CITIES, TOWNS, AND VILLAGES

Missouri House of Representatives
93rd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2006)
Bills Indexed by Subject
CITIES, TOWNS, AND VILLAGES

: Authorizes the at-large election of board of aldermen members in certain cities of the fourth class

: Allows the Missouri Public Service Commission to order an incumbent local exchange telecommunications company to implement or change a toll-free calling plan outside a local calling scope

: Establishes additional tax increment financing guidelines

: Allows the governing body of any municipality or county to authorize its employees or agents to stand in a road to solicit charitable contributions

: Requires cities to pay the difference between the amount of the salary and workers' compensation benefits to certain public safety officers who suffer a traumatic job-related injury

: Reduces the amount of excess revenues generated by fines for moving traffic violations that municipalities must send to the Department of Revenue

: Extends the commercial zone around Kansas City to include the municipal boundaries of the City of Excelsior Springs and also extends the commercial zone in St. Charles County

: Authorizes the governing bodies of New Madrid County and the cities of of Sikeston and Miner to designate library fees due to a regional library district to go solely to libraries within that county or city

: Excludes the personal information of private individuals collected by municipalities from the definition of "public record"

: Establishes qualifications for members of civilian review boards

: Allows cities to enforce more restrictive fire protection codes than those adopted by the state for regulating fuels

: Repeals the requirement that the City of Canton provide the resources and space for a circuit court in Lewis County

: Adds not-for-profit organizations that provide or contract for ambulance services under the authority of a municipality to the definition of "public entity" in the laws regarding sovereign immunity

: Authorizes municipalities in St. Louis County to impose a local sales tax to improve public safety

: Expands the definition of "volunteer fire protection association" to include municipal fire departments staffed by volunteers

: Establishes the Public Service Accountability Act which requires most public bodies to analyze the costs and benefits of privatizing any service valued at $25,000 or more

: Authorizes the expungement of certain arrest records and convictions for municipal ordinance violations and certain misdemeanors

: Establishes the Revitalization and Reconstruction Commission to address the problems associated with distressed urban areas

: Modifies the Missouri Business Use Incentive for Large-Scale Development Act to include certain businesses in the City of Fenton

: Authorizes public water districts, sewer districts, and municipalities to install and maintain sewer and water lines in public roadways

: Adds certain cities in St. Charles County to the political subdivisions authorized to impose, upon voter approval, a transient guest tax of up to 5% for funding a convention and visitors bureau

: Changes the definition of "person" as it relates to joint municipal utility commissions to include any municipality, governmental unit, or public corporation created by the laws of any state

: Changes the laws regarding tax increment financing and establishes tax rates for redevelopment projects

: Requires property within a fire protection district that is annexed by any city in Greene County to remain part of the fire protection district for taxation purposes

: Authorizes the City of Gladstone to impose a transient guest tax for the promotion of tourism

: Allows cities and counties to prohibit the carrying of concealed firearms in any playground, park, pool, or athletic or recreational facility they own, lease, or control

: Changes the requirements for the incorporation of a city or town

: Allows the City of Gladstone to levy separate and differing tax rates for real and personal property

: Allows the State Registrar within the Department of Health and Senior Services to appoint a local registrar and allows instruments affecting real property in Jackson County to be recorded in Independence

: Provides a new method for disbursing funds among affected taxing districts in industrial development projects in Boone County

: Authorizes election authorities to establish vote centers

: Establishes the Missouri Economic Development Code

: Lowers the mandatory retirement age for municipal judges from 70 to 65 years of age

: Allows the governing authority, board, or personnel of a political subdivision to display religious documents in public buildings or on public lands

: Requires the approval from all the taxing entities affected by a tax abatement before the tax abatement may begin

: Allows counties and municipalities to contract for the collection of delinquent taxes

: Authorizes any county or municipality to establish a local economic development commission to study local large business expansions and prohibits an industrial loan company or industrial bank in this state

: Authorizes the City of Independence to impose a sales tax for funding police services provided by the municipal police department

: Requires legislative bodies, judicial bodies, public universities, and all governmental bodies to use the Department of Transportation's fiber optic network by January 1, 2009, for telecommunications service

: Requires New Madrid County to distribute the general county sales tax revenue in a certain proportion between the county and its cities, towns, and villages

: Allows Franklin County to levy a transient guest tax in the Sullivan C-II School District which is partially located in both the City of Sullivan and Franklin County to be used for tourism

: Requires anyone filing a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate for election to a municipal office to meet certain deadlines and other requirements

: Requires political subdivisions which mandate the construction of a fence for watershed protection to reimburse the owner for the cost of constructing and maintaining the fence

: Prohibits a municipality from requiring an owner of a premises to pay delinquent utility bills for his or her occupants

: Authorizes the City of Kimberling City to impose a transient guest tax of up to 4% on hotel and motel rooms for tourism and infrastructure improvements

: Allows any county or municipality to establish an ordinance requiring sexually oriented businesses to be licensed and authorizes them to regulate and restrict the location of these businesses

: Allows any county or municipality to establish an ordinance requiring sexually oriented businesses to be licensed and authorizes them to regulate and restrict the location of these businesses

: Allows fire protection districts to adopt residential construction regulatory systems in municipalities in Jefferson County

: Changes the laws regarding the distribution of the St. Louis County sales tax

: Proposes a constitutional amendment to allow the state and any of its political subdivisions to display religious documents

: Proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting the Missouri Supreme Court or any inferior state court from ordering the state, county, city, or any political subdivision to levy or increase taxes

: Proposes a constitutional amendment restricting the power of eminent domain

: Proposes a constitutional amendment repealing the authorization for charter cities and counties to enact ordinances allowing redevelopment of blighted areas and the taking of property by eminent domain

: Limits the amount of revenue expenditures from gaming boat admission fees

: Modifies existing tax base determination for municipal taxation of telecommunication businesses

: Modifies provisions relating to prostitution

: Modifies the Missouri Business Use Incentive for Large-Scale Development Act

: Modifies Missouri tax increment financing law

: Prohibits political subdivisions from using photo radar or automated traffic control systems to enforce traffic laws

: Allows fourth-class cities to establish by ordinance a citywide vote for the election of aldermen

: Allows the City of Corder to sell property purchased from the school district for any purpose after 25 years

: Provides municipalities the option of adopting the zoning regulations of the county in lieu of their own

: Adds certain municipalities and districts to the list of utilities that are under the supervision of the Transportation Commission when engaging in right-of-way

: Modifies Missouri's tax increment finance law

: Modifies the definition of "volunteer fire protection association"

: Repeals the statute permitting the city council of a third-class city to prohibit the carrying of concealed weapons

: Requires cities to send excess revenues derived from traffic violations to the Department of Revenue if such fines and court costs exceed 35% of the city's annual general operating revenue

: Modifies "Macks Creek law" by applying a 45% cap on traffic fine revenues to violations that occur on all highways rather than just state highways

: Modifies the method of how community improvement districts may impose sales taxes

: Allows Springfield to dissolve a special business district

: Allows the City of Sullivan and the portion of the Sullivan C-2 School District located in Franklin County to levy a transient guest tax

: Allows third-class cities to regulate real estate agents

: Repeals the statute that allows fourth-class cities to pay members of certain city boards up to $200 per month

: Provides that certain not-for-profit agencies shall have sovereign or governmental tort immunity

: Allows any municipality or county to authorize an organization to solicit charitable contributions by the roads

: Allows the City of Excelsior Springs to issue bonds and impose a sales tax for the development of a community center

: Allows a local registrar to be an employee of either a county or city health agency

: Exempts sales of motor fuel for use by interstate transportation authorities, city transit authorities, and city utility boards from the motor fuel tax

: Allows New Madrid County to impose an additional sales tax, which proceeds shall be shared among the county and the cities, towns and villages within the county

: Allows the City of St. Louis to impose a sales tax for public safety

: Modifies provisions regarding LAGERS benefits within the City of Lebanon

: Regulates sexually-oriented businesses

: Repeals the provision prohibiting Jefferson County fire protection districts from implementing residential construction regulatory systems

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Last Updated November 29, 2006 at 9:52 am