures in section 77.080, except that it shall take effect upon approval of a majority of the voters rather than upon the approval and signature of the mayor.
2. If the mayor approves the bill and signs the bill
*
, the question shall be submitted to the voters in substantially the following form:
Shall the following ordinance be (adopted) (repealed)? (Set out ordinance.)
☐ YES
☐ NO
3. If a majority of the voters voting on the proposed ordinance vote in favor, such ordinance shall become a valid and binding ordinance of the city.
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(L. 2013 S.B. 23 merged with S.B. 58)
*Word "it" appears in original rolls of S.B. 58, 2013.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification › Section 77.700 - Disincorporation procedure, election, ballot language.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 77
• Effective - 28 Aug 2016
77.700. Disincorporation procedure, election, ballot language. —
1. The county governing body of any county in which a city of the third classification is located shall disincorporate the city as provided in sections 77.700 to 77.715.
2. The county governing body shall order an election upon the question of disincorporation of a city of the third classification upon petition of twenty-five percent of the voters of the city.
3. The county governing body shall give notice of the election by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city or, if there is no such newspaper in the city, then in the newspaper in the county published nearest the city. The notice shall contain a copy of the petition and the names of the petitioners. No election on the question of disincorporation shall be held until the notice has been published for four weeks successively.
4. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall the city of ______ be dissolved?
5. Upon the affirmative vote of a majority of those persons voting on the question, the county governing body shall disincorporate the city.
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(L. 2016 S.B. 572)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification › Section 77.703 - Contractual rights not invalidated by dissolution.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 77
• Effective - 28 Aug 2016
77.703. Contractual rights not invalidated by dissolution. —
No dissolution of the corporation shall invalidate or affect any right accruing to the corporation or to any person or invalidate or affect any contract entered into or imposed on the corporation.
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(L. 2016 S.B. 572)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification › Section 77.706 - Trustee to be appointed — oath — bond.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 77
• Effective - 28 Aug 2016
77.706. Trustee to be appointed — oath — bond. —
Whenever the county governing body shall dissolve any city of the third classification, the county governing body shall appoint some competent person to act as trustee for the corporation so dissolved, and such trustee, before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties, shall take and subscribe an oath that he or she will faithfully discharge the duties of his or her office and shall give bond with sufficient security, to be approved by the governing body, to the use of such disincorporated city, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his or her duty.
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(L. 2016 S.B. 572)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification › Section 77.709 - Powers of trustee.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 77
• Effective - 28 Aug 2016
77.709. Powers of trustee. —
The trustee shall have power to prosecute and defend to final judgment all suits instituted by or against the corporation, collect all moneys due the same, liquidate all lawful demands against the same, and for that purpose shall sell any property belonging to the corporation, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and generally to do all acts requisite to bring to a speedy close all the affairs of the corporation.
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(L. 2016 S.B. 572)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification › Section 77.712 - Employment of counsel, report to county governing body — compensation of trustee.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 77
• Effective - 28 Aug 2016
77.712. Employment of counsel, report to county governing body — compensation of trustee. —
The trustee shall employ counsel whenever necessary in the discharge of his or her duties and shall make a report of the proceedings to the county governing body at each regular term thereof, and the trustee shall receive for his or her services such compensation as the governing body shall think reasonable.
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(L. 2016 S.B. 572)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 77 - Cities of the Third Classification › Section 77.715 - Moneys to be paid over to county treasurer, when — all records to be delivered to county clerk.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 77
• Effective - 28 Aug 2016
77.715. Moneys to be paid over to county treasurer, when — all records to be delivered to county clerk. —
When the trustee shall have closed the affairs of the corporation and shall have paid all debts due by the corporation, he or she shall pay over to the county treasurer all money remaining in his or her hands, take receipt therefor, and deliver to the clerk of the county governing body all books, papers, records, and deeds belonging to the dissolved corporation.
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(L. 2016 S.B. 572)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.010 - Definitions.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
78.010. Definitions. —
In the construction of sections 78.010 to 78.420 the following rules shall be observed, unless such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent or repugnant to the context of the statute:
(1) The words
"councilman"
or
"alderman"
shall be construed to mean councilman when applied to cities under said sections.
(2) When an
"office"
or
"officer"
is named in any law referred to in said sections, it shall, when applied to cities under said sections, be construed to mean the office or officer having the same functions or duties under the provisions of said sections, or under ordinances passed under authority thereof.
(3) The word
"franchise"
shall include every special privilege in the streets, highways and public places in the city, whether granted by the state or the city, which does not belong to the citizens generally by common right.
(4) The
"voters"
shall be construed to mean persons qualified to vote for elective offices at municipal elections.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7073, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6923; 1919 § 8390
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.020 - Organization.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
78.020. Organization. —
That any city of the third class, including any such city acting under special charter or any city now having or which may hereafter have a population entitling them to become cities of the third class, may become organized as a city under the provisions of sections 78.010 to 78.420 by proceeding as herein provided, unless authority for the adoption of the plan of city government authorized by said sections be contained in the order incorporating such city, in which event an election shall not be necessary.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7056)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6906; 1919 § 8373
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.030 - Election — petition for — how held — officers elected, when.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
78.030. Election — petition for — how held — officers elected, when. —
Upon petition of voters equal in number to twenty-five percent of the votes cast for all candidates for mayor at the last preceding city election of any such city, the mayor shall, by proclamation, submit the question of organizing as a city under sections 78.010 to 78.420 at an election. If said plan is not adopted at the last election, the question of adopting said plan shall not be resubmitted to the voters of said city for adoption within two years thereafter, and then the question to adopt shall be resubmitted upon the presentation of a petition signed by voters as herein provided, equal in number to twenty-five percent of all votes cast for all candidates for mayor at the last preceding election. At such election the proposition to be submitted shall be: Shall the proposition to organize the city of (name of city) under sections 78.010 to 78.420 be adopted? If the majority of the votes cast shall be in favor thereof, cities shall proceed to the election of mayor and councilmen. Immediately after such proposition is adopted, the mayor shall transmit to the governor, the secretary of state and to the county clerk each a certificate stating that such proposition was adopted. At the next municipal election after the adoption of such proposition there shall be elected a mayor and councilmen. In the event, however, that the next municipal election does not occur within six months after such election, the mayor shall, within ten days after such election, by proclamation, call a special election for the election of a mayor and councilmen, sixty days' notice thereof being given in such call.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7057, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6907; 1919 § 8374
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.040 - Officers — quorum — mayor to have no veto.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1991
78.040. Officers — quorum — mayor to have no veto. —
Every city having a population of eight thousand and less than thirty thousand shall be governed by a council consisting of the mayor and four councilmen, and every city having a population of three thousand and less than eight thousand shall be governed by a council consisting of the mayor and two councilmen, chosen as provided in sections 78.010 to 78.420, each of whom shall have the right to vote on all questions coming before the council. In cities having four councilmen, three members of the council shall constitute a quorum, and in cities having two councilmen two members of the council shall constitute a quorum, and in cities having four councilmen the affirmative vote of three members, and in cities having two councilmen the affirmative vote of two members of the council shall be necessary to adopt any motion, resolution or ordinance, or pass any measure unless a greater number is provided for in said sections. Upon every vote the yeas and nays shall be called and recorded, and every motion, resolution or ordinance shall be reduced to writing and read before the vote is taken thereon. The mayor shall preside at all meetings of the council; he shall have no power to veto any measure, but every resolution or ordinance passed by the council must be signed by the mayor, or by two councilmen, and be recorded, before the same shall be in force.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7061, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1819, A.L. 1983 H.B. 696, A.L. 1991 H.B. 532)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6911; 1919 § 8378
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.050 - Salaries, how computed.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1955
78.050. Salaries, how computed. —
The mayor and councilmen shall have an office at the city hall or at some other convenient and suitable place. The mayor's and each councilman's annual salary shall be fixed by ordinance. Such salary shall be payable in equal monthly or semimonthly installments as provided by ordinance. Every other officer or assistant shall receive such salary or compensation as the council shall provide by ordinance or resolution, payable in equal monthly or semimonthly installments. The salary or compensation of all other employees of the city shall be fixed by the council and shall be payable monthly or at such shorter periods as the council shall determine.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7064, A.L. 1955 p. 301)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6914; 1919 § 8381
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.060 - Powers of council — departments.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1955
78.060. Powers of council — departments. —
1. The council shall have and possess, and the council and its members shall exercise all executive, legislative and judicial powers and duties now had, possessed and exercised by the mayor, city council, city attorney, assessor, treasurer, collector, city engineer and other executive and administrative officers in cities of the third class and in cities under special charter with a population less than thirty thousand, and shall also possess and exercise all executive, legislative and judicial powers and duties now had and exercised by the board of police and fire commissioners, the board of public works, park commissioners, the board of waterworks trustees in all cities wherein such boards now exist or may be hereafter created. The executive and administrative powers, authority and duties in such cities shall be distributed into and among five departments as follows:
(1) Department of public affairs;
(2) Department of accounts and finance;
(3) Department of public safety;
(4) Department of streets and public improvements;
(5) Department of parks and public property.
2. The council shall determine the powers and duties to be performed by and assign them to the appropriate department; shall prescribe the powers and duties of officers and employees; may assign particular officers and employees to one or more of the departments; may require an officer or employee to perform duties in two or more departments; and may make such other rules and regulations as may be necessary or proper for the efficient and economical conduct of the business of the city.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7062, A.L. 1955 p. 303)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6912; 1919 § 8379
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.070 - Mayor and councilmen to superintend departments — council to elect city officers.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1983
78.070. Mayor and councilmen to superintend departments — council to elect city officers. —
The mayor shall be superintendent of the department of public affairs and the council shall at the first regular meeting after election of its members designate by a majority vote one councilman to be superintendent of the department of accounts and finances; one to be superintendent of the department of public safety, and one to be superintendent of the department of street and public improvements and one to be superintendent of the department of parks and public property; provided, however, that in cities having a population of less than ten thousand there may be designated to each councilman two of such departments. Such designation shall be changed whenever it appears that the public service would be benefitted thereby. The council shall at such first meeting, or as soon as practicable thereafter, elect by majority vote the following officers: A city clerk, attorney, assessor, treasurer, auditor, civil engineer, city physician, marshal, chief of fire department, market master, street commissioner, and such other officers and assistants as shall be provided for by ordinance and necessary to the proper and efficient conduct of the affairs of the city; provided, however, that only such of the above officers shall be appointed as may in the judgment of the mayor and councilmen be necessary for the proper and efficient transaction of the affairs of the city. Any officer or assistant elected or appointed by the council may be removed from office at any time by a vote of a majority of the members of the council, except as otherwise provided in sections 78.010 to 78.420.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7063, A.L. 1955 p. 303, A.L. 1959 H.B. 417, A.L. 1978 H.B. 1634, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1819, A.L. 1983 H.B. 696)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6913; 1919 § 8380
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.080 - Election of mayor and councilmen.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1991
78.080. Election of mayor and councilmen. —
In every city having a population of over three thousand and under eight thousand there shall be elected at the first municipal election held after the taking effect of this section, and every four years thereafter, a mayor and two councilmen, except in any city with a population of at least five thousand within a third class county which adjoins three other third class counties and one second class county and the state of Arkansas, wherein the law applicable before August 28, 1991, shall continue to apply; and in cities having a population of over eight thousand and less than thirty thousand, a mayor and four councilmen. For cities with a population of at least eight thousand and under thirty thousand, the council shall be elected for the following terms: The mayor shall be elected for a four-year term. The councilmen shall be elected for four-year terms except that at the first election the candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall serve a four-year term, the candidate receiving the second highest number of votes shall serve a three-year term, the candidate receiving the third highest number of votes shall serve a two-year term and the candidate receiving the fourth highest number of votes shall serve a one-year term. If any vacancy occurs in such office, the remaining members of the council shall appoint a person to fill such vacancy during the balance of the unexpired term. Such officers shall qualify and their terms shall begin on the first Monday after their appointment. The terms of office of the mayor and councilmen or aldermen in such city in office at the beginning of the terms of office of the mayor and councilmen first elected under the provisions of this section shall then cease and the terms of office of all other city officers, whether elective or appointive, in force in each such city, except as otherwise provided, shall cease as soon as the council shall by resolution declare.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7059, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1980 H.B. 1819, A.L. 1983 H.B. 696, A.L. 1991 H.B. 532)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6909; 1919 § 8376
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.090 - Election, primary — held when — elimination of primary, when.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 2013
78.090. Election, primary — held when — elimination of primary, when. —
1. Candidates to be voted for at all general municipal elections at which a mayor and councilmen are to be elected under the provisions of sections 78.010 to 78.400 shall be nominated by a primary election, except as provided in this section, and no other names shall be placed upon the general ballot except those selected in the manner herein prescribed. The primary election for such nomination shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in February preceding the municipal election.
2. (1) In lieu of conducting a primary election under this section, any city organized under sections 78.010 to 78.400 may, by order or ordinance, provide for the elimination of the primary election and the conduct of elections for mayor and councilman as provided in this subsection.
(2) Any person desiring to become a candidate for mayor or councilman shall file with the city clerk a signed statement of such candidacy, stating whether such person is a resident of the city and a qualified voter of the city, that the person desires to be a candidate for nomination to the office of mayor or councilman to be voted upon at the next municipal election for such office, that the person is eligible for such office, that the person requests to be placed on the ballot, and that such person will serve if elected. Such statement shall be sworn to or affirmed before the city clerk.
(3) Under the requirements of section 115.023, the city clerk shall notify the requisite election authority who shall cause the official ballots to be printed, and the names of the candidates shall appear on the ballots in the order that their statements of candidacy were filed with the city clerk. Above the names of the candidates shall appear the words "Vote for (number to be elected)". The ballot shall also include a warning that voting for more than the total number of candidates to be elected to any office invalidates the ballot.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7060, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 2013 H.B. 163 merged with S.B. 99)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6910; 1919 § 8377
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.100 - Candidate to file statement.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1998
78.100. Candidate to file statement. —
Any person desiring to become a candidate for mayor or councilman shall file with the city clerk a statement of such candidacy in substantially the following form:
State of Missouri, County of ______ ss.
I, ______, herewith state and declare that I reside at number ______ street, city of ______, county of therein; that I am a candidate for nomination to the office of (mayor or councilman) to be voted upon at the primary election to be held on the ______ Tuesday of ______, 20______, and I hereby request that my name be printed upon the official primary ballot for nomination by such primary election for such office.
(Signed) ______
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(RSMo 1939 § 7060, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1807)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6910; 1919 § 8377
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.120 - Form of ballot.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
78.120. Form of ballot. —
Upon the said ballot the names of the candidates for mayor, arranged in the order of filing shall first be placed, with a square at the left of each name, and immediately below, the words, "vote for one". Following these names, likewise arranged in the order of filing, shall appear the names of the candidates for councilmen, with a square at the left of each name, and below the names of such candidates shall appear the words, "vote for four", or "vote for three", or "vote for two", as the case may be. The ballot shall be in substantially the following form:
CANDIDATES FOR NOMINATION FOR
MAYOR AND COUNCILMEN OF ______ CITY
AT THE PRIMARY ELECTION, ______ FOR MAYOR
(Names of candidates)
(Vote for one)
FOR COUNCILMEN
(Names of candidates)
(Vote for four)
or
(Vote for three)
or
(Vote for two)
As the case may be.
Official ballot, attest:
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(RSMo 1939 § 7060, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6910; 1919 § 8377
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.140 - Who shall be candidates.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1994
78.140. Who shall be candidates. —
The two candidates receiving the highest number of votes for mayor shall be the candidates, and the only candidates whose names shall be placed upon the ballot for mayor at the next succeeding general municipal election, and in cities having a population of eight thousand and less than thirty thousand the eight candidates having the highest number of votes for councilmen, or all such candidates if less than eight, and in cities having a population of three thousand and less than eight thousand the four candidates receiving the highest number of votes for councilmen, or all such candidates if less than four, shall be the candidates and the only candidates whose names shall be placed upon the ballot for councilman at such municipal election.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7060, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1983 H.B. 696, A.L. 1991 H.B. 532, A.L. 1994 S.B. 517)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6910; 1919 § 8377
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.160 - Council meetings.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
78.160. Council meetings. —
Regular meetings of the council shall be held on the first Monday after the election of councilmen, and thereafter at least once each month. The council shall provide by ordinance for the times of holding regular meetings, and special meetings may be called from time to time by the mayor or two councilmen. All meetings of the council, whether regular or special, at which any person not a city officer is admitted, shall be open to the public. The mayor shall be president of the council and preside at its meetings, and shall supervise all departments and report to the council for its action all matters requiring attention in either. The superintendent of the department of accounts and finances shall be vice president of the council, and in case of vacancy in the office of mayor, or the absence or inability of the mayor, shall perform the duties of mayor.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7066)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6916; 1919 § 8383
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.170 - Appropriations — power of council.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
78.170. Appropriations — power of council. —
If at the beginning of the term of office of the first council elected in such city under the provisions of sections 78.010 to 78.420 the appropriations for the expenditures of the city government for the current fiscal year have been made, said council shall have power by ordinance to revise, to repeal or change said appropriations, and to make additional appropriations.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7072)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6922; 1919 § 8389
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.180 - Itemized statement of receipts and expenses — accounts to be examined, how.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1983
78.180. Itemized statement of receipts and expenses — accounts to be examined, how. —
The council shall each month in cities having a population of ten thousand and less than thirty thousand, and every three months in cities having a population of three thousand and less than ten thousand, print in pamphlet form a detailed itemized statement of all receipts and expenses of the city and a summary of its proceedings during the preceding month or preceding three months, according to the population of such city, and furnish printed copies thereof to the city library, the daily and weekly newspapers of the city and to persons who shall apply therefor at the office of the city clerk. At the end of each year the council shall cause a full and complete examination of all the books and accounts of the city to be made by competent accountants and shall publish the result of such examination in the manner above provided for publication of statements of monthly or quarterly expenditures.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7071, A.L. 1983 H.B. 696)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6921; 1919 § 8388
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.190 - Ordinances to be on file with city clerk for inspection — franchises — extensions or renewal, to be voted on.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1987
78.190. Ordinances to be on file with city clerk for inspection — franchises — extensions or renewal, to be voted on. —
Every ordinance or resolution appropriating money or ordering any street improvement or sewer, or making or authorizing the making of any contract or granting any franchise or right to occupy or use the streets, highways, bridges or public places in the city for any purpose shall be complete in the form in which it is finally passed and shall remain on file with the city clerk for public inspection at least one week before the final passage or adoption thereof. No franchise or right to occupy or use the streets, highways, bridges, or public places in any city shall be granted, renewed or extended except by ordinances, and every initial franchise or grant for interurban or street railways, gas, or waterworks, electric light or power plants, telegraph or telephone systems or other public service utilities within said city, must be authorized or approved by a majority of the voters voting thereon. Any extension or renewal shall be subject to voter approval of the majority of the voters voting on the question, pursuant to the provisions of section 88.251.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7067, A.L. 1953 p. 268, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1987 S.B. 412)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6917; 1919 § 8384
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.200 - Ordinance by initiative — procedure.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
78.200. Ordinance by initiative — procedure. —
Any proposed ordinance may be submitted to the council by petition signed by voters of the city equal in number to the percentage hereafter required. The signatures, verification, authentication, inspection, certification, amendment and submission of such petition shall be the same as provided for petitions under sections 78.260 to 78.290. If the petition accompanying the proposed ordinance be signed by voters equal in number to twenty-five percent of the votes cast for all candidates for mayor at the last preceding election, and contains a request that the said ordinance be submitted to a vote of the people if not passed by the council, such council shall either:
(1) Pass said ordinance without alteration within twenty days after attachment of the clerk's certificate to the accompanying petition; or
(2) Forthwith after the clerk shall attach to the petition accompanying such ordinance his certificate of sufficiency, the council shall submit the question without alteration to the vote of the voters. But if the petition is signed by not less than ten and less than twenty-five percent of the voters, as above defined, then the council shall within twenty days pass said ordinance without change, or submit the same at the next municipal election.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7075, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6925; 1919 § 8392
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.210 - Ballots — such ordinance may be repealed, how.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
78.210. Ballots — such ordinance may be repealed, how. —
1. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall the following ordinance be (adopted) (repealed)? (Set out ordinance)
2. If a majority of the voters voting on the proposed ordinance shall vote in favor thereof, such ordinance shall thereupon become a valid and binding ordinance of the city; and any ordinance proposed by petition, or which shall be adopted by a vote of the people, cannot be repealed or amended except by a vote of the people. Any number of proposed ordinances may be voted upon at the same election, in accordance with the provisions of this section. The council may submit a proposition for the repeal of any such ordinance or for amendments thereto, to be voted upon at any municipal election; and should such proposition so submitted receive a majority of the votes cast thereon, such ordinance shall thereby be repealed or amended accordingly.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7075, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6925; 1919 § 8392
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.220 - Proposed ordinance — effective, when — referendum.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
78.220. Proposed ordinance — effective, when — referendum. —
No ordinance passed by the council, except when otherwise required by the general laws of the state, or by the provisions of sections 78.010 to 78.420, except an ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, which contains a statement of its urgency and is passed by a two-thirds vote of the council shall go into effect before ten days from the time of its final passage; and if during said ten days a petition signed by the voters of the city equal in number to at least twenty-five percent of the entire vote cast for all candidates for mayor at the last preceding municipal election at which a mayor was elected, protesting against the passage of such ordinance be presented to the council, the same shall thereupon be suspended from going into operation; and it shall be the duty of the council to reconsider such ordinance, and if the same is not entirely repealed, the council shall submit the ordinance as is provided by subdivision (2) of section 78.200, to the vote of the voters. Such ordinance shall not go into effect or become operative unless a majority of the voters voting on the same shall vote in favor thereof. Said petition shall be in all respects in accordance with the provisions of said sections 78.260 to 78.290 except as to the percentage of signers, and be examined and certified to by the clerk in all respects as therein provided.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7076, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6926; 1919 § 8393
(1969) A comprehensive zoning ordinance is subject to referendum; section 89.010 is not a preemption by the state in the field of zoning and does not operate as an exclusion of this section. State ex rel. Wahlmann v. Reim (Mo. en banc), 445 S.W.2d 336.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.230 - Organization may be abandoned — charter may be resumed — procedure.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
78.230. Organization may be abandoned — charter may be resumed — procedure. —
Any city which shall have operated for more than six years under the provisions of sections 78.010 to 78.420 may abandon such organization hereunder, and accept the provisions of the general law of the state then applicable to the cities of its population, or if now organized under special charter, may resume said special charter by proceeding as follows: Upon the petition of not less than ten percent of the voters casting votes for governor in the last preceding general election of such city the following question shall be submitted: Shall the city of (name of city) abandon its organization under sections 78.010 to 78.420, and become a city under the general law governing cities of like population, or if now organized under special charter shall resume said special charter? If a majority of votes cast on the question be in favor of such question, the officers elected at the next election shall be those then prescribed by the general law of the state for cities of like population, and upon the qualification of such officers such city shall become a city under such general law of the state; but such change shall not in any manner or degree affect the property, right or liabilities of any nature of such city, but shall merely extend to such change in its form of government. The sufficiency of such petition shall be determined, the election ordered and conducted, and the results declared generally as provided by sections 78.260 to 78.290, insofar as the provisions thereof are applicable.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7077, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, S.B. 594)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6927; 1919 § 8394
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.240 - Contents of petition.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
78.240. Contents of petition. —
Petitions provided for in sections 78.010 to 78.420 shall be signed by none but voters of the city. Each petition shall contain, in addition to the names of the petitioners, the street and house number in which the petitioner resides, his age and length of residence in the city. It shall be accompanied by an affidavit of one or more voters of the city stating that the signers thereof were at the time of signing voters of said city and the number of signers at the time the affidavit was made.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7078, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6928; 1919 § 8395
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.250 - Council may create and discontinue offices — may change compensation.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
78.250. Council may create and discontinue offices — may change compensation. —
The council shall have power from time to time to create, fill and discontinue offices and employments other than herein prescribed according to their judgment of the needs of the city; and may by majority vote of all the members remove any such officer or employee, except as otherwise provided for in sections 78.010 to 78.420; and may by resolution or otherwise prescribe, limit or change the compensation of such officers or employees.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7065)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6915; 1919 § 8382
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.260 - Officer may be removed — procedure.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1998
78.260. Officer may be removed — procedure. —
The holder of any elective office may be removed at any time by the voters qualified to vote for a successor of such incumbent. The procedure to effect the removal of an incumbent of an elective office shall be as follows: a petition signed by voters entitled to vote for a successor to the incumbent sought to be removed, equal in number to at least twenty-five percent of the total number of registered voters in such city entitled to vote for a successor to the incumbent sought to be removed, demanding an election of a successor of the person sought to be removed shall be filed with the city clerk which petition shall contain a general statement of the grounds for which the removal is sought. The signatures to the petition need not all be appended to one paper, but each signer shall add to his or her signature his or her place of residence, giving the street and number. One of the signers of each such paper shall make oath before an officer competent to administer oaths that the statements therein made are true as he or she believes and that each signature to the paper appended is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7074, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1807)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6924; 1919 § 8391
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.270 - Clerk to ascertain sufficiency of petition — council to order election.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
78.270. Clerk to ascertain sufficiency of petition — council to order election. —
Within ten days from the date of filing such petition the city clerk shall examine and from the voters' register ascertain whether or not said petition is signed by the requisite number of voters, and if necessary, the council shall allow him extra help for the purpose; and he shall attach to said petition his certificate, showing the result of said examination. If by the clerk's certificate the petition is shown to be insufficient, it may be amended within ten days from the date of said certificate. The clerk shall, within ten days after such amendment, make like examination of the amended petition, and if his certificate shall show the same to be insufficient, it shall be returned to the person filing the same, without prejudice, however, to the filing of a new petition to the same effect. If the petition shall be deemed to be sufficient, the clerk shall submit the same to the council without delay. If the petition shall be found to be sufficient, the council shall order the question to be submitted to the voters of the city.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7074, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6924; 1919 § 8391
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.280 - Election — form of ballot.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1978
78.280. Election — form of ballot. —
1. Nominations hereunder shall be made without the intervention of a primary election by filing with the clerk a statement of candidacy accompanied by a petition signed by voters of the city, equal in number to at least ten percent of the entire vote for all candidates for the office of mayor at the last preceding municipal election.
2. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Election for the balance or the unexpired term of ______ as ______ for ______.
Vote for one only.
Names of candidates.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7074, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6924; 1919 § 8391
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.290 - Incumbent may be candidate.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
78.290. Incumbent may be candidate. —
The successor of any officer so removed shall hold office during the unexpired term of his predecessor. Any person sought to be removed may be a candidate to succeed himself, and unless he requests otherwise in writing, the clerk shall place his name on the official ballot without nomination. In any such removal election the candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. At such election if some other person than the incumbent receives the highest number of votes, the incumbent shall thereupon be deemed removed from the office upon qualification of his successor. In case the party who receives the highest number of votes should fail to qualify within ten days after receiving notification of election, the office shall be deemed vacant. If the incumbent receives the highest number of votes he shall continue in office. The same method of removal shall be cumulative and additional to the methods heretofore provided by law.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7074)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6924; 1919 § 8391
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.300 - Qualifications of officers and employees — unlawful promises — statement of campaign expenses.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
78.300. Qualifications of officers and employees — unlawful promises — statement of campaign expenses. —
All officers and employees in any such city shall be elected or appointed with reference to their qualifications and fitness and for the good of the public service, and without reference to their political faith or party affiliations. It shall be unlawful for any candidate for office or any officer in any such city directly or indirectly to give or promise any person or persons any office, position, employment, benefit, or any thing of value, for the purpose of influencing or obtaining the political support, aid or vote of any person or persons. Every elective officer in any such city shall, within thirty days after qualifying, file with the city clerk, and publish at least once in a daily newspaper of general circulation his sworn statement of all his election and campaign expenses, and by whom such funds were contributed. Any violations of the provisions of this section shall be a misdemeanor and be ground for removal from office.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7070)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6920; 1919 § 8387
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 78 - Optional Forms, Cities of the Third Classification › Section 78.310 - Civil service commissioners — appointment.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 78
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
78.310. Civil service commissioners — appointment. —
In cities having a population of twenty thousand and less than thirty thousand the council shall, and in cities having a population of ten thousand and less than twenty thousand the council may immediately after organizing, by ordinance appoint two civil service commissioners, who shall hold office, one until the first Tuesday in April of the second year after his appointment, and one until the first Tuesday in April of the fourth year after his appointment; provided, however, that in all cases in which no civil commissioners are appointed by the council the council shall have the same powers and duties devolving upon such commissioners as provided for in sections 78.010 to 78.420.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7069)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 6919; 1919 § 8386