Title VII — CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES

82.010. Certain cities declared constitutional charter cities. — 1. Any city of this state framing and adopting a charter for its own government, whether under the provisions of Section 19, Article VI of the Constitution of 1945, or under the provisions of Section 16 or Section 2…

82.020. Constitutional charter, certain cities and towns may adopt or amend, procedure. — Any city or town under special charter, as defined in section 81.010, and any other city in this state which now has or which may hereafter have a population of more than five thousand inhab…

82.040. Officers, tenure upon adoption of charter — vacancy in office, how filled. — All persons in office in such city at the time of the ratification of such charter shall hold their offices until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified, as may be provided in su…

82.050. Consistent ordinances to remain in force. — All ordinances, regulations and resolutions in force at the time such charter takes effect, and not inconsistent with the provisions thereof, shall remain and be in force until altered, modified or repealed by the lawmaking auth…

82.060. Adoption not to affect existing rights. — Such charter, in superseding any previous charter and amendments thereof, shall not affect any right, lien or liability accrued, established or subsisting previous to the time when such charter takes effect, nor affect any action …

82.070. Accrued rights or penalties not affected by adoption. — All rights of action, fines, penalties and forfeitures accrued to such city before such charter takes effect shall remain unaffected thereby, and may be prosecuted, recovered and received as fully in every respect as…

82.080. Tax liens on realty vested in city. — Any lien on real property existing in favor of the state of Missouri, or of such city, at or before the taking effect of such charter, for taxes and special assessments levied by such city, and all right, title and estate acquired by …

82.090. Extension of limits. — Any constitutional charter city may at any time extend its limits by ordinance, specifying with accuracy the new lines to which it is proposed to extend its limits. All courts of this state shall take judicial notice of the limits of the city when t…

82.100. Annexed territory to be divided into wards. — Whenever, by extension of its territorial limits as aforesaid, new territory is annexed to such city, the lawmaking authorities thereof shall, by ordinance, organize the same into a new ward or wards, or attach the same to som…

82.1000. Forfeiture of motor vehicles, power to enact ordinances, requirements, procedure. — 1. In addition to forfeiture proceedings pursuant to sections 513.600 to 513.645, the governing body of any constitutional charter city having a population of more than one hundred thousa…

82.1025. Nuisance action for deteriorated property — procedure (St. Louis City, Kansas City, Springfield, St. Charles). — 1. Sections 82.1025, 82.1027 and 82.1030 apply to a nuisance located within the boundaries of: (1) Any city not within a county; (2) Any home rule city with a…

82.1026. Vacant nuisance building or structure, building official may petition for appointment of receiver (St. Louis City, Kansas City, Springfield, St. Charles). — The governing body of any city not within a county, home rule city with more than four hundred thousand inhabitant…

82.1027. Definitions. — As used in section 82.1025 and sections 82.1027 to 82.1030, the following terms mean: (1) "Code or ordinance violation", a violation under the provisions of a municipal code or ordinance of any home rule city with more than four hundred thousand inhabitant…

82.1030. Statutes not to abrogate any equitable right or remedy — standing not granted, when. — 1. Subject to subsection 2 of this section, section 82.1025 and sections 82.1027 to 82.1030 shall not be construed as to abrogate any equitable or legal right or remedy otherwise avail…

82.1031. Affirmative defense, when. — If a property owner sued under section 82.1025 and sections 82.1027 to 82.1030 pleads and proves that a condition alleged by the plaintiff to be a nuisance is the subject matter of an order issued by the state department of natural resources,…

82.1035. Geographical information system, definitions, purpose, licensing, use of information, cost, no liability for errors. — 1. As used in this section, the following terms mean: (1) "Community", any municipality as defined in this section; (2) "Geographical information system…

82.110. City may be redistricted, when. — Whenever the corporate limits of any such city shall be so extended, and whenever and as often as the population of any such city, or of any ward or wards thereof, has been or may be so increased or diminished as to render, in the opinion…

82.120. Redistricting ordinance to be published. — Before such ordinance shall be passed, the same shall be published for at least three weeks in at least one daily newspaper published in such city, to be designated by the lawmaking authorities of such city, but the failure to ma…

82.130. Redistricting not to affect eligibility of electors. — In case of redistricting or division of such city into wards, creation of any new ward or wards, or change of boundary in any ward or wards, every qualified elector residing in any ward at any general city election ne…

82.133. Disincorporation of charter or home rule cities--election, ballot language. — 1. The county governing body of any county in which a constitutional charter or home rule city is located shall disincorporate the city as provided in sections 82.133 to 82.145. 2. The county go…

82.136. 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. ­­-------- L. 2016 S.…

82.139. Dissolution — trustee appointed — oath — bond. — Whenever the county governing body shall dissolve any constitutional charter or home rule city, the county governing body shall appoint some competent person to act as trustee for the corporation so dissolved, and the trust…

82.142. Dissolution — 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 an…

[Repealed or reserved.]

82.148. Dissolution — moneys to be paid over to county treasurer — 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 …

82.150. Wards to be of adjacent territory — numbering. — All wards which may be established by ordinance as aforesaid shall be composed of adjacent and compact territory, and the several wards, at the time of redistricting, shall contain as nearly an equal number of inhabitants a…

82.160. Election — new ward. — Whenever any change in the number of wards or alteration in the boundaries of any ward shall be made, or new wards shall be established, there shall be no election of a representative to the municipal legislature for such ward until the general elec…

82.170. Redistricting not to affect term of office of incumbent. — Nothing in this chapter contained shall be construed to limit or abridge the term of office which any representative in the municipal legislature of such city shall be elected to fill, but every such representativ…

82.180. Providing for nominations and the form of ballot. — All cities which have heretofore adopted charters pursuant to Section 16, Article IX, of the Constitution of Missouri of 1875, or may hereafter adopt charters pursuant to Section 19, Article VI of the Constitution of Mis…

82.190. City has exclusive control of public highways. — Such city shall have exclusive control over its public highways, streets, avenues, alleys and public places, and shall have exclusive power, by ordinance, to vacate or abandon any public highway, street, avenue, alley or pu…

82.200. Attestation of ordinances — evidence, when. — All ordinances, resolutions and proceedings of such city may be approved by its corporate seal, attested by the officer having charge thereof, and when printed and published by authority of such city, the same shall be receive…

82.210. Action for damages maintained, how. — No action shall be maintained against any city of this state which now has or may hereafter attain a population of one hundred thousand inhabitants, on account of any injuries growing out of any defect in the condition of any bridge, …

82.220. Bonds in judicial proceedings. — Such city, in taking an appeal or prosecuting a writ of error in any judicial proceeding, shall give bonds as required by law, but it is hereby released from the obligation of law to furnish security therefor. All such bonds shall be execu…

82.230. Regulation of public franchises. — It shall be lawful for any such city in such charter, or by amendment thereof, to provide for regulating and controlling the exercise by any person or corporation of any public franchise or privilege in any of the streets or public place…

82.240. Parks, cemeteries may be provided for. — It shall be lawful for any such city to make provision in its charter, or by amendment thereof, to acquire and hold by gift, devise, purchase or by the exercise of the power of eminent domain by condemnation proceedings, lands for …

82.250. Certain cities may acquire subways. — All cities in this state having one hundred thousand inhabitants or over are hereby authorized and empowered to build or to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, within their respective corporate limits, a subway or subways, to be exclus…

82.260. May operate, lease and regulate subways. — All such cities may operate or may lease such subway or subways, or parts thereof, on terms to be fixed by said cities. Such cities may contract for the purchase or construction of such subway or subways, and for lease of same, a…

82.270. May issue subway revenue bonds. — Any such city may issue and sell, at not less than par, its bonds, payable out of the revenue or income from such subway or subways. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7641) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7498; 1919 § 8909; 1909 § 9761

82.280. Certain county officers to perform duties for cities, when — compensation. — In all cities in this state which now have or may hereafter have more than one hundred thousand inhabitants and less than five hundred thousand inhabitants, it shall be the duty of the county ass…

82.290. Certain officers to administer oaths free. — In all cities having a population of over one hundred thousand inhabitants in this state, the mayor, comptroller, auditor, register, recorder of deeds, president of the board of assessors, and their deputies, are hereby authori…

82.293. No surcharge or fee to compensate school districts without statutory authority (Lee's Summit)—severability clause. — 1. Absent explicit statutory authority, no constitutional charter city with more than seventy thousand five hundred but less than seventy-one thousand inha…

82.300. Certain cities may enact ordinances, purposes, punishments (including Kansas City). — 1. Any city with a population of four hundred thousand or more inhabitants which is located in more than one county may enact all needful ordinances for preserving order, securing person…

82.310. License collector. — The office of license collector is hereby created in cities now having or which hereafter may have three hundred thousand inhabitants or more. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7725) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7577; 1919 § 8987; 1909 § 9838 CROSS REFERENCE: Statut…

82.311. License collector, St. Louis City, qualifications — residence requirement, violation, forfeiture of office. — 1. No person shall be elected or appointed to the office of license collector in any city not within a county who shall not have been a qualified voter of such ci…

82.320. Word license construed. — The words "license" and "license tax", used in sections 82.310 to 82.410 shall include licenses for all purposes authorized or required by law or ordinance, and also the tax on telegraph and telephone poles, the dog tax, the merchants' ad valorem…

82.330. License collector, election, term, oath, bond — vacancy. — On the Tuesday next following the first Monday in November, A.D. 1902, and every four years thereafter, there shall be elected in said cities, in the manner provided by law for the election of city officers, a lic…

82.340. Powers and duties of license collector — duties may not be altered. — The license collector shall have exclusive authority in all such cities to issue all licenses and receipts for license taxes, except water, dramshop and boat or wharf licenses; he shall have authority t…

82.350. List of licenses to be maintained. — It shall be the duty of the license collector to keep a complete list of all persons, firms, associations and corporations who are required by law, or ordinance, to obtain a license, or pay a license tax, and collect all information wh…

82.360. Procedure in obtaining and granting license. — To obtain a license or to pay a license tax the person making application therefor shall accompany his application with such statements and affidavits as may now or hereafter be required by law or ordinance; the license colle…

82.370. Separate records to be kept — open to inspection. — The license collector shall keep a separate record or book for each kind of license or tax receipt which he is authorized to issue, in each of which shall be recorded the names of all applicants for such licenses, the pl…