FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 215

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

                  Reported from the Committee on Local Government February 24, 2005, with recommendation that the House Committee Substitute for House Bill No. 215 Do Pass.

                                                                                                                                                                         STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

0632L.04C

AN ACT

To repeal section 67.1350, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to annexation procedures for cities and towns.

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

            Section A. Section 67.1350, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 67.1350, to read as follows:

            67.1350. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, the governing body of any third class city with a population of at least fifteen thousand but not more than seventeen thousand inhabitants which is the county seat of a county of the fourth classification which has a state university located in such city may annex areas along a road or highway up to two and one-half miles from the existing boundaries of the city for the purpose of promoting economic development through the refurbishing of existing structures and the construction and maintenance of infrastructure and property for the enhancement of community development of an existing airport.