FIRST REGULAR SESSION
94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE BURNETT.
Read 1st time February 6, 2007 and copies ordered printed.
D. ADAM CRUMBLISS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 92.035, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to property taxes for museums.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 92.035, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 92.035, to read as follows:
92.035. 1. Any city having a charter form of government and a population of at least three hundred thousand, but less than six hundred and fifty thousand and located wholly or partially within a county of the first class having a charter form of government, in addition to the levy and imposition of taxes authorized by section 92.030, may, except as otherwise provided in this section, by ordinance, levy or impose a tax not to exceed the rate of ten cents on each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation of real and tangible personal property located within the city. The proceeds of the tax representing a rate of at least three cents on each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation to be used for the operation, improvement or construction expansion of museum facilities in existence on August 13, 1978, and the remaining proceeds of the tax to be used exclusively for the construction, operation, improvement, or expansion of additional facilities for such museum and no other. The word "museum" as used in this section, shall not be construed to mean or include an art gallery or any facility that was previously used as a railroad terminal or any location adjacent to such former railroad terminal. General admission to the museum's facility in existence prior to August 13, 1978, shall be free and open to the residents of such city. Before the city shall impose any tax under this section at a rate which exceeds two cents on each one hundred dollars of assessed valuation, the governing body of the city shall submit the proposed tax rate increase to the voters of the city for approval or rejection at an election.
2. The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:
Shall there be an increased tax levy of ....... cents on the hundred dollars assessed valuation for museum purposes?
3. If a majority of the votes cast upon the proposal are in favor of the levy increase, the governing body of the city may, by ordinance, impose the additional tax. If a majority of the votes cast upon the proposal are against the levy increase, the governing body of the city shall not impose the increase. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a rejected proposal from being resubmitted to a vote of the voters.
•