Title VII — CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES

87.345. Accrued liability contribution discontinued, when — decreased, when — changes amortized, when. — The accrued liability contribution should be discontinued as soon as the accumulated reserve in the general reserve fund shall equal the present value as actuarially computed …

87.350. Expense fund, purposes, determination of amount — limitation on payment of expenses. — The expense fund shall be the fund to which shall be credited all money provided to pay the administration expenses of the retirement system and from which shall be paid all the expense…

87.355. Amounts due from city, certification, budget and appropriation. — On or before the first of March of each year the board of trustees shall certify to the proper city authorities the amount which will become due and payable during the year next following to the general res…

87.360. Reserves made obligation of city. — The creation and maintenance of reserves in the general reserve fund and the maintenance of benefit reserves as provided for and the payment of all benefits granted under the provisions of sections 87.120 to 87.370 are hereby made oblig…

87.365. Benefits exempt from taxes and civil process. — The right of any person to a benefit, any other right accrued or accruing to any person under the provisions of sections 87.120 to 87.370 and the moneys in the various funds created under sections 87.120 to 87.370 are hereby…

87.367. Health care plan may be adopted for retirees, procedure and funding. — 1. The board of trustees may provide or contract for insurance benefits to cover hospital, surgical, and medical expenses for retirees under sections 87.120 to 87.370, in an amount not to exceed one hu…

87.370. False statement, a misdemeanor — adjustment of benefits resulting from false statement. — Any person who shall knowingly make any false statement, or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of this retirement system in any attempt to defraud such sys…

87.371. Unused sick leave, how credited. — 1. Any member retiring pursuant to the provisions of sections 87.120 to 87.370, after working continuously for an entity covered by sections 87.120 to 87.370, until reaching retirement age, but not including retirement for service-connec…

87.380. Fire departments in cities of over 100,000 may create relief fund. — Any fire department existing by authority of the laws of this state, or any municipal authority thereof, in any city in this state now having or which may hereafter acquire a population of more than one …

87.385. Board of trustees, how composed. — In cities, the treasurer, the counselor, the clerk or register, and the comptroller, where such office exists, the chief officer of the fire department, four members of the fire department and one of the retired or pensioned members, who…

87.390. City treasurer ex officio member of board. — The treasurer, in all cities in this state to which sections 87.380 to 87.490 are applicable, shall be ex officio treasurer of said board, and as such shall have charge of the funds and securities provided for herein. He shall …

87.395. Treasurer — duties — bond. — The treasurer of the board of trustees shall be the custodian of said pension funds, and shall secure and safely keep the same, subject to the control and direction of the board, and shall keep his books and accounts concerning said funds in s…

87.400. Creation of fire department pension fund — sources of revenue. — The revenues which shall form and maintain the fire department pension fund in cities to which sections 87.380 to 87.490 are applicable shall be created as herein provided, and shall be separately kept and u…

87.405. Moneys set apart for pension fund. — The municipal authorities in cities in this state to which sections 87.380 to 87.490 are applicable, may, by law or ordinance, set apart one-half of all revenues received for municipal purposes by such cities from licenses issued by su…

87.410. Authorizing a tax for firemen's pensions in certain cities. — 1. When one hundred voters of any city in this state which now has or may hereafter have one hundred thousand inhabitants or more shall petition the proper authorities asking that an annual tax of one-fifth of …

87.415. Warrants to be drawn on treasurer. — It shall be the duty of the officer or officers of such city who are designated by law to draw warrants on the treasurer of such city, upon request, in writing, by said board of trustees, to draw warrants on the treasurer of such city,…

87.420. Powers of board of trustees. — The board of trustees of the firemen's fund shall have exclusive control and management of the separate funds mentioned in sections 87.380 to 87.490, and of all the moneys donated, paid or assessed, for the relief or pensioning of crippled, …

87.425. Members of department may be assessed. — The board of trustees may assess each member of the fire department such sum per month as may be determined by the rules and regulations adopted by the board, and such assessment shall not be increased or diminished during any one …

87.430. Funds may be invested. — Said board of trustees shall have power to draw such funds as are credited to the pension fund under the provisions of sections 87.380 to 87.490 from the treasury of such city, and may invest the same, or any part thereof, in the name of the board…

87.435. Who shall be beneficiaries. — If any member of the fire department of any city shall, while in the performance of his duty, become and be found, upon examination by a medical officer ordered by said board of trustees, to be physically or mentally permanently disabled by r…

87.440. Widow and children may be awarded retirement pay, when. — If any member of such fire department shall die after having been retired and pensioned by reason of injuries sustained or disease contracted while serving as a member of the department, his widow, provided their m…

87.445. Widow and children beneficiaries, when. — If any member of such fire department shall, while in the performance of his duty, be killed or die as the result of an injury received in the line of his duty, or of any disease contracted by reason of his occupation as fireman, …

87.450. Relatives, when. — If any member of such fire department being single and unmarried shall, while in the performance of his duty, be killed, or die, as the result of an injury received, or shall die of any disease contracted by reason of his occupation as fireman, or shall…

87.455. Members may be retired, when. — Any member of the fire department of any such city having served twenty years or more in such fire department, of which the last two years shall have been continuous, may have application to be relieved from such fire department and retired…

87.457. Health care benefits for retirees, separate fund established for benefit and premiums — application by retiree to be special consultant, compensation to fund benefits. — 1. The board of trustees may provide or contract for insurance benefits to cover hospital, surgical, a…

87.460. Funds to be prorated, when. — If at any time there shall not be sufficient money in the funds created under the provisions of sections 87.380 to 87.490 to pay each person entitled to the benefits herein provided the full amount per month provided for in said rules and reg…

87.465. Money paid beneficiaries only on warrant. — All moneys ordered to be paid from said pension funds to any person or persons shall be paid by the treasurer of the board of trustees only upon warrants signed by the president of said board and countersigned by the secretary t…

87.470. Funeral expenses. — Whenever an active or retired fireman shall die, as aforesaid, the board of trustees may appropriate a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars for funeral expenses, to be paid out of the pension fund and may expend a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, to b…

87.475. Honorary members, admission of. — The board of trustees may provide for the admission of honorary members of the department in such manner and under such conditions as may be set forth in the rules and regulations enacted by said board of trustees. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 §…

87.480. Board of trustees to make report. — The board of trustees shall make report to the legislative body of such city of the condition of said pension funds immediately after the first meeting of said board in January of each year. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9539) Prior revisions…

87.485. Funds exempt from garnishment or other legal process. — No portion of said pension fund shall, before or after its order of distribution by the board of trustees to the persons entitled thereto, and before the actual payment thereof to such persons, be held, seized, taken…

87.487. Fund subject to domestic relations order (Kansas City). — The provisions of section 87.485 to the contrary notwithstanding, a pension fund for firefighters located in a home rule city with a population of more than four hundred thousand inhabitants and located in more tha…

87.490. Associations authorized to transfer funds. — Any fire department pension fund and relief association existing in any city to which sections 87.380 to 87.490 are applicable is hereby empowered, by a majority vote of its members, to transfer and deliver all its property and…

87.495. Firemen's pension fund provided. — Any fire department existing by authority of the laws of this state, or any municipal authority thereof, in any city or county in this state having a population of fifty thousand inhabitants or over, is hereby authorized and empowered to…

87.500. Membership continued after retirement. — All members of any such fire department in any such city or county in this state shall become members of the fire department pension fund and relief association, and may continue in full membership in such association after having …

87.505. Funds to create fire department pension fund. — The funds to create the fire department pension fund and relief association in any city or county in this state, as aforesaid, shall be created, realized, and secured from the following sources: (1) All money at present rema…

87.507. Health care benefits for retirees, separate fund established for benefit and premiums — application by retiree to be special consultant, compensation to fund benefits. — 1. The governing body of the city or county may provide or contract for insurance benefits to cover ho…

87.510. Honorary members admitted. — Any such association may provide for the admission of honorary members in such manner and under such conditions as may be set forth in their articles of association and incorporation. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 9547) Prior revisions: 1929 § 8982;…

87.515. Treasurer to give bond — who may be. — The city or county treasurer of any such city or county as aforesaid may be the treasurer of any such association existing in any such city or county, and shall be required as such treasurer to furnish such reasonable bond as may be …

87.600. Proposed change in benefits — notice and meeting with representative of members required. — Whenever any municipality having a population of more than four hundred fifty thousand inhabitants and less than six hundred thousand inhabitants, according to the last federal dec…

87.615. Retired firefighters or their beneficiaries not covered by retirement system may be employed by certain cities as consultants, duties, compensation (St. Joseph). — 1. Any firefighter who has retired or who retires and was not or is not a member of the retirement system go…

88.010. Condemnation of private property. — Whenever the city council, or the proper legislative body of any city, shall deem it necessary to condemn or appropriate private property and to assess the cost thereof against property in a benefit district, said legislative body shall…

88.013. Condemnation of property — petition for appointment of commissioners. — Thereupon the attorney for the city, in the name of the city, shall apply to the circuit court of the county where the city is located, by petition, setting forth the limits of the benefit district, a…

88.017. Condemnation of property — party defendant. — The owners of property to be appropriated or damaged shall be made defendants by name, but it shall not be necessary to name any defendants except the owners of a freehold in the property to be appropriated. If the proceedings…

88.020. Condemnation of property — summons, how served. — Upon the filing of the petition a summons shall be issued giving such defendants named therein at least ten days' notice of the time when the petition will be heard, which summons shall be served in the same manner as writ…

88.023. Condemnation of property — appointment of commissioners. — The court on being satisfied that proper notice has been given to all the defendants and to the owners of property within the benefitted district and that the ordinance and petition are regular and valid, shall ap…

88.027. Condemnation of property — assessment of damages, duties of commissioners. — 1. The commissioners so appointed shall give notice to all parties interested of the time and place when and where they will hear all parties interested who may appear before them, which notice n…

88.030. Condemnation of property — commissioners' report. — When the commissioners shall have viewed the property and assessed the value, damages and benefits they shall make their return of such assessment in writing and under oath to the circuit court. The report shall be filed…

88.033. Condemnation of property — filing of exceptions to commissioners' report. — All parties interested shall take notice of the filing of said report, and any owner of any lot, tract or parcel of land assessed may, within ten days after the filing of said report, file his wri…

88.037. Condemnation of property — assessment by jury. — All owners of property to be appropriated shall take notice of the confirmation of the report of the commissioners as to the assessment of benefits, and any owner of property to be appropriated may, within ten days after su…