FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 473

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY


INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES ROBIRDS, KREIDER, MYERS (Co-sponsors),GASKILL,

TOWNLEY, OSTMANN, REINHART, MERIDETH, BARTELSMEYER, MOORE AND HOLAND.

Read 1st time January 22, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To amend chapter 263, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to noxious weeds.




Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Chapter 263, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 263.232, to read as follows:

263.232. It shall be the duty of any person or persons, association of persons, corporations, partnerships, the state highways and transportation commission, any state department, any state agency, the county commissions, the township boards, school boards, drainage boards, the governing bodies of incorporated cities, railroad companies and other transportation companies or their authorized agents and those supervising state-owned lands to control the spread of and to eradicate by methods approved by the state department of agriculture cut-leaved teasel (Dipsacus laciniatus), common teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) and kudzu vine (Pueraria lobata) which are hereby designated as noxious and dangerous weeds to agriculture.



Missouri House of Representatives