Title VII, CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES

79.380. Diseases, control of — condemnation for public facilities — police jurisdiction, city-owned property. — The board of aldermen may make regulations and pass ordinances for the prevention of the introduction of contagious diseases in the city, and for the abatement of the s…

79.383. Abatement of nuisance by civil action, city may be awarded attorney's fees. — 1. If any fourth class city shall enact an ordinance allowing for a civil cause of action for abatement of nuisances created by the accumulation of unsightly, dangerous, or noxious personal prop…

79.390. Powers — water supply, marketplaces, city hall, prison, parks. — The board of aldermen may establish, alter and change the channel of watercourses, and wall them and cover them over, and prevent obstructions thereon, and may establish, make and regulate public wells, cist…

79.400. Powers — regulation of lumberyards, fences, animals and poultry — may establish pounds. — 1. The board of aldermen may prescribe limits within the city within which no lumberyard or woodyard shall be kept, and may regulate, restrain or prohibit the erection or maintenance…

79.410. Powers — regulations governing. — The board of aldermen may prohibit and prevent all encroachments into and upon sidewalks, streets, avenues, alleys and other public places of the city, and may provide for the removal of obstructions from the sidewalks, curbstones, gutter…

79.430. Board may provide public cemeteries and regulate same. — The board of aldermen shall have power to purchase, receive, and to hold real estate, as herein mentioned, for public cemeteries, either within or without the city, within a distance of three miles thereof, and the …

79.440. Cemetery lots, how sold. — The cemetery lots shall be conveyed by certificates, signed by the mayor, countersigned by the clerk, under the seal of the city, specifying that the purchaser to whom the same is issued is the owner of the lot described therein by numbers, as l…

79.450. Certain activities to be prohibited and suppressed. — 1. The board of aldermen shall enact ordinances to prohibit and suppress houses of prostitution and other disorderly houses and practices, including gambling and gambling houses, and all kinds of public indecencies, an…

79.460. Board may prohibit carrying concealed weapons. — The board of aldermen may adopt ordinances providing for the prohibition of and punishment for the carrying of concealed deadly weapons, and may also adopt ordinances providing for the prohibition of vagrancy and providing …

79.470. Board to set penalties, limitation. — For all ordinance violations the board of aldermen may impose penalties not exceeding a fine of five hundred dollars and costs, or ninety days' imprisonment, or both the fine and imprisonment. Where the city and state have a penalty f…

79.480. Notice of action shall be given — when — contents. — No action shall be maintained against any city organized under the laws of this state as a city of the fourth class on account of any injuries growing out of any defect or unsafe condition of or on any bridge, boulevard…

79.490. Fourth class city disincorporated, how — election, notice. — 1. The county governing body of any county in which a city of the fourth class is located shall disincorporate such city as provided in this section. 2. The county governing body shall order an election upon the…

79.495. Disincorporation without election allowed, when — diminishing city limits (certain fourth class cities). — 1. The county governing body of any county in which a city of the fourth class is located shall have the power to disincorporate such city upon petition of two-third…

79.500. Contracts not affected by disincorporation. — No dissolution of such corporation shall invalidate or affect any right accruing to such corporation or to any person, or invalidate or affect any contract entered into or imposed on such corporation. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7…

79.510. County commission shall appoint trustee. — Whenever the county commission shall dissolve any such city of the fourth class, the said county commission shall appoint some competent person to act as trustee for the corporation so dissolved, and such trustee, before entering…

79.520. Trustee, duties. — 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 any property belon…

79.530. Trustee may employ counsel — report to county commission. — Such trustee shall employ counsel whenever necessary in the discharge of his duties, and shall make report of his proceedings to the county commission at each regular term thereof, and such trustee shall receive …

79.540. Trustee to make final settlement with county commission. — When the trustee shall have closed the affairs of the corporation, and shall have paid all debts due by said corporation, he shall pay over to the county treasurer all money remaining in his hands, and take receip…

79.550. Municipal redevelopment authority, governing body may establish (certain municipalities). — Any fourth class city with a population of at least one thousand which is located within a first class county with a charter form of government adjoining a city not within a county…

79.552. Members, appointment, qualifications, terms — expenses (certain municipalities). — 1. In any municipality eligible under section 79.550 to create a municipal redevelopment authority, upon the motion of the governing body of such municipality, there is hereby created a mun…

79.555. Powers of authority (certain municipalities). — The authority shall have the power to: (1) Acquire by gift, purchase or lease, sell or otherwise dispose of, and to plan, construct, operate and maintain, or lease to others for operation and maintenance, industrial parks, w…

79.557. Bonds, interest and income tax exempt — recognized as securities (certain municipalities). — 1. All bonds, notes and other instruments of indebtedness issued by the authority and all interest thereon and income therefrom shall be tax exempt. 2. Any notes, bonds or other i…

79.560. Purchases of real property, cooperation of other political subdivisions — limitation of powers (certain municipalities). — 1. Where the authority attempts to purchase real property for fair market value from any political subdivision in this state, such political subdivis…

79.565. Elected or appointed officials, no financial interest in authority operations (certain municipalities). — No elected or appointed official or employee of the municipality or authority, and no spouse or dependent child of any official or employee shall have any financial o…

79.600. Annexation of trash and recyclable material facilities, procedure (City of Eureka) — Notwithstanding the annexation provisions of chapter 71, if the governing body of a city of the fourth classification with more than seven thousand five hundred but fewer than seven thous…

80.010. Town construed. — When the word "town" is used in this chapter concerning the incorporation of towns and villages, it shall be construed to include village. In relation to corporations under this chapter, it shall be construed to mean village only. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 §…

80.020. Towns and villages — how incorporated. — Whenever two-thirds of the taxable inhabitants of any town or village within this state shall present a petition to the county commission of the county, setting forth the metes and bounds of their village and commons, and praying t…

80.040. Board of trustees — corporate powers vested in — terms of office. — The corporate powers and duties of every village so incorporated shall be vested in a board of trustees, to consist of five members, unless such town shall contain more than twenty-five hundred inhabitant…

80.050. Trustees — qualifications. — No person shall be a trustee who has not attained the age of twenty-one years; who is not a citizen of the United States; who is not an inhabitant of the town at the time of his election, and has not resided therein for one whole year next pre…

80.060. Trustees — oath — organization — meetings. — Every trustee, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take the oath prescribed by the constitution of this state, and that he will faithfully demean himself in office. Every board of trustees shall assemble within…

80.070. Trustees — quorum. — At all meetings of the board, a majority of the trustees shall constitute a quorum to do business; a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as the board of tr…

80.080. Trustees — powers and duties as to members and meetings. — The board of trustees shall judge of the qualifications, elections and returns of their own members; they may determine rules of their own proceedings, punish any member or other person for disorderly behavior in …

80.090. Trustees — power to pass certain ordinances. — Such board of trustees shall have power: (1) To pass bylaws and ordinances to prevent and remove nuisances; (2) To prevent, restrain and suppress bawdy-houses, gambling houses and other disorderly houses within the limits of …

80.100. Trustees — style of ordinances. — The style of ordinances of villages organized under the provisions of this chapter shall be: "Be it ordained by the board of trustees of the village of ______, as follows.". ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 7283) Prior revisions: 1929 § 7132; 1919…

80.110. Trustees — passage of ordinances. — No ordinance shall be passed except by bill, and no bill shall become an ordinance unless on its passage a majority of all the members of the board of trustees vote therefor, and the yeas and nays be entered upon the journal; every prop…

80.120. Trustees — publication of ordinances — chairman. — The chairman of the board shall cause to be printed and published the bylaws and ordinances of the board, for the information of the inhabitants, and cause the same to be carried into effect. He shall remain in office for…

80.130. Trustees — sprinkling and oiling of streets. — Whenever the board of trustees of any town or village organized under the laws of the state of Missouri as such town or village shall, by resolution, declare that a necessity exists for the sprinkling, oiling or otherwise tre…

80.140. Sprinkling or oiling of streets — estimate of cost — notice of hearing. — Upon receipt of such petition, it shall be the duty of the board of trustees to make or cause to be made a careful estimate of the approximate cost in total of said sprinkling, oiling or treating an…

80.150. Sprinkling or oiling of streets — special ordinance. — Upon completion of the hearing, in case the board of trustees shall determine that the petition contains the necessary number of signers sufficient to satisfy the statute, such decision and determination shall be fina…

80.160. Sprinkling or oiling of streets — tax bill — limitation on cost. — The special tax bill issued under the provisions of sections 80.130 to 80.160 shall be and become a lien on the property charged therewith from and after the commencing of sprinkling, oiling or treating of…

80.170. Trustees — restraint of domestic animals. — In addition to the power already possessed by towns and villages under section 80.090 to restrain domestic animals from running at large within their corporate limits, such towns and villages may, through their board of trustees…

80.180. Trustees — powers as to sidewalks. — Such board of trustees of any incorporated town or village in this state shall have power, by ordinance, to cause the owner or owners of any property or lot adjacent to any street or alley in said town or village to build, pave, constr…

80.190. Trustees — repair of sidewalks, procedure. — Whenever the board of trustees of any town or village shall determine to have any sidewalk built or repaired, as contemplated by section 80.180, the said board of trustees shall cause at least ten days' notice, in writing, to b…

80.200. Repair of sidewalks — publication of notice. — If the notice in writing cannot be personally served in the state as provided herein, or if the owner or owners are unknown and cannot be personally served, the board of trustees shall cause four weeks' notice to be published…

80.210. Trustees — semiannual reports. — The chairman of each board of trustees shall, semiannually, make out a correct statement of all moneys received and expended on account of their respective towns during the six months next preceding; and shall cause such statement, within …

80.220. Semiannual report, failure to make — penalty. — If the chairman of the board of trustees of any town shall, at any time, neglect to make, and cause such statement to be published, as required by section 80.210, he shall forfeit for every such neglect the sum of fifty doll…