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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.240 - Assessment and payment of damages.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
89.240. Assessment and payment of damages. —
In payment for the real estate, improvements and easements to be taken and acquired for the establishment of such building lines as are herein provided and of the damages sustained thereby, benefits shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as provided by law in proceedings in any such city for the acquiring of lands for the opening of streets.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7750)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7602
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.250 - Law does not abridge or limit power of eminent domain.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
89.250. Law does not abridge or limit power of eminent domain. —
This law shall not limit or abridge any power now or hereafter conferred by law on such cities to establish building lines or take any property or any interest therein by eminent domain.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7751)
Prior revision: 1929 § 7603
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.300 - Definitions.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
89.300. Definitions. —
For the purpose of sections 89.300 to 89.480 the following terms mean or include:
(1)
"Council"
, the chief legislative body of the municipality;
(2)
"Streets"
, any public ways;
(3)
"Subdivision"
, the division of a parcel of land into two or more lots, or other divisions of land; it includes resubdivision and, when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land or territory subdivided.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.310 - Municipality may adopt city plan and appoint commission.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
89.310. Municipality may adopt city plan and appoint commission. —
Any municipality in this state may make, adopt, amend, and carry out a city plan and appoint a planning commission with the powers and duties herein set forth.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.320 - Planning commission — membership — terms — vacancy — removal.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 1999
89.320. Planning commission — membership — terms — vacancy — removal. —
The planning commission of any municipality shall consist of not more than fifteen nor less than seven members, including:
(1) The mayor, if the mayor chooses to be a member;
(2) A member of the council selected by the council, if the council chooses to have a member serve on the commission; and
(3) Not more than fifteen nor less than five citizens appointed by the mayor and approved by the council. All citizen members of the commission shall serve without compensation. The term of each of the citizen members shall be for four years, except that the terms of the citizen members first appointed shall be for varying periods so that succeeding terms will be staggered. Any vacancy in a membership shall be filled for the unexpired term by appointment as aforesaid. The council may remove any citizen member for cause stated in writing and after public hearing.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 3, A.L. 1997 H.B. 831, A.L. 1999 H.B. 853)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.330 - Commission officers, rules, records, employees, expenditures — zoning commission to constitute planning commission.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
89.330. Commission officers, rules, records, employees, expenditures — zoning commission to constitute planning commission. —
1. The commission shall elect its chairman and secretary from among the citizen members. The term of chairman and secretary shall be for one year with eligibility for reelection. The commission shall hold regular meetings and special meetings as they provided by rule, and shall adopt rules for the transaction of business and keep a record of its proceedings. These records shall be public records. The commission shall appoint the employees and staff necessary for its work, and may contract with city planners and other professional persons for the services that it requires. The expenditures of the commission, exclusive of grants and gifts, shall be within the amounts appropriated for the purpose by council.
2. Where a zoning or planning commission exists on October 13, 1963, it shall constitute the city planning commission for the purposes of sections 89.300 to 89.480 in lieu of the commission provided for herein with the same officers, membership procedures, powers and terms of office as theretofore existing, unless the council otherwise provides; except in a charter city where the provisions of the charter shall govern.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 4)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.340 - City plan, contents — zoning plan.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
89.340. City plan, contents — zoning plan. —
The commission shall make and adopt a city plan for the physical development of the municipality. The city plan, with the accompanying maps, plats, charts and descriptive and explanatory matter, shall show the commission's recommendations for the physical development and uses of land, and
*
may include, among other things, the general location, character and extent of streets and other public ways, grounds, places and spaces; the general location and extent of public utilities and terminals, whether publicly or privately owned, the acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment or change of use of any of the foregoing; the general character, extent and layout of the replanning of blighted districts and slum areas. The commission may also prepare a zoning plan for the regulation of the height, area, bulk, location and use of private, nonprofit and public structures and premises, and of population density, but the adoption, enforcement and administration of the zoning plan shall conform to the provisions of sections 89.010 to 89.250.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 5)
*Word "and" does not appear in original rolls.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.350 - Plan, prepared how — purposes.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
89.350. Plan, prepared how — purposes. —
In the preparation of the city plan, the commission shall make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of the existing conditions and probable future growth of the municipality. The plan shall be made with the general purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated development of the municipality which will, in accordance with existing and future needs, best promote the general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 6)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.360 - Adoption of plan, procedure.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 1991
89.360. Adoption of plan, procedure. —
The commission may adopt the plan as a whole by a single resolution, or, as the work of making the whole city plan progresses, may from time to time adopt a part or parts thereof, any part to correspond generally with one or more of the functional subdivisions of the subject matter of the plan. Before the adoption, amendment or extension of the plan or portion thereof the commission shall hold at least one public hearing thereon. Fifteen days' notice of the time and place of such hearing shall be published in at least one newspaper having general circulation within the municipality. The hearing may be adjourned from time to time. The adoption of the plan requires a majority vote of the full membership of the planning commission. The resolution shall refer expressly to the maps, descriptive matter and other matters intended by the commission to form the whole or part of the plan and the action taken shall be recorded on the adopted plan or part thereof by the identifying signature of the secretary of the commission and filed in the office of the commission, identified properly by file number, and a copy of the plan or part thereof shall be certified to the council and the municipal clerk, and a copy shall be available in the office of the county recorder of deeds and shall be available at the municipal clerk's office for public inspection during normal office hours.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 7, A.L. 1991 H.B. 487)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.370 - Powers of commission — recommendations.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
89.370. Powers of commission — recommendations. —
The commission may make reports and recommendations relating to the plan and development of the municipality to public officials and agencies, public utility companies, civic, educational, professional and other organizations and citizens. It may recommend to the executive or legislative officials of the municipality programs for public improvements and the financing thereof. All public officials shall, upon request, furnish to the commission, within a reasonable time, all available information it requires for its work. The commission, its members and employees, in the performance of its functions, may enter upon any land to make examinations and surveys. In general, the commission shall have the power necessary to enable it to perform its functions and promote municipal planning.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 8)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.380 - Planning commission to approve improvements — commission disapproval, overruled, how.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
89.380. Planning commission to approve improvements — commission disapproval, overruled, how. —
Whenever the commission adopts the plan of the municipality or any part thereof, no street or other public facilities, or no public utility, whether publicly or privately owned, and, the location, extent and character thereof having been included in the recommendations and proposals of the plan or portions thereof, shall be constructed or authorized in the municipality until the location, extent and character thereof has been submitted to and approved by the planning commission. In case of disapproval the commission shall communicate its reasons to the council, and the council, by vote of not less than two-thirds of its entire membership, may overrule the disapproval and, upon the overruling, the council or the appropriate board or officer may proceed, except that if the public facility or utility is one the authorization or financing of which does not fall within the province of the council, then the submission to the planning commission shall be by the board having jurisdiction, and the planning commission's disapproval may be overruled by that board by a vote of not less than two-thirds of its entire membership. The acceptance, widening, removal, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, change of use, acquisition of land for, sale or lease of any street or other public facility is subject to similar submission and approval, and the failure to approve may be similarly overruled. The failure of the commission to act within sixty days after the date of official submission to it shall be deemed approval.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 9)
(2005) Section covers all boards acquiring property and buildings in certain cities, including school boards. Board of Education v. City of Springfield, 174 S.W.3d 653 (Mo.App.S.D.).
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.390 - Functions of commission.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
89.390. Functions of commission. —
The commission shall have and perform all of the functions of the zoning commission provided for in sections 89.010 to 89.250.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 10)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.400 - Commission to make recommendations to council on plats, when — conflict with zoning provisions of another political subdivision, which to prevail.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 2007
89.400. Commission to make recommendations to council on plats, when — conflict with zoning provisions of another political subdivision, which to prevail. —
1. When the planning commission of any municipality adopts a city plan which includes at least a major street plan or progresses in its city planning to the making and adoption of a major street plan, and files a certified copy of the major street plan in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the municipality is located, no plat of a subdivision of land lying within the municipality shall be filed or recorded until it has been submitted to and a report and recommendation thereon made by the commission to the city council and the council has approved the plat as provided by law.
2. (1) As used in this subsection,
"transect-based zoning"
means a zoning classification system that prescriptively arranges uses, elements, and environments according to a geographic cross-section that range across a continuum from rural to urban, with the range of environments providing the basis for organizing the components of the constructed world, including buildings, lots, land use, street, and all other physical elements of the human habitat, with the objective of creating sustainable communities and emphasizing bicycle lanes, street connectivity, and sidewalks, and permitting high-density and mixed use development in urban areas.
(2) In the event that any city, town, or village adopts a zoning or subdivision ordinance based on transect-based zoning, and such transect-based zoning provisions conflict with the zoning provisions adopted by code or ordinance of another political subdivision with jurisdiction in such city, town, or village, the transect-based zoning provisions governing street configuration requirements, including number and locations of parking spaces, street, drive lane, and cul-de-sac lengths and widths, turning radii, and improvements within the right-of-way, shall prevail over any other conflicting or more restrictive zoning provisions adopted by code or ordinance of the other political subdivision.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 11, A.L. 2007 H.B. 205 merged with H.B. 795 merged with S.B. 22 merged with S.B. 81)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.420 - Commission to approve plats, when.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
89.420. Commission to approve plats, when. —
Within sixty days after the submission of a plat to the commission, the commission shall approve or disapprove the plat; otherwise the plat is deemed approved by the commission, except that the commission, with the consent of the applicant for the approval, may extend the sixty-day period. The ground of disapproval of any plat by the commission shall be made a matter of record.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 13)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.430 - Commission approval of plats — effects.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
89.430. Commission approval of plats — effects. —
The approval of a plat by the commission does not constitute or effect an acceptance by the municipality or public of the dedication to public use of any street or other ground shown upon the plat.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 14)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.440 - Approval of plats required for recording.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
89.440. Approval of plats required for recording. —
No county recorder shall receive for filing or recording any subdivision plat required to be approved by a city council or municipal planning commission unless the plat has endorsed upon it the approval of the city council under the hand of the clerk and the seal of the city, or by the secretary of the planning commission.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 15)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.450 - Use of unapproved plat in sale of land — penalty — vacation or injunction of transfer.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 2005
89.450. Use of unapproved plat in sale of land — penalty — vacation or injunction of transfer. —
No owner, or agent of the owner, of any land located within the platting jurisdiction of any municipality, knowingly or with intent to defraud, may transfer, sell, agree to sell, or negotiate to sell that land by reference to or by other use of a plat of any purported subdivision of the land before the plat has been approved by the council or planning commission and recorded in the office of the appropriate county recorder unless the owner or agent shall disclose in writing that such plat has not been approved by such council or planning commission and the sale is contingent upon the approval of such plat by such council or planning commission. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay to the municipality a penalty not to exceed three hundred dollars for each lot transferred or sold or agreed or negotiated to be sold; and the description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring shall not exempt the transaction from this penalty. A municipality may enjoin or vacate the transfer or sale or agreement by legal action, and may recover the penalty in such action.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 16, A.L. 2005 S.B. 210)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.460 - Public improvements, how approved after adoption of major street plan.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
89.460. Public improvements, how approved after adoption of major street plan. —
Upon adoption of a major street plan and subdivision regulations, the municipality shall not accept, lay out, open, improve, grade, pave or light any street, lay or authorize the laying of water mains, sewers, connections or other utilities in any street within the municipality unless the street has received the legal status of a public street prior to the adoption of a city plan; or unless the street corresponds in its location and lines with a street shown on a subdivision plat approved by the council or planning commission or on a street plan made by and adopted by the commission. The council may locate and construct or may accept any other street if the ordinance or other measure for the location and construction or for the acceptance is first submitted to the commission for its approval and approved by the commission or, if disapproved by the commission, is passed by the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the entire membership of the council.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 17)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.470 - No building permitted on streets not conforming to major street plan.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
89.470. No building permitted on streets not conforming to major street plan. —
After the adoption of a major street plan, no building permit shall be issued for and no building shall be erected on any lot within the territorial jurisdiction of the commission unless the street giving access to the lot upon which the building is proposed to be placed conforms to the requirements of section 89.460.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 18)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.480 - Establishment of building lines — board of adjustment.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
89.480. Establishment of building lines — board of adjustment. —
Whenever a plan for major streets has been adopted, the council, upon recommendation of the planning commission, is authorized and empowered to establish, regulate and limit and amend, by ordinance, building or setback lines on major streets, and to prohibit any new building being located within building or setback lines. When a plan for proposed major streets or other public improvements has been adopted, the council is authorized to prohibit any new building being located within the proposed site or right-of-way when the center line of the proposed street or the limits of the proposed sites have been carefully determined and are accurately delineated on maps approved by the planning commission and adopted by the council. The council shall provide for the method by which this section shall be administered and enforced and may provide for a board of adjustment with powers to modify or vary the regulations, in specific cases, in order that unwarranted hardship, which constitutes an unreasonable deprivation of use as distinguished from the mere grant of a privilege, may be avoided. If there is a board of zoning adjustment on October 13, 1963, that board shall be appointed to serve as the board of adjustment for the building line regulations. If there is no board of zoning adjustment, the personnel, length of terms, method of appointment and organization of the board of adjustment for the building line regulations shall be the same as now provided for municipal boards of zoning adjustment. The regulations of this section shall not be adopted, changed or amended until a public hearing has been held thereon as provided in section 89.360.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 19)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.490 - Violation — penalty.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
• Effective - 28 Aug 1963
89.490. Violation — penalty. —
Any person violating the provisions of sections 89.300 to 89.490 is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by confinement in the county jail for not more than one year, or by both such fine and confinement.
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(L. 1963 p. 146 § 21)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.491 - Violation of county planning, zoning and recreation order or ordinance, civil action authorized — venue, jurisdiction — costs.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
Effective - 28 Aug 1993
89.491. Violation of county planning, zoning and recreation order or ordinance, civil action authorized — venue, jurisdiction — costs. —
1. Any person or neighborhood organization as defined in section 32.105 aggrieved by a violation described in this subsection may commence a civil action on his own behalf against any person who is alleged to be in violation of the provisions of chapter 64 or this chapter, or in violation of any standard, regulation, or ordinance which has been adopted by any county or city pursuant to chapter 64 or this chapter.
2. Venue for such actions allowed by subsection 1 of this section shall be in the circuit court in the circuit in which the violation is alleged to have occurred.
3. The appropriate circuit court, as established in subsection 2 of this section, shall have jurisdiction to enforce the standard, regulation or ordinance alleged to have been violated, to order such action as may be necessary to correct the violation, and to impose any civil penalty provided for the violation.
4. The appropriate circuit court, in issuing any final order in any action brought pursuant to this section, shall award costs of litigation, including reasonable attorney's fees, to the prevailing party.
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(L. 1993 S.B. 376)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 89 - Zoning and Planning › Section 89.500 - Home-based work — limitation on zoning restrictions.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 89
Effective - 28 Aug 2022
89.500. Home-based work — limitation on zoning restrictions. —
1. As used in this section, the term
"home-based work"
means any lawful occupation performed by a resident within a residential home or accessory structure, which is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling unit for residential purposes and does not change the residential character of the residential building or adversely affect the character of the surrounding neighborhood.
2. A zoning ordinance or regulation adopted pursuant to this chapter that regulates home-based work shall not:
(1) Prohibit mail order or telephone sales for home-based work;
(2) Prohibit service by appointment within the home or accessory structure;
(3) Prohibit or require structural modifications to the home or accessory structure;
(4) Restrict the hours of operation for home-based work; or
(5) Restrict storage or the use of equipment that does not produce effects outside the home or accessory structure.
3. A zoning ordinance or regulation adopted pursuant to this chapter that regulates home-based work shall not contain provisions that explicitly restrict or prohibit a particular occupation.
4. The application of this section does not supersede any deed restriction, covenant, or agreement restricting the use of land nor any master deed, by law or other document applicable to a common interest ownership community.
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(L. 2022 H.B. 1662)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 90 - Parks and Recreation (Cities) › Section 90.010 - Parks, acquisition, funds, how obtained — tax, how levied and collected — amount of tax.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 90
• Effective - 28 Aug 1994
90.010. Parks, acquisition, funds, how obtained — tax, how levied and collected — amount of tax. —
1. Whenever any city desires to establish a park or pleasure grounds, the common council or mayor and board of aldermen of such city is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire property for such purposes by gift, purchase or condemnation of lands in such city or within one mile thereof, and for that purpose may borrow money and issue bonds in payment thereof, and shall by ordinance describe the metes and bounds of such lands to be purchased or condemned. Lands owned by such city may by ordinance be converted, set aside or appropriated for parks or pleasure grounds. Such city may levy an annual tax not to exceed two mills on the dollar for the maintenance of such parks or pleasure grounds, and such tax shall be levied and collected in like manner with other general taxes of such city, but the funds received therefrom shall be kept separate and apart from all other funds of the city and shall be deposited in the park fund.
2. Taxes levied and collected in accordance with the provisions of this section shall not be included in calculating any amount of taxes which may be levied and collected for general municipal purposes.
3. The annual tax for park and pleasure grounds may be set at any amount approved by the qualified voters of the city in the manner prescribed by section 90.500 which amount if approved by the voters shall be in addition to the maximum amount authorized by this section or any other section for parks and pleasure purposes. The city council may submit the tax to the voters or citizens may petition in accordance with the provisions of section 90.500. The ballot and the vote for the tax shall be in accordance with procedures set forth in section 90.500.
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(RSMo 1939 §§ 6975, 15331, A. 1949 H.B. 2038, A.L. l972 H.B. 1386, A.L. 1994 H.B. 1200 & 1192)
Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 6829, 14238; 1919 §§ 8311, 9210; 1909 §§ 9247, 10239
CROSS REFERENCE:
Corporation, municipalities may contract for common facilities and services, 70.210 to 70.325
(1979) The exercise by a municipality of its power to acquire land for parks outside but within one mile of the city limits is not subject to zoning regulations of any host county or municipality restricting use of land which would result in prohibiting its use for park purposes. City of Kirkwood v. City of Sunset Hills (A.), 589 S.W.2d 31.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 90 - Parks and Recreation (Cities) › Section 90.020 - Park lands — condemnation.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 90
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
90.020. Park lands — condemnation. —
The common council or mayor and board of aldermen, in proceedings by ordinance to purchase or condemn lands for the purpose stated in section 90.010, shall proceed in the manner provided by law, or in the manner provided in the charter of such city for the condemnation of lands for the establishment of streets, avenues, alleys or market places, or public squares; and on such condemnation and the payment of the appraisement as therein provided, the title of such land shall vest in such city for the uses and purposes for which it was taken.
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(RSMo 1939 § 15332, A. 1949 H.B. 2038)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 14239; 1919 § 9211; 1909 § 10240
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 90 - Parks and Recreation (Cities) › Section 90.101 - Numbers of commissioners — vacancy in board of commissioners, how filled.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 90
Effective - 28 Aug 2011
90.101. Numbers of commissioners — vacancy in board of commissioners, how filled. —
1. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the board of commissioners of Tower Grove Park shall have the authority to adjust the size of its membership, provided that any such adjustment shall be approved by a majority vote of the board members.
2. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, in case of any vacancy occurring in the membership of the board of commissioners of Tower Grove Park from death, resignation, or disqualification to act, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment from the remaining members of the board, or a majority of them, for the balance of the term then vacant, and all vacancies caused by the expiration of the term of office shall be filled by appointment from the judges of the supreme court of the state of Missouri, or a majority of them or if said judges are unable or unwilling to so act, which shall be presumed by their failure to act within thirty days following delivery to the court of a slate of appointees, by the majority vote of the remaining board members.
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(L. 1998 H.B. 1158 § 1, A.L. 2011 H.B. 142 merged with H.B. 464)
(Source: RSMo 1939 § 15735)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 90 - Parks and Recreation (Cities) › Section 90.500 - Parks — petition — tax rate — election — form of ballot (certain cities).

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 90
• Effective - 28 Aug 1994
90.500. Parks — petition — tax rate — election — form of ballot (certain cities). —
1. When one hundred voters of any incorporated city or town having less than thirty thousand inhabitants, or any city of the third class, shall petition the mayor and common council asking that an annual tax be levied for the establishment and maintenance of free public parks in the incorporated city or town, and providing for suitable entertainment therein, and shall specify in their petition a rate of taxation as provided in this section, the mayor and common council shall submit the question to the voters.
2. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall a ______ cent tax per one hundred dollars assessed valuation be levied for public parks?
3. The tax specified in the notice shall be levied and collected in the same manner as other general taxes of the incorporated city or town and shall be deposited in the park fund. The rate of taxation authorized by this section shall be combined with any rate of tax imposed pursuant to the provisions of section 90.010, and any tax authorized pursuant to the provisions of this section shall cease in case the voters of such incorporated city or town shall so determine, by a majority vote after a petition for the submission is filed in accordance with the provisions of this section.
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(RSMo 1939 §§ 15333, 15341, A. 1949 H.B. 2038, A.L. 1967 p. 169, A.L. 1972 H.B. 1386, A.L. 1975 H.B. 398, A.L. 1976 S.B. 729, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971, A.L. 1994 H.B. 1200 & 1192)
Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 14240, 14248; 1919 §§ 9212, 9220; 1909 §§ 10241, 10249
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 90 - Parks and Recreation (Cities) › Section 90.510 - Public parks, maintenance.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 90
• Effective - 28 Aug 1959
90.510. Public parks, maintenance. —
In case of an increase in valuation in any year of the taxable property within any city, or whenever the common council of such city is satisfied that a lower rate will produce ample funds, it may reduce the levy herein provided for by levying a tax for the maintenance of said free public parks which in the judgment of said common council shall be sufficient for the maintenance of said free public parks throughout the year.
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(RSMo 1939 § 15333, A. 1949 H.B. 2038, A.L. 1959 S.B. 162)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 14240; 1919 § 1912; 1909 § 10241
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 90 - Parks and Recreation (Cities) › Section 90.520 - Park board — appointment.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 90
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
90.520. Park board — appointment. —
When any incorporated city or town shall have decided to establish and maintain public parks under sections 90.500 to 90.570, the mayor of such city shall, with the approval of the legislative branch of the municipal government, proceed to appoint a board of nine directors for the same, chosen from the citizens at large with reference to their fitness for such office, and no member of the municipal government shall be a member of the board.
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(RSMo 1939 §§ 15334, 15342, A. 1949 H.B. 2038)
Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 14241, 14249; 1919 §§ 9213, 9221; 1909 §§ 10242, 10250
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 90 - Parks and Recreation (Cities) › Section 90.530 - Park directors — terms of office.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 90
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
90.530. Park directors — terms of office. —
The directors shall hold office, one-third for one year, one-third for two years and one-third for three years from the first of June following their appointment, and at their first regular meeting shall cast lots for their respective terms; and annually thereafter the mayor shall, before the first of June of each year, appoint as before three directors, who shall hold office for three years and until their successors are appointed. The mayor may, by and with the consent of the legislative branch of the municipal government, remove any director for misconduct or neglect of duty.
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(RSMo 1939 §§ 15335, 15343, A. 1949 H.B. 2038)
Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 14242, 14250; 1919 §§ 9214, 9222; 1909 §§ 10243, 10251
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 90 - Parks and Recreation (Cities) › Section 90.540 - Park board — vacancies — no compensation.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 90
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
90.540. Park board — vacancies — no compensation. —
Vacancies in the board of directors, occasioned by removal, resignation or otherwise, shall be reported to the city council and be filled in like manner as original appointments, and no director shall receive compensation as such.
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(RSMo 1939 §§ 15336, 15344, A. 1949 H.B. 2038)
Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 14243, 14251; 1919 §§ 9215, 9223; 1909 §§ 10244, 10252
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 90 - Parks and Recreation (Cities) › Section 90.550 - Park board — organization — powers.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 90
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
90.550. Park board — organization — powers. —
Said directors shall immediately after their appointment, meet and organize by the election of one of their number president, and by the election of such other officers as they may deem necessary. They shall make and adopt such bylaws, rules and regulations for their guidance and for the government of the parks as may be expedient, not inconsistent with sections 90.500 to 90.570. They shall have the exclusive control of the expenditures of all money collected to the credit of the park fund and of the supervision, improvement, care and custody of said park. All moneys received for such parks shall be deposited in the treasury of said city or town to the credit of the park fund and shall be kept separate and apart from the other moneys of such city or town and drawn upon by the proper officers of said city or town upon the properly authenticated vouchers of the park board. Said board shall have power to purchase or otherwise secure ground to be used for such parks, shall have power to appoint a suitable person to take care of said parks and necessary assistants for said person and fix their compensation, and shall have power to remove such appointees; and shall in general carry out the spirit and intent of sections 90.500 to 90.570 in establishing and maintaining public parks.
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(RSMo 1939 §§ 15337, 15345, A. 1949 H.B. 2038)
Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 14244, 14252; 1919 §§ 9216, 9224; 1909 §§ 10245, 10253
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 90 - Parks and Recreation (Cities) › Section 90.560 - Park board — annual report.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 90
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
90.560. Park board — annual report. —
The said board of directors shall make, on or before the second Monday in June, an annual report to the city council stating the condition of their trust on the first day of May of that year, the various sums of money received from the park fund and other sources, and how much moneys have been expended and for what purposes, with such other statistics, information and suggestions as they may deem of general interest. All such portions of such report as relate to the receipt and expenditure of money shall be verified by affidavit.
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(RSMo 1939 §§ 15338, 15346, A. 1949 H.B. 2038)
Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 14245, 14253; 1919 §§ 9217, 9225; 1909 §§ 10246, 10254
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 90 - Parks and Recreation (Cities) › Section 90.570 - Public park — private donations.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 90
• Effective - 28 Aug 1949
90.570. Public park — private donations. —
Any person desiring to make donations of money, personal property or real estate for the benefit of such park shall have a right to vest the title to the money or real estate so donated in the board of directors created under sections 90.500 to 90.570, to be held and controlled by such board when accepted according to the terms of the deed, gift, devise or bequest of such property; and as to such property, the said board shall be held and considered to be the special trustees.
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(RSMo 1939 §§ 15339, 15347, A. 1949 H.B. 2038)
Prior revisions: 1929 §§ 14246, 14254; 1919 §§ 9218, 9226; 1909 §§ 10247, 10255
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 90 - Parks and Recreation (Cities) › Section 90.640 - Zoological park board — annual report.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 90
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
90.640. Zoological park board — annual report. —
The said board of control shall make, before the second Monday in April, an annual report to the legislative branch of the municipal government, stating the condition of their trust on the first day of April of that year, the various sums of money received from the zoological park fund and from other sources, and how such moneys have been expended and for what purposes, the number and character of the acquisitions to the collections added by the purchase, gift or otherwise during the year, together with the number at the beginning of the year, and such information and suggestions as they may deem of general interest. All such portions of said report as relate to the receipt and expenditure of money, as well as to the number and value of the collections and description and value of the property, shall be verified by affidavit.
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(RSMo 1939 § 15371)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7616; 1919 § 9015
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 90 - Parks and Recreation (Cities) › Section 90.650 - Zoological park — protective ordinances.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 90
• Effective - 28 Aug 1939
90.650. Zoological park — protective ordinances. —
The legislative authority of said city shall have power to enact ordinances imposing suitable penalties for the punishment of persons committing injury upon said zoological park or the grounds or collections or property thereof.
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(RSMo 1939 § 15372)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7617; 1919 § 9016
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 90 - Parks and Recreation (Cities) › Section 90.700 - St. Louis symphony's promissory note to state extended to April 15, 1998.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 90
Effective - 28 Aug 1992
90.700. St. Louis symphony's promissory note to state extended to April 15, 1998. —
Interest on the promissory note entered into by the St. Louis Symphony Society, a not-for-profit corporation, wherein the society promised to repay to the state of Missouri the sum of two million dollars with interest on or before the fifteenth day of April, 1993, shall be paid on or before that time, and the note is hereby extended and shall become due and payable on April 15, 1998. No further extension of the note shall be made or granted and the note, the underlying debt represented by the note and any accrued interest shall not be released, extinguished or forgiven in whole or in part.
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(L. 1992 H.B. 1058 § 1 subsec. 1)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 90 - Parks and Recreation (Cities) › Section 90.702 - Kansas City symphony's promissory note to state extended to April 15, 1998.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 90
Effective - 28 Aug 1992
90.702. Kansas City symphony's promissory note to state extended to April 15, 1998. —
Interest on the promissory note entered into by the Kansas City Symphony, a not-for-profit corporation, wherein it promised to repay to the state of Missouri the sum of one million dollars with interest on or before the fifteenth day of April, 1993, shall be paid on or before that time, and the note is hereby extended and shall become due and payable on April 15, 1998. No further extension of the note shall be made or granted and the note, the underlying debt represented by the note and any accrued interest shall not be released, extinguished or forgiven in whole or in part.
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(L. 1992 H.B. 1058 § 1 subsec. 2)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 90 - Parks and Recreation (Cities) › Section 90.750 - Kansas City regional sports complex authority created — authority defined.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 90
• Effective - 23 Dec 1997, see footnote
90.750. Kansas City regional sports complex authority created — authority defined. —
There is hereby created in any city with a population of more than three hundred thousand inhabitants which is located in more than one county a special authority to be known as the "Kansas City Regional Sports Complex Authority". Such authority shall be a distinct and separate entity from any county sports complex authority authorized by section 64.930. For purposes of sections 90.750 to 90.760, the term
"authority"
means the Kansas City regional sports complex authority.
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(L. 1997 2d Ex. Sess. S.B. 1 § 13)
Effective 12-23-97
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages › Chapter 90 - Parks and Recreation (Cities) › Section 90.755 - Complex commissioners' qualifications, appointment, terms, vacancies — chairman, how selected.

Title VII CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
Chapter 90
• Effective - 23 Dec 1997, see footnote
90.755. Complex commissioners' qualifications, appointment, terms, vacancies — chairman, how selected. —
1. The authority created in section 90.750 shall consist of eight commissioners who shall be qualified voters of the state of Missouri, one of whom shall be the director of the department of economic development. The remaining seven members shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate as follows:
(1) The mayor of a city having a population of at least four hundred thirty thousand inhabitants located in more than one county shall submit two panels of three names of residents of such city to the governor who shall select one person from each such panel;
(2) The governing body of a county of the first classification with a charter form of government containing the major part of a city having a population of at least four hundred thirty thousand inhabitants shall submit two panels of three names of residents of such county to the governor who shall select one person from each such panel; and
(3) The governing bodies of all other counties containing a part of a city with a population of at least four hundred thirty thousand inhabitants shall each submit a panel of three names of residents of each such county to the governor who shall select one person from each such panel. No more than four of the members selected by the governor shall be from the same political party.
2. Except for the director of the department of economic development, the commissioners shall be appointed to serve for terms of six years, except those first appointed. One shall be appointed for a two-year term, one for a three-year term, one for a four-year term, two for a five-year term and two for a six-year term. The commissioners shall annually select a chairman from among their members.
3. Each commissioner shall hold office until his or her successor has been appointed and qualified. If a vacancy occurs, it shall be filled in the same manner as the first appointment. All vacancies shall be filled within thirty days from the date of such vacancy. The commissioners shall serve without compensation.
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(L. 1997 2d Ex. Sess. S.B. 1 § 14)
Effective 12-23-97