FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 520

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE MERIDETH.

Read 1st time January 24, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 72.300, RSMo 2000, relating to absorption of municipalities, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.



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

Section A. Section 72.300, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 72.300, to read as follows:

72.300. Any two or more municipalities which are adjoining or contiguous to each other on two or more sides and which are located in a county of the third class having a population of not less than [twenty-five] twenty thousand nor more than thirty thousand may provide for the absorption of the corporate existence and the territorial limits of one or more of the municipalities by another such municipality in the manner provided in sections 72.300 to 72.350.


Missouri House of Representatives