CITIES, TOWNS, AND VILLAGES

Missouri House of Representatives
94th General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session (2008)
Bills Indexed by Subject
CITIES, TOWNS, AND VILLAGES

: Requires compensation to county officers from municipalities to be paid directly to the county

: Authorizes community improvement districts that are political subdivisions to sponsor and operate a polytechnic institute for science and technology within the authorizing city or county

: Allows a village to cancel an election if the number of candidates who file for a position is equivalent to the number of persons who may serve

: Removes villages from a certain incorporation procedure for cities and towns and increases the required number of signatures on a petition to incorporate

: Authorizes a county governing body to disincorporate a village incorporated after August 28, 2007, under certain specified circumstances

: Authorizes allocation of property taxes collected from the Senior Citizens' Services Fund tax to senior centers for their operational and capital needs

: Changes the laws regarding the requirements for a larger board of trustees for certain municipal health care facilities

: Changes the laws regarding illegal aliens and immigration status verification

: Authorizes the City of Charleston to impose, upon voter approval, a transient guest tax for the promotion of tourism

: Prohibits third class cities from imposing storm water usage fees on churches, public schools, nonprofit organizations, or political subdivisions

: Creates the Reverend Nathaniel Cole Memorial Pursuit Reduction Grant to provide grants to urban police departments for the purchase of real-time pursuit management systems

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

: Removes the requirement to hold an election in nonpartisan elections when there are the same number of candidates as open offices

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

: Removes villages from a certain incorporation procedure for cities and towns, increases the required number of signatures on a petition to incorporate, and dissolves villages incorporated after August 28, 2007

: Changes the laws regarding emergency services and requires most counties to establish and maintain 911addressing

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

: Allows various political entities to establish automated photo red light enforcement systems to detect red light signal violations

: Changes the laws regarding municipalities and repeals the limits on the expenditures of excursion gambling boat revenues in certain entitites

: Changes the laws governing municipal zoning violation remedies

: Requires affordable housing to be included in any tax increment financing project which includes housing units and is approved after December 31, 2008

: Specifies that any municipal ordinance regulating blasting can be more but not less stringent than the provisions of the Missouri Blasting Safety Act

: Requires certain surpluses in the Missouri Disaster Fund to be used to provide grants to political subdivisions to purchase necessary equipment for local emgency personnel to respond to a disaster

: Establishes the Duty Free Zone Act, upon voter approval of a constitutional amendment, to authorize the creation of tax-free or reduced-tax zones

: Authorizes the City of Waynesville to impose, upon voter approval, a transient guest tax for a multipurpose conference and convention center

: Requires cities in St. Louis County to reimburse fire protection districts for property annexed by the city and to provide fire protection to the annexed area

: Prohibits any governing authority, board, commission, or the personnel of a political subdivision from preventing the display of founding documents with religious content in public

: Authorizes the City of Sugar Creek to impose, upon voter approval, a transient guest tax for tourism

: Allows the City of Grandview to impose, upon voter approval, a transient guest tax for tourism and capital improvements

: Prohibits an employee or official of any political subdivision from seeking a political appointment in exchange for anything of value to any political subdivision

: Exempts certain local sales taxes imposed for public transporation in the City of Kansas City from being used in tax increment financing or redevelopment projects

: Prohibits a political subdivision from imposing a fine or penalty on the owner of a pay telephone on his or her property for calls to the emergency telephone service from the pay telephone

: Specifies that any municipal ordinance regulating blasting can be more but not less stringent than the provisions of the Missouri Blasting Safety Act

: Requires the City of St. Louis to provide furnishings and supplies for the public administrator and allows the public administrator to hire deputies and assistants

: Establishes the Informed Growth Act, which requires an economic impact study to be completed as part of a review of land use permit applications for large-scale retail developments

: Requires purchasers of property located in a neighborhood improvement district to place into escrow the amount that the city or county has assessed on the property and requires disclosure of the assessment

: Allows certain municipalities receiving services from a regional electric cooperative to appoint members to the governing board of the regional electric cooperative

: Prohibits political subdivisions from charging fees for services provided to other political subdivisions with certain exceptions

: Authorizes municipalities in St. Charles County to enact and enforce ordinances for certain purposes excluding traffic violations

: Allows St. Louis City to impose a $2,000 semi-annual registration fee on owners of property with a vacant residential structure and multiple housing code violations

SB 765 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
: Repeals the provisions which allow villages to incorporate in an alternative way rather than requiring a petition by 2/3 of the taxable inhabitants that is approved by the county commission

SB 814 --- Sponsor: Wilson, Yvonne S.
: Decreases acreage requirements for eligibility under the Distressed Areas Land Assemblage Tax Credit Act

SB 845 --- Sponsor: Rupp, Scott T.
: Prohibits local governments from annexing certain state-owned land for the purpose of establishing contiguity to other land for annexation

SB 886 --- Sponsor: Justus, Jolie L.
: Allows any municipality to adopt ordinances, orders, or regulations to control dangerous dogs, provided that no such ordinances, orders, or regulations are specific to breed

SB 892 --- Sponsor: Green, Timothy P.
: Prohibits local governments from using automated photo red light enforcement systems unless the traffic control signals are also equipped with devices that display the numerical time remaining befor

SB 900 --- Sponsor: Vogel, Carl
: Modifies provisions relating to the imposition of transient guest taxes by certain local governments

SB 905 --- Sponsor: Loudon, John
: Establishes the Regional Railroad Authorities Act

SB 943 --- Sponsor: Clemens, Dan
: Allows cities to annex land within airport zones in Greene County if cities agree to enforce Springfield's airport zoning ordinance

SB 956 --- Sponsor: Kennedy, Harry
: Modifies provisions relating to public water supply districts

SB 1012 --- Sponsor: Wilson, Yvonne S.
: Establishes the Duty Free Zone Act

SB 1018 --- Sponsor: Rupp, Scott T.
: Allows municipalities in St. Charles County to adopt ordinances for the well-being of the community and enforce such ordinances with a fine not to exceed $1,000 or three months of imprisonment

SB 1089 --- Sponsor: Justus, Jolie L.
: Allows the City of Grandview to impose a transient guest tax

SB 1131 --- Sponsor: Wilson, Yvonne S.
: Excludes tax revenues, derived from certain transportation sales taxes imposed by the City of Kansas City, from tax increment finance and MODESA economic activity taxes used to pay redevelopment costs

SB 1135 --- Sponsor: Callahan, Victor E.
: Changes the law regarding street grading in cities with over 300,000 inhabitants

SB 1206 --- Sponsor: Goodman, Jack
: Requires local governments to provide 72 hours notice for public meetings

SB 1209 --- Sponsor: Callahan, Victor E.
: Authorizes the City of Sugar Creek to impose a transient guest tax

SB 1256 --- Sponsor: Lager, Brad
: Repeals provisions of law authorizing the imposition and collection of nonresident earnings taxes by cities

SB 1260 --- Sponsor: Bartle, Matt
: Requires communities establishing and licensing a geographical information system to provide information regarding costs to license the system

SB 1276 --- Sponsor: Griesheimer, John E.
: Modifies provisions of law requiring the creation of county-wide tax increment finance commissions

SJR 42 --- Sponsor: Griesheimer, John E.
: Allows special laws to be adopted by the General Assembly when regulating the affairs of counties, cities, towns, or villages, or other political subdivisions within such local governments

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