Title VII — CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES

96.150. Submission of question to voters — maximum tax authorized — approval required — tax may be ended — board of trustees, authority to operate or lease hospital. — 1. When one hundred voters of any city of the third class shall petition the mayor and council asking that an an…

96.160. Board of trustees — appointment. — 1. Each facility established or operated and maintained under the provisions of sections 96.150 to 96.228 shall be governed by a board of trustees who shall serve without compensation. Each such board of trustees shall consist of five tr…

96.170. Terms of office of trustees — vacancies. — 1. Unless the council has provided for a larger board of trustees, two of the trustees first appointed under the provisions of sections 96.150 to 96.228 shall hold office for terms of four years, and the remaining trustees first …

96.175. Removal of trustees, procedure. — A trustee may be removed for crimes, misconduct, habitual drunkenness, willful neglect of duty, corruption in office, incompetency or oppression in office or for breach of standards required of a fiduciary in connection with managing and …

96.180. Organization of board — rules and regulations. — The board shall meet and organize by electing one of their members president, and one secretary, and by the election of such other officers as they may deem necessary. They shall make and adopt such bylaws, rules and regula…

96.190. Board to control expenditures, funds — employ assistants. — The board shall control the expenditures of all moneys collected to the credit of the fund established for such facility and the construction, leasing, equipping, operating and maintaining of the facility and the…

96.192. Investment of hospital funds, limitations. — 1. The board of trustees of any hospital authorized under subsection 2 of this section, and established and organized under the provisions of sections 96.150 to 96.229, may invest up to twenty-five percent of the hospital's fun…

96.195. Facility funds only to be used — nonliability of city. — All obligations incurred in connection with the construction, leasing, equipping, operating and maintaining of this facility and grounds and other property, real and personal, under control of the board shall be pay…

96.196. Hospital may purchase, operate or lease related facilities outside city or county — limitations. — 1. A hospital organized under this chapter may purchase, operate or lease, as lessor or lessee, related facilities or engage in health care activities, except in counties of…

96.200. Annual report — how, when made. — The board shall make on or before the second Monday in June of each year a detailed report to the city council, showing the receipts of all funds and the expenditures therefrom, and showing each donation and amount thereof. ­­-------- (RS…

96.210. Bequests, donations — board to be special trustees. — Any person making bequests or donations to such facility shall have the right to vest the title to the real estate or personal property so bequeathed or donated in the board and to be held and controlled by the board, …

96.220. Special taxes under this law to be collected as are regular municipal taxes. — The taxes authorized and provided by the terms of sections 96.150 to 96.220 shall be levied and collected in the same manner as the regular municipal taxes are levied and collected. ­­-------- …

96.222. Bonds, issuance of — payable from revenue — mortgage authorized. — For the purpose of providing funds for the acquisition, construction, erection, equipment and furnishing of hospitals, nursing or convalescent homes, and related facilities, including medical office buildi…

96.224. Bonds not indebtedness of state. — Any bonds issued under and pursuant to sections 96.222 to 96.228 shall not be deemed to be an indebtedness of the state of Missouri, or of any city or of the board of trustees, or of the individual members of the city council or board of…

96.226. Bonds, interest, mature when. — 1. Revenue bonds issued under section 96.222 shall be of such denomination, shall bear such rate of interest not to exceed the highest rate permitted by law, and shall mature at such times as determined by the city council upon the recommen…

96.228. Bonds secured how, rights of bondholder. — 1. The city council, upon the recommendation of the board of trustees, issuing bonds under section 96.222, shall prescribe the form, details and incidents of the bonds and said council and board of trustees shall make such covena…

*96.229. Charter hospitals, election to be governed by nonprofit corporation law, procedure. — 1. Notwithstanding subsection 5 of section 96.150 regarding the lease of substantially all of a hospital where the board of trustees is lessor, a city in which a hospital is located tha…

96.230. Authorizing certain cities to create social welfare boards. — In all cities of the third class in this state there is hereby created and established, at the option of the mayor and common council of any such city, a board which shall be styled "The Social Welfare Board of…

96.240. Board — powers and duties. — Said board shall have power to make all suitable provisions for the relief, maintenance and support of all indigent persons within said cities, and to make suitable provisions for the care and maintenance of the sick dependents and those who a…

96.250. Personnel of board — terms. — Said board shall be nonpartisan and nonsectarian and the members and officers thereof shall receive no compensation as such. Said board shall consist of the mayor of such cities, who shall be ex officio a member thereof, and six other members…

96.260. Board shall meet and organize. — Said members shall, immediately after their appointment, and annually thereafter, meet and organize by electing out of their number a president, vice president, treasurer and secretary. All subordinate officers and employees appointed shal…

[Repealed or reserved.]

96.280. Record of proceedings — annual report. — It shall be the duty of said board to keep a record of its proceedings and its receipts, expenditures and operations, and to annually render a full and complete itemized report, stating the condition of their trust, together with s…

96.290. Boards shall furnish relief, when. — It shall be the duty of said board, when any person by himself or another applies for relief, to make immediate inquiry into the state and circumstances of the applicant, and if it shall appear that he or she is in such indigent circum…