FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[PERFECTED]
93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE BAKER (123).
Read 1st time January 26, 2005 and copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 27, 2005 and referred to the Committee on Local Government February 16, 2005.
Reported from the Committee on Local Government March 8, 2005 with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent with House Committee Amendment No. 1. Referred to the Committee on Rules pursuant to Rule 25(26)(f).
Reported from the Committee on Rules March 9, 2005 with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent with House Committee Amendment No. 1 and no time limit for debate.
Perfected by Consent March 17, 2005.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 50.530, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to county officials.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 50.530, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 50.530, to read as follows:
50.530. As used in sections 50.530 to 50.745:
(1) "Accounting officer" means county auditor in counties of [classes one and two] the first and second classifications and the county clerks in counties of [classes three and four] the third and fourth classifications;
(2) "Budget officer" means such person, as may, from time to time, be appointed by the county commission of [class one] counties [except in class one counties with a population of less than one hundred thousand inhabitants according to the official United States Census of 1970 the county auditor shall be the chief budget officer] of the first classification, except as otherwise provided in this section, the presiding commissioner of the county commission in [class two] any county of the first classification with more than eighty-two thousand but fewer than eighty-two thousand one hundred inhabitants, in any county of the first classification with more than seventy-one thousand three hundred but fewer than seventy-one thousand four hundred inhabitants, and in counties of the second classification, unless the county commission designates the county clerk as budget officer, and the county clerk in counties of [class three and four] the third and fourth classification.