SECOND REGULAR SESSION
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES RECTOR (Sponsor), DAVIS (122) AND BAKER (Co-sponsor).
Read 1st time January 14, 2004, and copies ordered printed.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 49.272, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to imposition of civil fines by certain counties, with a penalty provision.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 49.272, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 49.272, to read as follows:
49.272. The county commission of any county of the first classification without a charter form of government and with more than one hundred thirty-five thousand four hundred but less than one hundred thirty- five thousand five hundred inhabitants, and in any county of the first classification without a charter form of government having a population of at least eighty-two thousand inhabitants, but less than eighty-two thousand one hundred inhabitants, which has an appointed county counselor and which adopts or has adopted rules, regulations or ordinances under authority of a statute which prescribes or authorizes a violation of such rules, regulations or ordinances to be a misdemeanor punishable as provided by law, may by rule, regulation or ordinance impose a civil fine not to exceed one thousand dollars for each violation. Any fines imposed and collected under such rules, regulations or ordinances shall be payable to the county general fund to be used to pay for the cost of enforcement of such rules, regulations or ordinances.