Title XI, EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES

175.023. Confidentiality of board members, recusal — meetings closed to student representative, when. — 1. For the purposes of this chapter, confidentiality, as determined by the board and as provided by law, shall apply to all members and representatives on the board. 2. Any mem…

175.030. Board of curators, term and compensation. — The term of service of the curators shall be six years, the term of three expiring every two years, the first expiration occurring on the first day of January, 1942, and succeeding expirations of three members every two years t…

175.040. Board to organize and have same powers as curators of state University of Missouri. — It is hereby provided that the board of curators of the Lincoln University shall organize after the manner of the board of curators of the state University of Missouri; and it is furthe…

175.050. Board of curators authorized to reorganize university — may purchase additional land. — The board of curators of the Lincoln University shall be authorized to afford to its students training up to the standard furnished at the state University of Missouri. To this end th…

175.070. Control of agricultural school at Dalton, Missouri, transferred to Lincoln University board of curators. — The board of curators for Lincoln University shall take over and conduct the demonstration farm and agricultural school as now established at Dalton, Missouri, and …

176.010. Definitions. — The following words and phrases as used in sections 176.010 to 176.080, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have the following meanings: (1) "Governing body" shall mean: (a) The board of curators of the University of the St…

176.020. Any state educational institution empowered to acquire and to construct a project necessary for the use of students. — 1. Any state educational institution of the state of Missouri, as herein defined, shall have the power, acting through its governing body, to acquire, c…

176.030. Power to issue and sell revenue bonds. — For the purpose of providing funds for the acquisition, construction, erection, equipment and furnishing of any such project, and for providing a site therefor, as herein provided, the governing body of such educational institutio…

176.035. Priority of liens of successive series of bonds, how fixed. — If more than one series of bonds shall be issued under sections 176.010 to 176.080 payable from the net income and revenues of any project or projects, priority of lien thereof on such net income and revenues …

176.040. Bonds not to be considered an indebtedness. — Any bonds issued under and pursuant to sections 176.010 to 176.080 shall not be deemed to be an indebtedness of the state of Missouri or of any such educational institution, or of the governing body thereof, or of the individ…

176.050. May issue serial bonds or term bonds — rate of interest — sale of bonds. — 1. Bonds issued under and pursuant to the provisions of sections 176.010 to 176.080 shall be of such denomination or denominations, shall bear such rate or rates of interest, and shall mature at s…

176.055. Provision for issuance, installment payment of bonds and conversion to smaller bonds. — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any resolution authorizing bonds under sections 176.010 to 176.080, including refunding bonds, the governing body may provide for the in…

176.060. Refunding of bonds. — 1. The revenue bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of sections 176.010 to 176.080 may be refunded, in whole or in part, in any of the following circumstances, to wit: (1) When any such bonds have by their terms become due and payable and there a…

176.070. Governing body to provide details — rights of bondholders. — The governing body of any state educational institution issuing bonds under the provisions of sections 176.010 to 176.080 is hereby authorized to prescribe the form, details and incidents of such bonds, and to …

176.080. Bonds to be issued pursuant to resolution. — Bonds may be issued under the provisions of sections 176.010 to 176.080 pursuant to a resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members of the governing body of any state educational institution as herein…

176.085. Health and educational facilities, payment of bonds. — The governing body of any state educational institution may cooperate with the Missouri health and educational facilities authority as a participating educational institution as provided in and permitted by sections …

176.500. Risk management associations, who may form. — Notwithstanding any direct or implied prohibitions in chapter 375 or 379, a group of two or more private associations, corporations, or institutions not operated for private or corporate profit authorized by law to provide or…

176.505. Articles of association or declaration of trust, contents, file with director. — Any group of two or more qualifying institutions establishing an association under the provisions of sections 176.500 to 176.540 shall, through an attorney in fact selected by such instituti…

176.510. Types of risks that may be shared — association may reinsure risk. — 1. Any association organized under the provisions of sections 176.500 to 176.540 may provide for the sharing of the following risks of loss: (1) All risks of physical loss or damage to a member of the a…

176.515. Workers' compensation liability, may be covered, separate account. — Any association organized under the provisions of sections 176.500 to 176.540 may include among the types of risks shared liability imposed by chapter 287 relating to workers' compensation liability. To…

176.520. Associations exempt from provisions of insurance law. — Any association organized under the provisions of sections 176.500 to 176.540 shall be exempt from all provisions of other insurance laws of this state, not only in governmental relations but for every other purpose…

176.525. Associations may make bylaws. — Any association organized under the provisions of sections 176.500 to 176.540 may make, establish and put into execution such bylaws and resolutions, not inconsistent with any other provision of sections 176.500 to 176.540, as may seem nec…

176.530. Annual audit report, file with director. — Any association organized under the provisions of sections 176.500 to 176.540 shall file with the director of the department of commerce and insurance insurance of this state an annual audit report of the operations of such asso…

176.535. Attorney in fact, service of process, file with director — writing authorizing such service. — Concurrently with the filing of the documents provided for by the terms of section 176.505, the attorney in fact shall file with the director of the department of commerce and …

176.540. Service of process on association, nonmembers, how. — Every association or organization, which is not a corporation or trust organized under the laws of this state, or any other state, which accepts membership dues or fees shall be subject to service of process against i…

177.011. Title and control of school property — inapplicability to community college districts. — 1. The title of all schoolhouse sites and other school property is vested in the district in which the property is located, or if the directors of both school districts involved agre…

177.021. School realty subject to certain ordinances and special assessments. — All real estate owned by any school district of this state is subject to the provisions of all orders, resolutions or ordinances of any county, city, town or village or other political subdivision or …

177.031. Care of property and purchase of supplies — free use of buildings and grounds for public purpose. — 1. The school board has the care and keeping of all property belonging to the district and shall provide the necessary globes, maps, charts, apparatus, supplementary books…

177.041. Condemnation of land. — If any school district seeks to acquire real property for any purpose for which the district is authorized by law to acquire the property and cannot agree with the owner on the purchase price, or for any other cause cannot secure a title to the pr…

177.051. Conveyance of property to public institution of higher education. — If there is within any school district any school property that is not required for the use of the school district and the property could be used for purposes of offering education beyond grade twelve by…

177.061. Conveyance of sixteenth-section lands. — 1. Any of the sixteenth-sections of land, or lands selected in lieu thereof, granted to the state of Missouri by acts of Congress for the support of schools in congressional townships may be sold and conveyed by the school distric…

177.071. Validation of prior conveyances of sixteenth-section lands. — All sales of land in sections numbered sixteen, or lands selected in lieu thereof, by any sheriff, in the attempt to carry out the provisions of any statute relating to the sale of the lands as school lands fo…

177.073. Procurement of sites — sale or lease of property, procedure — deposit of proceeds. — 1. The board of directors or school board in urban school districts, metropolitan school districts, and school districts located totally or partially within a first class charter county …

177.082. Lease purchase agreements permitted, when. — The school board may purchase apparatus, equipment and furnishings for its schools and operations by entering into lease purchase agreements with vendors. Any agreement which may result in school district ownership of the leas…

177.086. Construction of facilities, sealed bids and public advertisement required, when. — 1. Any school district authorizing the construction of facilities which may exceed an expenditure of fifty thousand dollars shall publicly advertise, once a week for two consecutive weeks,…

177.088. Facilities and equipment may be obtained by agreements, procedure. — 1. As used in this section, the following terms shall mean: (1) "Board", the board of education, board of trustees, board of regents, or board of governors of an educational institution; (2) "Educationa…

177.091. Elementary and high schools, establishment — acquisition of additional grounds — sale of property, distribution of proceeds — use of property purchased, city of Corder in Lafayette County. — 1. The school board in each seven-director district, as soon as sufficient funds…

177.101. Public parks and playgrounds, seven-director board may establish. — 1. In seven-director districts as specified in this section, the school board may establish and maintain public parks and playgrounds for the use of the public school district, and may appropriate the su…

177.111. Athletic stadiums — powers of board. — 1. Any seven-director school district, acting through its board of directors, may acquire, construct, erect, equip and furnish, operate, control and regulate a stadium or similar structure for the holding of school athletic games, c…

177.121. May charge for admission and concessions — permit use of stadium by others. — The school district may charge and receive reasonable tolls or admission charges and may grant, for consideration and under terms and conditions that the board of directors determines, concessi…

177.131. Establishment of elementary and high schools. — The school board in each urban district, as soon as sufficient funds have been provided, shall establish an adequate number of elementary and high schools, select and procure sites, and erect and furnish suitable school bui…

177.151. Public auditorium — powers of board. — The board may erect, construct and maintain, and use for all purposes connected with or incident to the work of the public schools or library or art gallery or museum, and let out to others for compensation, an auditorium or public …

177.161. Contracts for erection and repair of school buildings — bids required when. — In metropolitan school districts, all contracts for the erection of school buildings and all contracts for repairs and alterations or additions to school property or materials, equipment or app…

177.171. Contracts for furnishing school supplies — bids required when. — The board of education shall cause advertisements to be made under regulations that it provides for proposals for furnishing the supplies required in the schools and by the board. Every contract shall be aw…

178.1100. Definitions — fund created, use of moneys — review by coordinating board — rulemaking authority. — 1. As used in this section, except in those instances where the context states otherwise, the following words and phrases shall mean: (1) "Innovation education campus" or …

178.160. State to furnish funds for readers for blind students, when. — 1. Whenever a blind person who is a citizen of this state and a pupil in actual attendance in a local school district program or a special school district program or in actual attendance at a college, univers…