Title VII — CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES

95.415. May issue bonds for payment of judgment — how sold. — Any city or town in this state having a special charter and containing ten thousand inhabitants or less may, for the purpose of paying any indebtedness of any such city or town which may have been ascertained or determ…

95.420. Amounts — time to run — rate of interest — where paid. — Such bonds shall be issued in amounts of not less than one hundred dollars and not over one thousand dollars each, and may be negotiable in form, and shall become due at such time, not exceeding twenty years from th…

95.425. Net income from water and light plants, how applied. — In case any such bonds shall be issued for the purpose of paying off any such judgments or decrees already rendered, or which may hereafter be rendered, on account of indebtedness arising from the purchase or acquisit…

95.430. Bonds, how sold — proceeds, how applied. — Such bonds shall be sold as directed by ordinance, or, in the absence of such directions, by the city treasurer, and the proceeds thereof shall be applied and used for the payment of the judgments and decrees for the payment wher…

95.435. Sinking fund to be provided. — Every city or town before issuing such bonds shall provide for a sinking fund to be levied and collected during each year prior to the maturity of any bonds issued under the provisions of sections 95.415 to 95.460, sufficient to provide for …

95.440. Question to be submitted to voters. — For the purpose of testing the sense of the voters upon a proposition to issue bonds for the purposes of taking up the indebtedness of such city or town as has been ascertained and determined by a judgment or decree of court, the coun…

95.445. Form of ballot. — The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form: Shall ______ (name of city) issue bonds in the amount of ______ dollars to pay a ______ (judgment or decree) and levy a tax therefor? ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7463, A.L. 1978 H.B. 971) P…

95.450. Bonds issued, when — procedure, limits. — If the bond issue by any such city or town be carried or consented to by the constitutionally required percentage of the voters voting on the question, the council, trustees or other legislative authority of such city or town may,…

95.455. Bonds to be registered. — All bonds issued under the provisions of sections 95.415 to 95.460 shall be presented to and registered by the state auditor before being offered for sale, and it shall be the duty of the state auditor to register such bonds, upon satisfactory pr…

95.460. Effect of sections 95.415 to 95.455. — No law or act heretofore passed by any general assembly for the state of Missouri shall be in any way construed to abridge, impair or otherwise affect the provisions of sections 95.415 to 95.455. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7466) Prior r…

95.465. Mayor and two houses of legislation defined (cities over 100,000). — In sections 95.465 to 95.500, the word "mayor" shall include the chief magistrate in every such city, and the words "two houses of legislation" shall include the municipal assembly and the common council…

95.470. Certain cities may issue bonds to pay judgment debts — form, conditions of bonds (cities over 100,000). — The mayor and the two houses of legislation of any city having more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, for the purpose of paying any sums of money which it may no…

95.475. Proceeds from sale of bonds used to pay judgment (cities over 100,000). — No such bonds shall be issued in such a manner as to increase the indebtedness of the said city, but such bonds shall be delivered in payment and discharge of sums which it shall be required to pay …

95.480. Sinking fund — annual tax (cities over 100,000). — Every city issuing bonds under the provisions of sections 95.465 to 95.500 shall, before or at the time of doing so, provide for the collection of an annual tax, which, together with all sums which shall be applicable to …

95.485. Debt arising from purchase of waterworks, income applied, how (cities over 100,000). — In case any such bonds shall be issued for the purpose of paying any such sums required to be paid by a court on account of or in respect of the purchase or acquisition by such city of …

95.490. Bonds presumed to have been regularly authorized and issued — negotiability (cities over 100,000). — All bonds purporting to be issued by virtue or in pursuance of sections 95.470 to 95.485, and signed and sealed as herein provided, shall in favor of bona fide holders, be…

95.495. Need not be registered with state auditor (cities over 100,000). — No bonds issued under the provisions of sections 95.470 to 95.490 shall be required to be presented to the state auditor, or registered by him, nor shall any of the provisions in respect of the issue there…

95.500. Certain laws not repealed — this law not to be impaired (cities over 100,000). — Sections 95.465 to 95.500 shall not repeal, abridge, impair or in any way affect any law or act passed by the thirty-eighth general assembly of this state, relating to the issue and sale of b…

95.505. Certain municipal officers to pay fees to treasurer (cities over 200,000). — Every officer of any municipality in this state having a population of more than two hundred thousand inhabitants, who performs duties for the state by virtue of his office, and whose salary and …

95.510. Board of aldermen to call bond election for national park or plaza (cities over 400,000). — In the event that at any time the United States, or any qualified authority thereof, shall propose to establish and improve, within any city in this state now or hereafter having a…

95.515. Questions to be submitted — amount of bonds to be voted (cities over 400,000). — There shall be submitted to the voters the question whether or not such city shall incur an indebtedness and evidence the same by the issuance of bonds for the purpose of providing funds to p…

95.520. Bonds issued, when (cities over 400,000). — In the event that at such election the constitutionally required percentage of the voters of such city voting on such proposition shall vote in favor thereof, then such city shall issue and dispose of its bonds thus authorized, …

95.525. United States granted authority to establish parks in state (cities over 400,000). — The consent of the state of Missouri is hereby fully given to the acquisition by the United States or any qualified authority thereof, by purchase, grant or condemnation, of any lands or …

95.527. Additional bonds authorized for national park or plaza — election (cities over 400,000). — 1. Any city having a population of four hundred thousand inhabitants or more may borrow money and issue bonds in an amount not to exceed one million five hundred thousand dollars fo…

95.530. Funds committee — membership — chairman — selection of depositary — duties of chairman — financial institutions, agencies and officials to report — bonds and securities — may invest funds, when, how (certain cities). — In all cities not within a county, the mayor, the com…

95.535. All fees to be deposited in treasury — duty of comptroller (St. Louis City). — All public officers, excepting the public administrator and notaries public, in the city of St. Louis shall be compensated for their services by salaries only. It shall be the duty of any publi…

95.537. Officers and employees, salaries paid biweekly (St. Louis City). — All salaries fixed by statute for public officers, elective or appointive, or their deputies, assistants and employees, in any city now having or which may hereafter acquire a population of seven hundred t…

95.540. City may establish pension system for officers, employees and dependents — costs for utility, library, museum and zoo employees, how paid (cities over 450,000). — 1. The following words and phrases as used in this section, unless a different meaning is plainly required by…

95.545. City may provide medical, health and life insurance for certain employees (St. Louis City). — The governing body of any constitutional charter city not within a county that now has or may hereafter have a population of six hundred thousand inhabitants or more may by ordin…

95.547. Employees who may be covered (St. Louis City). — The ordinance authorizing the insurance program may provide for the coverage within a single plan of municipal employees, public employees performing county functions within the city, employees of any municipally owned or o…

95.549. Program, how financed — services covered (St. Louis City). — Such city may appropriate and utilize its revenues and other available funds to contribute to all or part of the cost of such plan, including payment of insurance premiums, for furnishing all or a part of the me…

95.551. Employee defined (St. Louis City). — The term "employee" shall not include any appointed or elected officers who may be prohibited from the receipt of benefits hereunder by the application of any provision of any statute or of the constitution of this state affecting the …

95.553. Independent board employees, how handled (St. Louis City). — No employees of any independent public board or agency shall be covered by any plan adopted hereunder unless their inclusion shall be authorized by resolution or order of such board or agency; but any such city …

95.555. City authorized to contract with insurers — rules and regulations authorized (St. Louis City). — Any ordinance adopted hereunder may empower the city to contract for the purposes of sections 95.545 to 95.555 with insurance companies authorized to do business in this state…

95.556. Officers to administer — membership and benefits as compensation. — 1. In addition to their other duties as prescribed by law, appointed or elected officers whose employees are extended coverage under an insurance program as provided in sections 95.540 to 95.555 shall be …

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…