FIRST REGULAR SESSION

[PERFECTED]

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.

Read 2nd time January 23, 2001, and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, February 5, 2001.

Reported from the Committee on Agriculture, March 1, 2001, with recommendation that the bill Do Pass with House Committee Amendment No. 1.

Taken up for Perfection March 12, 2001. Bill ordered Perfected and 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:

(1) To control the spread of and eradicate cut-leaved teasel (Dipsacus laciniatus) and common teasel (Dipsacus fullonum), which are hereby designated as noxious and dangerous weeds to agriculture, by methods recommended by the state department of agriculture; and

(2) To control the spread of kudzu vine (Pueraria lobata), which is hereby designated as a noxious and dangerous weed to agriculture, by methods recommended by the department of conservation in conjunction with the University of Missouri extension service.


Missouri House of Representatives