Title XI — EDUCATION AND LIBRARIES

171.031. Board to prepare calendar — minimum term — opening dates — exemptions. — 1. Each school board shall prepare annually a calendar for the school term, specifying the opening date, days of planned attendance, and providing a minimum term of at least one thousand forty-four …

171.033. Make-up of hours lost or cancelled — exemption, when — waiver for schools, granted when — make-up hours not required for exceptional or emergency circumstances — half-day education programs. — 1. "Inclement weather", for purposes of this section, shall be defined as ice,…

171.034. Provision of food services by school districts eligible to reduce make-up days. — Any school district that is eligible to reduce its requirement to make up days pursuant to subsection 3 of section 171.033 may provide food service on a summer school food service basis if …

171.051. School holidays. — School holidays include Thanksgiving Day, December twenty-fifth, the third Monday in February, July fourth, and may include November eleventh at the discretion of the school district. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 200 § 11-5, A.L. 1969 p. 85, A.L. 2014 S.B. 6…

171.053. Participation in sanctioned program activities, excused absences allowed — state aid, computation for such activities. — 1. The general assembly hereby finds and declares that: (1) The Future Farmers of America Organization (FFA Organization), Family, Career, and Communi…

171.091. Board may provide adult classes out of certain funds. — The school board of any school district in this state may provide for the gratuitous education of persons over twenty years of age, resident in the school district. The gratuitous education, however, shall be provid…

171.096. Board may permit use of school facilities for adult education purposes. — Each school board in the state may, under such terms and conditions as it may determine, permit the use of its buildings and grounds for adult education purposes. ­­-------- (L. 1967 1st Ex. Sess. …

171.097. Background checks for certain adult students — prohibited from enrolling, when. — 1. School districts shall ensure that a state criminal history background check consisting of open records is conducted on any person who is eighteen years of age or older, who is not count…

171.098. Board may authorize sale of class projects to pupils at cost. — The school board in each school district may authorize the sale of any product or item made as a class project or activity from materials purchased with district funds to any pupil enrolled in the schools of…

171.101. Board may provide facilities and services for pupils living on federal lands. — The school board of a seven-director district may provide educational facilities and services for pupils residing on lands acquired by the federal government in the state of Missouri for mili…

171.121. District may be closed and required to transport pupils — apportionment of state aid. — If any district in this state has an average daily attendance of less than fifteen pupils as shown by the records of the last previous school year, the state board of education, after…

171.131. Seventh and eighth grade pupils may be sent to another district — tuition, how paid. — The board of education of any elementary school district may elect to maintain an elementary school in the district for grades one through six only. In that event tuition shall be paid…

171.141. Fraternities and sororities may be barred — enforcement. — 1. As used in this section, a school fraternity or sorority is any organization composed wholly or in part of public school pupils, which seeks to perpetuate itself by taking in additional members from the pupils…

171.151. Daily register required, contents of. — Each public school of the state shall keep a daily register in which shall be entered the name, age, date of entrance and record of attendance of each pupil and the studies pursued by the pupil. ­­-------- (L. 1963 p. 200 § 11-15, …

[Repealed or reserved.]

171.181. Preference given Missouri products in making purchase — certain seven-director school districts, board member selling to district prohibited, exceptions, penalty. — In making purchases, the school board, officer, or employee of any school district shall give preference t…

171.185. Materials recovery and recycling facility prohibited, when (city of Chesterfield). — No school district located in any city of the third classification with more than forty-six thousand eight hundred but fewer than forty-seven thousand inhabitants shall operate a materia…

171.410. Program may be taught to first graders, purpose. — 1. Each school district and charter school may annually teach the Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program to first grade students. School districts and charter schools may also teach any substantially similar program of the same qua…

172.010. University established — how governed. — A university is hereby instituted in this state, the government whereof shall be vested in a board of curators. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10782) Prior revisions: 1929 § 9625; 1919 § 11522; 1909 § 11096

172.020. Corporate name — powers of curators — restrictions on dealings in real property, timber or minerals, rules — notice. — Pursuant to Sections 9(a) and 9(b) of Article IX of the Missouri Constitution, the state university is hereby incorporated and created as a body politic…

172.030. Curators, number of — how appointed. — The board of curators of the University of the state of Missouri shall hereafter consist of nine members, who shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate; provided, that at least one but no m…

172.035. Student representative to board of curators — appointment, powers, duties, limitations, qualifications, term, vacancy, removal from office — reimbursement of expenses — rotation of campuses. — 1. The governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, appoi…

172.037. Confidentiality — recusal — meeting closed to certain members, 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 member or representative on…

172.040. Curators, term — compensation. — The term of service of the curators shall be six years, the terms of three expiring every two years; the first expiration occurring on the first day of January, 1911, and succeeding expirations of three members every two years thereafter.…

172.050. Vacancies, how filled. — The governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, fill all vacancies caused by the expiration of the term of office of any curator, and he shall also fill all vacancies occasioned by death, resignation or removal which may occ…

172.060. Term of appointee to fill vacancy. — All appointments to fill vacancies, except such as may be made to fill out unexpired terms, shall be for the term of six years, and until the successors of such appointees shall be appointed and qualified. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 1078…

172.070. Attendance policy — vacancies by removal or other cause. — 1. The curators shall establish by August 28, 1996, such bylaws as they shall deem appropriate for their attendance at meetings. If such bylaws are not established by August 28, 1996, the coordinating board for h…

172.080. Oath of curators. — The curators shall severally take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and of this state, and to faithfully demean themselves in office. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10796) Prior revisions: 1929 § 9639; 1919 § 11536; 1909 § 11110

172.090. Officers of the board. — There shall be a president and vice president of the board, who shall be chosen by the board from the members thereof, a secretary, treasurer, and such other officers of the board as they shall deem necessary, who shall be appointed by the board,…

172.100. Board to prescribe own government. — The curators shall have power to make such bylaws or ordinances, rules and regulations as they may judge most expedient for the accomplishment of the trust reposed in them, and for the government of their officers and employees, and t…

172.110. Regular meetings of board. — There shall be two regular meetings of said board of curators in each year, to be holden in the university edifice or in the town of Columbia. The annual meeting shall be held on the third Tuesday in December and the semiannual meeting on the…

172.120. Special meetings. — The president of the board, and until his election, or in case of his absence or disability, any three curators, shall have power to call a special meeting of the board; provided, they give timely notice thereof, in such form as the board shall by byl…

172.130. Adjourned meetings. — Adjourned meetings may be ordered and held by the board at such time and place as shall be agreed upon by them. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10800) Prior revisions: 1929 § 9643; 1919 § 11540; 1909 § 11114

172.140. Quorum. — At all meetings of the board of curators five members shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10789) Prior revisions: 1929 § 9632; 1919 § 11529; 1909 § 11103

172.150. Who shall preside. — The president, and if he be absent, the vice president, and if both be absent, a curator chosen for the occasion, shall preside at the meetings of the board. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10798) Prior revisions: 1929 § 9641; 1919 § 11538; 1909 § 11112

172.160. Duties of secretary. — It shall be the duty of the secretary to keep and preserve all records, books and papers belonging to the board; to prepare, under the direction of the board, all their reports, estimates, etc., and generally to do and execute all such matters and …

172.170. Journal to be kept. — The secretary shall keep a journal of the proceedings of the curators, in which the ayes and noes on all questions shall be entered, if requested by any one of the curators present. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10802) Prior revisions: 1929 § 9645; 1919 §…

172.180. Records open to public. — Any citizen of the state shall, at all times, have access to and be permitted to take copies of any or all the records, books and papers of the board. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 10804) Prior revisions: 1929 § 9647; 1919 § 11544; 1909 § 11118

172.190. Duty of treasurer — compensation. — The treasurer shall receive, keep and disburse all moneys belonging to the board, and shall perform all customary acts pertaining to his office, under the direction of the curators, and shall make a report of the same at the annual mee…

172.200. Treasurer's bond. — The treasurer of the board shall, upon his appointment, and before he enters upon the duties of his office, give bond to the state of Missouri, to the use of the curators of the University of the State of Missouri, with good and solvent sureties, in s…

172.210. Report to legislature. — It shall be the duty of said board of curators to cause to be furnished to the legislature, on or before the third Monday of each regular session thereof, a report containing a classified statement of the receipts and disbursements of the institu…

172.220. Curators to report annually. — At the close of each university year the board of curators shall make a report to the governor in detail, exhibiting the progress, conditions and wants of the several colleges or departments of instruction in the university, the course of s…

172.230. Executive board — executive committee of University of Missouri-Rolla — duties — compensation. — The board of curators shall appoint annually three of their number to act as an executive board, who shall meet each month for the purpose of auditing claims and attending to…

172.250. Curators to appropriate for annual expenses. — The president and treasurer of the university, residing at Columbia, and treasurer of the University of Missouri-Rolla, residing at Rolla, shall, at each annual meeting of the board, prepare and submit to the board a careful…

172.260. Curators to improve and protect property. — It shall be the duty of the curators to provide for the protection and improvement of the site of the University of the State of Missouri, as selected and established by law; to erect and continue thereon all edifices designed …

172.270. Property to be inventoried and appraised. — The curators shall cause to be made annually a careful and complete inventory and appraisement of all property, real and personal, belonging to the university in every department thereof; and in order to preserve said property …

172.273. Research, development and office park projects established, when — procedure — curators' powers — real property exempt from zoning, ordinances and property tax — permits, licenses and certificates may be issued, when, application of sovereign and official immunity and pu…

172.280. Authority to confer degrees — only public research university and exclusive grantor of certain degrees. — The curators shall have the authority to confer, by diploma, under their common seal, on any person whom they may judge worthy thereof, such degrees as are known to …

172.287. Engineering colleges, program of grants established — purposes — amount insufficient for funding all grants reduced pro rata — expires, when. — 1. The University of Missouri shall annually request an appropriation under capital improvements, subject to availability of fu…

172.290. Grants not to be diverted — reasonable portion may be used for administration. — Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, grants made to the curators for specified purposes and uses shall not be applied, either wholly or in part, to any other uses; pro…